It was very surprising to know that the fast growing social network Facebook has set a limit for the allowed number of friends to 1500. However the strange side of the story is they kick the user out of the network for using too much resources like it happened with the well-known norwegian model Lene Alexandra à˜ien which appears to be the first to gather this massive number of friends and reach this limit of 1500.

Well, a few questions arise from this story. First what is the reason behind this number? Why not 2000 or a typical power of 2 number 1024 or 2048. Is there some statistical reason behind it like is there some studies that a normal person should not have more than 1500 friends in a social network ?!
Secondly, why throwing the user out of the network? Shouldn’t Facebook support active members? If their resources are really being abused they could have just stopped her from adding new friends rather than kicking her totaly out of the network !

Anyways, à˜ien got no doubt a little push out of this story !!