Facebook just crossed a line in their "Recommend a Friend" batshittery..
I'm not going into details, but seriously, I don't know what their systems are doing exactly, but roughly speaking, they are drilling holes into the fabric of the fucking universe and plucking out people who should NOT be findable..
I must understand how this is done...
- (no subject)
* it includes people who have searched your name in the past
* friends of friends (though that one is fairly obvious)
* people who have the same contact information as you (this one i know because there's a really stupid lady out there who keeps mis-typing her phone number and putting my number instead of hers)
* the above point leads me to think that they may go deeper and use any number of commonalities in a user's profile to identify "people you may know"
It really is a stalker's wonderland.
http://unknownj.livejournal.com/1737707.html?mode=reply
Also annoying are some people from high school who consistently try to friend me (I bet I appear in their possible friends thing). Again, if I wanted to friend you, I would have. Move on.
Edited at 2009-08-27 04:55 pm (UTC)