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Re:Gmail Contacts size increased to 25000 by mortenjorck on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @01:56PM (#2514640)
I'm pretty sure that number exceeds the human capacity to maintain discrete external identities for individuals we know, have met, or know of.

Interestingly, it's about 100x the upper limit for Dunbar's number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number

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Re:Gmail Contacts size increased to 25000 by zachc on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @02:16PM (#2514703)
Also see Path [1], a social network which takes an opposite approach and limits contacts to 50 people.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/15/path-social-n...

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