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In Vietnam where I’m living, Yahoo! Messenger is the most popular IM service. Like most Vietnamese, I started communicating through IM with Yahoo! Messenger.

In 2006, my account has reached its maximum number of friends an account can add: 300.

My Yahoo! 360, Yahoo’s blogger service also limits to 300 and I always have a hard time managing my friend list. I had to work around by configuring registry to allow multiple Y!M instances to run at once.

So my concern when registering for any social network or IM service is the maximum number of friends an account can add.

And here’s the current data:

5,000 for Facebook. This is sufficient for me, till now.

200 groups for Facebook

600 for Windows Live Messenger. Still not enough, as my connections now have passed 1,000.

300 for Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! 360. I can’t live with this cap.

No statistics for Gtalk

1,000 for Yahoo! 360plus Vietnam. However, “add friend” in this service doesn’t work in the standard way since friend adding is one-way: doesn’t require confirmation, doesn’t show vice versa.

2,000 for Twitter. I haven’t planned to reach that number just yet.

So what platform are you on? Have you reached the cap in your friend list? If yes, what have you done to solve the issue?

2 Responses to “How many friends have you added? What do you do when you hit the cap?”

1. Chip says:

   August 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm

   Y!M ver 7 limits to 300, Y!M8 limits to 1000, and I’m not sure about the number of friends Y!M9 limits. But when your fl reachs certain number, maybe 800, 900 or so, your Y!M turns out so lag, so annoying =.=
2. Hang Thanh Tran says:

   September 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm

   I don’t call that friends. It’s strangers that interfere your life. Put that computer down and let loose man. Someone needs to cut you down in size someday.