500 Friend Limit, Path No Longer Exclusive

Jakarta - Path is considering to increase the friend limit its services from 150 to 500 users . But what is already necessary ? Could be yes , it could be not . As is known , successfully steal the Path social media activists in the middle of hegemony Facebook and Twitter . Though still a newcomer Path . Even so , these services have the X factor that makes many Facebookers and Tweeps kesengsem . That is because of the nature of exclusivity . On Facebook , if you want you can make friends with more than 1,000 users . So also on Twitter , follow whoever you like , you will not be hindered . But the question that then arises is , do you really know a thousand users to ' friend ' you on Facebook ? Okay lah if you know , but if you keep the intensity of the relationship with all of them? It was hard . Well , this gap is filled by Path . With the restriction can only be friends with 150 users , Path so that more intimate services and exclusive . From the beginning , Path does have a goal to develop a social networking service quality of the interaction . Not just be ' friends ' , but you actually do not know the person close to the Path is inspired from Oxford University Professor Rubin's research associated Dunbar intercourse how many number of friends that can be run by a man during his lifetime . " We usually have 5 best friend , 15 good friend , a close friend and the family of 50 , so a total of 150 friends . At Path , we develop tools for you to be able to share with people nearby . Our goal is to create quality relationships that can make your sharing private moments with their variety , "said Path . So from the above mentioned confidence until finally 150 friend limit on Path appears . But lately , the Path confidence falter so they conduct trials to increase the friend limit to 500 . " Along with the popularity of Path , we started receiving a lot of feedback asking us to increase the number of friend limit , " wrote in a message path to a handful of users . Even so , the ball is now in the hands of Path . Is still going to turn on friend limit to 500 like the other services that are more concerned with quantity ? Or still make Path into a more intimate service and exclusive ?