Comments on: Facebook Automatic Friend Finder

By: Alan S.

Alan S. — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:31:31 +0000

As is the case with many automatic processes that computer users are encouraged to use, there are other methods, although manual and therefore slower, whereby you can do the same thing. True, you may only have 15 to 30 friends and you may notice that some of your friends have hundreds of friends. But if you think you’re forgetting people, just go through your email or your address books. It’s time consuming for users of web mail such as Yahoo because those services don’t seem to offer address books. (Maybe there’s a way to use them to create address books but how you do it is not made obvious). Still, consider the satisfaction you’ll get from doing it manually. If it looks like a task that will take an awful lot of time, you can break up the task into several short sessions and eventually accomplish something that makes much more sense than something automated which would produce hit-or-miss results.

By: Junie L

Junie L — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:58:46 +0000

Friend Finder is a scam and a liar. It showed up yesterday on my roommates profile page saying I had used friend finder to find friends but I have never used the service. Today my roommate showed up on mine but she never used it either. Facebook is lying to us and I have no idea how to stop it from using me to advertise their lame friend finder.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:46:04 +0000

What worried me was when I received an email friend request from someone with whom I am in regular contact, but on the bottom of the email were names and profile photos of several other people under the heading “other people you may know.” One of them was someone with whom I have had no contact since several years before I joined facebook, or even created the only email address which is associated with my account. The only way it could have legitimately associated us was by her using the friend finder, and then FB searching for profiles with names matching the people in her address book. Despite her clearly choosing NOT to reconnect with me, FB essentially vetoed her decision, contacted me and asked if I wanted to reconnect with her.
The other possibility is even more creepy. I had never used friend finder, so FB would have had to upload my address book without permission, in order to associate our two profiles. Either way I’m not thrilled.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:10:05 +0000

I haven’t tried it, yet. But two of the three people that it said have “tried the automatic Friend Finder” was my brother’s and mother’s accounts. They hardly ever use Facebook.

That gave me enough of a reason to think it was just a scam.

By: French Offcical

French Offcical — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:02:20 +0000

Its worse than crap. It is a lie. The people (i.e. “Your Friends”) that Facebook claims have already tried it are my other Facebook ID’s – and I promise you – I have never tried it.

By: B

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:07:01 +0000

Well, I just got the first pop-up for the automatic friend finder today and after reading this article it doesn’t seem all that bad; but….it is not at all clear as to what it is in the popup itself. It simply said my friends have tried it and found out… Then it asked for my email and password.

I never trust anything right off that asks for that information so of course I google’d it. Although I don’t completely disagree with it, I’m still not doing that. When I made a linkedin account I apparently gave it permission to go through my email and add all of those contacts to my linkedin contacts. What I didn’t know is that gmail seems to log ever individual email incoming or outgoing as a contact and so I have successfully added tons of people that I maybe had one or 2 email exchanges with now on my linkedin profile and I have no idea who they are without going back through my thousands of emails.

In short….not doing that again….especially not with facebook. I try to avoid having business contacts being able to see my “social” facebook page.

By: Chas

Chas — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:04:13 +0000

Basically it’s a load of crap. It tells me I am not friends with people who I’ve been friends with for years. I suspect it’s a scam to get info on people for probable advertising or criminal purposes. I recommend you ignore it.