Facebook Automatic Friend Finder

Facebook Automatic Friend Finder

If you have been on Facebook for a while you understand how amazing the site is and how easy it is to connect with people from your past. It’s amazing how many people from your past you connect with who are all there offering friend requests. I am friends with people that I have not seen since elementary school. I am even friends with my kindergarten teacher.

It can go on from there, there are high school friends, college friends, former colleagues, and the list just goes on. Apparently, Facebook doesn’t think that is enough because today they released their Automatic Friend Finder.

The feature shows up at the top of your Facebook page and suggests you try it by displaying three of your friends that you know who have already tried the tool to fine new friends as well.

First, at the top of the Automatic Friend Finder page, it reads, “Your friends on Facebook are the same friends, acquaintances and family members that you communicate with in the real world. You can use any of the tools on this page to find more friends.”

From there, Facebook’s Automatic Friend Finder works in several ways. The first option is to enter your email and your email password (great idea for privacy). From there, it will search the emails in your contacts to see if any of them are on Facebook.

Next, there are friend suggestions. This suggests that you “add people you know as friends and become a fan of public profiles you like.” This looks like it is a compiled list of the friends of your friends.

You can also find more friends with a search box that takes a name or email. Below that, you can find friends from whatever affiliations or schools you entered into Facebook. They even try to help you to turn your instant messenger buddies into Facebook Friends through AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ Chat, and Windows Live Messenger.

While this may seem like Facebook is just trying to be helpful, there is more to it than that. One, the more friends and connected you are to Facebook, the more likely you are to continue using the product. Another reason is earnings, the more you use Facebook, the more likely you are to click advertisements.

Have you given Facebook Automatic Friend Finder a try yet? What are your thoughts?