Facebook Question ( another one ) - General Discussion

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 13:57

I have just logged on to facebook and there is a " friend suggestion" for someone who is the husband ( maybe ex now, actually ) of a woman I used to work with more than 4 years ago and who I haven't seen or had contact with since.

It is not a " friend request " from him but just a random suggestion from FB.

The things is, we have no mutual friends on FB so why would FB have suggested him to me ??

Surely it can't just be coincidence ???

martinamerlot · 06-11-2009, 14:02

I tend to ignore those friend suggestions unless it's someone I genuinely want to catch up with.

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 14:07

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Originally Posted by martinamerlot

I tend to ignore those friend suggestions unless it's someone I genuinely want to catch up with.

The really weird thing is that he is a fireman and I have been trying to get hold of someone at the fire departments this morning about Fire Risk Assessments so it just seems too much like Karma to ignore. So I have actually sent him a friend request.

But it is just really strange.

x+y · 06-11-2009, 14:08

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

I have just logged on to facebook and there is a " friend suggestion" for someone who is the husband ( maybe ex now, actually ) of a woman I used to work with more than 4 years ago and who I haven't seen or had contact with since.

It is not a " friend request " from him but just a random suggestion from FB.

The things is, we have no mutual friends on FB so why would FB have suggested him to me ??

Surely it can't just be coincidence ???

Just click the x in the corner, it shows up someone else then.
The new look facebook is dreadful. I don't even know half the people in my freind suggestions list, but just because they are freinds of freinds they show up.

David ® · 06-11-2009, 14:09

I would like to know myself. I signed up a week ago to see what the fuss was about and on the suggestions were loads of people I knew years ago (like more than 20 years). How does it know?

It did make me laugh tho, they now look like their parents

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 14:12

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Originally Posted by David ®

I would like to know myself. I signed up a week ago to see what the fuss was about and on the suggestions were loads of people I knew years ago (like more than 20 years). How does it know?

It did make me laugh tho, they now look like their parents

Well sometimes it links you to folks you were at school or college with. But that is not the case in this situation - there is nothing to link us at all ?

stoatie · 06-11-2009, 14:14

The other day it told me I should get back in touch with my friend Paul because I haven't spoken to him in a while.

That's because he was killed in a car accident last year. Nice use of tact there, Facebook.

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 14:15

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Originally Posted by stoatie

The other day it told me I should get back in touch with my friend Paul because I haven't spoken to him in a while.

That's because he was killed in a car accident last year. Nice use of tact there, Facebook.

Eeeww how horrid

angeldust · 06-11-2009, 14:22

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Originally Posted by David ®

I would like to know myself. I signed up a week ago to see what the fuss was about and on the suggestions were loads of people I knew years ago (like more than 20 years). How does it know?

It did make me laugh tho, they now look like their parents

yes, this is the real question. how does it know? sometimes i think if someone looks you up to see if you are on facebook, but doesnt necessarily add you as a friend, then maybe Facebook flags them as a sugestion

David ® · 06-11-2009, 14:35

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

Well sometimes it links you to folks you were at school or college with. But that is not the case in this situation - there is nothing to link us at all ?

the thing is though I didn't put any information in apart from my name

Red Okktober · 06-11-2009, 14:44

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

I have just logged on to facebook and there is a " friend suggestion" for someone who is the husband ( maybe ex now, actually ) of a woman I used to work with more than 4 years ago and who I haven't seen or had contact with since.

It is not a " friend request " from him but just a random suggestion from FB.

The things is, we have no mutual friends on FB so why would FB have suggested him to me ??

Surely it can't just be coincidence ???

Hold the front page

Forget about the shootings, wars, recession and stuff - Babe Rainbow has a 'friend suggestion' on facebook, and here's the good part....now wait for it....it's from the husband of an ex-colleague - can you imagine that? Personally, I'm finding it hard to believe that such a thing could possibly happen

Actually something equally exciting happened to me earlier, I was browsing through the cardigans in M&S when I swore I spotted my ex-neighbours, friends milkman trying on a pair of slippers - amazing huh?

RiDsTeR · 06-11-2009, 14:46

I think Facebook somehow get some of the suggestions from what other people have searched.

So if the person has searched you may go into a database or something, and when you join up or whatever Facebook remembers this, but I'm not sure, just heard that from someone.

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 14:53

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Originally Posted by Red Okktober

Hold the front page

Forget about the shootings, wars, recession and stuff - Babe Rainbow has a 'friend suggestion' on facebook, and here's the good part....now wait for it....it's from the husband of an ex-colleague - can you imagine that? Personally, I'm finding it hard to believe that such a thing could possibly happen

Actually something equally exciting happened to me earlier, I was browsing through the cardigans in M&S when I swore I spotted my ex-neighbours, friends milkman trying on a pair of slippers - amazing huh?

Well clearly just interesting enough for you to read the details and respond

Red Okktober · 06-11-2009, 14:57

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

Well clearly just interesting enough for you to read the details and respond

I needed something to fill the time before I got on with ironing my tea bags

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 14:58

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Originally Posted by Red Okktober

I needed something to fill the time before I got on with ironing my tea bags

I hope that's not a euphemism

Red Okktober · 06-11-2009, 15:00

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

I hope that's not a euphemism

I genuinely do it while reading some of the threads on here, it gives me something to think about

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 15:01

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Originally Posted by Red Okktober

I genuinely do it while reading some of the threads on here, it gives me something to think about

P'raps you should spend some more time thinking about important stuff like what's on the front pages rather than wasting your time and intellect on us shallow minded rabble

stoatie · 06-11-2009, 15:02

I teabagged Iron Man once, if that counts.

Girth · 06-11-2009, 15:04

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Originally Posted by Red Okktober

Hold the front page

Forget about the shootings, wars, recession and stuff - Babe Rainbow has a 'friend suggestion' on facebook, and here's the good part....now wait for it....it's from the husband of an ex-colleague - can you imagine that? Personally, I'm finding it hard to believe that such a thing could possibly happen

Actually something equally exciting happened to me earlier, I was browsing through the cardigans in M&S when I swore I spotted my ex-neighbours, friends milkman trying on a pair of slippers - amazing huh?

Hold the front page

Forget about the shootings, wars, recession and stuff - Red Okktober has read something on the internet that they disapprove of... etc

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 15:05

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Originally Posted by Girth

Hold the front page

Forget about the shootings, wars, recession and stuff - Red Okktober has read something on the internet that they disapprove of... etc

I find it rather more disturbing that s/he wears M&S Cardigans

Red Okktober · 06-11-2009, 15:09

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Originally Posted by stoatie

I teabagged Iron Man once, if that counts.

That's nothing compared to getting a 'friend suggestion' from an ex-colleagues spouse though is it?

stoatie · 06-11-2009, 15:11

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Originally Posted by Red Okktober

That's nothing compared to getting a 'friend suggestion' from an ex-colleagues spouse though is it?

Wow, you really DO have a bug up your bum about this, don't you? What's the matter, Red, was the last friend suggestion you got "try making some"?

summerain · 06-11-2009, 15:14

Have you joined a group, fanpage, or listed an employer/ex-employer that could connect you? FB pays attention to even the smallest of details you add.

Babe Rainbow · 06-11-2009, 15:18

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Originally Posted by summerain

Have you joined a group, fanpage, or listed an employer/ex-employer that could connect you? FB pays attention to even the smallest of details you add.

No nothing like that at all. I think it must just be a coincidence - they do happen but....

We do have a couple of favourite book and TV choices in common and live in the same general area but that is surely far too tenuous for FB to link isn't it

MaxbutnotMad · 06-11-2009, 15:28

facebook is quite clevar.

some say, that it knows...

plus did anyone see an ad bar for heel shoes on 1 of the last threads...lol

06-11-2009, 13:57	#1
Babe Rainbow Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Gender: Female Posts: 14,284	Facebook Question ( another one ) I have just logged on to facebook and there is a " friend suggestion" for someone who is the husband ( maybe ex now, actually ) of a woman I used to work with more than 4 years ago and who I haven't seen or had contact with since. It is not a " friend request " from him but just a random suggestion from FB. The things is, we have no mutual friends on FB so why would FB have suggested him to me ?? Surely it can't just be coincidence ???

06-11-2009, 14:02	#2
martinamerlot Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Services: I'm a lay-dee! Posts: 3,442	I tend to ignore those friend suggestions unless it's someone I genuinely want to catch up with.

06-11-2009, 14:09	#5
David ® Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 268	I would like to know myself. I signed up a week ago to see what the fuss was about and on the suggestions were loads of people I knew years ago (like more than 20 years). How does it know? It did make me laugh tho, they now look like their parents

06-11-2009, 14:14	#7
stoatie Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 16,050	The other day it told me I should get back in touch with my friend Paul because I haven't spoken to him in a while. That's because he was killed in a car accident last year. Nice use of tact there, Facebook.

06-11-2009, 14:46	#12
RiDsTeR Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: That place called HELL! Services: Being Addicted to Facebook + Cherry Coke and being on The Bunker Soap ;) Posts: 3,726	I think Facebook somehow get some of the suggestions from what other people have searched. So if the person has searched you may go into a database or something, and when you join up or whatever Facebook remembers this, but I'm not sure, just heard that from someone.

06-11-2009, 15:02	#18
stoatie Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 16,050	I teabagged Iron Man once, if that counts.

06-11-2009, 15:14	#23
summerain Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 4,919	Have you joined a group, fanpage, or listed an employer/ex-employer that could connect you? FB pays attention to even the smallest of details you add.

06-11-2009, 15:28	#25
MaxbutnotMad Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: near London Services: Freeview, Broadband (1.6MB/s, meh) Posts: 384	facebook is quite clevar. some say, that it knows... plus did anyone see an ad bar for heel shoes on 1 of the last threads...lol