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Facebook Timeline Friends Question...? - ☼ Roulette ☼ - 02-24-2014 08:25 PM
Okay, so on the Timeline on Facebook near the top it has a small box with 6 friends and then a little further down there is a bigger box with 8 friends. I have 914 friends, but always the same 10 or 15 people seem to show up ever since I got Timeline for as long as I can remember. I'm really good friends with every single one of the people that show up and talk to them on a regular basis. I do interact with them over Facebook to creep or occasionally like a picture or status, some more than others though. My question is, how does Facebook decide which people will go on there? How do they know I'm good friends with those people? I've heard that it's the people that have recently creeped on you. Is this true? Since I have almost 1,000 friends, if it truly was random there would be people in the boxes that I wouldn't talk to a lot or don't know, or the names would constantly change. But they don't. So is it random? Or does it tell you something else?
- hissingmask057 - 02-24-2014 08:27 PM
Facebook doesn't decide who goes on there. Well, they do, but they don't think about it. They just pick people at random from your friends list and BAM! they're on there.
I take that by creeped, you mean who recently visited your profile. No, that isn't true. I have two accounts for Facebook. One is my real one, let's call it J, and the other one is my fake one, L, that I used to play games with and made before I made my real one. J and L are friends. I just visited J's account with L. Now, when I check while logged onto J, no, L isn't one of the 4 or 8.
To conclude, people are chosen at random. Because think about it. Do you think that Facebook Developers would waste their time looking through your status, photos, and chat to see who you favor and talk to the most, just to pick who to go on those 4 and 8 friend boxes? No. Just flatly, NO.
Hope I helped!