This weekend I ran into the Facebook 5000 Friends limit. In the last couple of weeks I had been receiving warnings because my friends-count together with the Pages I liked was already over 5000 and Facebook wants you to keep below that number.
The reason for this limitation according to Facebook is that nobody has 5000 real friends in life. If you have more connections you must be a celebrity and in that case you need a fanpage where your network can just click on a Like button to enter your network.
Nowadays newbies can opt to not have a personal profile and immediately choose for a Facebook Page (Some Belgian politicians did this recently). When I became a member of Facebook a normal user-profile was the only option available.
So the best option for me today was to start a Facebook Page, next to my profile ... and open the door for the next part of my large network.
Of course I can't do this without making a few humble suggestions to Facebook
- Get rid of this 5000 friends limit. Almost all online networks allow you to have as many connections as you want, they make sure that no tools are available that would allow to spam the whole list. I have over 20000 connections in my network, gathered over multiple online and offline networking groups. I'm only allowed to to let 25% of them connect to my Facebook profile which is weird !
- Why not offer an easy and userfriendly tool to transform your Facebook Profile into a Facebook Page ? Now I have to maintain and update two different pages on Facebook which doubles my time efforts
Anyway... as from now it's no longer possible to connect to my Facebook Profile, but feel free to Like my Facebook Page :-)
Geert the winner of the game is the one with all the names. Facebook won the game thus they have control over how you network and who you network with. I don't want a Page either.
ReplyDeleteThomas is - as always - right:
ReplyDeletesad but true!
A page just take even more work, which I will have to do now anyway;
cleaning out the profile that I already have - GRRRRRRRRRRRRR