Hi Jeanette,

At the moment it doesn't do any complex calculations. We have an algorithm that takes into account 3 things:

• if this person has already offered to connect with you
  
• how active this person is (based on content they create)
  
• how popular this person is (based on how many connections they have)
  

This is primarily designed to address the issue of a new user logging in to the system and the system not having any information about their interests or social network. We might consider adding more cases in the future to account for someone's existing network, or shared group membership, etc.

I hope this answers your question.