Facebook to suggest friends?
Will Facebook soon start letting you know when it thinks you may know someone you’re not yet friends with?
Nick O’Neill points out an item in Facebook’s notification settings that may suggest that such a feature is in the works. Because Facebook has so much of the social graph, they should be able to do a pretty good job making suggestions. Were that to be the case, this would be the first time Facebook has automatically suggested friends. Previously, Facebook has pushed using the “friend finder” feature to find friends you may not know you had on Facebook – it is essentially a contact list importer.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Actually, this option is listed under notifications as a possible action that a friend would take… note the other options right above it. This indicates that Facebook will somehow let you suggest people to your current friends, not that Facebook will be making suggesstions.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Erm. It clearly says “Email me when someone *suggests a friend to me*”
i.e. I know that friend A knows friend C, but A and C are not friends yet. So I presume there will be a link on the profile to suggest this person to another friend.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Nope… close, though. It’s already implemented. A friend joined the site and added me as a friend. When I confirmed her, Facebook asked me to suggest friends that we had in common that she might not know were on the site. Since it was a not-very-social-networking-literate friend, I went ahead and sent her the folks we have in common.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Ah cool, I guess they will recommend friends who have a lot of friends in common with you and maybe even look at how they know each other, ie if you all know each other from school.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
cool find, check out the help on this topic:
http://www.facebook.com/help.php?hq=suggest
February 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
But is there anything (a Facebook app perhaps) that generates suggestions of friends? Would be very cool…and one would think Facebook could easily do it based on the data mining already happening.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
To suggest friends all you have to do is go to the person you want to suggest a friend to and go under their friends list and go all the way to the bottom and its got a link.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
god only blessed some people not all
February 25th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
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