The key point is that they can have matched you by what others did (on Facebook or on other websites), not only what you did.
Peter wrote:
For example if I do a search for your name, especially a number of times, FB will eventually present me to you under the “people you may know” suggestions. You may think how the hell did FB make the connection, since you have not been in contact with that person since you were at school… well, it didn’t. It was the other person who helped them find you.
It was a fake person which I created so unless people request the fake name search for the person I created and they happen to be my friends it doesnt make any sense.
Accept the fact that Facebook rifles through you computers hard drive. There is no other explanation for what occurred to me. Reread what I wrote happened to me, slowly, absorb it, then try to explain how this all went down.
Im just trying to alert people.
Facebook rifles through you computers hard drive
That is not possible with any modern browser – basically in the last 10-15 years – except via specialised hacks which a large outfit would never get away with. Many years ago a web server could present an executable which does indeed rummage through the PC…
What does happen however is that when you access FB from a phone or a tablet, it (IIRC) asks you to upload your Contacts. Most people mindlessly agree to that. But on a PC this doesn’t appear, and wouldn’t work anyway because a PC doesn’t have “contacts” in any standard way and certainly not in a way which a browser could access.
Using a fake name on FB doesn’t do the full job you are looking for, for many reasons.
Well please explain how did it happen on my Mac and it is isolated on my, for Facebook only, Chromebook. Running that for 1 year and nobody, not even family, is being friend requested. Off course I did not give them my FB name and I dont search for them either.
C210_Flyer wrote:
Off course I did not give them my FB name and I dont search for them either.
That’s the reason.
You’re missing the point. I know its complicated. But its not as if I asking people to believe in something, like religion. Or perhaps it has become religion.
