How does facebook decide which friends to show

What exactly does it mean? So why is she being suggested?! Were we once in the same cafe? Has she, completely understandably, been stalking me? Have we finally found the definitive answer to how you can tell when people have looked at my profile?!

So many questions, and so many conspiracy theories. During an investigation, Fusion found a load of anecdotal evidence pointing towards location services being used. When Fusion had published an article, understandably, explaining how this is a privacy mess - Facebook immediately retracted it. One way to stop any apps using your location is to change the location settings on your phone, or get rid of the Facebook app and use it on good ole Safari.

Other browsers are available. Thanks for your illuminating and rich response, Peter. Plus, there are just too many anecdotes to ignore. Wall posts. Has this person posted on your wall recently, or you on theirs? Have they liked your content or have you likes theirs? Photos viewed. Currently online. Friends who are currently online or have recently been online. This typically applies for random people that might show up.

Facebook messenger conversations between each other. Mutual interactions. Facebook understands if someone is consistently chatting over years even with fewer hours with person A Vs with someone person B for fewer weeks, this algorithm takes the person A on the top of the Messenger Active friends list. This way you get to know about your social interactions and activity too. Though, whenever you make a search you can find that not more than ten people are shown in an alphabetical search.

If you happen to be a very friendly and social person this might be a problem. This way you can easily have management and access to your dear ones. Though you maybe not have even one friend in common or anything you still find them on your page. After much discussion and speculation about the same it was agreed upon that most of these people are the ones who stalk your profile—one-sidedly and hence Facebook gives you a loop point to know about it.

Many more factors are taken into account all with all these. Stalkers beware, Facebook is watching.