Clarification on Facebook Post

I do not mind if my blog friends add me as friends to their facebook. Not at all!

What I object to is when Facebook all of a sudden suggests a friend and the only way I know them is through my blog. This has happened three times. The first time I kind of blew it off. It is a blog I read whose author happens to be have had a book published. I have his book on my wish list on Shelfari. I had personally linked my Shelfari to my Facebook account so I explained away the suggestion. The next two times, I didn’t have any link to the person except through my blog. So, I started wondering how Facebook finds suggested friends. Oh, I know about the people who graduated from the same place I did. I know that since many of my family have linked to me with “Relative Request” their other relatives will come up as suggested friends. I even understand that if 5 of my cousins have “friended” a person, that person is likely to come up on my friend suggestion. But, the people I only know through blogging, I suspect that Facebook somehow scans the cookies on my computer.

Finally, I am not so freaked out that I have quit using Facebook. It just makes me more aware that the Internet is really not a very private neighborhood.