How Does This Work?

[Chris Parks]

And that is what puzzles me, Mrs P. would not know what a friend was on FB if it bit her as all she does is look at it with zero idea on what or how to do things. Our daughter set it up for her so that she could see stuff that Miss P. put of FB. There has to be a link, that is certain and it does show that nothing is secret where the internet is concerned. I bet if I was able to ask FB they most probably have no idea how it happened either because they release the software to do its thing and it does it, very frightening when you think about it all hence my refusal to get involved any more than I am.

Since Opera have made it so easy I do a lot of stuff via VPN just to make it hard for trackers etc to find out my interests etc on the net and really it is an "up you" to Google etc. What is amusing when using a VPN is going to YouTube and watch what they try and foist onto you, most of it in foreign languages because they can't track your country of origin.

[ian]

And that is what puzzles me, Mrs P. would not know what a friend was on FB if it bit her as all she does is look at it with zero idea on what or how to do things. Our daughter set it up for her so that she could see stuff that Miss P. put of FB. There has to be a link, that is certain and it does show that nothing is secret where the internet is concerned. I bet if I was able to ask FB they most probably have no idea how it happened either because they release the software to do its thing and it does it, very frightening when you think about it all hence my refusal to get involved any more than I am.

that gives some clues.
Mrs P. will be friends with Miss P. which means that everyone who is also "friends" with Miss P know that Miss and Mrs P are friends.
I'm not sure how many generations of friendship this cascades to but you should get an idea of how the web of "friendship" extends.
If Mrs P has "liked" a post by Miss P that contains an external link, then the scope for linking starts to become endless.