Often use social networking friends should know that many applications in order to increase user stickiness, usually according to some algorithm to recommend users to meet new friends, and friends are likely to be in some way associated with you strangers, friends of friends or people with similar preferences, etc. More interesting is, of course, because hidden behind some associated, so recommended by the social networking site friends are likely to bring "surprises", such as recommended are boyfriend/girlfriend's predecessor, long lost brothers and sisters, and even steal your money the robbers.

According to the BBC report, a few days ago a criminal named Omar Famuyide was sentenced to 17 years in prison, he participated in a series of criminal activities such as theft, robbery and armed robbery.

Prior to that the police did not know he was a criminal, but one day, a victim who was grabbed by his car in Facebook's "people you may know" portrait of Famuyide are found in. Victims after the alarm, the police arrested Famuyide.

Famuyide never thought of, although in reality do prevention work, but Mills ended up being social networking exposed his identity.

Small series of remembered Wei Qing, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft China said that sentence, "as long as the Internet, we basically equivalent to the naked ", which an Internet criminals are no exception.

经常使用社交网络的朋友应该知道，很多应用为了增加用户的粘性，经常会根据一些算法推荐用户认识新的朋友，而这些朋友很可能是在某些方面与你有关联的陌生人，比如朋友的朋友或者有相同喜好的人等。当然更有趣的是，正是因为背后隐藏着一些关联，所以社交网站推荐的朋友很可能带来意外“惊喜”，比如推荐的人是男/女朋友的前任、失散多年的兄弟姐妹、甚至包括抢你钱的劫匪。

据BBC报道，日前一位名叫Omar Famuyide的罪犯被判17年徒刑，他参与过偷窃、抢劫和持械抢劫等一系列犯罪活动。

在此之前警方一直不知道他是个罪犯，但是有一天，一位被他抢过汽车的受害者在Facebook的“你可能认识的人”中发现了Famuyide的肖像。受害者报警后，警方逮捕了Famuyide。

Famuyide怎么也没想到，虽然在现实中做好了防范工作，不料天网恢恢，最终却被社交网络曝光了自己的身份。

小编突然想起来微软中国首席技术官韦青说的那句话，“只要一上网，我们基本上等同于裸奔”，这对一个会上网的罪犯也不例外。