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. Yeah, I suppose 5,000 friends is plenty for most users of Facebook. But then again, my goal of this blog is to make myself famous, so I just might make 5,000 friends along the way…Ha Ha
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.
Also, feel free to add me on Facebook, might as well go for “Strike 2″. I can’t wait to see what this red alert message will say. Maybe something along the lines of, “We weren’t kidding, there is a Facebook van outside your apartment and we are keeping our eyes on you!”
Click Here To Add MeThis post was published on March 12th, 2008.
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I had the same thing happen, only mine was for joining to many groups. For some reason, 200 is the magic number you are allowed to join. I really don’t understand all the limitations, but then again, its Facebook.
I didn’t know they did this. Sounds a bit stupid. Maybe if we get enough people they will change it.
Perhaps its to stop those friend adder programs. That could easily be fixed though through those CAPCHAS or whatever they are called.
I didn’t even know they had a warning system, let alone that they warned you for “making too many friends.” That’s just ridiculous, in my opinion. You make them extra friends, and make them warn you again for being too popular!
Wow, Facebook surprises me yet again. I hope you continue to add and make as many friends as possible. You will have to keep us posted on what happens.
Yes, I am addled by the inanity of such restrictions. Even if your only object is to proliferate your friends roster with superficial or random contacts, then let that be the decision of the profile user. IF, this site is intended for adding your true friends or even casual acquaintances, then lets stop the foolish “search” engines for people via other networks. True, this is a viable method of locating lost (cough) friends; if they were true chums you would not have to do this. Seriously, this site offers the convenience of finding people you are somewhat concerned about, or genuinely do care for. But the networking feature contradicts the “limit” imposed on users by adding too many friends. It is intended on making friends by implementing this feature. If facebook is concerned about random and popularity augmenting of adding too many friends, then they should abdicate the “search”, “browse”, and “networking” options. Oh no!!! The true concept, and context, as I infer, of facebook is to display your real friends, meet new friends, inundate profile with silly pokes, glitter, personality quizzes, and enjoy the suspense of meeting random others without the hassle of filling your day with an exorbitant amount of attending every single social gathering known to man in order to create friendships or self promotion. I recently enlisted onto facebook and it, by far, is nowhere near the excitement as Myspace. Sure, it may offer a tad more class, due to the context from which it derived; school, work, etc. Plus potential employers, probation officers, etc. often, from what I ascertained, utilize this to spy on unsuspecting individuals. So it behooves people to remain discreet and cautious of what they say. I supposed I digressed from the issue at hand on a tangent. How about it should be of no concern in any fashion to the creators of this site of what people do as long as it, in no shape or form, violates the safety of anyone. How can I be able to make unsupervised contact, at least I think, with minors and be disallowed adding too many friends? At least they interdict the application of nudity here, as expected. However, I may be as salacious (lewd) as I feel I need to be during my introduction of myself. Do they not screen the content of your personal declaration? We may even disclose our phone number and address. I can conceive the friends limit may preclude cyberspace stalkers from employing “trojan horse” type methods of obtaining personal info. However, facebook can place a lets say five friend limit, and this still wouldn’t be sufficient in safeguarding from these nefarious characters. Maybe a more viable way of countering random, and sometimes unwanted requests, is to require somebody to enter the prospective friends’ information, e-mail add., last name, etc., prior to submitting a request. The privacy option provides the user of setting these options. So, what is the real purpose of limiting friends requests? Maybe this is a premonition of what maybe to come. Nothing is free and perhaps you may have to pay in order to be able to take advantage of the “real” intended purpose of facebook!
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Ah, help me! I JUST started facebook like 3 days ago and now they’ve disabled me. Is this a JOKE!? I mean, I’m completely new…and I just started adding friends and they said I had too many within one session? Eeeeek, now it’s been like a week, and I am getting NO response from Facebook! It took me forever to get it together, now they just take it from me. Urgh, WHAT DO I DO, I’ve e-mailed probably every e-mail address Facebook has gotten. I feel helpless, if anyone has any ideas…please e-mail me at m.manzur@umiami.edu Thanks!
Ya I totally just got banned from facebook for too many friend requests. It’s not my fault I’m uber popular. WTF. I emailed them, but I expect I’ll get no results.
Ive been an active member of facebook for a long time, i dont have too many friends, im not a member of more than 30 groups, i message friends i cant see and leave messgaes on walls.
Apprently this is spamming…. I recieved a warning and im amazed and gutted!
Does anyone have an email address that i can contact them on please… seeing as they dont have a ‘contact us’ thing on the actual site…
I joined, then got over, Facebook real quick. They need to learn from MySpace and go from there.
Seems to be around 50 – 80 friends is the limit per day.
adding 50-80 friends as a limit per day seems to correspond to my experience a few weekends ago. That is when I got my first “slow down you are about to hit a block” message.
I estimate I added about that number you cite, over the weekend.
But then I did slow down. I just added a few friends a day after that, and about on the third day, I got that message AGAIN. Now I have not added any more friends since then. I was meeting great people, it was really fun, and now I am uncertain if I add even one more friend, I might get blocked from adding friends, or even have my account disabled as I have read happens to people with facebook. The facebook men in black might get me !
I have friends on facebook with thousands of friends, way more than me. How did that happen? I think that 50-80 limit you are estimating triggers more than a daily limit.
It might even put a permanent scar on my account. I wrote them, but a week later, no response.
A colleague sent me this post… I had mentioned that I’m totally stressed out about my FaceBook/LinkedIn/Etc. accounts. Too many people.
She asked why. My answer – it’s like a challenge. I do actually know all 300+ people I’m attached to on FaceBook, and all 200+ on LinkedIn. But most people assume I’m a collector, and my insecurity flares.
I may just abandon ship…
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Even though you originally started this blog months ago, just wanted to pipe in with a : they are STILL doing it. I got a wrist slap yesterday because I added like 50 or so friends. Like you, my name is out there, and some of the things I am involved in – well, people see me and it’s not hard to find me on FB, so they are sending friend requests. I was ‘encouraged’ to send messages and not post so much, as well. Well, they obviously didn’t mean that OR they wouldn’t have removed my ability to message either.
I can’t do anything about it. Today alone, I’ve received 12 adds. LOL It’s going to suck REALLY bad if they ban me altogether. I think a few of the people I’ve added are spam bots in the way, their only goal is to have a ton of friends, and probably passed along my name now. What I want to know is: how come THEY aren’t banned?! I have no control anymore over this thing, so I’ll just ride it out.
Just to let you know i have been disabled but i sent an email to facebook and the reinstated me
Who did you send the email to? I got disabled after adding too many friends — and I knew each one!!! I’ve sent over 10 emails to FB politely asking to be reinstated and have had no response in two weeks.
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In my opinion, the limitation that facebook implemented is for discipline. After all it’s not about quantity but quality.
Yeah this has been around for a few years. Everytime I reactivate my account for new years and start adding people again. I managed to get around 80 people added in less than a few days. I get the message when I request to add too quickly. Might have to wait more than a day for it to cool down.
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I hate Facebook, they’re so draconian.
I only added 30 new friends and the warning came up.
Maybe facebook cant’t handle the loads they are getting. I bet their system is overloading so they are limiting the number of friends you can have. I only have 300 total friends and have been getting the warning messages.
This happened to me as well. I haven’t heard anything back from them yet… grr.. >:[
I like to keep my Facebook more of a personal use to keep in touch with friends and family. I didn’t know they have a friend limit on it though. I believe Twitter is also doing the same thing to try to limit users you can follow. I know celebrities can easily have over 5,000 “friends”. It is messed up that Facebook only allows you to have certain amount of friends.
i got the same exact msg when can i start adding ppl again??? plz if some1 already experienced it reply to his soon plzzz i really need to kno
Same here.. i think its something to dfo with savin gmoney on server usage in facebook
I got a misbehaving and threading warning from facebook when I was trying to add friends. This is a world wide social network arena. If I refuse someones request to be added as friend or vice versa there is no misbehaving activity committed here. No need to be threaten. I hope facebook clean up their bull-shits.
I always thought Facebook was a social networking website? I guess after all that new applications became popular, I guess they became strict. Especially the rules about keeping your personal photos. They’re probably afraid of spammers. Cause I understand, because on Myspace, that’s load of spammers that try to add me. But the limitations is a very pretty dumb idea. I mean if you call your site a social networking website, don’t put limits on friend invitation.
Maybe the creator of Facebook really don’t have any REAL friends in real life. Probably a loner.
So what.
You’ve gotta think about the situation this way.So what,to be as “popular” as possible,you go around adding random people you don’t know.What makes you think that the people you’re adding want to have a person they don’t know adding them? On Facebook i only accept people i know,unless you send me a message stating why you’d like to add me…I mean Myspace is basically just to show off! if Facebook have a friends limitation and Myspace dont why not stick with myspace?.Facebook is a far more private social networking site, that everyone on your friends will find up what you get up too… now tell me would you like to have random people you dont know all up in your business?; i think not!.
Ok, between Mafia Wars (which awards you for getting 500 friends quickly), Yoville, Pirates and Vampire Wars, I’ve gotten the same friend request warning, and Mafia Wars is the only game I decided to play seriously. I will admit, I was adding a lot of people, and now I have stopped altogether. I understand people get banned and nobody’s happy about it. But my question is how many people have recieved this warning and NOT gotten banned, and how long did they have to stay underground. Do they warn you and they just ban you for logging in? I have erased all pending friend requests because I don’t want cause anymore problems. Any answers? Thx
Found some very good answers about how Facebook acts in these situations, what the auser can d to protect him/herself from being banned, how long the warnings continue, how to get in touch with FB if you get warnings/banned, and other good stuff. This is the only intelligent guide to dealing with the bolt of lightning that has seemed to strike us all without warning. Go to this link:
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They, quite rightly perhaps, find fault with accounts that are newly created and then explode in a flurry of friend adding and messaging, that reeks of spam bot. My account is perhaps a month old now and I add over 50 friends daily, no problems yet (fingers crossed). If they want that to stop happening then they need to ban those apps that encourage such proliferation in befriending. I see no problem getting that many friend requests however, if you do pimp your profile and get 200 friend requests, well, surely that up to you as the profile owner.
5 thousand are you sure thats not good enough
@paisel long post buddy ;0
I don’t see what the problem is. Since playing Mafia Wars I now have a reason to be on Facebook. There is only so much looking at pictures of the kiddies I can take. Since they started advertising you’d think that the more eyeballs they had on their ads the happier they’d be! Go figure!
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Exactly. It’s weird that a social network would limit you on the amount of people you can connect with.
I had this problem today also. I added about a 100 people and got the alert. I can only imagine the reason they do this is the sites are unprepared for the volume of users they have been having…I dont know. But I agree.
I usually add friends whom I know or at least acquantances.
I didn’t know FB can limit the number of friends u can add.
Hehe I tot their goal is to get as many ppl connected as possible..
I’ve been adding 5 pages or 250 people a day and no one has told me anything. It might be because my site is used for networking not friends. If you just change your status to that you might be okay. Then again they might ban me soon, we’ll see.
I never really liked Facebook since I first started using it, they made many changes I don’t like, too many limitations like you said. When you report someone or something for anything. Facebook doesn’t do anything about it. What is weird is that I had an account awhile ago and for some dumb reason, it got disabled. I emailed them and I don’t think they emailed me back.
The only thing I like about it, is Farmville and CafeWorld (which also has unfair things about it too).
I do like the name Facebook, they picked a good name. If only I was really smart at creating a website. I could create a webpage that is a lot better then Facebook, a site that would crush Facebook like Godzilla.
I also don’t like that they have adult content on the site (mostly apps, about shagging, Yes, I prefer to say shagging).
I don’t like their search anymore, it was never fully accurate.
Also many other stuff too.
If I get disabled this time. I’m pretty sure I will leave it for good.
I just got a “You are a member of too many groups” message… and can’t join anymore! I was shocked! I was in 298
Today I sent 4 (FOUR) friend requests and got a warning that i was adding too many friends.
Think ill go outside and make friends instead .. it will be quicker.
I just got that from someone who had 5000 friends, but then later in the day I saw them having 5001 ?!?!? What’s the deal with that?
Thats what group and fan pages are for…
I don’t think Facebook profiles are meant for self-promotion. That’s what Facebook groups, fan pages, and Twitter are for. Facebook probably wants users to actually use Facebook to connect with friends; people they are close to.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/too-many-friends
There is a study in that story that says the human brain can only maintain 150 real connections. No one can honestly say they connect with more people than that. I think the 5,000 friend limit is far beyond what anyone would ever need.
Try adding FIVE –relatives — and getting a block. No “strike 1″ — just a block. I have 44 friends on my list.
I really wish there was a way to beat this
i got a warning saying i have too many friends.
and as you said you can have up to 5,000 friends.
I HAVE 602 FRIENDS. It also said i have joined too many fan pages.
and if i try and to “become a fan” of something or add someone, it says “Friend Limit reached. You cannot add anymore friends or more fan pages until you remove some first.”
and the last time i checked i had 2,889 fan pages, then i went to check how many fan pages i joined and all of a sudden it said i joined 1,445. like WTF. facebook deleted most of my fan pages !
i haven’t got any strikes or warnings that my facebook would be disabled or anything. just all of a sudden it did that.
and i was wondering if you could help with this…
i got blocked for adding new friends is there any way to enable my account again or does facebook have an administrator email
thanks in advance
They also block how many I.M’s you can send on their chat feature. Yes, I’ve been temporarily blocked from doing that before. :/
problems in adding friends or sending req to frnds its block so help me fast thxx
I DONT ADD MORE FRNDS SO HELP ME ITS BLOCK
I got friends in facebook more tan 100 per day and not got banned.
omfg its happening to me too, and it doesnt let me add no one or b a fan or anything, i thought someone is tryin to hack my facebook -_- wth shud i do??
damn you facebook. i got suspended for too many friend requests.
I was requesting my texas holdem poker buddies that I play poker with daily and facebook suspended me for a few hours to a few days wots up with all that I thought facebook was for all that friends I guess not……………..
thats why…when i tried adding u facebook said u had too many friends,
WAAAAH. facebook said, “Friend Limit Reached” and i was like, WTF? why is becoming a fan of pages a part of FRIEND LIMIT REACHED? O_O?
Becuase Facebook is the worst social network site ever. They seem to only want to make useless changes to the site and annoy people, or maybe because they want it the way they like it and don’t care what other people think.
~Midna
yeah i got that same warning. i wasnt counting how many friends i was adding though i think it was like 50 or something but it really sucks and its too bad everyone i know hates myspace because having no restrictions would be good…
Yup Facebook is the living joke. A social network but you can’t socialize. I got disabled so many times now it’s not even funny. Once was for adding too many friends, then it was for sending too many PM’s, then I got disabled for swearing in a PM I sent, then I got disabled because they said I was using my account to get an edge in games, which wasn’t true, I got 1 account, I use it to game and I spent 1000′s on it.
That being said, I think I will start a website to gather as many people to take them on in court for mis-leading adverts…
JOIN FACEBOOK THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOCIAL NETWORK! UNITE WITH FRIENDS, PLAN EVENTS, KEEP IN TOUCH WITH FAMILY. ETC BS… FACEBOOK IS RICH AND BIG, BU THEY CAN’T TAKE DOWN A GROUP FOR 100′S OF MILLIONAIRES WITH A STRONG CASE. PUT THE ASSHOLES OUT OF BUSINESS…
OH AND GET THIS, THEY REFUSE ADS I PUT UP FOR MAKING MONEY ONLINE… THEY ACCEPT IT FOR ONE, THEN NOT THE NEXT AND I SEE MAKE MONEY ADS ALL THE TIME.
YOU SUCK FACEBOOK!!
omg i am soooo pissed with facebook! they just gave me an error that i have joined too many groups and i cant join anymore. fuck you, faceboook.
p.s. i just added you.
Oh, for the groups thing, you have to read the small print. there is a limit of i think… 500. i may be wrong, but facebook has set a limit on joining groups. I got the notification too
never mind. the link to add you has been disabled.
Good Facebook…..[]
yeah i just added you but i have been noticing that red message. i tried adding my friends friend and said this facebook user has too many friends. she had 4,407 friends.
When i add a friend who has about 500 friends, Mr.Facebook said ‘Too many friend’… I can’t stand up with it…
The same thing happened when I tried to add someone and it said, “this person already has too many friends.” I’m like WTF? At first I thought maybe the person set their privcacy setting to not accept anymore fan request…here is my theory on stinky FB.
1.The Government owns FB- It has been public knowledge (or maybe private knowledge) that the CIA owns the right to FB…not those two kids from college that ORIGINALLY owned it but was forced to sell it because it got so big. I think the same thing is going to happen to the owners of Twitter.
The government controls and maniuplates EVERYTHING, down to our favorite celebrites to what we watch on T.V. They want you to praise Beyonce or Lady Gaga, not some average kid who has an independent label whose getting MAJOR exposure from facebook. We couldn’t have that now could we?(rolling eyes)
here are some links to the CIA theory and facebook you might find interesting
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10456534
http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=3346
Oh and by the way, Myspace does have something like that, You can only add like 50 (but no more than 100) friends per day and they also have an aglorthim software to make sure nothings fishy going on. They don’t have a frieend limit though, they only monitor how FAST you get those friends.
I think it is for this reason. I have had my hotmail account since 2003. Lots of contacts in there for various reasons. Ebay etc etc etc. Anyway.. I clicked on that thing in facebook to add freinds from my email address book! BIG MISTAKE.. it has attempted adding all the contacts in my hotmai.. So when these ppl get my friend request they CLICK IGNORE and then Click ‘I DO NOT KNOW THIS PERSON”. Facebook said I violated their terms and conditions for too many friend requests to peopel I dont know! but It was their doing. NOT MINE
The same thing happened when I tried to add someone and it said, “this person already has too many friends.” I’m like WTF? At first I thought maybe the person set their privcacy setting to not accept anymore fan request…here is my theory on stinky FB.
1.The Government owns FB- It has been public knowledge (or maybe private knowledge) that the CIA owns the right to FB…not those two kids from college that ORIGINALLY owned it but was forced to sell it because it got so big. I think the same thing is going to happen to the owners of Twitter.
The government controls and maniuplates EVERYTHING, down to our favorite celebrites to what we watch on T.V. They want you to praise Beyonce or Lady Gaga, not some average kid who has an independent label whose getting MAJOR exposure from facebook. We couldn’t have that now could we?(rolling eyes)
here are some links to the CIA theory and facebook you might find interesting
one of my friends informed me that when they tried to add me fb said i had too many friends…i have fewer than a thousand friends and a lil over a thousand pending…this sucks cuz now i gotta go through all of them just to be able to have friends again…..damn fb its not my fault random people like to add me =[
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!
But, try to mention 100 of your 5000 friend
can you mention it all ?
i think we gonna make real social network, not friend adding network
This shit happens (can’t add more than 5000 friends), because otherwise everything would crashed – and it’s working bad already. They can’t handle so many users. Bad programing.
yes, this happened to me…ridiculous
and don’t kid about the van…it’s probably really there
if facebook blocks you from your account just start a new one
Hi there! Anybody here experiencing that when adding friends, captcha always shows even if the account is verified already? Why is it like this already?
I just tried adding a couple of people and got ‘Sorry, this user already has too many friends.’ One of them had 489, the other about 2700!
Oh yeah this happened to ME last night and I am pissed. I have a clothing company called Girls Named Tiffani, It’s a company for all women but a lot of the shirts do have to do with women named Tiffani. So I added all the Tiffani’s and Tiffani’s only on the social networking site FACEBOOK and once I got to 4,000 friends they closed my page down. This morning I had a nasty email saying that they closed my account and WOULD NOT be opening it back because I was “adding too many people I did not know…or soliciting people for DATING or business reasons…WHAT IS WRONG with either of those. I was NOT trying to get a date but even if I was…don’t call your website a social networking site if we limitations how many people we can become friends with. I opened up another page and all of the girls are adding me again. SO they can BITE me! Close down the pages of people who make stupid events called “Win a FREE iPAD” THESE ARE THE SPAMMERS!
Weird I thought the internet was about freedom of choice! Facebook a supposed social networking site limiting the amount of friends you can add/have is just plain stupidity, honestly. Also I had a Fubar for awhile & my account there was closed because I didn’t add paying customers for their site. They (fubar) say you can join for free but if you don’t buy bling from them they close your account! The main reason I am pissed at them is because I had been on there awhile & I had added quite a few people that I’d talk/message with & then I login in one day to find my friends list & my pictures deleted! Never join that site!
It has stil not happend nothing and Im very disapointed of facebook that we not can add anymore friends because I have seen others having 4000 friends and why should not I have more friends I mean serious there must be something Facebook can do. Do you maybe know where we can call facebook so I can talk with them. Thank you.
THEY WOULDN’T LET ME ADD MICKEY FACTZ AND HE WAS ONLY @ 4,886!!!! FACEBOOK JUST MAKES ME
ABSOLUTELY SICK AT TIMES!!!! WHY MAKE A SOCIAL NETWORK (THAT BECOMES EXTREMELY POPULAR BTW)
THEN MAKE SUCH STUPID RULES?!?!
On some people’s profile they don’t even have a thing that says add as friend. That might be an indicator that people have too many friends. well, i got news for you FACEBOOK!!,it’s a social networking site. why don’t they let people have as many friends as they want like on myspace? myspace hasn’t had any troubles yet on too many friends. heck i knew a person that had over 20,000 people on there before he deleted his account and moved to facebook. And just wondering. is there a limit on how many games you can play on facebook? I’m playing glamble poker, petville, yoville, mafia wars, happy aquarium and many other things but i can’t think of them at the moment. And oh yeah what happened to farmville? I can’t even get on it at all now.
FB temp suspended me for adding too many friends…i am a clown who networks with clowns around the world. Nobody complained of me and i was hurting no one…FB is being a bad networking site and it makes me a sad clown. Please FB if you care or if you read this i am very frustrated with you. This had made me think twice about using you.
fuckin bullshit–same shit happened to me
i have a little over 4,000 pages i “liked” and facebook tells me i can join anymore! wtf?!!! whats the problem here? who is it affecting? no-one! what does it effing matter?
Yeah, I tried adding someone who didn’t have the magic number and still couldn’t add them. WTF facebook?!?
Hello the other day I was adding some friends and I got a warning not understanding it I thought it was some kind of confirmation so people cant be solicited But I was wrong. I don’t have anything close to 5000 friends. I still don’t understand what i did wrong. Its soooooooo frustrating. And of course its next to impossible to get any help from face book. They should change their names to Face jerks.
Y’all I opened a new account and now my ass is paranoid to everything I do on there :{ Don’t wanna be shut down again! LMAO
Man! I truly believe of what you’ve said ! Its true…
I really really really really really felt so bad of what facebook had done to me..
they give me warning and after that… (sigh)
they’ve still block and block and block me from adding friends on my account…
further adding friends could result in BANNING my accoun… T.T
that’s why i’m afraid to add friends since then …
afraid on getting BAN…
Is it really a MISTAKE TO ADD FRIENDS AND MAKE A CONNECTION TO THEM???
a complain that I want facebook to read!!
There it is. Follow the money trail! Place an ad and see how many friends you can have:)
Yes, this happened to me just today. I am also doing this for my business here in the Philippines. It was just a warning though. I really don’t understand. There’s politicians from the Philippines that have over 1 million fans, but they are paying for advertisement.
Funny too how there are a ton of local bars around here that decided to setup their FB page as a person instead of a business. Reported several of them and yet nothing was ever done about it. Guess they just pick and choose which of their retarded rules they want to enforce.
Ugh… I just tried adding a friend but apparently they already have too many friends… How can they decide when you have too many friends?
Facebook sucks! I’m an artist, trying to connect with friends and get my name out there, but said I was adding too many friends too quickly. What’s so odd, is that I knew all the people I was trying to add! If facebook wants to be considered a social network they should really get with the program!
Yeah, I am in time-out as we speak. I am one of those silly middle aged women who plays all the silly flash games and there is no way to advance in the game unless you add a lot of people. I tried to add 2 people and I got myself a virtual spanking. It’s comical. Social networking without adding friends is about as useful as a driver’s license to a blind man or full coverage car insurance to a person who owns a bike. They won’t answer for the hypocrisy. I have seen TONS of people on Facebook posting nude and almost nude pics, teens cussing and posting photos of their “barely there” attire and PLENTY of people, mainly men, posting strippers and porn stars as their profile pics but they don’t ban people for that, ONLY adding friends. HAHAHAHAH. Facebook harassment and hypocrisy FTW!
is there anyone can help me?. i was blocked for adding friends too. what should i do to remain old times?.
I think someone has to complain about you before you start getting warnings. I have more than one account, and on some of my accounts I can add as many people as I want, but on others I get a warning that I’m adding too many friends after I add 2 or 3 in a day…even though those accounts don’t have as many friends as the others. I think someone must have complained when I tried to add them as a friend or something, and I think that’s why I get the warnings.
I think everyone should have at least a couple of shill accounts on Facebook. I found out something interesting last year. I got really excited when certain ladies sent me naughty gift items and thought maybe they wanted to sumthin’ sumthin’! So I sent some naughty gifts back (keep in mind these were people I know in real life). But then my shill accounts started sending me naughty gifts and I know I didn’t do it. Yikes! Apparently Facebook was doing it just to get things going. I wonder how many friendships ended over stuff like that? lol!
Yeah too many friends now that is just stupid what is the point to having a account there if it does not work properly
Yes, it’s rather boring when they do it. In my case, they’ve limited me to seven friend requests every 48 hours. I hope they change that, or that another network without such limitations would take the first place, because I dont wanna lose contact, that’s the only reason why I’m still on fb.
By the way, I cant add you as a friend. I’ve arrived to my limit!
i have thirteen thousand friends on myspace, it was a great way to get my shit out there and be creative on my page.
i only have about 400 friends on facebook and i’m okay with that. myspace needs to get back in the game and step things up, because it was so fun!
I just got blocked by Facebook yesterday for adding too many friends. It ticks me off, because I was only adding people who WANTED to be added for the Castle Age game application played on FB! The worst part is that you can’t get anyone from FB to answer any emails about it. I’m hoping all FB sponsors / advertisers pull out now and FB folds… just out of spite…lol.
maybe it’s cause they don’t have the terrabytes to keep all those “pages” and stuff; yeah but it does suck, cause i’m a filmmaker and i know a few semi-famous people; my friend Doug Jones had to make a fan page instead so all his friends could join. Since filmmaking is a lot of networking kinds of stuff, it sucks that they put “limitations” on it. EFFF!!! failbook.
I don’t get why facebook suggests endless lists of friends to us in the first place (especially when we only sometimes have a couple of mutual friends) and then starts shouting at us when we start sending these suggestions friend requests. I use fb for both ‘real’ friends and networking, networking is a RAPID way of increasing your number of, and size of online social circles, which is what i thought it was FOR!! And then to add insult to injury they put the message “we notice you have a lot of friend requests that have not been responded to, this may be annoying for other users. slow down significantly.” WTF??? you can only send 1 request to 1 person, how can this get annnoying? Friend requests generally make people happy not pissed off…even if you don’t technically know the person, its still nice to get requests. And people can always decline if they want and even block its sender if they really want! The way the warning is worded made me feel crap, as though everyone was ignoring me…i’d only just sent the requests ffs, give them time! Fb should not be so patronizing and back-off!!…maybe its cos the owners of fb are just jealous of other people having more friends than them?
Nail on the old head there. I agree 100%
It seems that myspace is looking better and better!Follow the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Facebook-Sucks/401810436473?ref=ts
Hi just found you site searching on facebook warnings. Kinda new to the whole social networking thing and I just got the same warning about adding to many friends. I have to agree odd behavior for a site to limit the exact behavior it is promoting.
Facebook is probably laughing at us. They could care less.
I got strike 1 for the same reason. Have no idea how many friends it takes to get strike 1 and can’t imagine how that can matter. I hated MySpace, so was glad to join Facebook. I guess I’ll just slow down getting friends, but it would be nice to know the rules up front. The message was really nasty. If there was anything I could do to complain, I would. But something tells me that’s completely futile.
As far as I can theorize Facebook is a Government Controlled Entity.
All they want you to do is connect with people you actually know and do business with or have a continuing relationship with.
They think that if you are not in the News or on the E channel, there is no way that you could have that many friends or fans.
Now when the “Sate of Emergency” is enacted they will know exactly who you are and who you are dealing with on a daily basis.
ive been on fb for 6 months.ive got 96 friends.ive seen people with 1000 friends & more so why am I BEEN WARNED TO STOP ADDING FRIENDS OR ELSE….wtf
Many of you keep on complaining things that you don’t even have any idea what is going behind the scene. Let me provide some possible explanation for these limitation.
Every single time you perform an action such as clicking on a link or going to see your friends’ photos, Facebook servers have to perform certain numbers of calculation, query the databases, search for information that you need and feed them back to you. Such number of calculation become much and much larger when more users join their application. Even Facebook with more expensive equipments than millions of website out there still has a limit number of request they can process at a given time. And the system would suffer severely when the numbers of request get closer to such limit.
Believe it or not, the more friends you add, the longer it takes for your profile to load. Why? because the servers have to go though your friend list, searching for all their updates and feed them back to you. So, for any of you who like to click the “add” button, think it twice before you do so, because it could ruin your overall experience. More stuff going on, more time to process.
Another possible explanation for such limitation is: to fight spams. Some users are actually bots trying to gather as many friends as possible so they can send out ads, collect your personal information or trick you into going to certain websites.
There are many more explanations to this, but I think it is just enough to explain why they limit to certain activities… Remember they are in the business of making money. If serving you cost more than what they earn, they will strike not to! They don’t care if you want to have 5001 friends, if setting the limit at 5000 can guarantee their steady income, they will do it.
For many of you saying that they don’t want you to add more friends, the reality is totally the other way around. They would LOVE to have you having as many friends as possible because that way they can generate more income. For example, let say you click on an ad, and press the “like it” button; all your friends will see your status update and follow you to that ad, boom! Facebook makes more money.
(warning: didn’t check for typo)
How about possible option number 3: . The greedy bastards at Facebook want us to pay for their advertising, rather than doing our own advertising…?
Facebook do not allow me to post a music video from youtube because it had offensive language it it. Exile – I Wanna Kiss You All Over (1978)
The Communist at facebook wouldn’t allow me to post this music video because according to them it contains abusive language. That’s a WTF moment if there ever was one….Come on….
Facebook has this new security “road block” that has you go through a series of test and questions when you are logging on to a new computer. I use mobile web, so I do most of my facebooking on there. I tried to go to my page on my husbands computer and even when I answer the questions correctly is does NOTHINHG! It won’t let me in my own f-in page! Any suggestions?
FACEBOOK SUCKS. Its supposed to be a SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE where the POINT is to MAKE NEW FRIENDS and Keep in touch with existing once. People who have a LOT of friends on FB Have to add a lot of friends. I have at least 700 former classmates from H.S. alone to add, not to mention college, business relationships, family, and other things. I Use FB to keep in touch and to network and I need FB to be able to add friends, but this is ridiculous. Even when they do FINALLY remove a ban on friends, You can only do 1 a day for several days before you can do 2-3 a day max. Its ridiculous having to wait a whole week to do like 10 friends. Facebook, YOU NEED TO FIX THIS ISSUE so people who are legitimately adding friends and not spammers don’t get blocked.
FIX THIS NOW YOU MORONS or I will tell everyone to leave facebook! Can someone create a NEW Social network site that allows unlimited friend adds, and make it even more popular than Facbeook I think its time for something new to replace facebook and for these power hungry egotistical maniacs who run FB to go away.
I sent a friend request to a person who has alittle over 4900 friends I got a message saying “sorry this person has too many friend request” does this person still get notification of my friend request?
Hi Justin
I just tried to add you now. Thing is i have just received my facebook warning about too many friends. Like you i too am trying to blog myself famous.
A few weeks ago Facebook blocked me for a few days for such an offence. I tried sending out complaints, but its all fallen on deaf ears. Even so called consumer complaints sites and even the Better Business Bureau have ignored me.
Tonight i recieved my second facebook warning. If they block me again, they may disable my account, which scares me, as i have put a lot of work into my profile and my fan page.
My theory as to why they limit friends is as follows. The greedy bastards want us to pay for their advertising, rather than doing our own advertising. I am so angry. My blog is all about consumer complaints and i think that my next blog will be about Facebook, i guess not too dissimilar to your blog here.
More importantly though, how do we logge a complaint that actually gets noticed and makes a difference?? All ideas are most welcome, and thanks for posting this article, it is literally exactly what i have felt.
Meantime if you want to friend me, my name is Maxine Ryder. I will respond tomorrow when hopefully Facebook has forgotten my crimes and allows me to make some more friends…
Maxine
If you’re interested in my blog, you can find it here
http://www.ocdridiculouslife.com/maxines-consumer-complaints-blog.html
Maxine I totally agree with you about the advertising thing. I am only on Facebook for the purpose of promoting my business the way I SEE FIT…how do they know we can afford their advertising?! From what I hear their advertising isn’t very good! When they shut my Facebook page down (Girl’s Named Tiffani) I had almost 4,000 friends named Tiffany…I had a fan page with 2,600 people and my business for my t shirt store was picking up. I out of no where went to log on and my page was disabled. When they sent me the email letting me know why they had closed my page one of the reasons were “Soliciting Business or Dates” in my inbox…I had a lot of guys trying to add me so I would just give them the link to my store page…if they went I don’t know they weren’t my audience. If I was soliciting business in my inbox so what I didn’t contact these people to add me as a damn friend in the first place, nor did I send them any messages. They also said I requested too many people I didn’t know…How the hell do they know who I know? The page closure significantly effected my store sales because I had to start everything OVER and my customers no longer know how to find me. It’s really annoying, if it’s going to be a social networking site they need to allow us to talk to other damn people. They just got upset because I was getting sales and stuff without using their advertising.
Same thing happened to me. I only add the friends that they suggest and then I get all of these stupid warning messages.
Exactly the same thing is happening to me ?? and yet someof the people on my wall have made 20+ friends in 1 day ?????
if you keep on adding people!! even in a slow rate
your account will be disabled…………. and you can never get it back!
it happened to me like 4 times XD
now i’m on my 5th account
This sucks majorly… I just moved to college and have made a ton of new friends… but can’t add a single one… I’m calling BS too..
I am a graphic designer and was going through my client list to find clients to add when I was blocked from adding friends! I can’t seem to find any information on how long to wait, plus it says that if you try to add while you are blocked, then your account could be deleted. I accidentally forgot a couple times already. But, it has been several days and I don’t know if I am still blocked! I can understand having something put in place to prevent spammers. But, this is really ridiculous. I’m not spamming, but yeah as a business person, I do need to connect with people! I am beside myself. Né
I got a different message. Says “Do you know this person in real life” and gave me a note about possibly being punished if I continue to add so many friends.
I TOLD ME THE SAME THING THAT WAS STUPID WHAT SHOULD I DO TO BLOCK FACEBOOK FOR SEND ME THAT MESSAGE
I also using fb since 3 years, I have 4 accounts in it to make it out someting like research , one of my account i reached on blocked and one of a/c is for mass and xxx u can understand what i mean! i got that, if u are honset and want to make friend with honetly you aare definetly going to Blocke…so plzz friends use fake acounts and just enjoy the networking…. use two three a/c like one for colege firends ….2nd for shits and 3rd to all around…you never going to bore from it…If Facebook hits you…You too have to Hit FACE book
i had send friend request to few unknown people in face book….they didn’t accepted my request….now if i sent new friend request to anyone …alert warning is coming that….you are adding people whom you don’t know…you are violating the terms and conditions…..:(
Every time I try to add someone it comes up a warning saying:
“This Request Can’t Be Sent
Do you know this user personally? To prevent misuse of Facebook, this request can’t be sent. To learn more, please visit the Help Center. If you believe you’re seeing this message in error, you can report the problem.
I only have like 80 people on my page. grrrrrrrrrrrrr
I to am having a problem it keeps telling I have exceeded my limit of request.
Idiotbook’s NEW security block: “This request can’t be sent” now pops up everytime a friend is requested. We are NOT abusing the system, not spamming, not “harassing” people… we just want to hook up with current friends or make new ones. NOW, WE CAN DO NEITHER… The stupidity of these gnomes pulling the levers at Facebook beggars belief. Sure, there are those who abuse it… but to penalise or prevent us from requesting friends simply because we don’t know them is absurd..
If facebookers don’t like receiving requests they can simply adjust their privacy settings, but to stop an individual from making new friends is pure idiocy. A social networking site? Facebook is PATHETIC
I cant send a request to my friend….when ever I try the massage as follow will be display..
” Do you know this user personally? To prevent misuse of Facebook, this request can’t be sent. To learn more, please visit the Help Center. If you believe you’re seeing this message in error, you can report the problem.”
May I know the solution please????????????!!!!!!!!!!
Hi I am complaining about facebook I didnt think I was doing anything wrong I have been using facebook for dates and adding strangers but because they either they have ignored or blocked because they dont know me facebook team have mistaken me for a strange person but I am a very good person so I would like for facbook to let me add friends who i know please I promise not to add strangers If you could look into it I will be very grateful thank you
Has anything been done about my account
Hey there I just wanted to make a complaint that face book has yet again disabled my accout and I didn’t know that I was not allowed to poke anyone at all. But they disabled my other account for having 10,000 friends.
I also started getting these messages suddenly one day, I didnt send multiple invites either, was just the 1 then it gave me this message. I was quite taken back by it as I never sent invites to people I dont know and for days tried to come up with a answer. Then few days later I sent another invite to a different person and it went through, tried to resend invite to the my friend I could the 1st time and it gave me that same message again. Immediately after that I sent another invite to the 1st profile I could see on facebook of who I didnt have a clue who it was and it went through without any issues. This was now about 2 months ago, since then I been able to send a few invites successfully but still havent been able to send that 1st friend I got trouble with 1 succsefully. So for some reason I think this is just a glitch that they to lazy to fix. I think if enough people start making a massive issue about this, facebook might start to realise they need to look into it… Or maybe we should start a petition page on facebookwith the header ” from Facebook to Myspace in 80 reasons” where inviting is still allowed and advised, even inviting complete strangers isnt looked down apon
I got something else, i can’t add any friend because i don’t know that friend personally, very funny with facebook, i just have 40 friends and i can’t add anymore, because i get to this error: do you know this person? you can not add this person.
i dont know what to do…;(
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.