Facebook Adds "People You May Know" Feature

by Thomas Houston, posted Mar 31st 2008 at 11:07AM

Facebook debuted a new feature last week called "People You May Know." It's pretty much self-explanatory and straightforward -- Facebook uses advanced algorithms (i.e. looks at friends of your friends) to build a surprisingly accurate list of people you probably know. If you're a LinkedIn user, you've probably seen something very similar -- LinkedIn's version is appropriately named, "People you may know."

Much like the status updates and birthday sections, the new feature is extremely easy to use, and you'll find it automatically added to the middle of the right sidebar when you log in to your Facebook account. The list -- generated from your list of friends and your friends' friends -- isn't 100% perfect. We're not surprised that it pulls in a couple people we've never even heard of, but it sometimes works almost too well. We're not sure we really want to see old acquaintances from school or that person we met at a party a few months ago.

From News.com

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planetneutral @ Apr 13th 2008 9:30PM

Looks like they've removed this feature...or it's down or somesuch.

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