In any user's profile, there is a grid of 9 friends. How does Facebook determine who to show there?
If it is someone else viewing it then likely based on whom are they likely to add, if it is you viewing it, then likely based on whom are you probably going to engage with in a message or profile view.
It listens to your phone calls and reads your text messages to figure out your social graph. After that, it recommends 9 totally unrelated random people.
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Must be part of their “onboarding job” which may not be public info
It randomly picks 9 friends
I don't think it's random? There must be an algorithm I think
For example, I notice that the people that I recently friended show up on that list (consistently). Wondering how the other slots are determined