Community Chat

[makena]

Is there a way to get rid of the "People You May Know" suggestions?  I have no idea who these people are, most likely friends of people I know, and I don't want them as friends and I'm sick of seeing it.

[Krimpette]

I agree!  I sometimes get as many as 50 in a day.  I delete them all.  But I don't understand why I keep getting so many.  Many are foreign, some even in a foreign language.  A real nuisance!

[CelticCrafter]

I've learned to ignore them and eventually they go away.  It seems to come in cycles.

If you keep deleting them, you just get more!

[Krimpette]

@CelticCrafter. Thanks for the info.  I didn't realize that by removing them I would only get more.  I'll try just ignoring them. 

[Laura14]

One of the main reasons I went off of Facebook. 

I didn't like them "showing" my FB page to people who were actually customers of where I work.  I keep work and personal WAY separate and I didn't like the uninvited "Hey here's Laura's personal FB page" advertisement to my entire clientele.   I think I had a coworker FB friend who I ended up blocking but it didn't end the relationship with her or her friends as far as FB was concerned so I ended my FB experience.  

I think someone mentioned once there is a tool you can download to get rid of it if it really bothers you.

[makena]

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I've learned to ignore them and eventually they go away.  It seems to come in cycles.

If you keep deleting them, you just get more!

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I've been deleting them. 

[Moonchilde]

Join the club. I am more than sick of seeing it, but we’re stuck with it. They will tell you “Okay, we know you’ve said you don’t like this, so we won’t keep showing it to you” - and they go right on putting it upfront in your feed almost every day. I just click on “See All” and click “no, no, no”, etc until my list is empty. But it will all come back again for me to delete yet again, every couple of days.

[puttypiesmom]

One reason I don't use facebook.  Yet I got roped into Messenger which requires you to be logged into facebook.  I make sure to log out of it when I'm finished chatting with my old school chums and there they are, those stupid pics of people I've never heard of in my life. I hit the little x over and over until they're gone until next time.  

[Moonchilde]

I can see why they would populate your “People You May Know” with friends of friends, i.e. they are taken from all of the Friends lists of all of your Friends. However - my “May Know” list is often populated with random people that aren’t Friends of anyone I know. Many of them appear to be streetwalkers or phone s*x types, often in foreign countries. I’ve always thought that FB takes money from people to insert these skanky “possible friends.”  It’s like ho ads. It creeps me out that FB is soooo concerned about everyone’s safety that they take money to p*mp for those willing to pay.  I don’t know that FB does this, but it’s the only thing that makes sense to me. Why else would they toss random hookers into the feed of a older female?

[chrystaltree]

Just ignore them, they won't become "friends" if you do nothing.  They'll fall off eventually but if you delete them, that opens the floodgates and you get a never ending stream because FB thinks you are looking for new "friends".