Does my profile come up on his/her “people you may know” list? Let’s say I have no connection to this person whatsoever. No mutual friends, no email or phone contacts.
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Maybe, maybe not. The Facebook algorithm is complex and always changing, but evidence seems to indicate that it can be used as a factor in that recommendation.
In my experience I think it does. I started talking to a guy who says he’s not on FB but he showed up in my “People you may know” feed. He probably did visit more than once, since he was checkin’ me out, so his multiple visits may have been a factor.
My ex GF told me that’s how she (and her friends) know who the creepers are. She was telling me about one delivery guy at her work. She doesn’t even (or didn’t) know the guy’s name, yet somehow, his face showed up on her FB page.
While it’s possible, FB also has location information from the app on your phone. It’s easy for the algorithm to connect two people who are repeatedly in the same location. There are lots of ways to make connections between people, there’s no one single metric used in the algorithm.
Turning that around, does their profile show up in your People You May Know list? That might be an indication that FB is trying to connect both of you.
How does the creeper even know who she is, though? Either he saw her comment in a group or a like page and clicked through to her profile, or else he knows her in real life somewhere, like school or work, and searched her name.
In both cases, it seems like Facebook could also just be trying to match people who work/study in the same area, or else people with the same kind of professed interests.
So I don’t see how showing up as “people you may know” would be conclusive evidence either way.
Many companies require their employees to wear name tags or ID cards or they have name plates on their doors or desks. Or if she ever signed for a delivery…
Many people put their current employer on Facebook or LinkedIn. If it’s a small office, it’s not hard to search and see a picture.
Yeah, it’d be a shame if someone got pegged as a stalker because he was sitting in his cab updating his meal pics just before delivering his load… so to speak.
OTOH, don’t talk about this too much, or Facebook will get the idea to have an option like linkedin, “For a premium payment you can see who’s lurking and stalking you”.
Wait, are you saying it’s a premium option on LinkedIn? I don’t pay for LinkedIn, and I can see who checked out my profile in the last 90 days.