I make a lot of friends, tons of them. Heck, I have 500+ LinkedIn Friends and over 500 Facebook Friends . So I am a popular guy ;-) In any event, I was looking at my instant messaging client a minute ago, and I noticed the list was incredibly long. So, like I did ~ 2 years ago , I counted them. I had just under a 100 active buddies (approximately, cause people came on and off while I was counting). Last time, I counted 80+ active buddies , but I guess I know about twenty more people. To be honest, I only chat with a dozen or so people in my buddy list. I really should clean up this list, but I have been wanting to do that for years. FYI, I don't use Apple's iChat or AOL's IM client, I use Adium X to chat. ...