Posted AT 11:12 PM EDT on 15/05/08
'Friend' doesn't mean what it used to
Meanwhile, back in the land of Facebook, a new widget has arrived to bother the peasantry. Not long ago, a little box appeared in the corner of Facebook pages. It's entitled “People you may know,” and it contains the names and faces of people that Facebook thinks you might recognize but haven't yet added to your list of “friends.”
The results it coughed up for me were strikingly accurate – but perhaps not in the way that Facebook had intended.
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