I am sure a program can get a count of the selected Email ids and pop a message box if some limit is exceeded !!

Thanks for the coverage on this. For the benefit of your readers who don’t have time to wade through week’s worth of blog posts on this issue:

All I did was follow the instructions on the Facebook UI to invite my current contact list to join. Facebook never informed me of a limit. My understanding is that technology writer Robert Scoble has 4200 Facebook contacts — and last week, Mr. Scoble described Facebook as “the new Rolodex” and hyped its click-to-call compatibility with the iPhone.

But this is not about Robert Scoble. I can think for myself. Facebook’s email address inhaler slurped up every single Gmail address I had on file — which just happened to be 4600 and change. In the process, Facebook even served up hundreds of photos of my contacts who were already members.

Honestly, it appeared to me as if everything was cool when I hit SEND. It was only when Facebook’s customer service rep gave me the boot in a misspelled email that I realized that I had been “F’d”

If Facebook had given me a limit, I would have obeyed it. No problem. I am a member in excellent standing on several online communities and social networks.

Even as this thing continues to gather steam in the blogosphere, Facebook has remained quiet on the matter. A mistake. Moreover, Facebook customer service was incredibly resolute about the permanence of their decision — even though they never gave me a Warning or an opportunity to atone for my actions.

It was like getting an instant death penalty for speeding on an unmarked highway.

Kind regards,
Harry Joiner
MarketingHeadhunter.com