How does Facebook determine mutual friends?

How does Facebook determine mutual friends?

1 Answer. According to Facebook, Mutual friends are the people who are Facebook friends with both you and the person whose profile you are viewing. For instance, if you are friends with Chris, and Mark is friends with Chris, then Chris will be shown as a mutual friend when you are viewing Mark’s profile.

How do you find out who your mutual friends are?

Head to the Timeline of any current Facebook friend, and click the “Friends” tab. Before you even click, you’ll see a number indicating how many mutual friends you two share. Now click “Mutual Friends,” and you’ll be greeted with a full list of all the connections you two have in common.

What does the order of someone’s friends on Facebook mean?

The algorithm chooses interactions, activity, communication, photos, etc. This determines which friends will show up on top and have priority. The friends that you communicate with most often will usually be first on this list.

Why not all the mutual friends show on Facebook?

It’s because that mutual friend(s) set his Friends List to be private (Only me) so the total number of mutual friends appear but you only see those who have public Friends List.

Can you hide mutual friends on Facebook?

Though you can hide your entire friends list from everyone, the only way to hide your mutual friends is to ask your friends to also hide their friends lists.

Can I hide my mutual friends on Facebook?

Why do some mutual friends not show up?

The number of mutual friends now includes mutual friends whose accounts have been disabled, but these friends are not displayed. Also, if the person’s full list of friends is hidden to you, a mutual friend who also has their full list of friends hidden to you will not be displayed as a mutual friend.

Why does Facebook not show all mutual friends?

How to find mutual friends of two or more connections on Facebook?

To find the mutual friends of two or more connections, you must go through the following steps: STEP 1: navigate to the two Facebook profiles that you wish to investigate. It is a good practive if you keep the two profiles open in two separate tabs.

How do you find a friend on Facebook?

Whenever I search for a friend on facebook, I start to type the person’s name, and after the first few letters, I get a list of people who’s first or last name starts with the letters I’ve typed. NORMALLY, the list of friends starts with people I’m already friends with, and leads into people who I might possibly know through mutual friends.

Why does my boyfriend search for me on his Facebook page?

That just goes to show that the search results are based, at least in part, on profile visits. It’s possible that he is more active with you on facebook than with the other friends, which would place the first Rachel higher in the algorithm than the Rachel who is friends with people he doesn’t interact with as much.

Why do my friends show up first on search results?

Your friends probably has a somewhat large value to show up first and/or their friends and the value can probably be lowered than a non-friend due to the time factor spent on a non-friend’s page. Maybe even clicks is played into the search.