With Facebook so heavily geared towards community and friendships, it follows that the platform offers new interactions through a number of avenues.
While people who find you on Facebook are able to add you as a friend – a request that you need to accept before they can see any of your content – the platform also operates its own suggested friends content block that appears in each users’ feed.
These suggested friends are based on a number of factors, including mutual friends, common interests, and more. The users that Facebook offers as your suggested friends are those users that Facebook thinks you will want to connect with.
So, how do you go about suggesting friends to other users?
3 Steps to Suggest a Friend to Another User
The easiest way to suggest a friend to another user is with a simple copy and paste.
- Head to the profile page of the user who you want to suggest to another friend
- Click on the three dots button underneath their cover photo
- Select ‘[NAME] Profile Link’
Clicking this button will immediately copy the profile link, which you can then paste into a message with another user. They will then be able to click the link and head directly to the profile of the friend you are suggesting, adding them and building their own community.
Alternatively, you could connect them by tagging them both in a comment, encouraging them to visit each other’s profile and become friends.
Will Facebook Suggest Them for You?
If you are hoping to build the connections of users who you are friends with, then your mutual friendship creates a high chance that those users will be suggested to each other via Facebook’s own ‘Suggested Friends’ tool anyway.
The chance of this increases if they follow and interact with similar pages, regularly interact with the same posts, and comment under the same updates.
Suffice to say, Facebook is heavily geared towards the growing of communities and the building of friendships on the platform. Suggested friends are something that users can engineer themselves or rely on Facebook for. We hope this gives you some ideas as to how you can help other users to grow their friend list!
