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Proof, I tell you - proof that Facebook friend suggestions come from people who have stalked your profile

44 replies

bodenbiscuit · 24/06/2015 17:57

I've just looked at my suggested friends. And on there is a man who I met on a dating site about a year ago. He does not have my email address and I do not have his. He MUST have searched me by name. My mobile number is different too.

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KatharineClifton · 24/06/2015 22:10

Oops! Will have to make up a new random account for FB stalking now Grin

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 24/06/2015 22:21

Yes I need a new account - or just stop stalking! makes me cringe to think of the people who might be having little old me suggested as a friend. I don't even have a profile or post anything, just joined because of a temporary group thing when we wanted to update each other on progress but couldn't meet up.

SunHighInTheSky · 24/06/2015 22:27

Am I missing something here?

It's a public Facebook page, who thinks people aren't going to have a nosy?

(Looks shiftily about..)

DonVitoCorleone · 24/06/2015 22:28

I dunno, ive just looked at mine and they all seem to have mutual friends but i don't know them or even recognise them so doubt they had looked for me.

Plus i often get people from Russia appear on my "people you may know" or people from the other end of the country who have no way of knowing me. Its odd, i think to myself "why might i know this person??"

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 24/06/2015 22:36

I also get complete strangers with 'mutual friends' but I thought that was just fb fishing through your existing contacts.

BonnieNoClyde · 24/06/2015 22:46

I do that too!
Some people leave their page public. U feel like u have been at the xmas party with them already.

CandOdad · 25/06/2015 06:54

I agree with this, there is a parent of a child my son is friends with at school on mine. Now I deliberately don't have anyone from his school as a FB friend since I don't want to start getting involved in school politics, so the only logical conclusion is they tried to search for me.

MargotLovedTom · 25/06/2015 07:05

Aaargh! In idle moments of mildly drunk late night boredom, if DH has gone to bed, I've fb stalked my ex-bf from years ago and his wife Blush. I sincerely hope I'm not popping up on their suggested friends lists.

intheshitegardendamnit · 25/06/2015 18:49

goofyisacow this happened to me once with a (new an the time) housemate. He randomly appeared on my LinkedIn suggestions, yet we had no other connection to one another and had not exchanged phone numbers, email addresses, etc. I was freaked, not because I thought he was stalking me (never occurred to me, he also didn't know my surname, it was a v big shared house ) but because I couldn't work out how weird creepy intrusive Internet forces had managed to link us. Then a friend with knowledge of that sort of thing pointed out that we would be sharing an IP address.... Apparently these websites pick up on that..! Still freaky

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 25/06/2015 18:55

Margot exactly!! Though we do appear to still have mutual friends, so I hope it could all be explained by that!

Also, due to an update, Facebook seems to have reverted to the "search by contacts" thingy as people who are in my phone, as I know them professionally, are popping up, who I have not looked for.

ashes12 · 30/06/2017 06:29

I know this thread is 2 years old but I still wanted to post on it. I have started getting Facebook suggestions for my ex-in laws who are not friends or mutual friends, we don't live in the same country and are not even related. They do not have any of my details and all I can come up with is that they searched for me, to have a nosey around my life. So yes I do think if you search for someone you will be suggested as a friend.

gumphlumph · 30/06/2017 06:46

Hmmm there is definitely some sort of sorcery afoot. I've recently started a new job and yesterday a person who I had to email for work (from a desktop pic and a corporate email address, not my own) came up on my suggested friends. I've never heard of her before and we don't appear to have any mutual friends. I haven't fb searched her and she can't have fb searched me as the name on my fb is not the same as the one I use for work (I leave a distinctive surname off of fb) so how the flipping flip does that happen?

StealthPolarBear · 30/06/2017 06:50

In the shite was it not being in the same location?
I tested out the idea with another mner once. She pmed me her name and I stalked her. Neither of us popped up on the others list

StealthPolarBear · 30/06/2017 06:52

I've also mentioned the time mil (not on Facebook) mentioned they were staying in a very specific hotel in a city I have no links to. Hotel not a chain I'd heard of. Five mins later it popped up as an advert on my Facebook.

Strummerville · 30/06/2017 06:54

I believe it. I have a dummy Facebook account that I used to use for a group - I had no friends on this account and once the group closed down I didn't use it any more. Looked at it out of curiosity and in the suggested friends list, among lots of strangers, was the husband of my landlady from almost 20 years ago Shock.

We got on quite well so I can well imagine he might've randomly wondered what I was up to these days and searched me.

Kaiakua · 16/07/2017 08:15

You're not alone. I caught on a year ago. For a year straight my suggestions box has been filled with fake account + people I have personally cut off. Literally --- a year straight. Creepy , yes. But at least you know how relevant you are. Just block them. Unfortunately, they'll remake newer pages. Unaware that you're aware lol

Kaiakua · 16/07/2017 08:17

Block them. If they're popping up, they're manually searching your name. They'll create more accounts. Continue to block & explain yourself to no one. People need to get a life. Simple

rcp190 · 07/09/2023 04:39

For some time, I have been literally harassed by fake accounts on Facebook.

Usually the fake profile pictures are of women with big breasts, almost naked with their legs wide open on their profiles who are selling their bodies and I bet you they are actually scammers trying to trick me and manipulate me. in order to get my money.

I have created several "public" posts on my profile to warn those who know me that this kind of "fake profiles" are extremely dangerous.

AND now it's gotten to such a point that the "friends suggestions" section is totally filled with this shit.

I think the scammers are after me.

In a few days, I risk completely deleting my profile from this shitty social network.

Dbank · 07/09/2023 08:42

Meta's track record is horrendous on data breaches, selling your data, and then lying about it.

There are many cases, but one of the biggest was in April 2021 the details of 533 millions users location, phone numbers and DOB were leaked, and is still available all over the internet.

I realise it's often complex and boring for most people, but please don't be surprised!

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