Path photo sharing app arrives for the iPhone - Phone Arena. Some pundits are touting the 50 friend limit on the Path IPhone photo sharing app as the anti-Facebook. Limiting a user to 50 friends, however, is like limiting pets. Any more than a few is already too many. My mom, the repository of all wisdom on earth, used to tell me that you only have 2 or 3 real friends in your life. The rest are passers by, acquaintances, enemies who are scamming you, or relatives. In fact, "friend" has been corrupted by Facebook. The Path limit, however, is not a bad idea, and Facebook has created Groups to do the same thing. You can create a Group of like minded "Facebook Friends", and all communications among the group are sandboxed. I created one for the family, and I suppose you could create one for your 2 or 3 "real friends". However, I suspect that your real friends see you enough every day or week that you don't really need to connect with them on Facebook. Like Twitter, you could use a Facebook group of clients to send out useful information that all of your clients might be interested in; but, I don't have many clients that I would consider a "Facebook Friend" or a "real friend". So, unless we have shared a meal, or a mom, or real money, don't friend me, bro.
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