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Originally Posted by kerry
I've got a Facebook account and it provides potential friends. Sometimes those potential friends are people I know but whom I have never made any connection to on Facebook. How is Facebook figuring out that we have a connection? Some of the people are people I have never e-mailed or contacted on the internet but only know in real life.
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It's a big pyramid matching friends, mutual friends and networks belonged to. If you're a friend of someone it goes through their friends to see if you have any friends that might be mutual friends, have friends with mutual friends, or from the same network; and then checks the mutual friends' friends and so on. Simple, no?
The more friends you have the thinner the connection to many of those suggested gets.
It is possible to upload your email list and have FB find any addresses that have accounts but it doesn't do it automatically, you have to initiate it. I've tried but AT&T U-verse doesn't currently work with FB's system.