Trouble with Facebook is if you become too popular, you just can't add any more friends. Mike Pilavachi has reached 5000 friends and can have no more. I on the other hand have 142 friends and have ample room for more.
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posted by Helsalata @ 10:59 am
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Sounds like he's using it as a MySpace replacement. From the FB about blurb:
"Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet."
It's not a promotional tool (probably the wrong word) or something to estimate popularity, but rather a device to maintain contact with people that you actually know. Sounds like he's gone the way of Robert Scoble (bleh) and added people pretty indiscriminately, there's nothing wrong with that, mind - but tools already exist for that sort of thing (broadcasting to the masses) in the form of MySpace, LiveJournal, Twitter or even FB groups - why not start a "I <3 Mike" group or something?
A limit to the amount of friends we can have? Wow. I never knew. Now there's an excuse for anti-social-ness!
Yeah see what you mean Si. There was some press coverage that Stephen Fry was adding people indiscriminately and then froze his account because it went crazy. So it might have started innocently enough but escalated.
MP now has a second Facebook account...
Oh - and after some further digging, the 5000 friend limit is deliberate and thus unlikely to be changed anytime soon. It's there to stop mass-message abuse ala MySpace (companies have been known to "encourage" popular MySpacers to speak well of their products - and by "encourage", I mean "pay a crapton", or even worse just bought their accounts off of them). I reckon it's a good thing.
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