Social Desire

Written on August 7, 2008 – 8:20 am | by Shana Albert |

StumbleUpon has plans to finally remove their 200 friend limit. I am so thrilled as this has been a huge pet peeve for me for months now. I have over 1300 fans, but I can only make 200 of them my friends…. meaning at this moment I can only subscribe to 200 of these StumbleUpon member’s Stumble-Reviews. These StumbleUpon changes will allow me to make Stumbler’s friends with an option to subscribe or not subscribe to their Stumbles.

The Official StumbleUpon Blog states…..

"Over the next couple weeks we are going to separate the social & content aspects of friendship on SU, so you can subscribe to someone’s favorites without necessarily becoming their friend, and become someone’s friend without necessarily seeing their stumbles. You’ll also be able to "Subscribe" to more than 200 stumblers, since we’ve changed the way they are stored in the database. Mutuals will just be "Friends", fans will become "Subscribers" and you’ll simply be "Subscribed to" stumblers who rate great content."

This makes me so excited and I am totally looking forward to start seeing these changes. These new changes will allow me to make new friends with StumbleUpon members and check out some of their Stumbles…. something I was restricted on in the past. This restriction caused me to be so selective in the past and limited me from opening myself up to new StumbleUpon friends…. I just wasn’t able to. Once a month I would have to do a StumbleUpon House Cleaning where I would clean house of my StumbleUpon friends that were no longer active or no longer stumbling things I would be interested in. I hated doing it, but I had to purge my friends list often. I am sure I will have to clean house occasionally, but now I won’t have to do it as often and I will be able to put this time in to something more useful…. like enjoying my new friend’s Stumbles.

So, I look forward to your new changes StumbleUpon…. you know how much I love you. Our first year together rocked my world, StumbleUpon!! But, I have a feeling this next year will be our best yet!!