iabu:how does facebook 'people you may know' work.

[karmassidekick]

Sorry for Facebook related thread I'm posting for traffic.
If anyone knows how this feature on Facebook works please tell me. Someone told me people who search you come up but that can't be true can it?
Can random people no mutual friends just turn up for no reason?

The exponentially increasing power of massive data sets, kinda goes over our heads, we think linearly by default

We are all tiny flies lured into the webs of the google Facebook and amazon spiders
helplessly trapped while they feast on our data and grow into ever more powerful super siren spiders

Yes I've blocked him. I've also blocked 8 blank profiles under another name that I think is him.
You know if the person you're stalking blocks you because one day you can see their profile the next day you can't so then you make another fake profile and get blocked again.

oh, well none of my stalkees have blocked my fake account so they mustn't be onto me yet

I dont think it would be legal for people who search you to come up, isnt it a breach of privacy? I dont think it would be in facebooks best interests either they dont want to frighten or piss off users they genuinely want people to make friends so the site grows!! So i find it doubtful that it would be that. Its far more likely to be based on loads of other stuff like mutual friends and likes. People whove been tagged in photos of someone who is your friend, people whove been to the same school or worked in the same place etc

Facebook is one of the most impressive feats of social manipulation in history. A quick look at Zuckerberg's initial investors proves this.

It's a great example of reward-based data gathering. When the idea of ID cards is mooted, everyone freaks out. However, give an incentive that taps in to people's inherent narcissism, and they'll share more information than data gatherers even know what to do with.