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facebook friend count lowers
how come sometimes my friends count gets lower than back to normal again? do people deactivate their account then reactivate them? i keep noticing this.
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If your friend count actually goes back up after a while, it's the most likely possibility. Some people deactivate their accounts when they need time away from Facebook. (For example, exam time, where people really don't need the extra distraction.)
Another possibility would be that someone has deleted you as a friend, in which case your friend count will obviously not go back up by itself.
Facebook also occasionally has technical issues that causes things to return to an earlier state. If that happens, other things will be missing too and it'll be obvious.
Next time you see the count go down, look through your friends to see who's missing, and ask them through any other means of communication.
If you can't figure out who's missing, face it, you probably won't miss the person too much anyway. Also, you must have a lot of friends.
(I'm guilty of doing this myself. At the time of typing this, I have 540 friends. I'm sure I should have at least one more, but I don't know who's missing.)
Make use of friend lists to sort your friends, so that next time your friend count goes down it'll be easier to figure out who's missing.
More importantly, if Facebook is actually your only way of communicating with someone who matters a lot (such as recently rediscovered friends or friends who moved away), now is the time to get their email address or phone number just in case they deactivate their account for any reason.
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