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?
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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…
Comment by Matthieu Moyse — March 27, 2008 @ 6:31 am
I still cannot see this features.
Comment by faizal — March 27, 2008 @ 6:57 am
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.
Comment by Sean — March 27, 2008 @ 7:11 am
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…
Comment by Matthieu Moyse — March 27, 2008 @ 11:31 am
I still cannot see this features.
Comment by faizal — March 27, 2008 @ 10:57 am
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-…..
Comment by Deva Hazarika — March 27, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
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.
Comment by Sean — March 27, 2008 @ 11:11 am
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-in...
Comment by Deva Hazarika — March 27, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
They should add a setting to disable suggestions from acquaintances or those that have their 100+ college friends in their list.
Comment by rmpbklyn — March 27, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
They should add a setting to disable suggestions from acquaintances or those that have their 100+ college friends in their list.
Comment by rmpbklyn — March 27, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
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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?
thanks, regards
Victoria
Comment by Victoria Lynch — December 26, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
I don't like my account to be appearing in this "People you may know" section. I wonder how to do that.
Comment by shane — October 23, 2010 @ 7:50 am