Do you really have 5000 frients?!??!

Do you really know the meaning of the word ‘FRIEND’??

I could suggest to you several things like

1) Reconsider the meaning of “friend” word (and discover where is the real “absurdity”
2) Spend more in real life than the facebook life
3) Ask fb to pay for a no-limit account
4) Stop using fb and use only myspace

Some people would complain for anything to write a post…

Next time, read your own rant before you post it. You’ve already answered your own question, here. Please excuse the oversimplifications about to ensue, but this is, of course, a blog comment – not a dissertation.

FACEBOOK ALREADY HAS A FOLLOW-TYPE MODEL. IT’S THE FREAKIN’ FAN PAGE.

Facebook is attempting to offer the ‘best’ of both e-socialization models (one-way and two-way) in the same portal. Do you honestly have more than 5,000 people in your life that you want basic, daily-life information from on a regular (daily to weekly) basis?? I highly doubt so. The *key* word is “FROM.” To Facebook, the definition of a ‘friend’ in the context of this discussion is an individual with which you desire to EXCHANGE information (id est, send AND RECEIVE), not just SHARE information (id est, send ONLY).

Last I checked, technology development still follows purpose. Comparing Facebook with Google is a fallacy of epic proportions. They each serve two different markets with two distinct purposes using two completely different interfaces and design objectives. Read each organization’s respective mission statement if you have any doubt.

Google’s purpose is to acquire, organize, and present information (not merely *social* information) in a universal and efficient delivery platform. Based on the purpose, their design is extensible and capable of returning a large number of records in response to relatively simple queries.

In Facebook’s case, the purpose is to create a social community reaching beyond geographical boundaries by providing near-realtime bidirectional social information updates across a group of (supposedly) close and socially interactive individuals using a rich-media interface. Because of the purpose, the design will have limitations. They are arranging a large amount of interrelated information and presenting it in a dynamic interface. The front end can only allocate so much memory per session, thus it can only tolerate a query result of a certain size.

Technology design is as much about compromise as it is about innovation. What isn’t possible today *might* be possible tomorrow, but the implementation has to deliver on today’s certainties – not tomorrow’s promises. Facebook might be able to support more ‘friends’ in the future, but for now they have determined that’s all they can handle.

Bottom line: It appears that you are looking to use Facebook friends for a purpose other than the creators intended. If your purpose doesn’t fit the application’s design, go find another application (Facebook’s fan page – or Twitter) or build one yourself.

“The fact that there are limits at all on connections is absurd”. Trying to have more than 5 000 so-called friends on a social platform, and refusing to create a Fan page, is absurd.
You just ruin the concept behind Facebook “Connect with your Friends”. Friends, dude, not people who you’ve never met and who wants to be connected somehow to you.
I’m just saying that I don’t get the idea behind the will to have thousands and thousands of people connected to you. To me, you’re like a brand now and therefore, people who are willing to follow you should be considered as fans…. or any words other than friends. Please.

Then you could friend yourself.

And then I wanted to send some msgs to people outside my friends network about the event, but after sending 7-8 messages, I was banned from FB from sending any more messages ‘for an undetermined amount of time’ because I triggered an automatic ’spam protection’ mechanism. And I was writing individual messages, not copying-pasting one message.

Just left a really bad taste in my mouth.