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Subject: Re: [OM] OT. The power of search engines, Google and goodness knows what else.
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:07:52 +1100
Fb usually shows you the friends you have in common, I get plenty of
suggestions where there is no friend in common displayed.

...Wayne


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No need to be paranoid. Obviously, you have friends in common. Facebook
suggests all the time to me that I should connect with friends of friends.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 17 Jan 2017, at 17:48, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> The power of search engines, Google and goodness knows what else.
> 
> 
> Three weeks ago we hosted my wife's daughter, and her son and 
> daughter, for a couple of weeks.
> 
> I have never mentioned their names on
> facebook, never contacted them through facebook, and have contacted my 
> wife's daughter only via her e-mail and cell-phone. I have never 
> contacted her children electronically, nor they me.
> 
> To my utter
> surprise, 2 days ago facebook suggested her son as a facebook friend 
> for me. I have checked since then and he has never mentioned my name 
> in his short history on facebook.
> 
> Clearly, facebook and some other entities have electronic algorithms 
> operating which have incredible, and in my opinion, dangerous powers. 
> So far I have not managed to figure out how they came to link his and 
> my names. This bothers me somewhat.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
> 
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