The internet social media platform, Facebook is known to keep a vigilant eye over its users, now reports suggest that Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends for you.
According to Fusion, Facebook identifies new friends as its ‘People You May Know’ help’s page reads, “We show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors.”
Now, what are those ‘other factors’ that it is talking about, it is found to be your smartphone’s location. However, the social platform says that the location in itself is not enough to lead to a friend suggestion. Potential friends must have shared a location and should have something else in common, such as an overlapping network.
“Location information by itself doesn’t indicate that two people might be friends,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “That’s why location is only one of the factors we use to suggest people you may know.”
This may sound an invasion to privacy, so how to avoid this. As per TechWorm, the only method is to check the privacy settings on your smartphone. Most users on Facebook have set to “always,” which should be set to “never” if we don’t want them to infiltrate our privacy.
However, note that your smartphone won’t be able to suggest nearby events or notify you when a friend is nearby if you change it to “never.”
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