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Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Kelly — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:10:05 -0000

I hate this feature. It should be optional and at the very least, there should be privacy features.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Eric Martindale — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:04:02 -0000

Wow, this is great! No more digging through yearbooks to find old classmates!

Totally a plus on the social media aspect, and yes - this would be great on LinkedIn. Expect them to deploy something like this in the next 2 months, for sure.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Chris — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:53:17 -0000

Well facebook does this thru the 'find friends' menu - it is called 'People you may know' and is based on your existing connections

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Chinarut — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:28:08 -0000

a classmate of mine just joined and he has a "Suggest Friends for ..."

I think this feature is pretty cool - how do I enable this for my other contacts?

Given I can't see my own profile as it looks for others - do I need to do anything to enable this feature on my own profile so people can suggest friends to me?

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Anthony a.k.a. OldSchool — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:49:03 -0000

hmm, so if someone says they are interested in the opposite sex, will they deliver those results, becoming the next generation dating site? (just curious) :)

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Alberto Nardelli — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:49:31 -0000

This is definitely interesting, even if probably an "obvious step". As others have said LinkedIn has a similar feature, if not more sophisticated, as it works withouth having to have a "friendly middle person".

While on UnLtdWorld, an online platform for social entrepreneurs, we have an application called "neighbourhoods" which leverages on meta-data to suggest connections dynamically, so again going beyond circles of acquaitances.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:51 -0000

I'm surprised no one has seen it in action; it seems geared toward new users when they add you. I've used it for my less-social-app-literate friends who might not already know to comb through friend lists to see who else you both know is on there.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Mke — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:06:08 -0000

This is interesting.
But it quite clear that it is not Facebook making the suggestion, it is your friends making a suggestion.

Information about this (new?) feature can be found in help under "Friends and Social Timeline" under "How do I suggest a friend to someone?"

"After you confirm a friend request from a new user, you can suggest to your friends that they also send a friend request to the user. Clicking "Suggest friends that [Name] may know" will bring up a window of all of your confirmed friends. You can use the search bar to find a particular person, filter all of your friends by network or simply scroll through your complete friends list. Clicking a friend’s picture will add them to the “Selected” tab. Once you’ve made all of your selections, click “Send Suggestions” to send a suggestion to each user that they add the new user as a friend. The suggestions will appear on your friends' home pages, and will allow them to quickly send a friend request to the new user.

Please take note that you currently cannot suggest friends for users who have been on Facebook for some time."

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Richard Byrom — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:41:13 -0000

Sounds like th Amazon feature of people who bought this book also bought this book. I guess its gonna be something like people who connected with xxx.... also connected with yyy....

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Adam Nash — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:48:33 -0000

I found your comment about LinkedIn a bit surprising. The "People You May Know" application, which uses sophisticated analytics to suggest connections, has been available on LinkedIn since early last year.

- Adam

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Steve Ganz — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:27:26 -0000

As sheep hints at above, LinkedIn has a feature called "People You May Know" which launched almost a year ago. It is one of our most popular features.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Jonathan Kleiman — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:22:05 -0000

"However, it’s listed under “notify me when someone…” So it appears that Facebook will be adding a feature to let you suggest people to your current friends - not Facebook making automatic suggestions."

AGREED!

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Clark Embree — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:25:54 -0000

I'm the one that originally emailed Nick, and I was thinking it could be more like what Joey described. Kind of like when you click "Forward to friend" on Myspace.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Justin Yost — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:24:33 -0000

I have this on my account, I want to see what Facebook suggests up.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

rexsorgatz — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:29:33 -0000

I think you're reading this wrong... it's not an automated friend generator feature (like LinkedIn has). Rather this is just a toggle for turning on/off email notification if someone SUGGESTS you should be a friend with someone else.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

sheep — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:11:07 -0000

linkedin has done this for a long time

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

theharmonyguy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:50:47 -0000

This can be found in the notifications page: http://www.facebook.com/edi...

However, it's listed under "notify me when someone..." So it appears that Facebook will be adding a feature to let you suggest people to your current friends - not Facebook making automatic suggestions.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Ken B. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:23:01 -0000

Answer for Dan Jones - It is real. You can find the feature shown in the screenshot by clicking account, then under the notifications tab.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Constantine Hannaher — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:16:22 -0000

@Dan, this is the Account preferences page for Email Notifications from Facebook and Facebook applications.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Brij — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:24:22 -0000

This is very useful. People discovery is a killer feature of social media and this functionality adds power to that.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Dan Jones — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:55:38 -0000

Not only do I think this is useful, I wanted to create a Facebook
application to do exactly that. I was going to call it, "Why aren't we
friends?" Unfortunately, you can't get your friends' friends list
through the Facebook Platform, so I was unable to create the app.

How does one get to this feature? I don't recognize where on the site
the screenshot originates. Are you sure it's real?

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Jonathan Kleiman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:33:01 -0000

brilliant