FB is getting creepy....

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#321513 23-Aug-2025 20:47

I now have people in my contacts that I do not know, I have not "friended".... including some young people.

This has lurched heavily into creepy as hell territory .

Meta AI is there too, and THAT has already been accused of inappropriate connections towards young girls....

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#3406887 23-Aug-2025 21:31

This not a sudden thing. It’s been like that for at least 15 years - which is when I abandoned it.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3406940 23-Aug-2025 21:49

Compromised accounts of people that you knew that let their account get taken over and its now changed to a hot lady that is trying to con other people.

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#3406952 23-Aug-2025 23:14

Then there is Linkedin.

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#3407009 24-Aug-2025 12:59

If it's showing you young people then you can be sure it's a fake account. Facebook's a retirement community now.

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#3407098 24-Aug-2025 19:19

I assure you, after I have a conversation with someone, FB will magically start recommending me the exact stuff we were talking about. More than once.

I have turned off every setting and it still did that, I uninstalled it from my phone.

But my wife wanted to keep it so now it just recommends her stuff that we talk about. (it's an iPhone. supposedly prevents Google and FB spying on you. yeah right)

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#3407105 24-Aug-2025 19:57

I have noticed this too. It seems to be people I have conversed with at some stage but it may have been awhile ago.

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#3407113 24-Aug-2025 20:41

In my case I know this is someones grand daughter, I have never met her, but I know her name.

As I say, this is creepy.

Add to that FB is being very weird in the way it interacts with young girls....

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#3407118 24-Aug-2025 21:39

You more or less have to not allow access to contacts from the outset. And not give it your number in accounts.

Else it uses that for people to find you (you get suggested too) and likely then lets it mess with adding others itself to your contacts as it sees fit. All the datas belong to us.