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I went to a wedding and chatted with someone for 5 minutes and the next day they were a suggested friend on Facebook. Never seen that person before in my life.
by edmcnulty101 4y ago
I went to a wedding and chatted with someone for 5 minutes and the next day they were a suggested friend on Facebook. Never seen that person before in my life.
- markstos 4y agoWas the wedding a Facebook event that you RSVPed for?
- edmcnulty101 4y agoI don't even know how to RSVP for a Facebook event.
- jstx1 4y agoThis one is easy - Facebook recommends people based on geolocation. It's very common to get friend suggestions to people you've met, or just been in the same building with.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoOh I know. That's creepy to me.
- weberer 4y agoNow the problem is how Facebook got your geolocation data.
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- agrajag 4y agoGeolocation data from the phones could have been used to show you both were in about the same place at about the same time.
- ocharles 4y agoI believe Facebook recommendations are somewhat bidirectional - if they visited your Facebook page (by searching you, even if they didn't add you), I think Facebook will recommend that you add them.
- 13of40 4y agoI've got a million of these, but one of the weirdest ones was when a friend of mine suggested we go to one of the islands northwest of Seattle for the weekend. The next day, I was googling "things to do in..." and it autocompleted to the island's name, even though it's a relative backwater compared to some of the other places around. Best I can figure is he googled it, they saw us in proximity to each other, then predicted that we were planning to go there.