I very quickly shot up to 150 friends and have only recently, years later, broke...

I very quickly shot up to 150 friends and have only recently, years later, broken 200. I don't expect it to accelerate any time soon.

I don't go out of my way to delete people I don't speak to, but I do lose friends over time, either people removing me, or people deleting facebook. The rate at which I lose friends is just slightly slower than the rate that I'm adding friends.