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 !

[HeebieJeebies456]

People......if you want to stalk anonymously all you need to do is create a fake account.
Then you block your alter ego on your real account so there's no cross-contamination

[pinkingshears]

oh.
BUGGER.
Fuckity, fuckity FUCK.

[danTDM]

merkava no, Spanish. They are clients of his he emails solely. No facebook, obviously, as it is a bogus name and that wouldn't come across well!

These people are lovely, ordinary people in Lithuania, not accepted by DH on facebook or that know his bogu name.

However, every single one has been suggested to me and DH and DD a potential friends. DH NEVER EVER uses facebook.

He set up a fake twitter account 9 years ago just for a joke, with me. It has never been used.

(He is a different generation )

[Thirtyrock39]

Well my ex has a couple of times sent me a messenger message (which I ignored) so he's looked me up and he has never come up
As a suggested friend on mine

[NotTheQueen]

Facebook uses cookies, so if you look up someone using google, the cookie stored in your browser will throw people up as "People you might know". It will also connect to your phone contacts, LinkedIn, email etc, and no matter how often you say no to all those "Share with Facebook" requests, the bloody thing still does it.

I have two Facebook accounts (I know... but I work with young people) and I don't use Facebook on my mobile and don't have email on my iPad but it still sometimes throws up people work related. Equally I never use my work computer to access LinkedIn or Facebook, but often get customers being suggested as "People you might know" on my 'public facebook' or LinkedIn. That's only happening because they're looking me up.

[WashingMatilda]

I'm a police officer and had a training input from cyber crime last week. The trainer told us not ever look anyone we come into contact with on FB because we could show up on their People You May Know and leave ourselves vulnerable

[Dancinggoat]

Yes you could come up on that list. Patients show on mine and we have no mutual friends and my fb is closed so only my friends can see it.

[MeMeMeMe123]

Looking at friends of friends profiles - id probably come up as a PYMK on their lists - especially if we have both commented on a post before. I think it proves the assertion that there are 3/4 degrees of separation, rather than 6. I doubt they would have been cyber stalking me - i am not interesting enough!

Get sod all friend requests regardless.

All my 'people you may know' seem to be imported from my Gmail contact lists - including randoms i have emailed once, about 8 years ago. No-one unfamiliar - that may be to do with my own security and privacy settings.

I THINK that if a person leaves their profile wide open they're going to be stalked one way or another - sheer human curiosity. (Not saying they deserve it though)

[Medwaymumoffour]

Big data is a scary thing.

I do like to throw out some random internet shite to throw scent off. My home town, college I went to etc on FB are all not true.

I must admit I have added some people I only tentatively know irl too which is silly.

I hate FB generally anyway.

[danTDM]

I think a PP has it, it is perhaps possible, but there are another million reasons why you can be suggested. Girlfriends.sister/ brothers/uni/doctors/DSD's/ex wives/school. That know someone you are friends with or have a friend request from. I definitely know this is possible as I have evidence of it. My ex bf from 20 years ago? Well, he is friends with a friend who sent me a friends request 5 years ago which I didn't accept. He doesn't know my name or gives two shits, REALLY.

It makes me just keep a presence only and have no friends but I need it for DD's school etc. (sadly)

It's interesting who facebook suggests though, with no real knowledge about me.

[bastardkitty]

Doctors/dentist etc suggestions are usually because you have been in close proximity, both with location on on the fb app.

[squoosh]

Linkedin definitely lets people know who's been peeking at their page so be careful with that one if you want to snoop incognito.

[winglesspegasus]

washing matilda/where you are/do they scrub the net for law enforcement names/safety precaution
what i mean is there are 6 members of my family in LE of all kinds and their IT departments have programs that search for and remove any references to said officers/they cant do anything about news articles and such/dh wrote some of the code for these.

[LightastheBreeze]

I have checked my Facebook and it is all locked down with a load of made up bollocks on it, I don’t want Facebook knowing my date of birth!
I only have a profile to look at general stuff or complain about stuff and because it’s hard to read with the big log in thing covering the page.

There are about 30 random PYMK, I have no clue who they are, they can’t all be stalkers

[Butteredparsnip1ps]

Interesting. An ex manager appears semi-regularly in mine and I hadn't considered stalking as a possibility. Now it's been brought to my attention, I can actually see that it's possible. Weird.

[wheresmyphone]

Slightly off topic but I chatted to random person on dog walk. Never met them before. No links otherwise. My location devices are turned off.
Privacy at highest level. Got home and 10mins later they were on people I may know. How???????

[AgSiopadoireachtAris]

I believe so

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

Slightly off topic but I chatted to random person on dog walk. Never met them before. No links otherwise. My location devices are turned off.
Privacy at highest level. Got home and 10mins later they were on people I may know. How???????

Their dog added your dog and FB made the connection.

[LightastheBreeze]

Very off topic but I also had a random photo of 3 strangers appear on my camera roll on iPhone, strange things go on so I suppose random strangers on Facebook are one of those things

[danTDM]

chardonnay

[southeastdweller]

This subject came up on here a few years ago and one poster thought her G.P came up on her 'People you may know' because they were both using FB at the same location, so maybe sometimes it's because they live in the same area as you and are using it as the same time.

I also remember another poster saying she looked at loads of her ex's connections on Linkedin. She wasn't linked to her ex but next time she logged in they all appeared on the Linkedin equivalent of FB's 'People You May Know'...and she probably appeared on all of their profiles...

[Happinesssssss]

I agree it's quite weird these days who comes up. I don't think everyone is a stalker but people I am only tenuously linked to seem to appear.

[danTDM]

Either way facebook is horrid and not to be trusted

[Confused009]

What if the person you are stalking is part of your top 6 friends displayed on your friends page. Does this mean if they clicked on it they would know I'm stalking them. Also when i click on their friends list I'm at the bottom.

[Joinourclub]

Oh. Dear.