Facebook is always suggesting friends for me and most of them are people who have friends in common with me or share my hometown. I have a nosy former neighbor that I do not want to befriend. She and I have nothing in common except a property line. There are no mutual friends on facebook, so why is it suggesting her as a potential friend for me? I have moved on to another town, but still own the property where I used to live. She has not sent a friend request to me. Is she looking at my page? Is there a way to block her without first befriending her?
Thanks for the tips on how to deal with this. My privacy settings are now where I want them to be.
Just go on to her page, on the left side down towards the bottom it says block/report. Click on that and you will never have to see her again and she will never be able to find you or see anything you post.
No, she is not your friend. FB sees you have a friend in common so it thinks you may know her too. It is just a "Web" style of social interaction. This one knows that one so they might now some of her friends too.
Go to the top right of the home page, click on the down arrow by the word "Home" and go to "privacy settings", then click on the bottom line where it says "manage blocked ...." type her name in the little box there for blocking her from trying to friend you.
But in all honesty, if you have your settings for anything other than "just friends" she can see anything you have on your page anyway. I can go to any of my daughters friends that I don't even know and most of them have their settings on "friends of friends"...so I can look at their photo albums, their posts, their information, everything because I am a friend of a friend of theirs, my daughter is our common link.
She can also see what you post on that mutual friends posts too, so if your mutual friend posts "I had a lousy day" and you comment "I am so sorry, anything I can do" each and every one of her friends are seeing her post and so can this friend you don't like. There is no way to stop this from happening. It should be fine though. I have people blocked from friending me or even seeing my friend lists. The people I have blocked can't find me when they type my name in the search box. They cannot see my wall or albums or any other thing because I have all of those set for "friends only".
It's purely mathematical, they have an algorithm that puts together little pieces and bits of information that you have provided and churns out both close and distant matches.
It may be that you and former neighbor have friends that have other friends in common (even if you do not directly share friends), maybe you have "liked" the same pages, if you are still geographically close that may also play a role.
The thing about facebook is that it is a public site, it is intended to be. So I would suggest that you review your privacy setting to only publicly display information that you would not mind a nosey neighbor/employer or your grandmother to see.
Good luck.
I think it checks your email address...not sure. It seems to know who my hotmail contacts are. Plus anything on your info page, it can cross-ref.
Find her on Facebook and block her entirely!
You don't have to "friend" her first.
Actually once facebook suggested I friend someone. Someone that I dislike to such an extent that it ruined my day that her face was even shown in the corner of my page. I had no friends in common with her, she was out of my life, she didn't live with me. There was NO link to where they should have suggested her! So I contacted them....
They basically said they had access to one of our email address books. At one point or another one of us had allowed it and at one time she had sent me an email. That was all it took!
So I guess in the last 6 months they have re-done security again but be forewarned if you've ever let them have access to your email account or hers and she or you had her email address .... they'll suggest that person.
How infuriating it was!
it cross references everything!....your hometown,email, profiles youve looked at, your h/s, mutual friends, friends of friends, and probably people who have looked at your page.
She cannot see anything but your profile photo and your name and city, if you have your page set on "friends only".
IF it does send you a request, decline and then it will ask if you know the person and again say no. It will make sure that person cannot request you again. She will have no idea.
J.:
Go to your Facebook page, top right hand corner - down arrow key to the right of "home" - click on that - a drop down menu will pop up...select privacy settings.
You can choose public, friends only or customize. If you customize you will be allowing access to your page to certain people only. Friends only - is just that - your friends.
Why does it do this? If you have the old town still listed in your information profile - it tries to "connect" people using this tool - an algorithm - so that more people are "connected"....the algorithm assumes, for lack of a better word, that you might want to know someone or know someone from this town, place (college, school, workplace).
Actually we have a former neighbor that FB is constantly suggesting I friend. We found out that I had put our address down for an event, as had she, and it cross-referenced them and asked me to add her.
I just ignore the "suggested friends" and only add people I know and want to add.
