Am 27.09.2015 um 06:38 schrieb Cousin Ricky:
> Facebook just suggested a "Christoph Lipka" as someone I might know.  Well yes,
> I've communicated on-line with someone by that name, but I wouldn't go so far as
> to say that I /know/ him.  Besides, whoever that person is who was suggested, he
> doesn't have any public info on his profile.  I have no way of knowing whether
> or not he is our clipka.
> 
> How would Facebook know anyway?  As far as I can tell, the only place we're
> linked on the Web by both our real names is in one Object Collection document.

Facebook certainly knows the e-mail address of this "Christoph Lipka",
and - being the data kraken it is - might have also come across
information to link that e-mail address to the username "clipka" in
various places. It might now be testing the hypothesis that the "clipka"
it has come across earlier is the same as the "clipka" posting to these
newsgroups.

But that's just one possible vector.

As for whether that "Christoph Lipka" is indeed the "clipka" posting
here, my suggestion is to not bother. The only reason I have a facebook
account at all is to be able to search for names there.

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