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Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

Waleed — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:54:18 -0000

I prefer if they don't raise the limit. The current threshold puts a cap on friend-request-spam and makes adding friends less of a competition. It keeps Facebook personal and keeps the social graph real. Another option, which I think makes more sense, is to add a one-way follow option so Scoble can have his 50K followers, while only adding real friends as "friends".

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

Nakeva Corothers — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:50:57 -0000

I think the limit is absurd to begin with especially when you see other social networks without friend limits and they have no known issues. If the current trend in branding, reputation management, and conversation is about people connecting why would one of the top social networks put a cap on how many people you have in your network? I would be interested if they decide to remove the cap versus simply increasing the limit? What is the actual reason for the limit anyway? Is it a bandwidth issue or a coding/API issue?

We'll see what happens.

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:08:47 -0000

A rumor in my book is something that was not confirmed by officials involved. This is way beyond a rumor.

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

centernetworks — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:05:26 -0000

at least this rumor is better than "my ice cream man said it" HAHAAH sorry couldn't resist :)

of course they will remove it - they have realized facebook is becoming more and more about marketing and less and less about friends... makes sense to remove it

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

asharma — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:04:14 -0000

I think the biggest problem is that Twitter lets you have more friends (as Guy Kawasaki will testify) - making it more suitable for marketers. But if marketers start using other services over Facebook, it looses high profile, well-connected, power users that may influence other's behavior. After all if I have to follow Guy Kawasaki (or Tom Friedman) on Twitter - because Facebook won't let us be friends - I end up using Twitter. (I guess that's why they built the "page" for famous people but its still not the same.)

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

Louis Gray — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:02:02 -0000

I'm not questioning your sources at all. But in theory, unless it's written officially, then I still get to call it a rumor. (I could write "Scoble said" or "According to Scoble", etc.)

Should be interesting to see:

1) When they do it
2) How high they open up the limit
3) What the results/reaction will be.

If it goes to 20,000, how fast do you reach it?

Re: louisgray.com: You May Not Have 5,000 Facebook Friends, But You're Impacted Anyway

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:00:09 -0000

Louis: it's NOT a rumor. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder/CEO, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, told me that these limits will go away this year to my face.