{"id":351,"date":"2009-06-29T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/351"},"modified":"2009-06-29T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T03:14:16","slug":"those-unsettling-facebook-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/351","title":{"rendered":"Those unsettling Facebook suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time on Facebook I get suggestions for friends, where I think &#8220;How the hell did they know about that person?&#8221;, i.e. I do actually know the person, but can&#8217;t figure out how Facebook would have been apprised of that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surely late to the game, but in doing some poking around on the web, I was made to realize that anyone with whom I&#8217;ve exchanged email in the past might have run the &#8220;search my contacts&#8221; feature Facebook has&#8230; and their contacts would contain me either because they&#8217;d added me or because email programs tend to auto-capture anyone in your From\/To\/CC lines.<\/p>\n<p>Like any bit of data on the internet, once it&#8217;s out there, it stays out there forever and spreads slowly across the universe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time on Facebook I get suggestions for friends, where I think &#8220;How the hell did they know about that person?&#8221;, i.e. I do actually know the person, but can&#8217;t figure out how Facebook would have been apprised of that. I&#8217;m surely late to the game, but in doing some poking around on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}