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Facebook is being creepy (pg. 2)
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| Sushipunk |
| Hey Jack, Facebook just listed you in my "people you may know" section :stongue: |
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| Lira |
See!? And we all know Sys is a bot!
I rest my case. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Hey Jack, Facebook just listed you in my "people you may know" section :stongue: |
My God.
I had a further trawl through its People You May Know and the only other person I found on there was a girl I went on one date with over two years ago - and I didn't even know her full name! Really no idea how it's doing this. |
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| Scoops |
| the girls in my People You May Know section...should be retitled, Whores You May Know |
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| enydo |
Jack you've been in my people you may know several times. :P
Also yeah, even if it was a while ago and you reformatted, facebook probably snagged the search you did on her name at some point. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Really no idea how it's doing this. |
Ever heard people say the world is a small place? Relax :p
Sure, there are 1 billion users on Facebook, but the people you interact with share more with you than you may imagine, thus slimming down the numbers considerably. It's just like birthday problem: You'd expect to find 2 out of 367 people to share a birthday (366 days + the extra person), but in reality it's much much easier. Likewise, the people you meet are only slightly removed from you, even if it's just a quick snog (if all people on Earth are arguably 6 friends removed from you, it's safe to say people from your city are probably much closer).
This isn't creepy, at all. This is exactly what you'd expect with time :) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I'd buy that if there were lots of people coming up on the list who I shared no mutual friends or networks with, but there's practically no one out of hundreds of recommended people. And the two there are just so happen to be very brief romantic interests? It's also worth noting that I deliberately keep a pretty low number of friends on Facebook and only about 40% of them even live in the same city as me, so it's not like there's a huge amount of information that will inevitably lead to coincidences.
There must be some sort of cross-referencing going on here. Perhaps when I had a smart phone with a Facebook app on a previous phone it cross-referenced numbers saved on my SIM? |
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| Lews |
I've had some weird stuff when I've logged into Facebook on a new phone, with it somehow adding 'contacts' that were neither Facebook friends or numbers that should have been on a SIM (they had once been but were deleted before the SIM was put into a new phone).
I'd guess your Facebook app on a previous phone was in contact with the numbers on the SIM at the time and remembered them, even after you deleted her number.
If Facebook wasn't a requirement for me to easily keep in touch with people all over the world, I'd delete it in a second. I ing hate it and all this cross-referenced identity . |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'd buy that if there were lots of people coming up on the list who I shared no mutual friends or networks with, but there's practically no one out of hundreds of recommended people. |
I get randoms on my list all the time... You don't!?
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
And the two there are just so happen to be very brief romantic interests? It's also worth noting that I deliberately keep a pretty low number of friends on Facebook |
Well, this could have something to do with our different experiences too. I definitely have the opposite approach (I've never pruned the number of Facebook friends ever since I registered), and the algorithm doesn't seem to get me that well :p
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There must be some sort of cross-referencing going on here. Perhaps when I had a smart phone with a Facebook app on a previous phone it cross-referenced numbers saved on my SIM? |
That's a possibility. I don't use Whatsapp because it automatically added everyone whose number I had on my phone - maybe Facebook did the same behind your back.
My phone isn't exactly a smartphone, so I'll never know. If you're so concerned about your privacy though, I strongly recommend downgrading to a pleb-phone like mine. It's cheap (reason I bought it), sturdy, and it makes phone calls. |
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| Innocence Lost |
| Facebook can suk it. |
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