Friend Collecting
The addition of people to a friend list without regard to whether one actually is their friend is known as hyper-friending or friend whoring. This is an activity that is particularly seen on the parts of organizations that have social networking service memberships. This is because they can make use of the services' "mail all of my friends" capabilities to broadcast messages to a large number of people.
Matt Jones, of Dopplr, went so far as to coin the expression "friending considered harmful" to describe the problem of focussing upon the friending of more and more people at the expense of actually making any use of a social network.
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