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Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Matt Manley — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:53:07 -0000

It's disappeared now!

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Charnita Fance — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:19:10 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:06:13 -0000

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"

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:03:27 -0000

@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.

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Charlie — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:51:42 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Mark — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:43:12 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Mike Winters — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:56:22 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Konstantin P — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:40:44 -0000

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.

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Christian Cadeo — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:32:42 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Jesse Stay — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:45:52 -0000

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

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Jamie Ellis — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:15:52 -0000

- 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'

Re: Facebook Starts Recommending Friends Not On Site

Andrew Feinberg — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:53:06 -0000

Creeeeeeeeepy.