Using elgg with EFL & ESL students :: Blog :: Management of Friends and size of photos

Much as I love the idea of personalising elgg with photos of the members / friends, I can see a problem coming up.

If I start to use elgg with more students, and as some of these students become ex-students, I'm going to have a huge list of friends.

As far as managing this is concerned, I think it might become a problem.

Of course, I can as members of a certain class to join a specific community, and try to keep track of classes this way, but I'm not sure if that's enough. I guess I'll find out when I start using the system with more students after Christmas.

I also think the photos are sometimes overwhelming - I don't like the fact that I see my photo duplicated several times on my blog page - once would be enough. I do like the idea of relating the photo with comments on other people's blogs, but also think the size of the photo is too big.