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> The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. This
by matheweis 11y ago
> The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend.
This. I had something similar happen a year or two ago; I enrolled in a course at a local university, and about midway through the semester Facebook suggested that I friend the instructor.
I was friends with no one else in the course, had never posted about the course on FB, or anything else that I could think of.
Of particular note was that his had all happened after I had to drop from the course due to health issues.
- trentnelson 11y agoThe instructor imported the contact list for the class at some point, establishing the link from him/her to you. There's no reason to assume it's not a bi-directional link with regards to contact suggestions.
- jzd 11y agoThis is irrelevant. You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.