Facebook Friend Suggestions
Discussions center on how Facebook recommends 'People You May Know' using contact lists uploaded by friends, email communications, and phone numbers, even for non-users, raising significant privacy concerns.
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I have had facebook recommend me people with whom I have communicated via Gmail and Github only
"facebook friends" != real friends
You forgot one thing, facebook knows what your friends tell them.
I want something like this but hooked up to my facebook friends.
It's the email addresses. When you friends share their email contact list with Facebook, Facebook the list to find connections between people and suggest friends you might know. It's VERY intrusive especially when you have 2 online identities, a profession one and a personal one and Facebook keeps trying to tie them together with complete disregard for your privacy.===== HOW IT WORKS =====If someone has a Facebook account and shares their gmail or yahoo contacts with Facebook. Facebook wil
Facebook will happily slurp your entire contact list even if you're not FB friends with all of them. And the algorithms almost certainly know and take into account having someone in your contacts as a way to build a graph of relationships.
If anyone with you as a contact uses Facebook then Facebook probably knows it anyway
Maybe because he uses it like FB, adding friends.
At first, it didn't recommend anything, but after I made yet another account and added that as friend it recommended 50+ people I had no relationship to, AND one friend that I know of. There's nothing linking me to that person except the phone number I used, so it seems to work somewhat, however, I know for sure there are at least 50 people with my phone number on facebook, why didn't it recommend any of those other people?
Are they "associated" with you? E.g. are they people Facebook could know you are friends with etc.?