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I've heard so many creepy Facebook stories by now.

I know a psychologist who is well aware of privacy, which created a pseudonym account only to avoid her patients, which had the whole thing blown in her face when she installed Facebook app which then immediately suggested those patients she tried to avoid just because she had their phone, and those patients could briefly see her as a suggestion too. Nothing could help at this point, it didn't even need her permission for the phone contacts, just her phone number was enough for Facebook because it had already gotten the contacts of her patients which contained her number.

Just think about how ridiculous this is for a moment: anyone, including that shady taxi driver you ordered, or the plumber, or whatever, can suddenly get you as friend option in Facebook because you happened to call each other the other day and you're living in the same city. It gets super creepy really fast.




Similarly I visit mental health hospitals and facebook recommends patients of those hospitals to me as new friends.

It's really fucking creepy.


> anyone, including that shady taxi driver you ordered

Wouldn't you have to save the shady taxi driver's number to your contact list for this to work?




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