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    How the **** does Facebook do that?

    I had to create an account to keep in touch with a colleague of mine who's moving to New Zealand. I gave FB my e-mail address (I keep my mailbox empty), and it later suggested as a friend someone I used to MUD with. How the **** did it know we knew each other? There was nothing in the mailbox, no addresses in the address book, nothing! I'm ****ing freaked out.
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    Social graph mining
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    • #3
      Your friend probably gave facebook access to their address book.
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      • #4
        Ah, it could've gotten my e-mail address from her messaging history.
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          Yup.
          ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
          ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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          • #6
            I really resent Facebook insisting on showing me pictures of my ex wife and her boyfriend. I blocked them from my news feed for a reason.
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            • #7
              At least now it's showing me a whole bunch of other guys I do not know. Or maybe they are other players from that MUD?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by self biased View Post
                I really resent Facebook insisting on showing me pictures of my ex wife and her boyfriend. I blocked them from my news feed for a reason.
                That sucks.


                I've had some weird ones though... like college professors show up (and it's not like we had any friends in common).
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                  That sucks.


                  I've had some weird ones though... like college professors show up (and it's not like we had any friends in common).
                  That'd be the gay ones checking up on you to see if you've come out yet.

                  I'm not even on FB and when I get invites the emails list a whole lot of people I know. The noughties: the decade we kissed privacy goodbye.

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