Home!! It's so good to be home. So so good to be home.
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Facebook, a social phenomenon that I doggedly resisted for a good long time, but eventually succumbed to the pressure of, has begun to frighten me. There's a little application which takes it upon itself to inform you of other "people you may know" who use Facebook. Tell me how this works, please. I understand that a program can figure out that I know Bob and Sue and that Bob and Sue both know Mark, so there's a reasonable chance I might know Mark too. That part I can deal with. But tell me how it knows about people that DON'T share any common friends with me? How is that possible, seriously?
Today Facebook told me I might know a woman I used to work with, very briefly, in another city about three years ago. Someone with whom I share no common friends. Someone I barely know, really. So how does Facebook know???
Today Facebook also suggested I might know a girl whose teaching practicum I supervised - again, several years ago, in another city. No common friends, no common threads. How is this possible?
It's really freaking me out.
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It pulls info from your email account. You actually give it permission to do this at some point. Which is how it knew that I know my husband despite the fact that we have no mutual friends. Creeptacular.
What? That's insane. How does it get into my email account? That's really really scary.
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