The nonabelian tensor square G ⊗ G of a group G of |G| = p n and |G ′ | = p m ( p prime and n, m ≥ 1 ) satisfies a classic bound of the form |G ⊗ G| ≤ p n (n−m) . This allows us to give an upper bound for the order of the third homotopy group π3(SK(G, 1)) of the suspension of an Eilenberg-MacLane space K(G, 1) , because π3(K(G, 1)) is isomorphic to the kernel of κ : −m) but also supporting a recent result of Jafari on the topic. Consequently, we discuss restrictions on the size of π3(SK(G, 1)) based on this new estimation.