[Air-L] How does Facebook find friends?

[Richard Forno]

foaftree ... is that something we set up, deploy, and decorate for System Administrators' Day?  

-rick

On Sep 24, 2010, at 08:49 , jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> my guess is that it does a foaf tree of your domain, when you immediately join, but then uses other tools to build and make a foaf tree... a foaf tree is a network map of the relations of your Friends of a Friend, we already know that facebook uses friend of a friend analysis in its basic code and privacy structures, it is likely it uses it in this too.  
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> Political Science
> Virginia Tech
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