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Facebook friend suggestions are such garbage. Half of them are legitimate acquaintances. Half of them are random women from south america. I've never interacte
by icedistilled 6y ago
Facebook friend suggestions are such garbage. Half of them are legitimate acquaintances. Half of them are random women from south america.
I've never interacted with anything that should bring those up and I've never clicked on that sort of suggestion. The only reason I can think they'd show me them is my demographic, 30 something male. I haven't clicked on anything on FB or elsewhere on the web that should be getting me random foreign women as friend suggestions.
Facebook is terrible quality and has no idea what it's doing.
- bromuro 6y agoMy guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged. It could also be _you_ are the target for keep these ladies engaged. Who knows how many creepy psychological-mechanisms are behind their algorithms.
- icedistilled 6y ago>My guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged. Let me re-iterate. Because I'm male and on the internet I knew people would question my premise. I haven't clicked on anything on FB or *elsewhere* on the web that should be getting me random foreign women as friend suggestions. I'm not naive. And even if I were clicking on correlated things elsewhere, which I'm not, I have never clicked on one of these suggestions in FB. That's two layers of ridiculously bad targeting that just annoys their users.