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Solely in order to keep abreast of news of his sports club, my husband has recently signed up to Facebook, but he’s now receiving invitations from people of our acquaintance who have nothing to do with his sports club to be ‘friends’. Some of these people aren’t friends in real life, but simply people we happen to know - one is a neighbour we rarely see or speak to - so how does that work? Does Facebook somehow link its members to other people through personal email address lists or something like that? It all seems rather intrusive to me – not to say highly suspicious.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I can't help thinking that somehow the personal email address book is infiltrated, and names on there are matched with existing Facebook members and are then listed on your Facebook page as 'people you might know' - hence potential 'friends'. I'm probably completely wrong though. I really don't like it.
You are right Naomi. they do access your address book and a lot more besides
http:// www.bus inessin sider.c om/what -facebo ok-know s-about -you-20 12-9?op =1
Seems they do this unless you opt out!
There is loads on Internet with people complaining about this. Saw one site about Facecrooks.
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Seems they do this unless you opt out!
There is loads on Internet with people complaining about this. Saw one site about Facecrooks.