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I mistakingly signed up to Facebook with a work email in the past. And noticed many work acquaintances appearing in Facebook's: do you know lists. Which I can
by inthewind 13y ago
I mistakingly signed up to Facebook with a work email in the past. And noticed many work acquaintances appearing in Facebook's: do you know lists. Which I can only attribute to other people sharing their email address contacts with Facebook, and Facebook holding onto that data.
- inthewind 13y agoThis shows that Facebook have already have you as an entity in other people's networks before you have even joined Facebook. I guess you can cement yourself within those networks by adding them as friends, or saying that you know them. I guess they also watch to see who you look up, and from that see if there are any connections between those that you look up, those friends might appear as further recommendations. It can be quite spooky sometimes. The interesting thing with that account is that I never friended anybody, so it's interesting to see who comes up in their list. Some appear quite random, but others I recognize.