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

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Please tell me it isn't so ?

Iabu to be freaked out by this !

Style it out, all you worried people, just style it out.

OP the only way to get around this is the BLOCK the people you've stalked. Then you can't appear on their people you may know list!! Do it now!!

wingless No, no systems that I'm aware of, we just get lots of safety advice and most officers I know (including me) have a different Facebook name, including me, as obviously we have our name badges. And we're not allowed to put any photos up of us in our uniform or collar numbers, but think that's mainly because of the terroist threat

Nothing to lol at - it's been happening for well over a year.

This article lists some worrying examples that support the hypothesis and lots more techie people than the OP have pointed this out.

You'll see from the last sneakily worded non-response from Facebook that they deny using third-party cookies to generate recommendations but then again, why would they? It's their own first-party data as the browsing activity happens on their own site. Shame they haven't been more upfront about this. It's why I don't use the site, for any reason. I'd rather be slightly out of touch than open myself up to stalkers.

No it's categorically not true. However they will come up on yours because you keep looking at them

I had an online date come up in my feed. Didn’t even know his surname at the time. Definitely hadn’t looked for his profile, didn’t know his email, had his mobile that’s all.

Possibly. But it's more probably that it's because of mutual connections, or phone number stored, etc.

Phone numbers stored where?
No one stores ther phone numbers on FB.

Nah, there's something more to it.

Phone numbers will definitely be a factor, because most users will have granted FB access to their WhatsApp data as well. But there's also your browsing behaviour both on and off FB, which they have easy access to.

It isn't true end of...if you stalk someone yes they will come up on your people you might know list ad you are the one that has searched for them...you won't come up on theirs.

Phone numbers stored on the phone.

I don't use WhatsApp and I don't have FB on my phone, and I still get weird things.

This is AI. This is why I have stopped using Facebook so much except for messenger (my mom only uses Facebook messenger so I can't really get rid of it).

We proved it to be right.

On here. A mumsnetter pmed her details to a random person as arranged in the thread and boom! Next day there was the random on her people you might know. No other connection, different part of county etc. No links at all.

I've had people who I stalk pop up on my people you may know feed, which is freaky, so I don't see why it would t work the other way too? 😬😬

Oh fuck. So the super fit PE teacher at my kids school (who has no other connection to me) might know I've been stalking him?

I reckon it must be as several people I know (eg clients) have come up on mine and we have no friends in common. Bit weird.

Nooooooo!

Oh good god how awful

The phone number thing is true because lots of people put their number on their facebook as it prompts you to. The stalking lurking thing though is horrifyingly embarrassing ahem

99% sure this is true. I work in the community with families and quite often after my first visit they will appear (with no mutual friends and I don't work where I live) on my "people you may know/suggest friends" list so assume they have looked me up; really should change my name!

Phone number thing is also true, you can search for mobile numbers on FB and if that person signed up with theirs it comes up with their profile. Random missed call the other day, called the number back and it was a lady called Karen with a London accent that said she had misdialled. Searched the number on FB and sure enough, there was Karen from London. 😊

Best stop stalking OP or clear your search stuff!

Yes it's true, unfortunately.

Sorry but it's definitely true. My friend and I had this weird colleague who wasn't on Facebook, she had turned funny with us and would slag us off behind our backs. She goes round to her mum's every single day and her mum was suggested as a friend to both of us, with no links at all. She'd clearly been using her mum's account to stalk us.

I used to work where the public would come in and they'd know my name (as I had to use it). Often some weirdo would pop up in my PYMK after about four or five days and I'd recognise them as somebody who'd been in to my work.

I said this before on a mumsnet thread and disbelievers INSIST it's a coincidence, that I actually have some connection to these people, but no. I didn't. We had no friends in common and I just didn't know them.

I think it's true.
I bought a car and the guy was very flirty with me, asking if I was married etc.
Anyway he had never heard of the place where I live and we have no mutual friends/connections.
He popped up on my people I may know list.