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Kertrats · 13/06/2022 07:17

If I've a fb friend and I look up the profile of one of their friends, will that person appear as a 'people you may know' suggestion to me?

Likewise will I appear to a 'people you may know' suggestion to them?

If this is what happens and they do not appear as a 'people you may know' on my fb account have they deliberately removed me as a friend suggestion?

I'm asking as they were a real life friend at one point but we had a silly falling out a few years ago and I want to be fb friends to apologise and move on.

I don't know where they are in real life.

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WoWsers16 · 13/06/2022 07:20

No if you look they won’t come up
as friend suggestions - think they just come up with people who have the same friends - so they may turn up but won’t be because you’ve searched them.

Kertrats · 13/06/2022 07:25

Right, let me try to get this straight-shouldn't have started this thread uncaffeinated lol-I won't appear as a friends suggestion but a people you may know person?

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PAFMO · 13/06/2022 07:26

You may appear as a "someone you may know" but not because you've looked at them. Just because you have contacts in common.

Haribosweets · 13/06/2022 07:30

I think it's random. The people you may know list on mine is people who would not look at my profile. Its just those who have mutual friends. Can you see this friend on your friends friend list? Unless they have it set to private

RedRec · 13/06/2022 07:31

People will say no, that doesn't happen but it absolutely, definitely does.
I have met people unconnected to anyone I know who, pretty soon after I meet them and we know each other's names, appear at the top of my 'people you might know' list.
So be prepared to be caught snooping! (I am very careful who I snoop on.)

11Hawkins · 13/06/2022 07:32

No it's just a random generated list.

Kertrats · 13/06/2022 07:33

So my looking them up has nothing to do with it just that we have a mutual friend. OK I understand.

Right if that's the case and they've not appeared on my people you may now bit, could they have just removed me?

I am also a fb friend with another fb friend of their's.
That is we've two friends in common.

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BarryKentPoet · 13/06/2022 07:33

A friend and I were talking about someone with an unusual name, and they appeared as a suggested friend to both of us a couple of hours later! I swear FB listens in to conversations!

Kertrats · 13/06/2022 07:34

Got to go to for now but not abandoned thread so TIA for any replies.

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