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My guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged.

It could also be _you_ are the target for keep these ladies engaged. Who knows how many creepy psychological-mechanisms are behind their algorithms.



>My guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged.

Let me re-iterate. Because I'm male and on the internet I knew people would question my premise.

I haven't clicked on anything on FB or *elsewhere* on the web that should be getting me random foreign women as friend suggestions. I'm not naive. And even if I were clicking on correlated things elsewhere, which I'm not, I have never clicked on one of these suggestions in FB. That's two layers of ridiculously bad targeting that just annoys their users.




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