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		robryan on Feb 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook yeah, 5k friends would be a horrible experience unless they were mostly hidden from your stream. You would never see anything you close friends posted.

zalew on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

I don't get what's the point having 5000 people in the first place, unless you use fb only as a publishing stream (but that's what fanpages are for).

scott_s on Feb 4, 2011 | [–]

The author of this piece is a professional blogger. Having 5,000 FB friends is probably natural to him because marketing himself is part of his job.

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