Tell HN: Deeply creepy people you may know, suggested by Facebook.
So I&#x27;m on a dating site, chatting to a nice girl.  A few messages back and forth through their system.<p>There&#x27;s no identifying information in my profile. She has my first name and that&#x27;s all apart from my suburb, which is listed on the dating site. Also I don&#x27;t know anything about her except her first name and suburb.<p>Now I&#x27;m not a big Facebook user but I do check in from time to time.<p>So I log in to Facebook and click on the notifications and in the list of &quot;People you might know&quot; is this girl from the dating site, same photo, and her full name, which I didn&#x27;t know till this point - I only knew her first name. I&#x27;ve never searched for her, never tried to find her in Google or Facebook or anywhere else on the Internet.<p>So What The Fuck? I mean really, WHAT. THE. FUCK? Can I say WTF any louder?<p>How is this possible? And is it Facebook&#x27;s fault that this information is leaking?<p>I&#x27;ve had online stalkers before and somehow it looks like Facebook is making it super easy for them.<p>I really wish these goddam creepy &quot;people you might know&quot; suggestions were illegal because they are the scariest fucking using of technology next to the NSA. LinkedIn is probably worse.<p>Can someone explain how this happened?<p>If anyone from Facebook is here at HN, please explain how your company knows this information. Someone needs to explain how this is possible.