How does Facebook show which friends to show on my profile?
I don’t know either, and I have been pondering over this matter since I first started using Facebook.
Being someone who is easily distracted by Topics That Are Very Important And Of High Research Value, I decided to do some Google-ing, and found two very interesting articles. One kinda explains how this works, while the other is on a tangential but related topic.
At the end of the day, though, the only answer I have runs along the same lines as my hypothesis, that is to say: I don’t have a clue. I’m neither a mathematician nor a computer scientist, so I can’t write fancy programs that reverse engineer the process and decipher the algorithm that the Facebook developers use.
But the best guess I have is that the people who appear on said list are actually the people who last visited my profile. Because sometimes, I see certain names popping up again and again, but not others. Why?
Hmmm. On hindsight, that’s not the best correlation one can and/or should make. Anyway, what’s your take on this?
