facebook's profile friend display "randomizer" paradigm

[lifeofmendel]

i wonder what the paradigm is for the six friends that get displayed on my profile wall. clearly it's not just Random because right now if i hit reload a bunch of times on my profile page, out of my current 696 friends it chooses these six friends:

load one: meghan carfioli, deb apprille, chris cuccio, daniel balliew, brian gardiner, sue kim

Comments

[pearllessoyster]

with mine, i feel like it's less of the front-page "reconnect with this person" who is just someone who hasn't logged in in a while. with my six, it is usually people whose profiles i deliberately go to from time to time, or friends of those people - so it's rarely those who don't log in often. it's kind of enjoyable because on some days i feel like it's "intuitive" and brings up people i'm thinking about. haha.

[anonymous]

I'm just that special ;)
-Meghan