Your chat sidebar works in a similar way. The algorithm chooses interactions, activity, communication, photos, etc. This determines which friends will show up on top and have priority. The friends that you communicate with most often will usually be first on this list. Short answer: they are not. Before, Facebook only used to consider the number of mutual friends. Today, we provide a lot of personal data that Facebook may use to refine friend recommendations.
This data includes:. This list is automatically distributed and compiled by Facebook. Not necessarily. I have no common friends and this person is far removed in my network of friends. Unless this person suddenly remembered me after almost twenty years since I have contacted them, then I have no other explanation. In a recent Vice investigation into how this suggested friend list happens, David Liben-Nowell, a computer science professor at Carleton College who studies the structure and evolution of social networks said:.
It would almost be silly for them not to: if you've shown an interest in a person while using Facebook, then you've as good as told Facebook that you might want to have some kind of relationship with them. I mean, that makes even more sense, if you think about it. This one is a definite yes. In one of the many app updates, you will have inadvertently synced all your phone contacts to Messenger.
It's kinda creepy when you see a girl who you met one time and didn't even know her last name, but somehow they are suggested for you. The official line on this is no. Friend suggestions come from things like:. Having friends in common. This is the most common reason for suggestions Your profile information and networks example: your school, university or work Your Facebook activity example: joining groups, being tagged in photos Contacts you or someone you may know uploaded to Facebook and Messenger.
If you upload your contacts through the Facebook app, learn how to manage contact uploading. If someone has uploaded their contacts and it includes your mobile phone number or email address, you may show up as friend suggestions for each other. Change the privacy settings for your friends list. Limit who can send you friend requests to friends of friends. Adjust who can look you up using your email and mobile phone number.
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