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Help with Understanding how Facebook Works please.
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I joined Facebook 1-2 years ago ostensibly to look up an old friend but immediately backed out again when I was bombarded with people wanting to be my friend. A quick look at the names showed they were people I knew, lots in my gmail address book, or friends of people in my address book. I suspended my account and have never been back again since.
My question is, did Facebook have access to my email address book on my computer? If not how did it know all these people were friends, relations, or friends of friends? I don't use Facebook and don't understand it so please be gentle with me.
I have been discussing this with a friend and we can't agree on the definitive answer so any help from someone who really knows these things would be very useful. Thanks.
My question is, did Facebook have access to my email address book on my computer? If not how did it know all these people were friends, relations, or friends of friends? I don't use Facebook and don't understand it so please be gentle with me.
I have been discussing this with a friend and we can't agree on the definitive answer so any help from someone who really knows these things would be very useful. Thanks.
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Isn't there a feature called "friend finder" where it searches for friends by looking through your email address book etc?
What's possibly happened is that people in your address book have been using this feature and your address has been imported into their friend list and you've been sent a friend request. It's nothing you've done, it's your friends in...
What's possibly happened is that people in your address book have been using this feature and your address has been imported into their friend list and you've been sent a friend request. It's nothing you've done, it's your friends in...
19:34 Wed 11th Jul 2012
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i use FB to store and share significant pics and news with friends! my gandson lives here so his mum can look in when she wants!
i find i can easily click no when i stranger 'friend' requests me! i know quite a few people who have been bullied, and indeed i have unfriended my 2 first cousins because of their language! i also never accept gaming requests!
i hope my small list of friends and acquaintances are genuine people, instead of having 600+ unknown folk, like some!
maybe you would enjoy getting what you want out of FB if you actually managed to contact that old friend?
cath x
i find i can easily click no when i stranger 'friend' requests me! i know quite a few people who have been bullied, and indeed i have unfriended my 2 first cousins because of their language! i also never accept gaming requests!
i hope my small list of friends and acquaintances are genuine people, instead of having 600+ unknown folk, like some!
maybe you would enjoy getting what you want out of FB if you actually managed to contact that old friend?
cath x
Isn't there a feature called "friend finder" where it searches for friends by looking through your email address book etc?
What's possibly happened is that people in your address book have been using this feature and your address has been imported into their friend list and you've been sent a friend request. It's nothing you've done, it's your friends in your address book who are guilty ....... I think lol :)
What's possibly happened is that people in your address book have been using this feature and your address has been imported into their friend list and you've been sent a friend request. It's nothing you've done, it's your friends in your address book who are guilty ....... I think lol :)
Thanks everybody. I never wanted to join Facebook it was a last ditch attempt to find a lost friend when all other avenues had been explored. I had to join in order to have a look and did the minimum allowed to gain access. I can't imagine for one minute that I would have knowingly given permission for FB to nose around my contacts.
Gizmonster, what you have said is interesting. If I'm understanding you right, you are saying a member who has ticked the correct box is agreeing that anybody who is in their contact list is sent a friends request when/if they join FB? So if I'm in their contact list I get a friends request. That would make sense GM because surely it would be illegal for FB to be accessing private info without your permission. Thanks.
Gizmonster, what you have said is interesting. If I'm understanding you right, you are saying a member who has ticked the correct box is agreeing that anybody who is in their contact list is sent a friends request when/if they join FB? So if I'm in their contact list I get a friends request. That would make sense GM because surely it would be illegal for FB to be accessing private info without your permission. Thanks.
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