Et alors?
Not surprised Matt, it was always going to be a popularity contest - anything based on social media is lowest common denominator. You will note my continued absence there, as I have no friends!
You don't have to do anything to get friends on Facebook; just sit back and wait.
Years ago, when on holiday in Holland, I wanted to see what FaceBook was all about, as everyone was talking about it, so I registered, using the nom de plume I used for my creative writing.
Didn't like it and never went back.
For a couple of years I did not hear anything, but in the last year or so, I get emails once or twice a week, telling me I haven't visited in the last few days and how things have changed etc. (I don't open the mails, just read what is visible of the first line in Gmail.)
I also have regular 'friendship requests' and Facebook is giving me names of people 'I might know.'
I signed up in Holland, on the Dutch language edition of the site, but all the people who want to be friends, or whom 'I might know' all have English names.
Find it all very peculiar, and am determined not to get involved.