Facebook is really beginning to creep me out. It has suggested friends that I didn’t know anyone knew I was acquainted with. I don’t know what algorithms they have that figured this one out but it is a serious blow to any sense of slyness that I might have had. Next Facebook is going to have “people you might have causally flirted with at a bar.”
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Tuesday ~ June 23rd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Chip Killian
Given that I know people doing research in merging social networks with geographic location, that may not be as funny as you think!
Tuesday ~ June 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
dWj
Linked in — on which I have three contacts — suggested for me an old boss who is in a different city and industry than any of my current connections, and would be extremely unlikely to know any of them. The only theory I’ve cooked up is that he perhaps searched for me at some point, and even though he made no attempt to actually link me, it retained that and spouted it to me.
Tuesday ~ June 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
scythia
Address books, address books. Even if you don’t import yours, other people import theirs.
That being said, Facebook now thinks I’m a Republican, which I ifnd quite amusing…
Tuesday ~ June 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Mike
Next Facebook is going to have “people you might have causally flirted with at a bar.”
Birddog, that list might be a bit long
Seriously though, my immediate thought was the address book, either yours or theirs.