Facebook, Privacy, Algorithms
I have had a FB account for a few years. Every so often I deactivate the account but then restore it. During the latest revelations of privacy violations, I decided to delete everything from my page and use it solely so that I can see and comment on posts from friends and family.
Ok, so I'm on FB the other day and scroll down to the really irritating people you may know section.
Weird.
For quite some time people I may know include my wife's customers. That would be fine, I suppose, if I were FB friends with my wife. I'm not. But FB is pulling contacts from her pages and advising me I might know them. Hmmph.
Two other people I may know are, I think, a little weirder. One is a photographer who has done business work for me. Our only "relationship" is that he's taken photos (good photos, mind you) for use on my business website. The photos do not have any information identifying him as photographer. And we do not have any sort of online connection. We're not FB friends, we're not following each other on FB or Instagram, we haven't liked either's posts, etc. So, WTF?
And the final weirdness is that they think I should know a particular person that I do in fact know - she's a medical professional. We have absolutely no relationship outside of her as provider and me as client. I've never searched for her, nor, as far as I know, nor has she searched for me. We know what we need to know because we have a professional, personal, and offline association. I'm not friends with the agency she works for, and I have not online relationship with that agency or anyone in it. And yet, FB thinks she's someone I know. So, double WTF?
Okay, maybe this is the way things are now. But it's just weird, and I seriously dislike this particular FB feature.
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