Facebook Ups The Limit On Posts To Over 60,000 Characters. Now You Can Write A Novel On Your Friends Wall!
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You guys know how you have limits on how long your messages can be sometimes? Take for instance, Twitter, who limits you to just 140 characters when you post a tweet, or SMS Messaging limits cutting you off at a mere 160 characters? Does that ever annoy you?
Facebook seems to think it does. They laugh in the face of these nonsense limitations. If you’re going to do something… do it right! Just 140 or 160 characters is a joke, they say; you need to do it like a man… Let’s raise it up higher than common sense tells us to do! Let’s set the bar higher and higher, even more than 60,000 freakin characters! HELLS YEAH!
- That’s exactly what Facebook did, announcing such a change in a photo post by Facebook Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik on Wednesday, saying that the limit was just too small at the previously increased 5,000 characters. Odd.. I don’t remember ever being limited by such a policy yet. Then again, I don’t really go for writing novels on Facebook walls either.
How many characters does one person need anyways? Is Facebook attempting to outdo somebody? Do they want to give people full-on blogging abilities? The longest post on this website, to date, is 3,325 words. I have no idea really how many characters it actually is, but that’s a really long page, and it’s not even completed yet (because I’m lazy). Maybe one day I’ll get on that.
My main concern about this increase (or rather, if I may, “unleashing”) of the limit is in regards to Facebook spam. Spam is already a huge deal on Facebook, and it only seems to be getting worse and worse as Facebook tweaks and modifies their features. There are simply common sense ways to avoid being a victim to spam, and in all honesty, EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THEM, but this limit increase is really inviting more spam, perhaps in large numbers of links, or perhaps just really long posts that nobody wants to read. I likely won’t read a post that’s even 10,000 characters long if my friends leaves it for me.
I mean, I might pick it up and put it down every now and then, but I doubt it would get read in one sitting.
By the looks of things, Facebook has decided to impose a limit, without it actually being a reachable limit (unless you’re doing it purely to see if you can get there). Vadim says it’s “more than 60,000 characters.” The ACTUAL LIMIT… is 63,206. GO FOR IT!
You made the right choice on the comment system, Disqus is by far the best for blogs and sites like this.
Also, I now know why you made that long post about nothing. haha
Thanks! I like it as well. I was hoping that Facebook commenting system would work out, because every comment made a backlink to the site, but oh well.
This is certainly here to stay, as far as I’m concerned.