"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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Having just, with some unease*, bitten the bullet and signed up to
facebook** I'm gobsmacked how many people it suggests as friends, most
of whome I know but some I haven't corresponded with for years. How does
it do it? I haven't offered it my address book but ISTR it invited me to
do that. Is it that everyone else has done so and it's finding my
email addy in other people's address books and offering links that way?

If you have added some people on there, then it looks for matches in there,
so if you add person A and B and they both are friends with person C, then
it will suggest person C to you, as you may all know each other.

I've now deleted*** my 'real' email address which facebook seemed to have
listed for me (how? I didn't give it to them) and am sticking with a
" type address, so theoretically it shouldn't be able
to link people up with me through that, though if their address books
contain my real name alongside my address it may still be able to guess.

Did you join face book all on your own, or did someone invite you to it, via
an email to this address?

Toby...