Social Media is pure evil!
[QUOTE=TriadSpecial;4044057]FB works when you search a phone number linked to the account or linked to an Instagram account. In your case you use a burner profile most likely only in a web browser and don't have your real number associated to it. A lot of these girls do, especially the ones who give their real numbers to regulars.
If you use the app that's when it starts to get more data. FB messenger gets the names of contacts in your phone, checks those names against FB account names. Gets people who's pics you've liked on Instagram finds them on FB and suggest them it's creepy. I added on girl on my burner profile and now I seem to get suggested half of her age group on STG. It's creepy and mysterious how it works.
[URL]https://mashable.com/2018/05/15/people-you-may-know-facebook-creepy.amp[/URL][/QUOTE]
A quick check about Instagram on Wikipedia showed me that Instagram is owned by Facebook. And I know that Messenger is also Facebook. For them to be mining other phone numbers along with contact names by going through unsuspecting users phones when they use these apps is beyond reprehensible. I have only used messenger at a minimum and mostly on my desktop computer.
The mashable article was enlightening! I now at least know that the 'People you may know' BS on Facebook is based on something. I am so glad that I am not part of the generation that grew up with social media.
So, Facebook seems to be a better tool than I thought. I will add it to my toolbox. But, I will still say that it can't know everything. To prove that point to myself, I did enter a few numbers of some providers that I know that have used the same numbers for quit some time, but nothing came up. I also entered the phone numbers of providers that I found out their real names through other means. Facebook could not find them through their phone numbers. I know they are on Facebook and do not have their phone numbers in their contact info, but I don't know if they use messenger or Instagram. Knowing them as I do, I don't think they use those apps. So, even if Facebook is better than I thought, if it still fails to get results, to my original point, there are other options to consider.