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The worst part is that they probably suggested these various customers to befriend themselves, just because they all had you in their contact list. Scenarios like these have been reported with unrelated patients of medical professionals.


Once I accidentally linked my Facebook account with Instagram. I was bombarded with friend suggestions of people I follow on Instagram. I follow strangers in Instagram when I like their photo feed. Facebook is only for family, close friends and relatives. I linked Instagram with dummy Facebook account to flush my Instagram profile of Facebook friend list and vice versa. There was no other way to delink two accounts.


Wow. I just imagined working as a sales agent or something like this, and how much trouble could Facebook cause me in this case. Even for somebody, who always felt some disdain for Facebook, this is quite mindblowing.




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