I shit you not but my doctor keeps appearing on the people i may know section. I should clarify that i havent seen that doctor in particular recently. He works at a medical centre with about 8 or 9 other doctors at any one time and i just see whoever is available at short notice. We have no mutual friends. None of the other doctors are suggested. It is kinda a bit creepy. Of course i wont add him. Gotta keep things professional 😂 But yeah. People you may know is one way of seeing how much the Internet is trqcking and profiling us.

I was under the impression it is people who stalk you and your profile who come up in the "people you know" section. So if people are looking you up then their profile comes up as people you know. I have heard this a few times from various sources but no odea where the info came from. Sounds plausible though.

People who live near you, have similar likes to you, check in at the same places as you, looked at your page, mutual friends, former school mates, people from your "hometown," members of groups you belong to....

My partner does not have facebook, nor do I have any of his family or friends on mine yet Facebook keeps putting his ex girlfriend, who he split with 10 years ago, as someone I may know lol never met her and she moved to the otherside of the country not long after they split. My partner and I grew up on opposite sides of the city and met through chance when I practically fell into his arms trying to get off a crowded tram so still have no idea how facebook has made the connection.

Creepy isn't it. I hate when I'm looking at other websites like ikea or some kind of recipie then i log into facebook and it's all of a sudden suggesting the exact thing i was looking at as a page. The world can be scary lol

People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know. We show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors.

You might occasionally see people you don’t know or don’t want to be friends with. To remove them from People You May Know, click x next to their names. Facebook doesn't send friend requests to anyone that shows up in this list on your behalf.

Keep in mind that you should only send friend requests to people you have a real-life connection to, like your friends, family, coworkers or classmates.
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I had blocked my partners ex as she kept sending me messages and stalking my profile. She ended up deleting her fb as their mutual friend had told us, like we cared anyway. So a few months later we were sitting at court and she popped up on my mutual friends list under a new name/profile! I have no mutual friends and she no longer had mutual friends with my partner. Legit she would have been stalking my fb to see what's been going on. I straight away blocked her new profile as well. I now am super suspicious of new people who pop up in my mutual friends as it's not above her to create fake accounts.

It kept popping up my husbands ex wife! Drove me nuts as we have nothing to do with her, they don't have kids together, so there is no need for any contact!

If I delete someone from the people I may know list, will I no longer show up on their list of people they may know?

I clean people's houses for a living and they ALWAYS pop up on people I may know. I thought they were stalking me but apparently it's because Facebook knows I'm going to their house regularly through location settings so it really does just figure that we know each other!

I'm sure your information is sold. Even if they say it isn't. A few years ago I had a break down over Facebook bringing up the asshole who raped me years ago. Him and his family were all "people I may know". I started having nightmares again and freaked out he found me. Even though I moved to another country. I ended up deleting my facebook and gave them a mouthful in the section asking why I was leaving. I was not happy with the memories resurfacing.

I'm bumping this because yesterday someone I used to know some years ago who I've had zero contact with, and who have no mutual friends with popped up as a my suggested friend. And a few weeks ago, a sub contractor who did some work in our newly renovated kitchen also strangely popped up. So, I think either they have been stalking me, or (more likely) their contacts list on their phones are linked to their FB and that is another way FB suggests likely friends.

Common friends, near your location, similar checkins, same likes of groups, places etc...

Even liking the same groups can do it. I have a few people from mum pages I have joined that come up in my suggested friends

Maybe they have Fb stalked you???

You've got common interests or past works or schools written in info. Same town any info you've put in can link you to skmeonee