Facebook to Keep the 5,000 Friend Limit… Good
Sorry Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Justine Ezarik, and all you other “Facebook Whales,” the 5,000 friend limit stays - at least according to :
It was a fake rumor. I just spoke to a friend at Facebook about the 5000 friends limit. He told me it was a fake and they are not going to remove the 5000 friends limit.
A lot of people are going to say that this is a big mistake, but shockingly, I am not one of them. Facebook Whales, do you really have 5,000 real friends? I know you are going to say that everyone who follows you on Twitter, or reads your blog is a “friend,” but I don’t think that’s how Facebook defines friends. In fact, Facebook Pages seems to work perfectly for these “friends” of yours.
I personally, and I may be in the minority, only accept Facebook requests from individuals I have met with, and conversed with, in real life. This is not because I am a bad person (at least I don’t think so), but this is because I truly like using Facebook the way I do. I read my newsfeed often, and if my newsfeed is filled with names I don’t recognize, then it seems rather useless. I check my friends recent updates, and if those recent updates consist of unfamiliar faces, then Facebook loses its value to me.
I think part of my separation is the fact that more than half of my Facebook friends are friends from high school or college. I used Facebook regularly before the company decided to open up to the rest of the population.
Facebook doesn’t want to become Myspace. Facebook doesn’t want to house the next Tila Tequila. Facebook has finally made a clear distinction between when to use a Facebook profile, and when to use a Facebook page - and I like it.
