At work like 5-6 years ago I was talking with one guy and we mentioned how we had each other reccomended as friends but couldn't figure out how on earth we were connected. Neither of us had out place of employment listed. We're of two different generations. Live like an hour from each other. Have no mutual friends. And this guy was a Boomer who pretty much never even used it except to look at his kid's page.
I ended up figuring it out - we both had the Facebook app installed on our phone and we both had each other's phone numbers. So it was taking all of the numbers off our phone and cross referencing them to Facebook accounts. I never gave the app any sort of permission to do that and when I looked further into the settings of the app there was no way you could turn this 'feature' off.
I sent a message to Facebook about this egregious breech of privacy but never got even a form letter response back from them.
Yeah facebook recomended a friend a didnt recognize until i realized it was a kid i knew in elementary school that i havent talked to in ten years; apparently i had his phone number on my shitty flip phone in 2010
At work like 5-6 years ago I was talking with one guy and we mentioned how we had each other reccomended as friends but couldn't figure out how on earth we were connected. Neither of us had out place of employment listed. We're of two different generations. Live like an hour from each other. Have no mutual friends. And this guy was a Boomer who pretty much never even used it except to look at his kid's page.
I ended up figuring it out - we both had the Facebook app installed on our phone and we both had each other's phone numbers. So it was taking all of the numbers off our phone and cross referencing them to Facebook accounts. I never gave the app any sort of permission to do that and when I looked further into the settings of the app there was no way you could turn this 'feature' off.
I sent a message to Facebook about this egregious breech of privacy but never got even a form letter response back from them.
Yeah facebook recomended a friend a didnt recognize until i realized it was a kid i knew in elementary school that i havent talked to in ten years; apparently i had his phone number on my shitty flip phone in 2010