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Person A indicates that s/he does not have many real friends.
Person B assumes that Person A is merely trying to get others to express their love.

Reasons why Person B's assumption could be wrong:

1. Person A is merely commenting on how easy it is to have "friends" on Facebook.

2. Person A has a problem with relationships, and therefore does not particularly want many friends.

3. In order to "feel good about him/herself," Person B limits the possibile explanations to what s/he is able or willing to understand.

4. Having many "friends" is not an unmixed blessing. "Woe is you when all men [and women] speak well of you." -Jesus

5. Humanity is not divided into "friendly" and "unfriendly" people. Every person in the world who thinks of him/herself as "a friendly person" has unconscious obstacles that s/he puts up against love. And every person who is considered "unfriendly" has good gifts to offer, if only human nature was not compulsively self-protective. In fact, the very spectre of "unfriendliness" often arises because human nature does not grasp the unpleasant aspects of true love.

6. Person A knows very well that his or her impulses of self negation come wholly from within, and that no amount of expressions of love from others will change that.
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