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coldtea on Aug 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won...

>You are 100% correct about this. People have appeared on "People you may know" when I have absolutely zero connection to them other than I have chatted to the on What's App...

Well, isn't it obvious though? Facebook owns WhatsApp and has access to both "social graphs".

(Plus, it can also infer "people you may know" from people your friends in FB and Whatsapp know).

nebabyte on Aug 26, 2017 [–]

Did you think they were saying otherwise?

coldtea on Aug 26, 2017 | [–]

No, I thought they presented it as surprising, when it's totally obvious.

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