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What are Suggestions?

Suggestions is a feature that helps you connect with people and Pages...

Suggestions is a feature that helps you connect with people and Pages you are likely to know, as well as engage with your confirmed friends on Facebook. Facebook calculates Suggestions based on the networks you are a part of, mutual friends, work and education information, contacts imported using the Friend Finder, and many other factors.

Since this feature is automatic, it occasionally identifies people that you do not know or do not want to be friends with. Please keep in mind that Facebook will never send friend requests to the users that show up in this list.

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Where do Suggestions appear?

Suggestions may appear on the home page, in the new user orientation,...

Suggestions may appear on the home page, in the new user orientation, on the Friends page, and in ad space around the site. To see more Suggestions, click the "See All" link.

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How do I block someone from appearing in Suggestions?

You can block someone from appearing in Suggestions by clicking the "X...

You can block someone from appearing in Suggestions by clicking the "X" button at the top right of their entry. This will close the person's entry and prevent them from appearing in this section again.

Please note that the Suggestions section will not appear if you block all of the people Facebook suggests. You can, however, find this section by clicking the Friends drop-down menu and selecting "Find Friends." Once you have more matches, this section will reappear on your homepage.

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How do I prevent myself from appearing in Suggestions?

The Suggestions feature was built to connect you with people or Pages...

The Suggestions feature was built to connect you with people or Pages on Facebook that you are likely to know. If you don't want to appear in this box for everyone on Facebook, you can restrict your privacy settings from the Privacy Settings page. Under the Contact Information section, you can restrict to the setting for "Add me as a friend" to "Friends of Friends". This will ensure that only these people will be able to view you in the Suggestions feature.

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I do not want Suggestions to find people based on contacts I have imported using the Friend Finder.

If you have ever used the Friend Finder feature, Suggestions may show...

If you have ever used the Friend Finder feature, Suggestions may show people who have your email address in their address book and/or contacts that you have in your address book. If you would like Facebook to remove these contacts, please follow the instructions found here.

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My Suggestions are prompting me to interact with my friends or help them complete their profiles.

The Suggestions feature has been expanded to help you engage with your...

The Suggestions feature has been expanded to help you engage with your confirmed friends on Facebook in addition to finding people or Pages that you are likely to know.

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I'd like to report a deceased user's account that is appearing in my Suggestions.

Please report this information here so that we can memorialize this pe...

Please report this information here so that we can memorialize this person’s account. Memorializing the account removes certain more sensitive information like status updates and restricts profile access to confirmed friends only. Please note that in order to protect the privacy of the deceased user, we cannot provide login information for the account to anyone. We do honor requests from close family members to close the account completely.

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