Welder
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Okay, so today I go to add a friend to my Facebook account and as soon as I make the request, Facebook tells me that I have reached my 5000 friend limit. What?! 
Anyways, this is crazy.
Why would Facebook limit how many friends you have? I checked it out on the internet and apparently they do this to limit their server resources per user. Okay, I understand that, but there has to been another way for them to reallocate the resources to accommodate this need.
Now you might be asking.... who in the heck needs 5000+ friends?
We'll my simple answer is this... Me and all the other people in the world that have business's to run or may be very popular people.
Now, after digging a little further.. it is recommended that I start a personal page and my 5000 friends would then become followers on that page and then anyone interested in becoming my friend, could just be followers with no limit on that personal page. Okay... fine. But, it's so much more fun to have the friends, then it is to have followers.
With friends, you can see what everyone's doing and how their life is going. With just having followers on your "page", there is no way to check out how your followers are doing because there is no "Followers" button.
Anyways, I think the whole limiting friends thing on Facebook just sucks.
However the good news is that anyone can be my friend on My Site. There is no fiend limit on my site. If you want 100,000,000,000+, have add it. The more the merrier. Personal, business, what have you. In addition, you can follow and be followed on my page. The sky is the limit!
Anyways, just a little rant about something that should never be.... especially with the kind of resources that Facebook has. If I was so lucky to have the amount of users that Facebook has, I would invest heavily on the features that means the most to my users.... and I'm not the only one that is very disappointed with Facebooks decision to limit friends to 5000.
Don't even get me started on my 56K Twitter Followers.
Anyways, have a great day... just don't try to be my friend on Facebook. haha
Anyways, this is crazy.
Why would Facebook limit how many friends you have? I checked it out on the internet and apparently they do this to limit their server resources per user. Okay, I understand that, but there has to been another way for them to reallocate the resources to accommodate this need.Now you might be asking.... who in the heck needs 5000+ friends?
We'll my simple answer is this... Me and all the other people in the world that have business's to run or may be very popular people.Now, after digging a little further.. it is recommended that I start a personal page and my 5000 friends would then become followers on that page and then anyone interested in becoming my friend, could just be followers with no limit on that personal page. Okay... fine. But, it's so much more fun to have the friends, then it is to have followers.
With friends, you can see what everyone's doing and how their life is going. With just having followers on your "page", there is no way to check out how your followers are doing because there is no "Followers" button.
Anyways, I think the whole limiting friends thing on Facebook just sucks.
However the good news is that anyone can be my friend on My Site. There is no fiend limit on my site. If you want 100,000,000,000+, have add it. The more the merrier. Personal, business, what have you. In addition, you can follow and be followed on my page. The sky is the limit!
Anyways, just a little rant about something that should never be.... especially with the kind of resources that Facebook has. If I was so lucky to have the amount of users that Facebook has, I would invest heavily on the features that means the most to my users.... and I'm not the only one that is very disappointed with Facebooks decision to limit friends to 5000.
Don't even get me started on my 56K Twitter Followers.
Anyways, have a great day... just don't try to be my friend on Facebook. haha
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