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How can I break the 5000 friends limit in Facebook?

Israel Lavee asks:

I have a good friend that is stuck! How can we break this barrier of 5000 friends?
Any help will be appreciated.
I do know some people have even over 6000 friends!


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Mike

July 11, 2012

Facebook has a limit of 5000 friends. If you see someone with more it simply is a bug in the system.

Frankly, I don’t even see the point of having or being in need for more than 5000 friends.

1 month = 720 hours, 43200 minutes
6 hours sleep per day = 10800 minutes per month
32400 / 5000 = 6,48 minutes per Friend per month

I have more interaction with people working at the supermarket or the mailman and I haven’t even included reoccurring schedules like eating, working/school, taking a shower or whatever in this calculation…

Anon

People use multiple methods of networking, even through Facebook. Besides ads, they also like to create a page to be “friended.” Not everyone searches for fanpages, and some people think it’s more personal.

October 15, 2012
Cusfel

You have not pushed your thinking very far… think haed before trying to be bright…

November 17, 2012
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Irshaad Abdool

July 11, 2012

nopes, am afraid, its not possible
same as Mike said, its not worth having that huge number of online friends. better have some true friends that u can meet and talk with, that will be better. online buddies fake the true definition of friendship

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Ryan Dube

July 12, 2012

Create a second account for another 5000 friends and dual post identical status updates to both accounts? Your second account will not “see” updates from your first 5000 friends, but at least all of your friends on both accounts will see all of your updates?

I’m not sure I could see any need for having over 5000 friends, but hey to each his or her own…

Anon

Lots of people create both fanpages and “friend” profiles in order to network. It’s a way of getting both sides, since not everyone likes to “like” pages.

October 15, 2012
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GamE

July 12, 2012

you cant do that

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rish404

July 12, 2012

Nope. You can’t.

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Brayan Habid

July 15, 2012

You can create a group, or page, or whatever facebook calls it now. That way you can post statuses and send messages to everyone, without a limit in the amount of friends. If you have over 5000 friends, then you are kinda famous, so go for it.

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Rajaa Chowdhury

July 15, 2012

Facebook should not categorize all in the Superset “Friends” and then subset them into “Close Friends” and “Acquaintance” . Rather when you add someone, you should get the option of “Friends” (close friends), an “Acquaintance” (someone you know, mostly office colleague) and a “Relative”. Then the clear and true picture will show. At one point of time, I had more than 650 people as friends in Facebook account, so one day did a reality check, and today have reduced that list to around 50, with around 20 friends, 20 acquaintances and 10 relatives. Get realistic, count your fingers that how many friends you really have and purge that list. Believe me, again you would start controlling your Facebook account, rather than it controlling you.

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Dave Rimmer

July 17, 2012

Why on earth would you need 5000 so called friends in the first place. Have you got a bet on who can get the most friends. How would you ever communicate with them all, can’t see the point myself, but good luck.

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Don King

July 18, 2012

When I reached 5,000 friends, I created a business page. With those people just hit the Like button instead of sending a friend request, and it’s unlimited how many “friends” you can have … but for some reason my original Facebook account just jumped to 5,278 friends, and there are still hudreds of friend requests just sitting there waiting for approval. I don’t know what to do.

Del

Who needs five thousand friends!?

December 9, 2012
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Rishabh Sharma

August 5, 2012

It isin’t possible

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dave wainscott

August 11, 2012

look at this: 5, 182 friends:https://www.facebook.com/scot.mcknight

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Amit Sinha

September 3, 2012

if you really need your facebook friends count increase over 5K then there is a simple answer is that you should contact FB support center they may help you.

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Walter S

September 12, 2012

Easy, migrate your personal page into a fan page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php?migrate

Juni

If you see people with more than 5000 friends then it is not a bug. Most people think that there is a bug in Facebook by which you can have more than 5000 friends.
Actually the number of friends includes your actual friends plus people who are waiting to become your friends. So if you see 5128 friends then it is possible that the person have 5000 friends and 128 people have requested to be friend but awaiting his approval.

September 23, 2012
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wali

October 24, 2012

i have more 5000 friendss i Dont know how to remove it

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wali

October 24, 2012

i have more 5000 friendss i Dont know how to remove it

saher

how you got 5000 ??

October 28, 2012
susendeep dutta

Log in to your account and then click on Friends tab present on left side.Then click on See All Friends.It’ll load a list of all 5000 friends.Then hover over the Friends button on the friend you like to unfriend.Then a option will load and click on unfriend which will unfriend that person.Go on till you get completed.This is the fastest way to remove friends.

November 17, 2012
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Roeben

December 20, 2012

It’s possible. Use “Suggest friends”

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Reverend Flash

December 22, 2012

Why do so many of you wanna DO that? Psychologists believe you can only maintain real relationships with about 150 people. Are you all psycho or something? Focus more on the quality of your friendships and less on the quantity of ‘friends’.

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Huy

December 30, 2012

hey, this guy already had 6,300 friends
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.jordan.965580?fref=st

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Sufiyan Khan

January 22, 2013

can any one tell me that how i add more than 5000 frends | I have 4999 frends and still 300 frend request pending .
hoow i add all frends…

tell me