Facebook
www.facebook.comYou cannot break the 5000 limit, but you can enable the follow button here https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=followers by changing from Friends to Everybody. You can have unlimited Followers.
Also may want to reconsider profile to page migration, your friends will automatically change to likes, and you will be having unlimited amount of likes too: https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php?migrate
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