Stercrazy Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Ok so going to keep this short......I know how we love reading pages and pages of details..... Lol. Me and my ex that brought me to this site broke up early Sept. '14. LC until Feb. '15 where I told her NC unless there was interest. I held my ground. Blocked her on everything and didn't peak. This morning I got a funny notification from Facebook asking "do you know this person"? She's blocked. The only thing I can think of is if she made a new profile with her maiden name or something to that effect. My question is......why would FB ask if I knew her regardless? We have no mutual friends. Would the odds be the same if FB asked if I knew Jessica Alba?? Just curious if anyone has an answer or the same experience? 1
d0nnivain Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 I'm half convinced that even people who work at FB don't understand the algorithm that powers it. Who cares? Click no. Block the "new" profile & move on. It's only FB 1
MrBojangles Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Typical Facebook "fuggery"! If either of you have searched for each other on FB, it will then begin to suggest you both may know each other as friends. Recently I have also begun to receive friendship suggestions by FB for some of my coworkers and customers... WTF??? I have never searched for any of these people, nor them searched for me. Now I'm beginning to wonder if FB also uses location data from our phones to come up with these friend suggestions. These friend suggestions have pissed me off to the point that I am really considering dumping Facebook once and for all. From a business standpoint, I do not want my coworkers or customers looking at my profile. Sometimes it really makes me think that FB is really a giant CIA / NSA Trojan Horse, that has suckered us into giving up our person data under the guise of social media..
Author Stercrazy Posted October 7, 2015 Author Posted October 7, 2015 Well......I'll admit the reason why I wrote limited contact between the breakup (9/2014-2/2015) was because I did "peak" once in a while. However I have been in hard core NC since Feb.....blocked everything....erased everything....off the grid towards her. We have no connection what so ever. I just find it odd FB is asking me if I know her when FB knows I blocked her. Of course I erased the notice immediately. Like I stated for me it's a hard core NC. I'm just curious if anyone has any ideas or the same experience.
Snotty Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 I will give you my experience. I had to go to the east coast. Met a woman. Had 3 days of fun. She showed up as someone i might know. It was her phone number. She had it in her profile, i had it on my phone. Thats when i halted ALL social media. 1
Michelle ma Belle Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 There is no such thing as privacy on the internet and FB is the absolute WORST when it comes to exploiting every angle they can on this subject. Like Snotty mentioned, you're somehow connected via phone, email, friends, whatever. Even if she liked something on your YouTube page, you're linked. It's insane.
organizedchaos Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 I will give you my experience. I had to go to the east coast. Met a woman. Had 3 days of fun. She showed up as someone i might know. It was her phone number. She had it in her profile, i had it on my phone. Thats when i halted ALL social media. That might do it. Or the email address matches your contacts or just because her name is similar to her name on the other profile so it thinks you might know each other since you had so much previous contact. I had this happen to me. I work in digital media and created a second fake fb account to do some testing. I used my middle name and last name and an email address I've had but not associated with fb. I made no friend connections with it. Was purely for testing. No profile pic either. With two days I had a former classmate friend request me and it showed up in my gf's people you might know. Fb uses many algorithms to do this. Don't sweat it.
Author Stercrazy Posted October 7, 2015 Author Posted October 7, 2015 I hear ya. But for the record we have no connection what so ever......phone number, email, Instagram....whatever. We have no mutual friends or even people as a 3rd party friendship. I have no intention of having contact with her because in my mind it was over when I went full NC. It was just that out of no where she poped up on my smart phone but when I go to FB she's not there. I double checked today to make sure she was still blocked and she is.
Author Stercrazy Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Ok.....just for an update. I also got a "Do you know" post as her daughter. Who is probably about 11. I find THAT odd. Now......when I posted this thread it had her old photo on FB. Tonight I got the same post "Do you know..." With a new pic. This seems extremely odd. We have no connections what so ever. Why would I be getting this? Twice in a couple of weeks..... When she's been blocked? Edited October 18, 2015 by Stercrazy
organizedchaos Posted October 18, 2015 Posted October 18, 2015 Ok.....just for an update. I also got a "Do you know" post as her daughter. Who is probably about 11. I find THAT odd. Now......when I posted this thread it had her old photo on FB. Tonight I got the same post "Do you know..." With a new pic. This seems extremely odd. We have no connections what so ever. Why would I be getting this? Twice in a couple of weeks..... When she's been blocked? I don't know dude. Fb isn't perfect.
Author Stercrazy Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 It's too much of a coincidence. I did get 2 other people that I have never met in-between. But same person....old pic and then a new pic plus her daughter??? Of course I deleted them and didn't even attempt to look at the profiles. I'm beyond that and have no need to go back. Just wondering if anyone had some insight so I can avoid it from happening again.
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