tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Here I am in the proces of signing up for a facebook account because a friend of mine took a bunch of pictures from when I was at his place in Japan. I hate these kind of websites and I always do my best not to try and leave too much personal information on the net, let alone pictures. Anyway, as I'm signing up, and I really did not provide anything other than my name and age, skipped all the email syncing and school/company things and I'm totally freaked out by how it manages to find so many people I know based on that little info alone. Now it also has about a dozen of misses but it gives results about people I havnt seen for more than 8 years who cannot possibly have any other information about me other than my name. I also get one of the Japanese exchange girls from last year. I talked with her a couple of times but thats about it. She doesnt know anything other than my first name (well, she could have looked up my last name in the school mail system) so how can she possibly be there?
The weird thing is that my friend isnt there while he actually uploaded photo's of me and probably used my name somewhere.
How does facebook manages to show you people you actually know? I cant think of any other way than those people having to put my name somewhere because that is all they got from me. Weird thing is that all matches I get are the ones that are actually most unlikely to have information about me on their facebook as I have far less contact with them than some other people on facebook who are not there.
Please explain
The weird thing is that my friend isnt there while he actually uploaded photo's of me and probably used my name somewhere.
How does facebook manages to show you people you actually know? I cant think of any other way than those people having to put my name somewhere because that is all they got from me. Weird thing is that all matches I get are the ones that are actually most unlikely to have information about me on their facebook as I have far less contact with them than some other people on facebook who are not there.
Please explain