[Air-L] How does Facebook find friends?

[jeremy hunsinger]

yes the combined contact lists of many people form the foaf tree, same basic explanation, but i'd say it isn't just his family, it is quite a few people that know him probably
On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Graham Meikle wrote:

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