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 !

[ReallyConvolutedCareerHistory]

Yeah it's possible. Any action you do on Facebook (or any other social media for that matter) is possible to get tracked.

[Sheezus]

If you have location services set on your phone and they do it will also come up. As in you’ve been in the same place so FB will suggest you to each other. Just because your phone is in your pocket.

Your GP/Personal trainer/kids teacher isn’t stalking you. You’ve had your phone in your pocket where you’ve been.

[BelleandBeast]

Just create a new profile and then you can stalk to your content! I stalk all sorts under a made up name, content I will never be found out!

[Reppin]

Wouldn't that be down to your location settings though Ag? If you were in the same place then surely it is more likely to be that than they were all stalking you within days of your meeting.

[Reppin]

I just repeated what Sheezus said! I obviously didn't see the last page.

[Dalphidol]

Don't know. When my exdp and I went out we were never fb friends, no point we saw each other all the time. She stalked mine the odd time as was able to tell when I changed my profile picture, obviously I had her phone number and we were in the same location lots but she never came up on my suggested friends.

[MrsJamesAspey]

Yes is definitely true

I looked someone up and had a quick stalk, no mutual friend etc etc and then the next day she sent me a friend request.

Also many people don’t realise that if you unfollow someone then they will stop seeing your posts too.

[gorygloria]

It is absolutely true. This is why you make a second anonymous profile

[EssentialHummus]

I've had odd things happen on FB. I'm not on there as myself but set up a dummy account to run my business FB page. Own email address, no phone number, no stalking of anyone. People who popped up as potential friends included a bunch of my tenants, my family members, university classmates... how, when I wasn't using my own name or email addy? The only thing I and Fake Name had in common was that we were both using my PC.

[southeastdweller]

Essential Facebook knows it’s still you because it knows the IP address of your PC. So to anyone who wants to set up another account to stalk anyone, you need to use another computer or phone.

[EssentialHummus]

south but if I wasn't there as actual me to begin with, how did it determine that Fake's IP address was Hummus's and then get my info. Actual me didn't give them permission/sign up/use FB?

I agree that that's what's happened but I'm struggling not to find it dodgy. It accessed my email data, basically, without my permission.

[liminality]

I'm surprised that everyone is so shocked by it!

Apps like Google maps record your every location, coffee shops you enter, where you live and work, where your family lives. They use your metadata to analyse your life. If you and another person both stop at the same location for a period of time (such as a film, dog park, bus stop), that will be sufficient for the algorithms to potentially assume a connection and 'suggest'.

It's not it 'might' be true, its absolutely true. If you don't like these features you should def get an andriod phone, limit your use of applications, individually go into each app and select highest privacy levels. Also, just use facebook on your home computer and not your phone.
If that all sounds too much and you want the convenience of all the features, accept that the price is your privacy.

EssentialHummus your computer ha an IP address, a bit like a street address for your device. Algorithms assume multiple email accounts with the same IP address are linked.

Also, don't get those voice recognition systems, they literally record every single thing you say. So if you have a conversation with with someone about say, truck hire, you will see ads next time you use your search engine. I'll probably see those ads just for writing this sentence.

And don't get that feature where your phone unlocks on seeing your face. If you were to be stopped by police for example, they would be able to just open your phone and look through it.

Get a VPN, if you don't know what that it is, look it up and get privacy literate. It's a whole new world to navigate.

[bettytaghetti]

Definitely accesses your GPS system as whenever we've been on holiday where there are quite a few Russians, I always get them flooding popping up in my PYMK.
I think when you sign up to FB there are all sorts of permissions you give it access all your other stuff. I remember there being quite a bit of fuss about signing up to Messenger and how intrusive that was, so I never signed up for it, but I think subsequent updates to the FB app have done pretty much the same thing anyway now. Most of us tend to just tick the box every time there's a new update without reading exactly what it's doing.

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

I don't use FB on my phone and I still get specific adverts for things they can only have information about from a separate email or Google.

[danTDM]

Because of this thread I just looked up my 'FYMK'
I had about 100 of which I knew none.

But... 15 years ago me and DH lived in Montreal and sold our flat and moved to Europe. 15 years ago neither of us had facebook, wassap or even mobile phones!

When we sold the flat DH dealt with the 'realators' by email.

They are all suggested as 'FYMK', to my amazement! They wouldn't have known my name, me and DH have different surnames.

That and all his Lithuanian clients proves to me that they have retrospectively got into his email list.

I'm gobsmacked by this, there is no other way they can have this information. We only signed up to facebook about 5 years ago.

Anyone any other theories?

[Confused009]

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[daydreamnation]

Definitely true! Otherwise why would parents who I have no connection with at, suddenly turn up in 'people you may know' when their child is in my class?!

[Timeywimey8]

why would parents who I have no connection with at, suddenly turn up in 'people you may know' when their child is in my class

because they live in the same area or have mutual friends or you "like" the same local trader FB page. Or indeed the school social media page. Or you've been tracked looking at the school website.

So many ways. But you do not end up in someone's list just because you've been stalking them or vice versa.

[danTDM]

SO many ways daydream, that proves nothing.

[Damnthatonestaken]

Looking somebody up on fb is not stalking!

[daydreamnation]

But it tells you if they have mutual friends or not! Also very mysterious that one or two of my new parents appear every year....

[daydreamnation]

Anyway I'm not bothered, my profile is all private and very dull anyway!

[Katiekatjas]

I did not know. I used to get random people I didn’t know come up. I don’t use it anymore though. Find it just causes problems.

[Katiekatjas]

Sorry that was meant to say I don’t know!

[camperlass]

It is absolutely true. I have recently started doing some work for someone who does not have my email address, Facebook, or any other details about me apart from my name and mobile phone number, and likewise I have no contact info about her. I have not searched for her online or on Facebook. She is now appearing on my 'People you may know' list. There is no way Facebook could have deduced a connection between us unless she has clicked through to my profile page.