Ahh, yep.  I do recall the ad was popping up and partially overlaying the reply box.  That'll be it.  Noted for future.  :-)

Handle9: Ugh it’s just one thing after another (cars, house maintenance problems etc) at the moment burning cash. It’s not the end of the world just a bit frustrating.

Same here. Going to be very squeezed for the next 6-8 months. Hopefully early next year we will no longer be a single income household (as we have been for four of the last five years). 

MadEngineer: Facebook strangely suggesting at least one or two people I’ve spoken with at work as friend suggestions.

This has no doubt been complained about before but how the heck? It’s weird because it includes staff or customers from all over the country with no other connection other than the phone call and it’s happening more frequently.

Imagine calling a business, speaking with someone you’ve never had anything to do with before and then that person is being suggested by Facebook to befriend you.

Facebook on your phone ?

If so it uses your phones location and their phones location to make the suggestion..... it also uses friend of a friend stuff too.

Google now appear to be ruining google timeline and making it only work on a single device that I have to choose before a certain date. So now if I dont have that particular device with me, nothing will get recorded. Great.

MadEngineer: Facebook strangely suggesting at least one or two people I’ve spoken with at work as friend suggestions.

This has no doubt been complained about before but how the heck? It’s weird because it includes staff or customers from all over the country with no other connection other than the phone call and it’s happening more frequently.

Imagine calling a business, speaking with someone you’ve never had anything to do with before and then that person is being suggested by Facebook to befriend you.

 

About 15 years ago I had a FB account - set up with only my personal email address. At the time I was working in banking and part my job was dealing with delinquent clients who had fallen foul of the bank for various reasons. These were clients who we were exiting from the bank and/or telling them to take their business elsewhere. I communicated with these people only by phone (landline at the time) and via bank email. These were not pleasant situations.

After a while the FB friend suggestions started including many of these people. The only contact I had with them was through work. I'm guessing they also would have received stuff from FB suggesting me as a friend.

I have no idea how this cross-fertilisation came about (it was mind-boggling) but it was incredibly inappropriate - we were the exact opposite of friends - all of them would have been 100%-anti me and the bank. 

I had long held reservations about the pernicious way in which FB worked but this was the limit. I closed my FB account (which FB make very difficult to do) and never looked back.

eracode:

 

MadEngineer: Facebook strangely suggesting at least one or two people I’ve spoken with at work as friend suggestions.

This has no doubt been complained about before but how the heck? It’s weird because it includes staff or customers from all over the country with no other connection other than the phone call and it’s happening more frequently.

Imagine calling a business, speaking with someone you’ve never had anything to do with before and then that person is being suggested by Facebook to befriend you.

 

 

About 15 years ago I had a FB account - set up only with my personal email address. At the time I was working in banking and part my job was dealing with delinquent clients who had fallen foul of the bank for various reasons. These were clients who we were exiting from the bank and/or telling them to take their business elsewhere. I communicated with these people only by phone (landline at the time) and via bank email.

 

After a while the FB friend suggestions started including many of these people. The only contact I had with them was through work. I'm guessing they also would have received stuff from FB suggesting me as a friend.

 

I have no idea how this cross-fertilisation came about (it was mind-boggling) but it was incredibly inappropriate - we were the exact opposite of friends - all of them would have been 100%-anti me and the bank. 

 

I had long had reservations about the way pernicious way in which FB worked but this was the limit. I closed my FB account (which FB make very difficult to do) and never looked back.

 

YOU may have closed your FB account, FB on the other hand still runs a shadow account so they can still track you. Even people who have NEVER had FB...they still profile.
They buy into other peoples databases, scrape data off every site they can (ignore do not index me requests).
IIRC FB at one stage claimed they knew where everyone on the planet lived to a couple of km.
If someone has FB on their phone, its logging bluetooth/wifi info to cross reference.

I remember a story a wee while back where in the USA a university student was acting as an escort to help pay expenses.
She had a regular. The ONLY way the contacted each other was via web page, and she used a fake name
HOWEVER, FB found they both went to the same hotel at the same time and then suggested they be friends with their picture and real life info/names.

FB is more dangerous than Google.

FB is one of the few things I have blocked at the DNS level. The number of seemingly-unrelated websites that embed its scripts is staggering.

Behodar:

 

FB is one of the few things I have blocked at the DNS level. The number of seemingly-unrelated websites that embed its scripts is staggering.

 

I use a hosts file from https://someonewhocares.org and then add to that for my laptop...

And another one 🤨

Love how they have a herald logo on a URL that is faked to be stuff.

"Your parcel is arriving tomorrow."

No ifs, buts or maybes in that message. Yet 29 hours later it hasn't turned up here in Whakatane yet (I guess technically it's not late until midnight), but the tracking still shows it sitting in Auckland.

Posted about this before but frustrations with selling stuff via Facebook marketplace. Had so many people just ghost and not turn up that now  I don't give the address until they confirm they are on the way. Had one who was supposed to come today (messaged earlier in the week), I messaged this morning to confirm and she replied straight away that she could come in an hour so I gave the address. 20 minutes later "sorry I don't need this anymore as my sister has just given me one." Maybe this was true and they did at least tell me they weren't coming and didn't just not turn up but, in general do people get some kind of fun out of mucking people around?