Ahmed Sajjad Hashemy

Thursday, August 25, 2011

5000 Friends Max on Google Plus just like Facebook ...


The Maximum amount of a friends a user is allowed on Facebook at any one time is 5000.




The only way to increase this is to convert your profile to a fanpage, and use Facebook as that page. This allows millions of people to become your fan, and see your updates, but it is not the same as using the normal Facebook.
This is more a security measure, and a spam cutting measure. Nobody really knows more than 5000 people, and all the celebrities use Facebook’s fan pages to make things easier.
Google Plus have taken the same approach and are allowing you to have a total of 5000 friends only. This could be increased later on in the day depending on how things go. MySpace allows you to have as many “friends” as you like, and so do a number of other Social Networking sites. It is just a good idea to be careful who you are sharing all your content with, but with the new Circles feature, it seems that this wouldn’t be a problem anyways, so it could be 5000 max per circle for example, rather than the current 5000 max Overall. This could be used maliciously by advertisers and spammers though to create a number of different Circles, of which Google allows you to create as many as you like it seems, and then share spam links to everybody at the same time by sharing the content to all your Circles.


Unlimited amount of people can follow you however, similar to Twitter followers, or Facebook Fans on Pages. This is done by how many people have you in their own Circles, which of course could be an endless amount. There is a leaderboard for this already, which ironically has Mark Zuckerberg at the top, http://socialstatistics.com/.

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