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Earlier this year I reported that Facebook would be adding a friend recommendation tool to the site. Just yesterday they turned on the feature and today I was finally able to view a list of friends that I may be connected to. This is similar to LinkedIn which also began offering the feature recently. As you can view on the left, Facebook displays a couple of individuals that you may be connected to from your homepage and then a complete list on find friends page.
This is one of the tools which we will see become a standard on all sites that are trying to become a center of your social graph. In a world where having 1,000 contacts is no longer a foreign concept, having automated systems for helping us to connect will become increasingly important. This tool illustrates how Facebook is leading the way in becoming a central management system of all of your contacts.
For those not on Facebook, joining is going to become increasingly important. I would also suggest that soon enough, managing granular privacy settings will become a standard practice across all social sites. While it may be initially complex, it is the kind of control that all individuals have a right to when surfing the social web. Have you benefited from this new friend suggestion tool?
i have the strange feeling that I saw this “people you may know” box on my FB home 1 or 2 months ago… but not sure.
Anyway, good move from FB, searching friends that you see everyday pages was a time waste to me…
I still cannot see this features.
Yep, this has never appeared on my home page (and still doesn’t), but it’s been accessible from the “Friend Finder” page for some time now.
i have the strange feeling that I saw this “people you may know” box on my FB home 1 or 2 months ago… but not sure.
Anyway, good move from FB, searching friends that you see everyday pages was a time waste to me…
I still cannot see this features.
Yep, this has never appeared on my home page (and still doesn’t), but it’s been accessible from the “Friend Finder” page for some time now.
Nick, I think the next step from this will be Facebook Introductions, putting them truly head-to-head against LI: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/03/facebook-...
Nick, I think the next step from this will be Facebook Introductions, putting them truly head-to-head against LI: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/03/facebook-introd.html
They should add a setting to disable suggestions from acquaintances or those that have their 100+ college friends in their list.
They should add a setting to disable suggestions from acquaintances or those that have their 100+ college friends in their list.
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I want to appear when someone put my name in the google and tell him he/she can find me in facebook. What do i have to do?
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Victoria