Karan from the locations team at Facebook posted a response on Reddit. He said: """ I am an engineer at Facebook working on the Locations team. We use the tex

Karan from the locations team at Facebook posted a response on Reddit. He said: """ I am an engineer at Facebook working on the Locations team. We use the text entered in the location field of the album by the album owner and match it to the best guess for an existing Facebook Page using text matching. The popularity of the place is also used to rank the suggested places. """ http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_really_creeping_me_out_with_this_how/c3a0a0p http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_reall... (I work at Facebook, not on locations/photos.)