Facebook: People You Might Know
March 28, 2008 · Print This Article
I will admit, I am not a huge Facebook fan, nor do I tend to use it a lot. I get some event invites on it, but unlike others I only tend to stop by every once in a while to check out my profile and see what is happening.
Today I logged in because I had received an invite to a Social Media Club event coming up in April. In the left column of my Home page I saw something I had not seen before. This does not mean it hasnt been there … just that I probably missed it. Anyway there is a section that presents you with people you may know.
I must admit, I find this incredibly useful. It does some sort of processing and looks into your current friends and aggregates people that more than one of your friends are friends with. It seems to me to be very similar to the Linkedin feature that connects you with connections of your connections, expanding your network.
Right away, I probably added a dozen people that I know locally, but had not "found" them on Facebook as of yet. There are not a lot of features on Facebook that have made me stop and actually use it straight away, but this is one of them. Good job Mark and gang
As I tweeted earlier today, I thought it was pretty cool too until it started feeding me a bunch of people I’ve made a conscious choice not to befriend — the annoying people in my social circles that I always try to avoid.