As you already know very well, the Facebook company makes recommendations for people with whom we should come into contact within the social network, these being displayed with the title People You May Know, the idea being that we socialize with people we have could know, but we don't have them added as friends.
Recently someone came to the conclusion that these recommendations would be made based on the analysis of the locations visited by the users and not on any information regarding the friends we have in common with the person for whom the recommendation is made, but those from Facebook wanted to clarify things very quickly.
According Facebook, the recommendations in the People You May Know category are made based on data regarding: the friends we have in common, the place of work or education, the networks we are part of, the contacts we have in our phones and many other information, among which those regarding the locations visited.
Facebook claims that the simple analysis of the locations visited by people cannot provide information that will undoubtedly lead to the conclusion that those people could know each other and that they should become friends including within the social network, but no one is really so convinced of the Americans' sincerity.
People You May Know are people on Facebook that you may know. We show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you're part of, contacts you've imported and many other factors. Location information by itself does not indicate that two people might be friends. That's why location is only one of the factors we use to suggest people you may know.
Facebook is very sensitive to accusations regarding location monitoring because a lot of people have accused it of constantly doing this, but until now the representatives of the company have denied and vehemently denied this at every opportunity they had.
