Facebook limits a personal profile to 5000 friends and they have been known to deactivate your account when you reach that number WITHOUT any prior notification. If you, or someone you know, is a public figure this could easily happen. For instance, I just became a FB Friend of John Assaraf’s and noticed he has over 4500 friends.
Public figures, companies and associations can create a Company Fan Page in addition to their personal profile. Here are some of the benefits of doing this:
- There is no limit to the number of Fans you can have.
- Fan Pages have similar components to a personal page such as tabs for a wall, info, photos, videos, notes, etc…
- You can add additional applications to your Fan Page.
- Your messages get published in your Fan’s news feed.
- You can give people a link that will take them directly to your Fan Page.
- The name of your Fan Page becomes part of the URL and can therefore contain your primary keyword(s).
- You can have multiple administrators for your Fan Page so the upkeep is shared.
- If an administrator leaves your company, you simply remove them as an administrator to the Fan Page and your Fans never even know that anything has changed.
If you have a Facebook Personal Profile that is reaching it’s Friends Limit, there is a way to keep people from requesting friendship. The setting you need to change is in your Privacy Settings. If you do this, be sure to set-up a Fan Page first and provide the link to your Fan Page on your personal profile.
If you have any questions, please post as a comment.
Kimberly Yow
MarketingThatsEasy.com
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This is very interesting…thanks for sharing.