Not quite but that's the feeling some, including myself, have gotten over the last few weeks from the prodigious social networking site. Seems many have been getting what they refer to as "inappropriate" friend suggestions. You know, on the right hand side of your home page? When you're just sitting there minding your own business? Up comes an "add as friend" suggestion with a picture of someone you may have never wanted to see again in your life. It's been a source of contention for some users who couldn't understand just HOW or why, Facebook was doing this.
One user got a suggestion to add her ex who is now married, with a baby, as a friend. Definitely not something she was game for. Recently I've gotten a friend suggestion that made me want to write Facebook hate mail asking how they dared suggest such a thing. Okay, okay, a bit dramatic but I have no inclination to be friendly with that particular person.
So what's behind Facebook's recent string of "Why can't we be friends?" behavior? It's actually quite simple and not as goose-bump inducing as some of us believed. It has to do with a recent tweak Facebook made and shared email contacts.
"Remember when you signed up for Facebook and you had the opportunity to share your e-mail account with the social networking site so it could help you find other people on Facebook you might know in say, the corporeal world? Well, even if you don't remember, you did have the opportunity. And even if you chose not to share, somebody you were friendly with way back then, somebody who had your e-mail in their e-mail account, maybe did."
A-ha! But...I never so much as looked up that person on Facebook and I'm relatively new to the site...and I certainly don't share any of my information...try looking me up...you can't. So, apparently it was on the other person's end.
How to turn those pesky suggestions off?
Click the ‘X' next to the icon, and it will stop them from reappearing in friend suggestions.
Or go to the Privacy Center and opt out of the contact importer.
So, don't worry if you see one of these annoying, possibly heart-wrenching for some, suggestions. Facebook isn't stalking you. That of course doesn't mean someone else isn't...dundundunnn!
What I hate is how they also suggest every little group or cause someone else has joined too. Makes dealing with all my new (and old) stalkers seem like a breeze.
What I hate is how they also suggest every little group
Unless its to join the group GeekDrop Group Fun
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good tip
When a certain exploit came out (that is in our Premie area) came out I changed my email address to one that no one has, its a odd one from long ago. It wasn't to keep me hidden as much as to keep me safe. The exploit still works to