![]() One of them is someone I’m fairly sure, after doing a quick search on other social media sites, is currently seeing my ex. Just having a brief scan over my own current suggested friends, there are at least three people there that I haven’t met, I’ve never worked with, we didn’t go to the same school, I have no mutual friends with and they’re not in my contacts. Who is in my Facebook suggested friends and why? It’s the ‘other factors’ that are the most interesting, considering how goddamn vague they are - especially when a suggested friend crops up, and you have no mutual friends in common. ![]() Facebook's ‘People you may know’ is a phrase that seems harmless, if a bit formal - ‘Oh come to this party! There’ll be loads of people you may know there!’ - but in the last few years it’s become synonymous with that creepily accurate Suggested Friends carousel featuring people who yes, you do know but, my god, how does Facebook KNOW you know them?! Is Mark Zuckerberg actually a wizard? Or more pertinently, what is the basis for Facebook suggested friends? Is it stalking? Is it based on profile views? What exactly does it mean?įacebook’s official line on this, on their help page, explains that they make selections for your Suggested Friends based on ‘mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors’.
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