*If you've reached 5000 friends here's what you do:*

   1) GO TO YOUR CIRCLES.

   2) See where it says, ''Sort by relevence''? Click on it.

   3) Select ''Recently Updated''

   4) Go to the bottom of the list.

   5) Now select all of those friends you invited but never made it
   here. You can tell because they're ''sharing via email only'' -
   and will have an email icon next to their name.

   6) Remove them.other people at the bottom of the list.

   While you're there, you can remove quite a few people from the
   bottom.

   They haven't updated their stuff probably since they created
   their profiles.

   *there you have it*