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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by paxys on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:22PM (#22428049)
As one of the factors probably, but they don't recommend random people who are nearby. There has to be some actual connection (friend-of-friend, address book, in the same group etc.)
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by titzer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:54PM (#22428348)
> but they don't recommend random people who are nearby

I think that's probably true. You need to spend sufficient time near someone--like within a few feet or so.

I had an interesting experience where Facebook recommended me as a friend to someone I sat next to on an airplane, with whom I had a conversation with. My phone was in airplane mode. Not sure how that happened, TBH!

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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by gibolt on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:41PM (#22429881)
They probably looked you up afterwards on Facebook or another site using Facebook analytics.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by wolfoftheweb on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:07PM (#22429690)
It could be based on connecting to the same in-flight WiFi.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by winrid on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:00AM (#22431261)
And you might be able to correlate seating with WiFi strength? :)
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