Something creepy just happened to me.

One of two things, he either looked at your profile recently or one of your Facebook friends is just as slutty as you are...

Did you import your contacts to Facebook messenger?

That happened to me via several Twitter connections, OP. It might b that he went looking for you on FB. That's the connection, OP.

Facebook (aka CIA) figured out that you are a homosexual, Mary OP!

Read this, OP

Something similar is happening with LinkedIn. I don't have a LI account, but if anyone looks me up (apparently), I get an e mail notification that So-and-So wants to be my LinkedIn pal. Creepy. One lady looked me up several times and I got a email each time. I'm sure she didn't know.

This could lead to really embarrassing situations. Plus, I panicked and had to investigate whether I got blackout drunk and made a terrible profile.

Again with this?

If you have the FB app on your phone it can sync contact info and profile photos even if you're not FB friends with the new contact. If you add a phone number, the FB app matches it against profiles with phone numbers and, if it finds a match, pulls in the person's name and profile picture. In sure this works the other way and since you once had the guy's number in your phone, the FB app is telling FB to suggest this person as a friend.

I deleted Facebook from my IPhone for the very same reason. Very intrusive plus it sucked the battery life lie a $10 whore

OP, I had a friend suggestion for a person whose number I put in my phone so I could text them a name later. That was the only contact we had. Completely innocuous. It is because of phone numbers synced to Facebook as r8 said.

Whore problems

Well, that video and article suggests that it's Messenger going into your contacts and getting the info there. Problem is (and I checked on FB to make sure) I DO NOT HAVE ANY IMPORTED CONTACTS from messenger. I have never linked a phone number to FB. This is why I'm freaked out.

I saw a similar suggestion on my fb [age this morning, and I don't even have a smart phone or use grindr or anything like that. Not sure what the connection was, but somehow Facebook KNEW. It was especially startling in contrast to the adjacent ads, which have absolutely nothing to do with my interests or even my searches ('meet Christian singles over 50" "get rid of toe fungus").

[quote]I DO NOT HAVE ANY IMPORTED CONTACTS from messenger. I have never linked a phone number to FB.

But does the other party have your phone number in his contacts? How about your email? Has he ever looked at your profile? FB collects and crosslinks every piece of data it's given. That's FB's raison d’être.

You probably sucked him off before and just forgot, OP.

Facebook knows pretty much every place you have been on the web through the use of what are known as cookies. They have a huge collection of data on you. They also know where the Grindr guy has been.

They have literally 10s of thousands of computers looking for any connection between two people that they know about, and the result is what you saw.

It's time to break up big tech: FaceBook, Google / Alphabet, and Twitter should all be broken up.

[quote] It's time to break up big tech: FaceBook, Google / Alphabet, and Twitter should all be broken up.

Don’t forget Amazon.

These companies are scumbags yet they get away with EVERYTHING.

I got a citation because my plate was ONE DAY out of registration. But I had already register online so there was no actual gap in registration. Only on the plate. And the cop could see that everything was legit and registered.

I STILL got a citation, not a warning.

All my life I have played by the rules and I still get penalized the very second I make a small mistake.

What is Mark Z and Cheryl S secret? They get away with GENOCIDE and I can’t even have a one day old sticker on my plates.

This world is so fucked up now. These people literally own us. We are their slaves.

I was at Hillside Campground in Pennsylvania last Labor day weekend and got involved in an orgy of about 15 guys. I didn't exchange or have the numbers of any of them. The next day about half of them were suggested friends.

Nobody is forcing any of you paranoid scitzos to have a Facebook account.

R19 because they used their thumbprints to log into Facebook, the DNA of the 9 men you had inside of you matched the database.

No shit Sherlock @r20, but we are allowed to be critical of Big Tech.

R20. Great answer. I am well trained in computers which caused me second thoughts about ever becoming a FB member. To this day, I am not connected to FB and feel vindicated after the events of recent years.

[quote]Nobody is forcing any of you paranoid scitzos to have a Facebook account.

Sadly no one forced r20 to learn to spell either.

Why was a 2015 thread bumped... so weird

R25 = Zuckerberg trying to take the focus off the shadiness of Facebook.

R8, thanks creep. FBI noticed

The barista who always gives me the code to the bathroom at the Starbucks that I go to the bathroom at (long story) who I only know by her first name and the fact that she always rolls her eyes when I ask for it because apparently there's some LAW that you have to buy something to use the crapper at the Starbucks came up as a friend I might know and we have no friends in common.

Where do you live r28? I thought with woke culture, Starbucks were letting the homeless shoot up in their restrooms now... I mean, letting people use their restrooms now with no purchase.

Who the fuck still uses FB?! Old maids maybe.

Shut up R30.

Probably through your email address or phone number

It happens also if your phones are regularly in close proximity, or connected to the same wifi at the same time regularly, r28... allegedly.