Facebook Slapped Me On The Wrist
Facebook is mad at me, or so it seems. I think they want me to take a timeout…
It seems that Facebook likes to put limitations on certain things. Earlier this week, I was accepting a few friend requests and requested a few friends when I received the “strike 1″ red alert message. It basically said “Stop! You are making friends too quickly!.” And then it rambled on about how I would get disabled for a few days if I kept going.
I suppose this started happening since I created this blog and have been meeting a lot of new people from around the world. I get a few friend requests everyday but nothing I would consider “too much.”
So this got me to thinking, why would a social network as big as Facebook have to apply such limitations. I mean, isn’t the point of a networking site to meet new people, regardless if you have actually met them in person? I have a lot of friends that I have never met in person but still talk to them often, does this mean they are not an actual friend? I think not.
I decided to do some research and see what I could bring up about these Facebook limitations that no one seems to actually know about until they get a warning.
I managed to find a ton of people complaining about the same types of messages. I even found a great article, “13 Reasons Your Facebook Account Will Be Disabled,” which talks about the common reasons peoples accounts get disabled.
Now some of these reasons I can agree with. For example, I can see why not using your real name might cause some suspician and get you banned from Facebook. But adding to many friends and poking too many people? Come on!
It turns out, they even have a friend limit of 5,000 people on Facebook. Once you hit the magic number of 5,000, people will recieve the “So and So already has too many friends” message when trying to add you.
The creators over at Myspace have set no limitations on things like friends, messages being sent, or how many people you can send things to. I think this is the way a social networking site should be. Why limit anyone from getting what they want out of a networking site?
So I am interested to see if this happens to a lot of other people. If it has already happened to you, please drop me a comment and let me know how it went.
Published on March 12th, 2008. And don't forget to check out my book, Life After the Cubicle.
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I have experienced all of it == I am now on a 7 day “friend” suspension. I also got the “someone complained” nonsense. Who would bother to complain about a friend request that they are not interested in? One click and it goes away –lol.
The friends that you do know on FB also have friends that you don’t know in real life but you end up interacting with these people online. FB apparently does not you to recognize these online friendships. It is so idiotic.
You can block anyone at anytime. You can refuse a friend request. It would seem that these protections are really all that are needed.
I, too, am at the point where I am beginning to think the whole thing is not worth the aggravation.
O hate when Facebook says u added to many friends what if u just started Facebook and you know all this people hello u should add them Facebook needs to stop there going to loose all these people on Facebook if they keep this up
Facebook has been on a banning rampage lately and will most likley ban themselves into oblivion. They are also losing teens to Twitter that are tired of their parents and relatives friending and watching what they do. The new scrolling updates that you can’t prevent your friends from using also doesn’t help.
I am now using Google+ which is so much better for making new friends.
Zuckerberg also knows that Facebook is about to crash as he is ready to take the Company public and cash out as it’s only going down from here.
i encountered the same problem, could anybody kindly tell me what to do and does this mean i can no longer add anymore friends?…what should i do so that i can add more friends in future?…thank you in advance!
I have 4901 friends..and tried to like a page. It said i have too many friends.. so I can’;t like a page..anyone else familiar with that.. I am wondering if our pages and our friends are added in together?, but it will still let me add more friends… just not pages.. any thoughts
Just get more than one account. And don’t ever give them your real info. That opens up the door to scams and Facebook firings.
GO TO ‘MYSPACE’ I HEAR THERE IS NO LIMIT TO FRIEND ADD ONS