Miitomo launches today in the west, and one of the big questions users have regarding this unique social networking app relates to the number of friends you're allowed.
Other networks like Twitter and Facebook place no limit on the amount of contacts you can add to your profile, and as a result these services become quite hard to manage over time.
Nintendo has taken the decision to limit Miitomo's friends list to 1000 people - that's still quite a lot when you think about it, and should ensure that you still have the chance to get to know a least some of those individuals.
Amazingly, some people have already reached the limit:
What do you think of this limit? Do you think you'll ever reach it yourself? Let us know by posting a comment.
What do you think about the 1000 friends limit on Miitomo? (211 votes)
- I'll fill that pretty quickly, I'd like to have more than 1000 friends on Miitomo
- I'll never get anywhere near that number, so it's fine with me
- I probably won't get 1000 friends, but I think the limit isn't needed
- I don't plan on using Miitomo so it makes no difference to me
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[source gonintendo.com]
Comments 41
@TheY I don't even have a 'smart' phone. I use real computers, thx.
It's 4:30pm and it still hasn't dropped on the App Store. I'm so intrigued!!
Unless they expand it to Miiverse friends,I can't imagine the vast majority of those who use it having any more than a handful.Curious to see if anyone genuinely chooses "I'll fill that pretty quickly, I'd like to have more than 1000 friends on Miitomo" .
I wonder how many people would actually know the limit if it wasn't reported
Quality trumps quantity for me! ... Forever alone.
Just having half a dozen friends on it can keep you busy so I would hate to see how a thousand friends would play out. Lol
Fine by me. I can count all of my friends on one finger.
"I'll be there for youuuuu!" is ringing in my head now that you posted that Friends pic. I think having no more than 1000 friends is fine by me. Who knows?! Maybe they will increase the capacity in the future😉.
Only 1000 friends?! Nobody told me life was gonna be this way. If only my job wasn't a joke and I wasn't broke...
A thousand seems a bit excessive.
waiting for the email from nintendo telling me miitomo is ready to download and that my nintendo is now online is like waiting for the admission letter from hogwarts.
That's ten times as much as the friend list maximum on Wii U and 3DS, so I'm not complaining.
What's a friend?
I, for one, know Twitter has had caps on how many users you can Follow. I think I have more than 2K, so not sure what happened to said cap...
I'd never get anywhere near that number so I don't care.
I feel like the term "friend" is being used pretty loosely if it's possible to have 1000 of them.
I guess "passing acquaintance" doesn't have the same ring to it.
@TobiasAmaranth A calculater is still a computer. So is a phone. Plus I don't think you'll drag that machine throughout the day.
Even Facebook has friend limits, because they know it is impossible to interact with so many people in a genuine way. The only exception is it would be cool if they had verified users as they do on miiverse that could have a larger number of followers, though i wouldn't expect that to be a two way interaction so would be a special case.
I hate friends!! 😡😡😡 the TV show that is 👍
@Dizzard More like anonymous hobby-sharer, but I hear you...
@Boxmonkey You clearly don't appreciate a good sitcom. And hate for a TV show? Seems a bit over the top imho...
"Being selective"? Having 1000 friends is anything BUT selective. Unless you were being facetious...
Typical of the fake internet world that some people believe they are actually friends with that many people.
1000 friends, I don't even have 10 friend in real life much less online.
I guess they mean friends in the internet way of people you add but never talk to or play with, which would be useful.
Before the actual article enlarged the thumbnail, I thought Neil Patrick Harris was in Friends.
Works for me...have I even MET 1000 people? Not sure.
@Ryu_Niiyama
Nope, and neither have Facebook users. This didn't keep some of them from having a five-digit friend list! xD
@AlexSora89 Yeah I try to be a little practical about that. I do admit to accepting most nintendolife friend requests on my nintendo systems but other than that if I don't either physically know you or have spoken to you for a while via the internet (and even then I'm wary) you get the "who are you again???" response. I don't do social media. I like being able to go to work without worrying that something I said/did in a fit of emotion will get me canned.
Still better than 100 on both 3DS and Wii U.
@shaneoh It'll be hard to match even half that for the majority of people, so I think Nintendo made a good call by being excessive this time; leaves no room for any actual complaints.XD
Regardless of if you think 1000 contacts max is more than enough or not, why is there a limit? Why not just have it be unlimited like Facebook and Twitter?
Considering how little people ive rounded up in my 3DS since it's launch (sure it's different in that i have to meet said 3DSes, in a small town thats easier said than done) i doubt ill reach 1k friends anyway, heck i don't think i got more than 100 friends on Facebook to begin with.
@DarkKirby Both twitter and facebook have friend limits if I'm not mistaken. I think it is around 5000.
@Ryu_Niiyama you can friend people on twitter?
I didn't know there WERE a thousand people...
Where do they all live!?
I don't see how anyone could get more than 100 to be honest. You'd have to have a LOT (like thousands upon thousands) of Nintendo only friends on social media and get lucky that they also got miitomo.
I heard somewhere that you can only really keep track of 200 friends. Don't know how true it is, but seems reasonable enough to me.
How many using this have even 100 real life friends? 1000 is more than enough.
@Ryu_Niiyama
Don't get me started on "oh no, what did I just say?!"-related paranoia. I can't say anything online without getting alarmed whenever I get a negative response (with the exception of Italian site inSegreto, meaning "in secret", which has always been a total snarkfest all around). And I don't recall ever being like "it's what I said, deal with it" on NintendoLife, either, so that kind of sums up my Internet persona.
@Uberchu for twitter it is your ability to follow others. Either way both have a limit, which was the point of my comment so people can put down the pitchforks.
@AlexSora89 Haha, yeah looking at all the trouble that people get into and the fact that they are honestly confused that while you can say and even do whatever you want there are consequences always stuns me. Is it that hard to not be a jerk? Wait...it is the internet and humanity so don't answer that.
I do feel bad for younger people that don't realize the dumb stuff they do now doesn't just go away...especially on the internet. But I've always been rather mild mannered so for the most part I haven't put my foot in my mouth in my life.
My personality tends to come off as mild or non confrontational usually and that is somewhat accurate; I just honestly don't care enough to waste my time keyboard warring with people. If it doesn't directly have an impact upon me I pretty much disconnect anyway. Usually if I comment and I get a rebuttal I reply three times and walk away. If I haven't gotten my point across by then either there is a misunderstanding, or I'm talking to a wall. Either way usually not worth the potential headache.
Facebook actually caps your friend limit at 5,000. We found this out several years ago at the radio station I work for. Because of this we deleted our facebook pages and set up facebook Fan Pages for our stations instead (which is what all businesses have done now).
@Ryu_Niiyama
Of course not being a jerk is easy (most of the time), but I often get paranoid regardless.
And yes, flame wars are hardly ever worth the trouble.
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