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If I see a person’s profile on Facebook in Messenger, my profile appears as a friend suggestion
Response from ALEGSA.com.ar:
It is not known, Facebook does not clarify at any time how exactly it builds the list of suggested friends.
From what I could read on the internet, some completely rule out that viewing a certain profile includes them in their suggested list of friends, but I have also read from people who have done tests (first link that I include below) and, according to them, visiting a profile influences in the suggested list.
Facebook has on a few occasions clarified some of the methods it uses for the friend suggestion list, but the reality is that it is a secret algorithm.
Facebook denied that it uses the location of cell phones for this (it actually admitted that it used it, but only a few years ago), it also denied that it uses third-party applications (some have denounced a certain connection between the matches of the Tinder application and the Facebook suggested list).
Sources:
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-suggested-friends-box-on-Facebook-prefer-showing-the-people-who-have-recently-looked-at-your-profile
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Facebook-still-lets-you-know-who39s-been-looking-at-your-profile-m3055783.aspx
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/29/how-does-facebook-suggest-potential-friends-not-location-data-not-now
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxgeg/cambridge-analytica-researcher-interview
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