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Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit

Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants to make sure that people only add...

TechCrunch | more posts | 60 days | Fri., May 9, '08

Facebook reported ready to lift 5,000 friends cap

If you're one of the tiny fraction of Facebook users who has bumped up against the social networking service's 5,000 friends cap, breathe easy: You might well soon be able to climb into the upper reaches of four figures' worth. That's according to a post on TechCrunch Friday, where Michael...

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Webware.com | more posts | 60 days | Fri., May 9, '08

New Item! Slide's Top Friends back on Facebook after third-party privacy audit | Valleywag

EA Goes Live With Scrabble on Facebook for U.S. and Canada; Get Your Q's and Z's Ready! | CenterNetworks

New Item! Facebook Profile Redesign Beta Launches July 16th. Are Users Ready? | Mashable!

Facebook Expands Event Mapping Features

For a while now, Facebook has enabled users to include a link to event locations via Google Maps. At some point in the past few days Facebook expanded the mapping functionality to now include Mapquest, Microsoft maps and Yahoo maps. Why did they decide to expand the mapping functionality? No...

All Facebook | more posts | 60 days | Fri., May 9, '08

 

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