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Last Summer, I was on a Boy Scout trip and opened Facebook Messenger and it had PRE-FILLED the text of a message with "At terminal w/ Bobby waiting to board." T
by jones1618 9y ago
Last Summer, I was on a Boy Scout trip and opened Facebook Messenger and it had PRE-FILLED the text of a message with "At terminal w/ Bobby waiting to board." The spooky thing is that it somehow knew:
1) I was at the airport (OK, not so hard, maybe using WiFi or GPS).
2) So was my friend's son, Bobby (who I wasn't directly FB friends with).
3) We were at a gate waiting for our plane..
Here's the thing: I hadn't posted any kind of itinerary or booked the flights myself. So, if FB was just "guessing" and did this every time a friend-of-a-friend was at the same place, you'd constantly be paired up with relative strangers crossing paths nearby.