For the past few days I have noticed a few friend recommendations in Facebook that seemed odd. My Facebook network is only connected to relatives and folks I went to school with. So to see a few folks that I had no mutual friends on Facebook was puzzling to me.
I scanned through a few recommendations tonight and noticed a pattern of the “non-relatives” they were all connections on LinkedIn! So basically Facebook found me over on LinkedIn and then started recommending some of my business contacts to me as friends.
From a Social Networking perspective this is very interesting. Facebook of course wants to expand beyond “just friends” and move into LinkedIn’s business contact space. This is interesting as it will be a much harder job for LinkedIn to move into Facebook’s social space.
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