People You May Know on Facebook

Image: Screen grab from Facebook.com by Jason Bean

"You live in Indianapolis? Do you know my cousin John?"

I continue to connect and reconnect with a variety of people via Facebook. One of the features of the site though is that they try and be helpful with introducing you to people you may now. The only problem is that I don’t know hardly any of the people they ever mention in the little box.

For example, I don’t know Denise, John or Travis. Sometimes Facebook will suggest someone that lives in the city I live in, or maybe went to the college I graduated from or high school I attended.

I appreciate their attempt at reconnecting me, but I think a prerequisite should be that the person they’re suggesting that I know perhaps should also have at least one friend in common with me?

I went to a small enough high school where that might not be too bad, college perhaps, but just because someone lives in Indianapolis, doesn’t mean I am more than likely to know them.