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Surprise! Surprise! Facebook was recommending all the people from my deleted account magically to my newly created account which has nothing in common with my o

Surprise! Surprise! Facebook was recommending all the people from my deleted account magically to my newly created account which has nothing in common with my old account except for the mobile number. Do bear in mind that many of those people likely have your phone number, and will have integrated Facebook with their smartphone's contacts list; they could easily find loads of people just from that. I'm not saying that they have deleted your old account, but it is possible that there are other explanations.

palerdot 10y ago
It is possible. So, if we want to completely get out of FB, we need to ditch our other online persona like email, phone number? In any case, recommending the people from old account does not make sense. What if that mobile number was now owned by different person?
- evgen 10y ago
  In any case, recommending the people from old account does not make sense. What if that mobile number was now owned by different person? Yes, it makes sense. FB wants you to connect to your network of friends and they already have a graph with a you-sized hole in it from all of the data your friends have provided. When your phone number shows up again it is far more likely that you have changed your mind and want to re-join than to assume that someone else has received the number of someone who deleted their account, so they optimize for that expected outcome. If it was a new person with your number then that person would simply ignore all of the friend suggestions.
  - palerdot 10y ago
    In that case, tracking a re-joining user with email makes more sense than mobile phone, since emails cannot be transferred. As far as my thinking goes, as soon as I delete my account, Facebook's ability to track me with that mobile number should go. There is no point in digging my phone number from the networked people's data and try to connect with me again. For me, it reconfirms my point that to quit facebook, we need to sacrifice all online persona related to it.
  - palerdot 10y ago
    related: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/09/how-did-facebook-get-my-number-and-why-is-it-giving-my-name-out/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/09/how-did-fac...

palerdot 10y ago

It is possible. So, if we want to completely get out of FB, we need to ditch our other online persona like email, phone number? In any case, recommending the people from old account does not make sense. What if that mobile number was now owned by different person?

evgen 10y ago
In any case, recommending the people from old account does not make sense. What if that mobile number was now owned by different person? Yes, it makes sense. FB wants you to connect to your network of friends and they already have a graph with a you-sized hole in it from all of the data your friends have provided. When your phone number shows up again it is far more likely that you have changed your mind and want to re-join than to assume that someone else has received the number of someone who deleted their account, so they optimize for that expected outcome. If it was a new person with your number then that person would simply ignore all of the friend suggestions.
- palerdot 10y ago
  In that case, tracking a re-joining user with email makes more sense than mobile phone, since emails cannot be transferred. As far as my thinking goes, as soon as I delete my account, Facebook's ability to track me with that mobile number should go. There is no point in digging my phone number from the networked people's data and try to connect with me again. For me, it reconfirms my point that to quit facebook, we need to sacrifice all online persona related to it.
- palerdot 10y ago
  related: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/09/how-did-facebook-get-my-number-and-why-is-it-giving-my-name-out/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/09/how-did-fac...