Santa Adds Facebook to Naughty List Over Friend Limit (Wired)

**Drew Wilson** · September 18th, 2008, 01:14 PM

Everyone, it seems, wants to be friends with Santa Claus on Facebook. In the month or so since he joined the popular social network, he's approved 5,000 friends. He could have easily gone viral by Thanksgiving -- when everyone wants to be "friends" with Santa regardless of whether they deserve to be. He could become the most popular person in the world on Facebook.

But unfortunately for Santa, 5,000 friends is all anyone gets on Facebook. To add anyone new, the man who says his real legal name is Santa Claus must remove someone on his list.

That upsets the man who runs the Santa Claus Foundation, which he describes as an advocacy group for children.

"It's hard for me to believe that Facebook would want to disappoint that many folks who might enjoy being Santa's friends," Claus said in an e-mail. "I'm not selling anything; so, I don't understand the problem."

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LOL!!!

**mountain_rage** · September 18th, 2008, 03:35 PM

They should adapt a policy where certain designated members can have more than 5000 friends.

**badcaffeine** · October 29th, 2008, 11:12 AM

That would make sense.... though, if I were him, I'd just shift all those people to a group (which as far as I've seen, don't have limits). ;)

**ctarlet** · October 29th, 2008, 11:54 AM

I was talked into joining facebook...wish I hadn't. I think that the limit is stupid. Their explanation makes no sense as to why they do it. It is just a scaled down version of Myspace.