Husband Facebook friend suggestions

[sleepyhead1980]

Looking for some Facebook experts to assist please. I have noticed on my husbands iPad Facebook frequently pops up with notifications of friend suggestions. These suggestions seem to frequently be pretty young girls (with the occasional legit suggestion thrown in for good measure). My Facebook never does this to me.. so my question is.. why? Any ideas?

I should add that he isn't private with his iPad or phone in any way.

They are usually friends of friends . My FB does this too . Yours will as well - you just need to look at friend suggestions.

I don't really understand the friend suggestions as they usually seem to be people who I have one friend in common, yet I'd expect it to be people I've got lots of friends in common.
I was told once that people who constantly appear at the top of the list are people who try and view your profile a lot! I'm hoping this is not true as my exH is on there all the time!!!!
You can see who they are connected to anyway.

From my experience if you fb stalk certain profiles they may appear as suggestions ie the algorithm of fb knows you have been on their page and then suggests you add them as it wants you to connect to more people-especially if there are no friends in common
Speaking from personal experience if I search for someone random from my past they would then appear on my friend suggestions

@2021vibes

From my experience if you fb stalk certain profiles they may appear as suggestions ie the algorithm of fb knows you have been on their page and then suggests you add them as it wants you to connect to more people-especially if there are no friends in common Speaking from personal experience if I search for someone random from my past they would then appear on my friend suggestions

This is what I was wondering. Since it's all young "selfie" girls - has he been stalking them all on Facebook?! I should add this wouldn't hugely surprise me 🙄

Unless they have mutual friends then I would say so. Random don't just appear on your friend suggestions for no apparent reason. Fb is all about trying to connect people making them more business. Instagram seems the same, I'll look at someone's page then they appear on my 'people you may know' bit

When I signed up to Facebook with my male sounding shortened name ALL my friend suggestions (before it knew anything about me) were for young females wearing bikinis or less . It hadn't happened when I signed up first with my longer and obviously female sounding name.

I get some very random recommendations on FB and I certainly don't stalk young women.

My friend suggestions are either people with mutual friends and in the same area or people who I email / my contacts (work clients - creepy). Very occasionally a random. I’ve never had any one pop up who I’ve ‘stalked’ before.

I often get friend suggestions for people who I have no obvious connection with - no mutual friends, look a lot younger than me, names that sound like they are from a different part of the world. All but one have been women.

I've never FB-stalked anyone and can't for the life of me imagine that any of these people would be interested in anything on my profile.

I get lots of random ones from all over the world! I wouldn't read too much into it

I had a guy I briefly dated pop up years later on my suggested friends.
I no longer had his number, had forgotten his surname and had so had never ‘stalked’ him and had no friends in common. Also lived nowhere near each other or worked in the same field 🤔

I had a friend suggestion today of my window cleaner! So Facebook obviously knows that I have texted him (to arrange the time for the windows)
I have never searched for him nor interested that he is on Facebook. Bit creepy really

Hi I have noticed on mine it's who ever u have been stalking that comes up as suggested. Can't you just go on his activity log or does he delete them ? X

His computer is always very clean, no way of checking. Hmm I suppose the answer here is that I will never really know.

I get a lot of of friend suggestions for 20 year old women......they're all my daughters friends though. Is their a connection, are they friends of someone he may be friends with? Usually it will show the mutual friends they have in common under their profile

It's algorithms, friends of friends, people thta have liked similar things, or disliked similar things, people in your area, people similar to someone that was added, people that work at the same place you have worked etc etc. Completely innocent

Amazingly I once got a friend suggestion of someone I had no mutual friends with and lived at the other end of the country yet the name sounded oddly familiar. It dawned on me later that I'd had facebook open whilst watching an episode of Wallander and he was one of the characters...!

Honestly my suggested friends are super random most of the time. I absolutely don't go looking at profiles of people I don't know. If he is open with his social media etc and you have no other background to be concerned then I don't think he is up to anything.

Are these definitely real profiles? I'm a bloke and I get these suggestions too and I know for a fact I haven't been stalking any of the people that were suggested!

I looked closely at a few of them and they don't look like real people to me, more like fake profiles with very few posts, just basic personal info etc, and a few pics. Possibly being done for marketing purposes I guess??

I understand that if you look up someone from your past they will also come up on their people you may know not just yours, explaining random from years ago coming up...

If it is a friend of a friend you would see a small circle with the friend's profile pic in it saying mutual friends. In my experience, apart from those, I also get tons of suggestions of people who are in the same groups as me, so look at groups and if someone in particular bothers you, you can search for their profile in that group. If it is a public group you would find them. I wouldn't worry too much about it being a bunch of young girls, that could be simply because.. well, lots of young girls use facebook.

I think the fb algorithm has changed recently, I no longer have a personal fb account but do have a dummy account just to use for a few groups and the friend suggestions are very random and people from all over the world. But in general Facebook causes many more problems than it solves these days!

Delete Facebook.

Yep. If I FB stalk someone, they soon pop up as a friend suggestion.

@PammieDooveOrangeJoof

I had a guy I briefly dated pop up years later on my suggested friends. I no longer had his number, had forgotten his surname and had so had never ‘stalked’ him and had no friends in common. Also lived nowhere near each other or worked in the same field 🤔

Then he's been stalking you then!! 😁