True friends are people, individuals who love and care about you.
Friends are people that you have built a life long relationship with, to a spiritual level.

Having 3000 so called friends, who are "following" you aren't your true friends.

Will those 3000 people sit by your side if you ended up in hospital? Will they remain "friends" with you if you ever get into an argument about trivial politics or will they abandon you in droves and form boycotts if you say something that they disagree with?

True friendship shall not waver.
Corporate tools have exploited what it means to be a friend.