Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit

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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 “real” friends to their account, and the Go to site

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