Like, lets say for example that I didn't think that
Not to mention that this would also give employment to a whole buncha number crunching flaks as each person can be reduced to a set of statistics which will quantify how valuable a commodity they are as a friend. There would be categories such as: average # of entries/comments per day, emo rating, meme %, etc. I'm sure there would be some number fudging and perhaps over time, even a scandal like someone hiring ghostwriters in order to improve their stats. Sort of like steroids for MLB players.
Overall, it seems most friends lists are too inbred anyway. It'd be nice to have a case where you could really intermix things a bit and hope your new acquisition betters the team....or if nothing else, reduces your Canadian ratio :P. Who says you can't buy and sell people.