Facebook Offering Friend Suggestions
Writing by Brick Marketing on Thursday, 8 of May , 2008 at 6:41 am
Facebook have introduced an interesting new feature, ‘”People You May Know”. The idea is to help you to connect to friends that you may not have known were on Facebook.
The system will match data from your profile with many others to see if there are any common areas such as employment and schooling. It is understandable. If one of your co-workers is on Facebook then why not connect with them - then again, perhaps Facebook is your escape.
To quote from the Facebook blog:
We introduced this feature somewhat recently with the specific intention of helping the newest people on Facebook find their friends quickly
A noble idea and for most people, and ideal way to connect with friends. The blog article further explains:
If you are already friends on Facebook with some people from your last job, for example, you may find some more of your former coworkers (assuming they are visible to you in search) among the “People You May Know’ suggestions.
I wonder how many people will suddenly start working for some of the larger companies so they can snare the friends lists. I can see unethical individuals signing up for an account claiming to be a student from a certain highschool in the area they want to target, adding as many friends as possible and then spamming them.
Facebook has the best of intentions and this feature has a lot of merit. It will be interesting to see how Facebook handles any potential issues down the track.
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