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Facebook starts suggesting “People You May Know”
March 26th, 2008
More and more Facebook users are seeing a new feature in recent days called “People You May Know.”
People You May Know is based on social proximity - Facebook looks at your friends-of-friends and suggests people that you have the most mutual friends with. So far, I’ve found several friends through the feature - it’s nice to glance at a new set of people every few minutes.
After last week’s launch of more robust privacy controls, “People You May Know” marks the second new feature in several days that employs the notion of friends-of-friends. Where else might FOF show up within Facebook sometime soon?
(I hear graph traversal is a pretty difficult technical problem, so don’t expect to see a “shortest path” feature a la the old days of Friendster any time soon 
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March 27th, 2008 at 12:01 am
actually, Facebook, way back in the day, used to provide an SVG of your friends graph. remember that? oh, those were the days.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Oh, and btw, this has been in the “friend finder” for everyone for a little while. The news is that it’s on the homepage now.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I do remember that…do you have a screenshot? Those were the days
March 27th, 2008 at 12:49 am
RequestForEnhancement 4394: let me know when they suggesting “People who will blow (you)”
March 27th, 2008 at 2:58 am
The german copy “StudiVZ” supports the “You know this person through person A-B-C-D” (up to 4 links, I think). They have 4M users or so, so I guess they did it pretty scaleable.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Is there a way to disable this feature? Or to tell facebook that you are in fact not friends with a person and do not want their face to keep loading onto your homepage every time you log on? One out of every two time I log on it shows my ex. I do not want it to do that. How do I stop it?
March 27th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Justin, I think the answer to what’s next is Facebook Introductions: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/03/facebook-introd.html
March 31st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
This feature is so gay like honestly if i gave a shit about half the people on this list they would already be on my list I don’t want to be their friends I could care less, I ignored all friend requests but 1 because I don’t feel that they are worthy to be added honestly
March 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
It’s a little-known fact that the feature Facebook is touting as new and exciting actually existed ON FACEBOOK in 2007, created by the little old me:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5962631843
Instead of nurturing the person who introduced the idea early, Facebook instead chose to sacrifice him in friendly fire and claiming the idea itself:
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9905437-36.html
Cheers.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am
This feature was extremely useful! WAS is the operative word there as I see (for me anyhow)… it is gone. Ah well. A few hundred people college kids set up an ‘official’ “this feature is creepy” group and facebook gets scared. I say bring it back and let it be optional (and give the ability to say No, I really don’t know these people).
April 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am
How do I disable this “feature” - there’s no option as far as I can see to get rid of this from my facebook page, and I don’t want to use it (all the friends I wish to have, strangely enough I already have).
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Dear sir
i can not see ” people you may know ” feature in my facebook page.
it was there last week, now i can not see it.
what can i do to let it appear
waiting reply
thanks
April 24th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
this doesnt even work either way
April 25th, 2008 at 2:10 am
the feature ” people you may know ” is showing at my second facebook account and is not showing at first one.
is there a way i can show it on my facebook now.?
May 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hello,This feature PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW has dissapeared from my facebook account,what does this mean,that people who I have mutual friends with have blocked me?
July 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I continuously have the same faces appear on my profile, so I assumed (wrongly) that its because Facebook was somehow subltely suggesting that these folks were ‘looking in’ on me as it were.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:30 am
The facebook site is insane. Within four hours it put me in touch with so many people that I did not want to hear from anymore. It did allow me to see a few real friends, however, for the most part it seemed like it was taking over in a way. I discontinued my account and it my profile is still on there, even though I want it off. I emailed customer support and I still have not heard back over 24 hours later. Facebook would be great if you could just talk with your old friends that you choose, but it puts you in a position to reject people to keep them out of your pictures etc. It’s weird.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
WHAT THE FUCK?
I don’t have any friends (on Facebook I mean) - Zero Friends - Yet Facebook accurately suggests people that I may have known. Who I definitely don’t want to know.
WTF IS THAT? FACEBOOK KNOWS ME BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF, and I just got on it
August 1st, 2008 at 6:34 am
page is empty,of friends finder
August 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Facebook ttaly rox !!! i know so many pple on here. alot from my school ,and some i just meet and were like frens now. half the pple thay suggest i know its awesome!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I am a little confused. Today a good friend of mine turned up in the “People you may know” section on Facebook. The funny thing is SHE HAS ZERO FRIENDS! So my big question is, how did Facebook know that I may know her. I sent her a friend request and I am now her ONLY friend.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:06 am
What makes the feature, “People you may know work?”
I am a National Realtor instructor and the question came up in class.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
It should be called the “People You May Know Because They Stalk Your Page Every Once In A While” feature.
When people poke around and come across your page….they are added to the “people u many know crap”…..BET YA!!
November 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
And the Funniest Comment Award goes to … [drumroll] …Gbidness! Congratulations.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I found a group on Facebook that opposes this very thing, it’s called “Facebook Stop Pimping my Friends”
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?sid=91746b1483992263a92e51d9ac209c9a&gid=14229863590
But as far as I know, Facebook just ignores user requests to opt out of the feature. It’s lame, I agree.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
This is STUPID. Totally renders privacy settings of your friends list. All your friends show up in other friends peple you may know lists even if you put them in the list of those who are not supposed to see your friends list. STUPID
February 13th, 2009 at 10:43 am
on my people i know may tool, most of the time people come up who i only know through 3 or 4 of my facebook friends. i am aware of people that i have over 80 mutual friends with, and they never come up on my people i may know tool even when they have added me as a friend so i know they haven’t blocked me, and i haven’t blocked them. hmm… confused!
February 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Do I know you?
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 am
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May 29th, 2009 at 1:22 am
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May 29th, 2009 at 1:26 am
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I am also very creeped out…I only just signed up for Facebook and it already knows who I know? How? I didn’t give it any access to my other online accounts from which to scrape information. I didn’t give it any personal information yet, except my name. I have added no friends yet for it to base the connections from. This feels very wrong and invasive, and I think Facebook should start telling people where they are getting this information from.