Facebook ! Is it true if you stalk people you will come up on their friends you might know list?

[bigchris]

Please tell me it isn't so ?

Iabu to be freaked out by this !

Reppin I really hope you're right !

I don't know if it never happens but it doesn't always happen iykwim.

I ended up with 2 facebook accounts on different email addreses, I only use one but have tested looking at both from the other and despite the fact that this was done using the same computer neither has ever been recommended as a friend to the other.

I don't think the facebook algorithms are clever enough only to suggest friends to embarass stalkers

Those of you who are in denial refuse to believe it is true. How do you explain the things that have happened to so many of us posting? Mine upthread for example? When I first knew that ex bf mobile phones weren't even a thing. We have never worked at the same places and have no links at all.

How do you explain that I appeared on his people you might know straight after I decided to look him up on FB?

Or the other posters with very similar experiences?

FB claim it's not true but FB are notoriously dodgy and don't believe a hint hey say

Contacts in my email address come up as 'people you may know'. How does Facebook know who is in my contacts list? Not on.

Facebook aren't exactly transparent with how things work so I can well imagine it is probably true.

Facebook aren't exactly transparent with how things work so I can well imagine it is probably true.

This bloke wasn't in my email list - no idea of his email. And I have changed names twice since we last had any contact....

I can't post the instance that proved it to me beyond all doubt because it relates to my work. But there is no doubt what happened. You may prefer to believe otherwise.

Yeh it's ture but if you go to your activity log and clear all your searches you should disappear from their list.

And, they keep asking for me to add my mobile number and I took off swiftly where I went to at uni as hundreds of students in my year kept coming up. Some NEVER knew my name or were ever friend or even in the same year.

I deleted tha small piece of info quickly.

You are connected by ANYONE you have given your email address too/phone number. Be it docs/uni/websites/ex wives who have your bf's email/phone and now have yours/exfriends/clients.

Deffo people have been suggested to me from my old world wide company who wouldn't have a clue who I was. How does facebook even know I worked at that company? Because I have ignored friends requests from people I used to work with in London who worked for that company and maybe had dealing with JO Blogs in Singapore.

I honestly don't know Jo Blogs or have ever met him. My friend request did though.

I believe it is true -for reasons I'd rather not go in to

I’m on Facebook with a nickname, not my real name as I just use it if I want to complain to say a shop or something, I have no friends on it as I have no interest in it, and I just looked at people you may know and there are loads, some are DH family but most I have no clue who they are, I don’t know why they are there.

auntiefester why is it not on? Its your choice to have your Facebook linked to your contact list. You can actively change it so that it isn't linked.
So many people get annoyed with Facebook and privacy etc.. but then don't regularly check their settings. I am constantly updating my privacy settings. It's part of the deal when you make an account.

I think it must know about emails or websites you've looked at - seeing as it suggested my I wanted to be friends with my dentist the other day (I did not!)

None of my friends believe me but I’m certain it’s true - often get old colleagues and bosses I haven’t seen for years on there despite not having mutual friends/their numbers/their email addresses/the same businesses listed in the ‘work’ section!!

I am a bit more careful with my FB stalking these days

It is 100% true

Is it the same for twitter or Instagram!

My dad came up on mine , and my linkedin.

We don't share a last name and haven't been within 200 mikes of each other in 20 years.

He admitted a while ago he was snooping.

Equally my GP's husband came up a while ago, and a couple of distant relatives. I reckon its people snooping.

I fear it probably does happen. I've had a few suspect people pop up on mine. I hope I haven't been popping up on ex boyfriend's or their wives/girlfriends

Yes it does. I use to spy on my ex on Facebook then one day all his friends who I have no friends in common with started to appear on my people you my know list, so I can only imagine it happens the other way aswell so I deleted my pic and changed my name to just my first and last initial lol

Why would your gps husband be snooping on you?? Lol

Definitely true. My ex had an profile on there, no friends and a different surname. Popped up on my friends list - suspected it was him so got his new phone number from someone and when I entered it it was linked to that account.

It's bollocks! Everyone on my 'people you may know list' are people who have mutual friends - every single one! There is no way random people who have ONE mutual friend will look me up - that one out of 300+ people on their friend's list.

People who say it's true are people who listen to gossip.

Stalk away! I do! I am nosey, think of people from long ago and naturally look them up!

Put it this way, if people who have stalked you come up on the 'stalkee's 'people you may know' then EVERYONE I know would be wondering why I am there and a few wouldn't hesitate to ask!