Invisible mutual friends
Anya
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Hello,
to the right of our screen on Facebook, we can see a random list of contacts that we might know. Indeed, these people who appear are friends in common with people who are indeed on our friends list. That's why we can see "5 mutual friends" just above "add". We simply need to click on "5 mutual friends" to see the names of our friends who are friends with that person. However, sometimes this information remains invisible. In fact, I realized that Françoise, who is not in my contacts, is friends with Odile, who is in my list, but I do not have the "1 mutual friend" display when Françoise appears in the feed of the random list indicating "you may know..."; the same thing happens when I visit Françoise's profile... Do you know why this information remains hidden? I know that we can restrict the visibility of our entire friends list, but now, I imagine that we can also hide one or more friends from a specific person... Otherwise, why would "1 mutual friend" not appear under that person's name? This is not a unique case; other people who are friends with Odile are not indicated to me while for some, I do have the "1 mutual friend" display. If someone could enlighten me, I would be delighted!
Thank you.
Sincerely.
to the right of our screen on Facebook, we can see a random list of contacts that we might know. Indeed, these people who appear are friends in common with people who are indeed on our friends list. That's why we can see "5 mutual friends" just above "add". We simply need to click on "5 mutual friends" to see the names of our friends who are friends with that person. However, sometimes this information remains invisible. In fact, I realized that Françoise, who is not in my contacts, is friends with Odile, who is in my list, but I do not have the "1 mutual friend" display when Françoise appears in the feed of the random list indicating "you may know..."; the same thing happens when I visit Françoise's profile... Do you know why this information remains hidden? I know that we can restrict the visibility of our entire friends list, but now, I imagine that we can also hide one or more friends from a specific person... Otherwise, why would "1 mutual friend" not appear under that person's name? This is not a unique case; other people who are friends with Odile are not indicated to me while for some, I do have the "1 mutual friend" display. If someone could enlighten me, I would be delighted!
Thank you.
Sincerely.
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Hello L@urent, thank you for your response. In fact, I don't think that's the case since if X, who is not on my list but is a mutual friend with Y, who is on my list, had restricted the visibility of their friends, I wouldn’t be able to see any when I go to their profile; however, I can see them all. I even have a friend, A, who is indicated as "1 mutual friend" under this person X's name in the "you may know...” section, yet my friend Y doesn't indicate that they are a mutual friend with X, while I used to be able to see it. It should then read "2 mutual friends" under this person X's name, but I can only see 1. Normally, even if Y also restricts the visibility of their list, which is actually restricted to "me only" since I can only see the friends we have in common, the same for my own list that I have restricted in this way, I should still see the notification under X's name indicating that Y is a mutual friend since I could see it before. I also don't think it's a bug since with this friend Y, there are some people who are friends with his cousin, and in "you may know" or if I click on their profile, I can see the notification "1 mutual friend," the cousin in this case. Sometimes it indicates Y for me, but other times it remains invisible. It's for these reasons that I was wondering whether it is possible to restrict the visibility of just one friend in particular to a specific contact because I find it strange that I can access X's friends list who is not on mine, yet I do not see that Y is a mutual friend with me anymore. Similarly for Y, who is my friend, if he restricts visibility to "me only," I cannot see his list, which is normal, but the mutual friends should still always be visible normally; however, for some, that is no longer the case. Before I could see it for a few, and now it's like it's invisible... :S In any case, thank you for trying to give me a response. I hope my message isn't too messy and remains understandable! I wish you happy holidays.