Hacker News Reader

You're in his address book. He let facebook have access to his address book. He skipped sending you a friend request, but facebook is giving you the option to do it in reverse.

I had the same thing. And funnily enough it doesn't make me think "wow facebook is awesome, thanks for suggesting them". It makes me think about closing my account or using a throwaway email address for it at least.

I'm assuming the 'other party' imported contacts from their email, and facebook noticed that I have the same email address as one in their address book, and so suggests them to me. I don't like that.

to add my own creepy connection story I discovered today that FB will suggest that I add the friends of anybody who invites me to become their friend, whether or not I am connected with any of the other people