There are strange things happening in Facebook’s “Suggestions” box. While it has worked quite nicely in the past few months about finding some “real” friends, the suggestions started expanding into some dangerous territory.

There are a number of people that keep coming up to my Suggestions list even though I cross them out one by one repetitively. The commonalities among these people are:
- They are all female (not a single male without a common friend is suggested to me, while a lot of females are)
- They all have NO common friends with me
- They all have ZERO friends
- They all belong to the same region (this is weird, as Facebook recently eliminated regional networks)
- They all have unusually minimalist clothing. Of course, not at the level of to-the-face twitter spammers but just on the grey area. Yet, you can easily assume that they are real-life persons.

Now, compared to twitter, this suggestion-spam looks more dangerous because these people do not add me as their friends. Rather, Facebook suggests me to add them even though there is no meaningful reason for them to be suggested to me. With a lot of engineers joining the company recently, could this be an evil side project of an ex-Googler that stressed-out after spending years under the mantra “Don’t be evil”?

I need answers to the following questions to conclude more clearly:
1) Do you receive similar irrelevant suggestions?
2) Do females receive similar male suggestions with questionable profile photos?