How Does Facebook Select the Friends in Your Friends Box?

The short answer is that I have no idea.

I have always assumed they are completely random, but now that I think about it, I do see a lot of the same people in that box.

 

Fine, i'll stop looking.

 

I am thinking it is the people you lookup the most.

 

Random imo

 

For security reasons, i don't think they can tell you who looks at your profile. There use to be apps that would tell you who was checking out your profile but fb got rid of them.

 

It's definitely not random. I think it has to do with Facebook's best guess of who you might know combined with the people who are searching for what might possibly be you. (I barely use facebook and I've had actual relatives come up in the "People You Might Know" box. I also don't use my full name on Facebook - so it's definitely not random. I assume some of my relatives were making searches based on variations of my name, and Facebook's data-mining caught up with it).

The entire reason Facebook is a billion dollar company is because they establish a number of markers that establish your identity and those compare those markers with other markers.

 

Definitely this or the people you interact with most

 

she's not interested.

 

I think it picks the people that you interact with most frequently with a couple of randoms thrown in there.

 

I think this is it. The people I chat and post with the most are def on mine and I am on theirs as well. Then a few randos

 

I think it's through some sophisticated pentagon-level formula which determines the users best fit for a relationship with you. Much like match.com.

 

I just now realized that I answered a completely different question than the question the OP was asking.

My bad. I was talking about the 'People You Might Know' thing.

 

I'm pretty sure its based on who you interact with the most. Through likes, comments, inbox messages, pokes, etc.

 

I think facebook does track who is looking at your profile. It recommended for me to add some people who I know in real life but there is no association with any of my friends of facebook. I believe facebook not google is skynet.

 

Part of it is based on the number of interactions you have with the person, I know for a certain amount of people who I chat with, and post/comment with on a frequent basis, they're always there.

 

lol, yeah it does sound like the guy wants to know if his love interest is looking at his profile. hahahah

 

There's an easier way to do this.

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I don't think there was an app that ever did this. However, there were tons that claimed to do it. There were apps that did show who visited your profile, but it required both parties to have the app. Basically it was the app doing the monitoring, not facebook/myspace.