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People You May Know + No Mutual Friends = Stalker

Entermaid

Entermaid

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    Do you ever have people come up on your "people you may know" section of Facebook that you have never met and have NO friends in common. I have a clean FB page...I have no likes, posts, or relationship statuses. I literally have friends, my work info, and use it for games + messaging.

    The weirdest thing is when I see people from dating websites popping up in the "people you may know" list. Really??? I don't list any personal information on my profiles...no names or workplace...so how did you find my account and WHY???

    That's all.

    What are your thoughts and experiences on FB creeping.
     
    I have no FB account, so I don't know. I use my sister's FB account, if I need to message someone etc.
    But I think its really creepy to know that's someone is creeping on your FB page/timeline/account.
     
    I've had people from PC pop up in my People You May Know before. Sometimes people that I don't have any mutual friends with. :|

    I mean, I have quite a few online friends added, so I expect to see other PC people pop up in that box, but if we don't have any mutual friends, how the hell does Facebook think we know each other???
     
    OMFG YES. This shit annoys me to no end. I actually had to get something called Facebook Purity just to stop it. I have no intentions of having Facebook force me to add people that I 'may' know when odds are I don't know any of them. >____>

    Most of the people Facebook thinks I know come from friend's pages though. I think that's how it works. It 'thinks' you know them. It doesn't work by what you have in common with those people. Like, basically it's just friends of your friends that pop-up in that section. On the other hand, I think Facebook is getting carried away with it.

    To me, it's dangerous for teenagers or people underage. Those underage are vulnerable to adding those they don't know just to be popular and make friends. It promotes stalkers and possibly bad people who might hurt them. That's one reason why I was glad Facebook Purity got rid of the whole thing for me too. I also made a new Facebook account and all sorts of shit like that. I had to reinstall the app just to hide it.

    Facebook is weird.
     
    I don't use Facebook, but I do have one because I had a group project in school and everyone insisted on communicating strictly through Facebook @__@

    I haven't used it since. I have no friends or family on it. I'm pretty sure I removed all those people from school too.

    I get emails from Facebook about "do you know..." and I ignore them.

    But in this last week I've gotten several emails asking if I know... other people with my first name lol That's what the recommendations have been reduced to now apparently. Just a club of people with my first name
     
    The "People You May Know" section in the sidebar doesn't always appear for me so it hasn't been that much of a nuisance as others seem to think of it. But during the odd times I do check, I often find people whom I apparently have mutual friends with, but have never come across in my entire life.
     
    Facebook is for NORPs. I don't like NORPs OTI.
     
    Yes, this happens. I've had at least one or two occasions where someone I had never heard of tried to friend me and I ended up doing so only to unfriend them very shortly after, because my parents have talked about how those people can be fake.
     
    This sort of thing is why I don't use Facebook. Part of how they compile "People you may know" is by observing your browsing habits and suggesting people who visit the same sites you do who live reasonably near. They also scrape friends of friends and even one level deeper as well as anyone with a similar sounding name; or who list their location to be in close enough proximity to you.

    Needless to say it's fucking creepy as hell; not even Google+ is that careless with your information; so I'm proud to say this:

    I do not have/operate a Facebook account. I never have; I never will.
     
    Since I don't know that many people in real life, I never viewed the "People You May Know" feature as being useful. I, too, have seen people in the list as having zero mutual friends. Never mind that I don't have a Facebook account anymore and don't plan on going back, because of all the stupid crap they pull on users these days (as if they're trying to avoid suffering the same fate as MySpace.)
     
    It honestly doesn't bother me that much. I don't know a whole lot about Facebook but as far as I can tell, if I don't actually add them they can't see my full profile, and I have it set so that people who haven't friended me can't see anything except my profile picture and basic info. Is it creepy? Yes, but it's not like you have to add anyone you don't want to.
     
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