I don’t do FB but I have read a lot recently about our phones syncing with each other. You can bump into a friend in a store & the signals your phone sends out & her phone sends out allows FB to see that you’re in the same location & possibly how long you 2 talked. If, by chance, you both have the FB app on your phones, they gathered enough info to know that the 2 of you were together for a reasonable length of time & assumed that you might be prospective friends on FB. YES…it is scary. Even scarier, it’s NOT just FB that does this. Google & Apple compare the same info & report it to their 3rd party vendors. They can track which of your friends that you have more influence with when it comes to buying various products. So, if you both have an iPhone or an Android then they are communicating with each other & corporations are tracking your every move & they seem to have the ability to know what you will do even before you decide to do it!!!
The first thing I do when I get a new phone is to turn off the location capability. Then when any app requests my location I get a popup request asking if I want to share my exact location or my approximate location. If I deny them any access, they deny me use of their app, so I always opt for “approximate location”. I have an Android, so I don’t know if iPhone does this particular thing or not.
Just had another thought, does FB have you give the location of all your pics when you post them??? I remember Twitter doing that & I turned that off on Twitter. I don’t post personal photos online, so it was NO loss as far as I was concerned!!!
Short of giving up our cell phones, there is a certain amount of this we will just have to accept. They know that the older, wiser generation is dying off & the younger generations think more of the convenience than the privacy.