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Facebook creeps Krishna out too. ⇒

   31 January 2009, late morning

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  1. It turns out facebook just lists friends my friends know. No fancy heuristics or algorithms. I thought some of the people under “people I may know” were not friends with either Justin or Steph (the people who requested me to be friends).

    My original guess was that facebook still had random data on me from years ago and was pooling that to determine who I may know.

    In the end Facebook isn’t that freaky.

    by Krishna on January 31 2009, 3:13 pm   #

  2. I thought you didn’t have anyone on your friends list period? It also probably assumes people sending you friend requests are people you know, and pulls in their friend data.

    I think it’s creepy that if my friend comments on one of their friends photos, I can know see all the photos in that friends album, even if we aren’t friends. WTB?

    by ramanan on January 31 2009, 3:21 pm   #

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