How many buddies do you have?

[Anna Komnene]

12.  I rarely send requests but I get them once in a while.

[Anna Komnene]

I use the buddy list as an easy list of "people I think are good posters and generally am okay with", which has its uses more often than you'd think. Also it's a quick route to people's profiles.

Yeah a lot of my browsing these days goes through looking at recent posts of people I find interesting.  But they aren't necessarily on my buddy list because I'm weird like that.