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Javonni Brustow - Media Mogul — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:58:06 -0000

lol "the hell with the lobby" ha! I like your style of writing man! It's pretty dumb..this limit because I;m networking heavy as I'm restarting my career as an entertainment writer after a 3 yr break. Things have changed a lot in those few years and now I see networking limits? The hell?! What gives!

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atrix — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:22:07 -0000

actually website such facebook and flickr which has implemented web 2.0 hierarchy int their scripting are well more easy to use and attract for new user in the social network service (sns)

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princedream — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:10:49 -0000

how can i solve the proplem of this message : You are blocked from adding friends due to continued misuse of this feature.

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Alison — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:56:21 -0000

Facebook was never supposed to be used as a business tool. You compare it to the phonebook and business cards which is ignorant. Facebook started out as an easy way for students to keep in contact with one another. It was never meant to be abused for spamming or as a way to stroke anyone's GIANT ego by seeing if one could con 5000 (mostly total strangers) to add to your "friend" list. As for me, I would NEVER request to be added to a person's friend list if I didn't have some sort of connection to that person. Sorry Ms. 5000 but you don't get any sympathy from me. Sounds like you need another hobby!

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trevor weir — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:52:28 -0000

Ahh mac d, so you're the one doing all the inviting, ha ha, just kidding.
Haven't been here in a while, but I am just a few hundred short of 5,000 myself and the big disadvantage is that many facebook applications that are using the sample facebook php code won't let me in to interact or play.

Its because I have to many friends, and when the php code that facebook gave everyone to use, goes out to my friends list, the size of the list causes the arrays to bomb hence very few applications allow me to play.

Facebook themselves must have seen this and fixed it in a few areas, but the faulty array code is still sitting in the sample code that they gave everyone else to use.

I have seen the code and seen it throw errors on apache/php irrespective of how much memory you reasonably give each php processes.

So, currently and for the past 10 months or more, there are technical limitations when one starts to approach even 4000 friends.

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mac d — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:04:55 -0000

i have also noticed facebook slowing down when i hit 3000 friends, its so slow its near impossible to invite people to an event

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Jeffrey — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:28:49 -0000

Nicholas, have already you tride the freeware PhraseExpress?

http://www.phraseexpress.com

> blows away it’s competition in many ways.

I would wonder how it is better than above util.

Jeffrey

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Nicholas Quixote — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:04:45 -0000

Late to commenting on this Robert, but I came across this post of your while looking for information on this subject ( as usual). Turns out that some of the celebrities we have worked with on Rabbit Bites are unable to "friend" anyone. Most of them get too many requests and the accounts lock up. It's dumb.

Buzz is awesome btw and we'll be doing a post soon about Activewords. Activewords blows away it's competition in many ways.

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alienmode — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:03:36 -0000

the point about facebook being a competitor for flickr and youtube is right on

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Trevor Weir — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:52:05 -0000

I have almost 1,700 friends already and have a dozen groups with about 20,000 more friends ( not all unique )

Scoble is not alone here, I have a dozen group creators and other **friends** whom are nearly at 3500 friends.

The fact that Scoble has/had 5000 and was one of about a thousand users at the limit, doesn't mean that there aren't 20-50,000 of us clawing up the same ladder at our own pace.

I stopped personally adding friends that I didn't know directly in life, when I had about 260, since then people have added me for their own myriad reasons.

I expect my 1700 to grow to about 3-4,000 in a few months.

The more profound and interesting things you write, is the more likely that certain types/groups of people will be attracted to your way of thinking and simply add you as a friend.

If 10-15,000 people think they would like to add me as a friend, why shouldn't they be allowed to do so?

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Tim Baxter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:30:10 -0000

I don't know why people get so hung up over this. If you want 5000 friends, so what? If you want to 'keep it real' with people you really know, then that's fine too.

Personally I'm looking for Whale status so I can make new friends that I wouldn't have the opportunity to do without the web, so friend me now!

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Rev. Scott — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:16:55 -0000

First time my profile was deleted,which was sometime last year, it was because of too many friend request.

Recently, it has been deleted due to sending/recieving too many messages.

Unfortunately, neither of which has been reinstated.

Should I just create a new page and start all over again? Or fight to have my profiles operative once again?

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anon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:21:21 -0000

wilt chamberlain slept with over 20,000 women. if he wanted to use facebook to keep track of his friends, he would have been screwed (literally)

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jojo — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:47:44 -0000

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nebblak — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:51:25 -0000

owen & mzee is great it is about friendship I dont like dont need friens because the rat is mean

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nebblak — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:18:37 -0000

owen and mzee is a great book

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nebblak — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:09:34 -0000

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joe — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:59:19 -0000

because it is about friendship

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joe — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:58:55 -0000

owen is a great book

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joe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:15:47 -0000

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joe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:14:12 -0000

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sapna — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:12:41 -0000

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sapna — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:09:11 -0000

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