Is 500 Too Many Friends? Now Ensues the Conversation

An excellent conversation is brewing on my Facebook "Consumer-Generated Media" group around this the very issue of whether  I've yet to reach the "tipping" point of too many friends. I posted the question moments after I officially reached the 500 friend mark.  So far over fifteen well-friended "friends" have left thoughtful commentary, and it's worth a good read. Dave Evans says "it doesn't matter," while Bob Troia notes (correctly, I think) that "the flaw with Facebook is that they refer to everyone as "friends" when in fact we are "connections". Suzanna Stokes of South Africa notes: ""friends" is a poor description of the networking tool that facebook offers," while Cathy Yingling on Indianapolis says "more the merrier."  Ann Michael says she "feels my pain and shares (my) questions,"  while colleague Stephen Tompkins says I just need to get more efficient sub-categorizing my friends. What do you think?