It's true that servers physically and logically can olny handle activities of certain sizes. HOWEVER, aren't some Facebook groups REALLY HUGE, like hundreds of thousands of people probably much larger than many kinds of union organizer lists?
IF this is true, then what kind of groups ARE allowed to become really huge? I am not necessarily in a hurry to sign onto Facebook, but if someone comes back with topical info about this question, I could be induced to...
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DoreneC
On Jan 24, 2008 2:38 PM, tully <tully2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 January 2008, B. wrote:
> >[If you're on Facebook you should join the group to
> >support the guy. Why not.
>
> Without having looked into the matter, it sounds like Facebook
> software can't handle networking more than a few friends at a
> time. As fast as the Facebook phenomenon exploded, the software
> developers are probably scrambling hard just keeping all the
> millions of accounts running, much less trying to link many of
> them together. In any case, s yahoogroup or usenet type
> newsgroup might be a better way to organize thousands of people
> than Facebook would be.
>
> It doesn't seem fair to get on Facebook's case about this. Looks
> like they gave him lots of warnings not to add more people
> before they banned him.
>
> --tully
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