Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking sites, is testing out a feature called “People You May Know,” that shows you the public profiles of people it figures you want to be Facebook friends with.
This seems like a smart feature to add. Every Facebook user has friends who they didn’t know were on the site. So helping these friend connections happen nearly automatically means Facebook becomes even more central to keeping track of all of your social relationships.
Presumably, the Palo Alto, Calif. company is determining people who you may know based on shared relationships in your social graph, as well as contacts imported from your email addresses and instant messaging lists.
A number of other web companies offer variations of this service, such as LinkedIn’s.
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Rose said:
I’m annoyed by this function that it will make me stop going to Facebook if I can’t switch it off. So far, I have not been able to. I really don’t want to see pictures of people I don’t want to be friends with (and vice versa).
Is there a way to turn it off or remove some people from the list?
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David Adewumi said:
Rose,
As far as we know it can’t be switched off — but today is the first day any of us have seen it.
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