How does Facebook know?
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There's a lot of hate here for Facebook.
I think it's only full of chavvy crap if you have those sorts of friends and associates.
That aside, today it's been chucking up the usual 'suggested friends' and three people cropped up.
Three people I know from the same course I am on.
Three people that have no mutual friendships with me.
Three people who have no mutual friends with each other.
Normally I can see how suggested friends works. Mutual contacts, friends of friends, people you may communicate with ion a group etc.
Being a computer, it must have made the suggestions based on some binary logic.
Anyone care to explain?
I think it's only full of chavvy crap if you have those sorts of friends and associates.
That aside, today it's been chucking up the usual 'suggested friends' and three people cropped up.
Three people I know from the same course I am on.
Three people that have no mutual friendships with me.
Three people who have no mutual friends with each other.
Normally I can see how suggested friends works. Mutual contacts, friends of friends, people you may communicate with ion a group etc.
Being a computer, it must have made the suggestions based on some binary logic.
Anyone care to explain?
Do you have their phone numbers? Or they yours?
Facebook has suggested people to me I've know through work in the past.
Only connection I can find is that I have their number in my work phone, which via an Apple account must be sharing the information with my personal phone and hence FB. All very clever, a bit too clever if you ask me!
Facebook has suggested people to me I've know through work in the past.
Only connection I can find is that I have their number in my work phone, which via an Apple account must be sharing the information with my personal phone and hence FB. All very clever, a bit too clever if you ask me!
It frightens me. A short while ago, Facebook suggested sombody I should know. My next door neighbour's teenage daughter! I don't think she's ever spoken to me; I don't have any of the family in my phonebook, facebook or little black book. Yes, I know her, but I had no idea how Facebook would know that.
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Doofus said:
It frightens me. A short while ago, Facebook suggested sombody I should know. My next door neighbour's teenage daughter! I don't think she's ever spoken to me; I don't have any of the family in my phonebook, facebook or little black book. Yes, I know her, but I had no idea how Facebook would know that.
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Oi Oi, fill yer boots lad. Give her a Poke.But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Doofus said:
It frightens me. A short while ago, Facebook suggested sombody I should know. My next door neighbour's teenage daughter! I don't think she's ever spoken to me; I don't have any of the family in my phonebook, facebook or little black book. Yes, I know her, but I had no idea how Facebook would know that.
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Geolocation. It knows that you spend a lot of time near her.But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
I had the same thought recently.
Suggestions were for people I know through my current contract. No connection between us other than we sometimes work in the same building, we don't even work for the same organisation and my FB has no knowledge of who I am working for at the moment.
I was aware of the searching trigger for suggestions, but geo-location I did not know about. Do FB publish any articles about their logic?
Suggestions were for people I know through my current contract. No connection between us other than we sometimes work in the same building, we don't even work for the same organisation and my FB has no knowledge of who I am working for at the moment.
I was aware of the searching trigger for suggestions, but geo-location I did not know about. Do FB publish any articles about their logic?
Hereward said:
Doofus said:
It frightens me. A short while ago, Facebook suggested sombody I should know. My next door neighbour's teenage daughter! I don't think she's ever spoken to me; I don't have any of the family in my phonebook, facebook or little black book. Yes, I know her, but I had no idea how Facebook would know that.
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Oi Oi, fill yer boots lad. Give her a Poke.But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
BoRED S2upid said:
And you still think it's ok to be on fb.
I use it, but not with my real name. It still offers accurate suggestions of people who might know me and I assumed it was mainly location based.In a similar vein, LinkedIn, which I use a lot for work, often suggests people my wife knows, and once suggested the hospital consultant who she had an upcoming appointment with - but neither of us had searched for his name.
I wondered if his LinkedIn is picking names off his patient list - that's a bit scary.
Hereward said:
Doofus said:
It frightens me. A short while ago, Facebook suggested sombody I should know. My next door neighbour's teenage daughter! I don't think she's ever spoken to me; I don't have any of the family in my phonebook, facebook or little black book. Yes, I know her, but I had no idea how Facebook would know that.
But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
Oi Oi, fill yer boots lad. Give her a Poke.But reading the above posts, is it probable that she looked me up?
bomma220 said:
DanSaff said:
The other month Facebook suggested somebody I knew through work pre internet!
I thought how the f
k does it know!
Similar thing happened to me, strange thing is I don't even use Facebook. Very odd.I thought how the f
k does it know! Very often they'll build profiles for people who haven't even signed up yet, knowing that their "ghost" profile can be linked to all kinds of people.
Very clever algorithms built by clever people, harvesting a world of data.
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