WTF with all the facebook friend suggestions?

[zxcvbob]

These are not friend requests (at least I don't think so,) they are notifications from FB itself suggesting new friends.  They are all young women, about 30 years old, and most of them are in other countries.

I have no personal info whatsoever in my FB account, everything is locked-down private, and I have no friends.  (the only reason I have a FB account is because some businesses and my local homebrewers club live in that space instead of having a www website)

[dogmush]

FB is selling access to you to folks who are willing to pay.  Since your profile is so vague it's not very well targeted so you just get the generic phishing "hot girl to be your friend" scammers.  Some may be legit mail order brides and/or sex traffiked persons, but most are going to try and hit you up for money.  Enough people answer to make it worth paying FB for the exposure.

[Doggy Daddy]

Facehookers

[K Frame]

"and I have no friends."

Gee, that's a surprise... 

[Jamisjockey]

Facehookers

And to double down, one of your friends probably friended a facehooker. 

[MillCreek]

So this is useful and I learn something every day.  I get the occasional friend invite from someone whom I don't recognize.  I ask my wife if she knows them, since she is way more active on FB than I am, and I am sometimes contacted by one of her friends whom I do not know.

I have been dismayed to click on some of those friend invites, whose picture is a young female, and discover it is someone peddling porn or the like.  There is usually a link to a website that the person has set up.  I report these to FB, and I wonder if that does any good.

[Ben]

Facehookers

Mmmm. Facehookers. AAUUGHH...

[Fly320s]

Facehookers

Are those better or worse than facehuggers?

[dogmush]

Are those better or worse than facehuggers?

Pretty much the same, actually.

[charby]

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