I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky.

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Posted by PearlJam

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Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:10 am to TigerPox

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I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky.

They looked you up.

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Posted by OneMoreTime

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Member since Dec 2008

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Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:13 am to TigerPox

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I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky

Yeah earlier this year I saw a guy on there a week after I had met him for the first time and had no mutual friends. They have to use location services

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Posted by JBeam

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Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:55 am to TigerPox

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I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky.

That means that FB probably has access to your location app and it recognized that y'all were in the same area.

That's one of many ways that Facebook has access to who you are connecting with.

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