Re:Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
by 0xmohit on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:40AM
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I'm not sure if it is either new or surprising.
I did an experiment some 3 years back from within a corporate network -- the difference being that it was done on a desktop, not mobile. The sequence of events was roughly:
- Spin off a new VM
- Create a brand new email address with fictitious identity
- Sign up to Facebook using the newly created fictitious identity
Result: The suggested "friends" were folks in that building (who were on the same network).
(The experiment was performed to demo how creepy such networks are.)
I did an experiment some 3 years back from within a corporate network -- the difference being that it was done on a desktop, not mobile. The sequence of events was roughly:
- Spin off a new VM
- Create a brand new email address with fictitious identity
- Sign up to Facebook using the newly created fictitious identity
Result: The suggested "friends" were folks in that building (who were on the same network).
(The experiment was performed to demo how creepy such networks are.)