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Paywalled so I'll just barf my opinion about my feelings on that feature. I get recommended the most random people who are friends-of-friends I've never met. T

• adrianmonk 7y ago
  I think they just err on the side of false positives. You can always ignore the friend suggestion if it's someone you don't know. If they fail to suggest someone you do know, that's a missed opportunity. Some of this is inevitable. For example, their algorithm was eager to suggest one particular person to me, and it did so multiple times even though I did not know the guy. It was someone who had worked at the same company as I did, in the same department, but quit the company slightly before I was hired. So he and I had easily 10 Facebook friends in common. Facebook had good reasons to suspect that I knew the guy. Even though I didn't, I might have, and they have no way of knowing for sure, so they might as well just ask.
• hbosch 7y ago
  It is, or was, much more relevant about a decade ago when Facebook was still the de facto online gathering place for young people. In college, for me, the People You May Know feed was uncanny in how it suggested people that I had met in class or at a party.