[Air-L] How does Facebook find friends?

[Graham Meikle]

The easy explanation would be that although Anders's stepson didn't upload his contacts list, the other relatives involved did, and the stepson appears in their uploaded contacts.

Best regards, gm

On 24/09/2010 13:49, "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns at vt.edu> 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.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Political Science
Virginia Tech



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