So many people are being tricked into believing that it might be possible, that Facebook has had to include a firm denial in its FAQ. Ultimately you have to have your wits about you to avoid scams like this. Follow NakedSecurity on Twitter for the latest computer security news.
It's important to bring things like this to light. When thinking about security on Facebook, people tend to worry more about who is viewing their profile or trying to add them, people don't think about what's happening behind the scenes. When entering into a social network site people tend to think of whats on the surface, like the connection with friends, the social aspect of it, not many are aware of what lurks behind all of the applications and games made available to us.
I've heard that one way to sort of keep track of who visits your profile is by checking out the friends that automatially load onto the side of your profile. You would think it would just load random friends each time you refresh the page, right?
Well, not necessarily. If you refresh the page several times, the same faces keep popping up, and the theory is that these are the people who have viewed your profile recently. It may also just be the people you interact most with on Facebook, because when I refresh my profile, several of my close friends seem to be inevitably in the list.
It seems plausible to me. Let me know what you think? I thought the same thing- definitely noticed a pattern I just wanted to confirm it but this is the only spot I actually found where someone had the same theory as me!
I'm more interested in what non-friends have tried to covertly mine my information. These are profile IDs of your Facebook friends who have visited and viewed your profile page frequently. Copy that number and paste the same next to www. Remember, you should be logged in Facebook. When you copy the number, do not consider -2 , which follows each profile ID.
Upon pressing the Enter button, you can see the person who viewed your Facebook profile often. Conclusion… While you know this trick, there are chances others also know this workaround. Would you like to read more about Facebook? Author Suraj. Suraj is a digital marketing expert on the iGB's team. For example, Page Insights are only available to pages with more than 30 likes and only provide demographic info once at least 30 visitors from the demographic have visited the page or post.
If you want more full-featured analytics, you're going to have to get a little creative. One place to go for analytics is outside data monitoring sites like Webtrends. Simply set up an account, and Webtrends will return somewhat detailed analytics about the number and type of people viewing your Facebook business or fan page.
With a little finagling, you can also can install the gold standard of Web-tracking services, Google Analytics. This bad boy allows users to get finite data, like date, time and location, about visitors to their pages.
First set up a Google Analytics account, and then add a new profile for your Facebook fan or business page. This requires a number of steps to integrate Google Analytics with the particular page.
The good news is that Google has been kind enough to provide detailed instructions for doing that, as well as using tracking services on other social networks like Twitter. Designers know there's a market for Facebook apps that allow you to see who views your profile. And they also know that Facebook has strict privacy rules forbidding it. So many designers toe this line, bringing you right up to the edge of something resembling actual knowledge. Typing the word "statistics" into the Facebook app directory returns a long list of traffic tracking apps , similar to Facebook Insights.
Most of them aren't as good. But you'll find a rotating and ever-increasing list of gems that do things like mine your status updates for the words you use most. Just be sure to keep one important point in mind: These apps mine your profile for interaction.
When someone "likes" a photo you post, comments on your status update or otherwise interacts with your profile, these apps know, and they may be able to build models of your most active friends. But if an ex-boyfriend is simply lurking around your profile, there's absolutely no way to tell, so don't believe the apps that tell you otherwise.
Be assured that app designers are constantly prodding Facebook for workarounds that take you past the Facebook privacy rules, and every once in a while, a designer finds an inroad. Generally, when this happens, an app that actually does return interesting information about your profile views has a ticking lifespan, which ends when Facebook finds out and shuts it down.
For example, take Breakup Notifier, which claimed, "You like someone. They're in a relationship. While we wait for them to work their Timeline magic, I have another useful tool for those that use Facebook to stalk learn as much as possible about their friends, colleagues, loved ones, and wanna-be loved ones. A friend recently pointed me to a nifty tool that lets you see who a given Facebook user interacts with most.
Rather than scrolling down your target's wall or checking his or her friends' walls and photo albums trying to figure out who of their many friends they are actually the most friendly with, you can just go to their "Friends" page and use a tool that Facebook has designed for you for easier stalking research. A person's friends are listed alphabetically by default, but there's also an option to list them in grid form:.
Choose the grid option to get a more interesting listing of friends. If you list them in grid form, by clicking the button indicated above, the order changes. It may look random at first, because the organizing principle is not immediately obvious. But the grid listing is actually showing you who that person publicly interacts with most on the site.
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