What is the difference between people you may know and friend suggestions on Facebook?

People You May Know can help connect people on Facebook. If you upload your contacts through the Facebook app, learn how to manage contact uploading. If someone has uploaded their contacts and it includes your mobile phone number or email address, you may show up as friend suggestions for each other.

Can you tell if someone has searched you on Facebook?

No, Facebook doesn’t let people track who views their profile. Third-party apps also can’t provide this functionality. If you come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please report the app.

How does Facebook know who all your friends are?

That means Facebook knows your work email address, even if you never provided it to Facebook, and can recommend you friend people you’ve corresponded with from that address. It means when you sign up for Facebook for the very first time, it knows right away “ who all your friends are.

Will Facebook reconsider its ‘people you may know’ feature?

Perhaps now, though, in its time of privacy reckoning, Facebook will reconsider the mandatory nature of this particular feature. It’s about time, because People You May Know has been getting on people’s nerves for over 10 years.

What happens if you visit someone’s Facebook profile without being friends?

If you visit someone’s facebook profile, someone you are not friends with, you’ll appear in their People You May Know. Is this fine? W arning, this might be fake news.

Are Facebook friendships really friendships?

The short answer is no, but the long answer may be more interesting. Facebook friendships may look binary (either two people are friends or they’re not) but actually, relationships between Facebook users are asymmetric. For instance, if we consider two users, Alice and Bob, Alice may be more interested in Bob than the other way around.