Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
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- Seadog
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Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
This afternoon I received the following message on Facebook:
"G'day Tim....
How's things....
Just wondering where I know you from mate..."
The Facebook user had received a friend request from me earlier today.
But I did not send it.
We had a chat, and figured out we are both members of this fishing forum. I am familiar with their user name, but we had not ever communicated directly - either on the site or by phone or email, and I wasn't familiar with their real name. We also have no Facebook friends in common.
How Facebook determined we might know each other, and why it chose to send a friend request on my behalf is beyond me, especially given that we all use Usernames.
Its no biggie, but I'm curious to know how this could happen?
"G'day Tim....
How's things....
Just wondering where I know you from mate..."
The Facebook user had received a friend request from me earlier today.
But I did not send it.
We had a chat, and figured out we are both members of this fishing forum. I am familiar with their user name, but we had not ever communicated directly - either on the site or by phone or email, and I wasn't familiar with their real name. We also have no Facebook friends in common.
How Facebook determined we might know each other, and why it chose to send a friend request on my behalf is beyond me, especially given that we all use Usernames.
Its no biggie, but I'm curious to know how this could happen?
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- Jedi Seadog
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
I had a similar thing happen to me the other day. A friend request kind of thing but saying you should be friends with some bloke. Not requested or solicited. It's spooky how much Facebook knows about you.
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- Jedi Seadog
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
I get friend requests from people I don’t know all the time. I get links to people that 'I might know' etc etc.
Be very careful what you put on your fb profile. There was a segment on tv the other day showing how crooks troll fb for intel on people.
Never
• post your address, or where you work or where you went to school/uni etc
• say you are going away, anywhere.
• The crooks use photos to get metadata of your home locations and reccie your place on google earth to see if your place is an easy target
Once your info is out its too late.
People that know you will have the above info anyway, dont make it easy for the crims
https://in.news.yahoo.com/criminals-fac ... 2-525.html
Be very careful what you put on your fb profile. There was a segment on tv the other day showing how crooks troll fb for intel on people.
Never
• post your address, or where you work or where you went to school/uni etc
• say you are going away, anywhere.
• The crooks use photos to get metadata of your home locations and reccie your place on google earth to see if your place is an easy target
Once your info is out its too late.
People that know you will have the above info anyway, dont make it easy for the crims
https://in.news.yahoo.com/criminals-fac ... 2-525.html
- scottmac
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
.....or do what I do. Don't use anti-social media!
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
Yep x2, It's fug book ,,,get a life before someone steals itscottmac wrote:.....or do what I do. Don't use anti-social media!
- seano
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
This IS social media....
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
If you've ever logged into Facebook and use FFF on that computer, then Facebook knows you use the site, even if you're not logged on. Facebook uses this data to throw fishing orientated ads your way. Yes, that search you made on a stella 8000 is why it keeps popping up in ads.
So I guess it wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to recognise that a group of people use a certain page, live nearby, have similar interests and visit the Fishing Territory page from time to time. Nekminit.... "Do you know...?"
So I guess it wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to recognise that a group of people use a certain page, live nearby, have similar interests and visit the Fishing Territory page from time to time. Nekminit.... "Do you know...?"
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
Yeah agreed, though I think there is a certain hysteria about such stories. That said I have a fake identity for almost all sites i visit. Fake address. Fake D.O.B. Fake particulars. Just don't trust my life out there. Oh, and no, I am not DH.nomad wrote:I get friend requests from people I don’t know all the time. I get links to people that 'I might know' etc etc.
Be very careful what you put on your fb profile. There was a segment on tv the other day showing how crooks troll fb for intel on people.
Never
• post your address, or where you work or where you went to school/uni etc
• say you are going away, anywhere.
• The crooks use photos to get metadata of your home locations and reccie your place on google earth to see if your place is an easy target
Once your info is out its too late.
People that know you will have the above info anyway, dont make it easy for the crims
https://in.news.yahoo.com/criminals-fac ... 2-525.html
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- Seadog
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
jeffish wrote:Yep x2, It's fug book ,,,get a life before someone steals itscottmac wrote:.....or do what I do. Don't use anti-social media!
Too true Seanoseano wrote:This IS social media....
I tend to agree that this is the most likely way this has occurred. In this case tho I'm about 3800km from Darwin, and Facebook went one step further and sent a specific friend request from me without me actually doing anything.dannett wrote: So I guess it wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to recognise that a group of people use a certain page, live nearby, have similar interests and visit the Fishing Territory page from time to time. Nekminit.... "Do you know...?"
When I went to check if any other requests had been sent, I discovered that in 2nd place from the top of the list of 'People you may know' sits Geelong based fishing writer Geoff Wilson, with just 5 friends and none in common with myself. Quite possibly a fake profile. Again, never met him, but I think I've got a couple of old books of his in the garage that came with a holiday house that my family purchased down that way back in the '80s. But how would FB know that??
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
For sure seano, this is social media
in a former life i saw the side of people's behavior that isnt pretty.
Most people never see the bad side of life until the poop hits the fan - then its too late
better to be sure than sorry
in a former life i saw the side of people's behavior that isnt pretty.
Most people never see the bad side of life until the poop hits the fan - then its too late
better to be sure than sorry
- Dick
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
I live in New Guinea, studied in Iceland and was born in the Antarctic, I keep my friends to under 20, all known personally. Refuse every friends request unless I know it was sent. I get SFA chaff, bugger all adds and no longer friends requests from total strangers. Nice
Regards Dick
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
Dick wrote:I live in New Guinea, studied in Iceland and was born in the Antarctic, I keep my friends to under 20, all known personally. Refuse every friends request unless I know it was sent. I get SFA chaff, bugger all adds and no longer friends requests from total strangers. Nice
Had some more hats for you Dick was going to bring them next time i was in Kununurra. Pitty your in New Guinea now
A Fish in the Boat is Worth Five in the Shop.
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- scottmac
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
seano wrote:This IS social media....
Yeah, but it's a bit different from those 'Look at me, how good am I, my life is the best!' narsassistic cr.p like Facebook and Twitter.
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Re: Is Facebook playing Matchmaker with FFF Members?
yeah if people start posting what they had for breakfast for this site I'm out.
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