DISQUS

Andrew Feinberg · 1 year ago

Creeeeeeeeepy.

jamie1984 · 1 year ago

- school/university/ college year lists (from assigning colleges/unis at network or in the define field (as people there for a few years they might have the +/- x years from you which match

- also friends of friends

- network buddies (in particular work, school, college and university

- note/photo/ video tagging (including who the friends of friends tagged)

- facebook connect

- going around your day to day life and stalk you with 'detectives'

Jesse Stay · 1 year ago

To add to what Jamie said:

-other network info you enter on your profile (delicious, flickr, digg, etc)
-Gmail/Yahoo/AOL credentials you give them when looking for friends
-FOAF, XFN

Christian Cadeo · 1 year ago

It also shows up when you create an event listing for names that are not on FB.

Konstantin P · 1 year ago

I initially thought that was a joke they put up temporarily. That is,
"trust us, you don't have any friends who aren't on Facebook"
or
"if they're not on Facebook, they're not your friends."

No idea what it actually is, though.

Mike Winters · 1 year ago

You can email people from "Compose message' in the inbox. I'll bet that they collect the email addresses of any non-FB users that you've messaged.

Mark · 1 year ago

It is pretty simple. It lists people I have sent an invite to, but have not registered yet. The feature is a little buggy, one of this friends has registered and still appears in the list without name, but with his profile picture and status.

Charlie · 1 year ago

In addition to everything that has already been mentioned, they could also potentially mine all those contacts they scrape from Gmail. Y'know, after people hand over their Gmail passwords to go scrape them from Google's servers. And of courses all the other places they import contacts from.

I think the most likely to actually show up there though would be people that were invited but haven't registered.

Chris · 1 year ago

@mark this could be because he has used a different email as he registered and not the one you have used for the invitation.

it is also possible to send emails via the facebook messaging system to non-facebook members. Those people appear there as well.

Chris · 1 year ago

oh I have to correct that: they don't appear in my list yet, it says "you have no friends who are not on facebook"

Charnita Fance · 1 year ago

Yea I got the same thing, "You have no friends who are not on Facebook." and I know that's NOT true!

Matt Manley · 1 year ago

It's disappeared now!