Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'

[crcoffey]

It's disappointing to think that because your as well known as Bill Gates, you cant have a simple, public page to share with your actual friends.

[colins_pride]

It's tough to feel sorry for the guy

[vaksel]

sure you can, just register as Gill Bates

[uninverted]

The opposite problem of the one he had in high school.

[pyre]

People that 'friend' random people or people they wouldn't really call friends on social networking sites don't get my sympathy when they feel it's 'too much' or some sort of information overload.... they brought it on themselves.

It's like writing off candy as being 'sickening' because you ate nothing but candy as food for a week. It has nothing to do with candy in general or the candy industry. It has to do with _your_ lack of planning and/or foresight.

[malkia]

Facebook for normal people, twitter for popular ones :)

[DarkShikari]

Difficult? It's quite easy to set yourself to private so that nobody can send you an invite unless (for example) they're a friend of your friend. This is how most celebrities use Facebook; they make their personal account private and have a public vanity page for general users.

[moe]

I know I will be downvoted but anyone else had this association? http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2051/ss208.png

[mkyc]

Flagged; this seems to be random gossip.