Facebook offers friend recommendations, another way to keep itself relevant
Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking sites, is testing out a feature called “People You May Know,” that shows you the public profiles of people it figures you want to be Facebook friends with.
This seems like a smart feature to add. Every Facebook user has friends who they didn’t know were on the site. So helping these friend connections happen nearly automatically means Facebook becomes even more central to keeping track of all of your social relationships.
Presumably, the Palo Alto, Calif. company is determining people who you may know based on shared relationships in your social graph, as well as contacts imported from your email addresses and instant messaging lists.
A number of other web companies offer variations of this service, such as LinkedIn’s.
David Adewumi, a contributing writer with VentureBeat, is the founder & CEO of http://heekya.com a social storytelling platform billed “The Wikipedia of Stories.”
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About the Author, David Adewumi
David Adewumi, Founder and Chief Storyteller of http://heekya.com, leads the overall vision and product strategy for the start-up dubbed the ‘Wikipedia of Stories.’ For the past year, he has been a contributing writer for VentureBeat, with a focus on digital music and social start-ups. Previously, he led sales & product development for Lomic, Inc. an oil & natural gas software firm. David has served in the US Army as an Airborne Infantryman, before being appointed to the US Military Academy at West Point. He attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he pursued a degree in Economics.