For years now, Facebook claims you cannot see who views your profile, and there are no programs or apps out there that can make this happen, yet I'm not sure if this is entirely true. For one thing, just last week, on a friend's wall, something like this appeared;

Jane Doe viewed my profile 5 times today!

She deleted it within 5 minutes, and it seemed as if she forgot, or didn't know that the results would post to her wall if she didn't turn that option off. I asked her about it, but she played dumb. Secondly, I've checked out a few ex's and 'people I used to know' profiles out of curiosity, and most of them, within a week, were switched to private. Am I just paranoid or is Facebook not watching out for these supposedly banned apps or programs? I'm assuming hackers are always one step ahead with new apps when others are found and eliminated (??).

by Anonymous

reply 57

December 19, 2020 7:48 PM

I've also seen people's profiles go from public to protected after I've viewed them but I think that's Facebook's doing. I think they limit how often you can see someone's page without friending them.

But I really don't think people can find out who has looked at their profile. If you could, there would be one hundred million posts online about how to do it.

by Anonymous

reply 1

August 6, 2015 3:05 PM

R! Hmm, I'm not sure about that since there are a few profiles I've been sporadically checking for over a year, and no change, which I assume means they don't have any apps on their profile for that. I also find it hard to believe that facebook would private someone's profile to certain people, without their permission.

by Anonymous

reply 2

August 6, 2015 3:27 PM

You can totally see who's looked at your profile. I'm not sure about the way you're talking about where it actually gives you a count or a notification, but if you go and look under the "People You May Know," it basically shows you the people who have looked at your profile. Now, it's mixed in with people you may know through other friends, but it will also show you people who have looked at your profile. I believe those that have looked at your profile are near the top of the list.

I know this because I recently looked at the list and at the top was this guy who was my server at a restaurant, about a week before, who was flirting with me hardcore. We have no mutual friends in common.

by Anonymous

reply 4

August 6, 2015 3:38 PM

I also think the people you may know are imported from other social networks liked LinkedIn and are people you have actually viewed profiles of.

by Anonymous

reply 5

August 6, 2015 3:47 PM

The stalker in me....:). I check up on an old boyfriend under a bogus facebook name, have all my settings set to private, no public stuff, ect....Hopefully, he doesn't know that I am looking. I think he and I are both still in love with each other, but distance is the factor.

by Anonymous

reply 6

August 6, 2015 3:56 PM

I can't wait until all the 14-year old girls have to go back to school and stop posting on Datalounge.

by Anonymous

reply 7

August 6, 2015 3:58 PM

R4 I just looked and saw several profiles I've creeped on show up in my People You May Know list, which means I showed up on their People You May Know list, so they clicked to look. That's a sneaky way for facebook to out your profile viewing. I don't like it at all.

by Anonymous

reply 8

August 6, 2015 4:00 PM

It's Facebook, folks, If your profile is open then anyone can see it, anytime and often. No repercussions. Some on Facebook set their profile to be seen only by their Friends. There is too much I Think and Should Be andMaybe and If here … Facebook is not your enemy; you think so, get off it!Twitte

by Anonymous

reply 9

August 6, 2015 4:08 PM

Okay, well that's concerning. I just had a spate of relatives of a famous person show up in my People You May Know and I haven't been to their pages before at all. The couple of profiles I clicked on were locked down and these people aren't connected to me at all. It was weird and I assumed somehow related to an article I recently wrote about a small documentary the famous person helped fund.

by Anonymous

reply 10

August 6, 2015 4:10 PM

R7 and yet you felt compelled to enter this thread. You must a 12 year old girl.

by Anonymous

reply 11

August 6, 2015 4:10 PM

Remember how the "Who Viewed You" feature helped bring down Friendster?

by Anonymous

reply 12

August 6, 2015 4:15 PM

Yep, Facebook is sneakily outing us. If you don’t live in the same town or went to the same schools, and you never worked for the same company, never both went to a certain event, don’t have any common interests listed, have no friends (or friends of friends?) in common at all, etc. – only then could you appearing in their list tip them off that you visited their profile. I'm looking at my PWYMK list, and almost all of my creeping profiles are on there. No more creeping for me; and it sucks. Maybe if a ton of people email Facebook about this; they'll do away with it.

by Anonymous

reply 13

August 6, 2015 4:30 PM

I asked an acquaintance who is not on my friend's list to view my profile. Sure enough, he showed up in my people you may know list; right at the top. Then I did the same with a fake profile, just to make sure; same deal. So, if you view a profile of someone that isn't on your friends list, you DO show up at the top of their people you may know list, so they DO know you checked their profile. I'm totally mortified now.

by Anonymous

reply 14

August 6, 2015 6:03 PM

Those fuckers. The lengths they go to invade our privacy continues to astound me.

by Anonymous

reply 15

August 6, 2015 6:24 PM

Well that's interesting. There's a guy I know who's recently been popping up on my "people you might know" thing a lot. He actually is a friend but we've been out of touch for a while just due to stuff going on in our personal lives. I'm barely on Facebook as it is and we have no mutual Facebook friends (although we do have mutual real life friends) so I was puzzled as to why he kept popping up. I guess now I know. No biggie for me. I've been meaning to call him anyway but it is something worth being aware of.

by Anonymous

reply 16

August 6, 2015 7:40 PM

This needs to get out there, so please spread the word as much as you can.

by Anonymous

reply 17

August 6, 2015 8:14 PM

This is a fraud, OP. Any numbers will be made up. This data is not available through the API.

by Anonymous

reply 18

August 6, 2015 8:15 PM

I think you're in the wrong thread, R18

by Anonymous

reply 19

August 6, 2015 8:31 PM

Why's that R19? I assume there's a few people from technical backgrounds here...

by Anonymous

reply 20

August 6, 2015 9:29 PM

What if you don't belong to Facebook? Do you show up as having checked out a person on FB? I have looked at people surreptitiously and have wondered if there's a way for them to know... Do tell!

by Anonymous

reply 21

August 6, 2015 9:40 PM

R20 Then can you explain in layman's terms what you mean? How do numbers and data factor in to people knowing you viewed their profile?

by Anonymous

reply 22

August 6, 2015 9:40 PM

R21, I don't think you can view a Facebook profile without logging in, anymore.

by Anonymous

reply 23

August 6, 2015 9:41 PM

You people use Facebook and moreover care about who is looking at what?

by Anonymous

reply 24

August 6, 2015 10:06 PM

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck if this is true. I'm a bit enamored with someone who doesn't know I'm alive, so I admit going onto his FB and his friends' FB.

Why would FB do that?! I want to harmlessly lurk in private!

by Anonymous

reply 25

August 6, 2015 10:45 PM

For what it's worth, I removed the few people I looked up who were on my "people you may know" list. I just clicked the X by their name. No idea if it will remove you from THEIR list but it's worth a shot.

by Anonymous

reply 27

August 7, 2015 11:07 AM

There is a way to check to see who has visited your page. I can't remember how to do this. When I did check, it showed the visitors as "code numbers". but it did indeed show who visited. There must be an app for it as well.

by Anonymous

reply 28

August 7, 2015 1:45 PM

The profiles featured on my People You May Know list are almost all profiles that I've accessed or they're friends of friends.

Linked-In has an actual People Who Have Looked At Your Profile feature.

Some sites give you the option of not having your "visits" documented, i. e. Adam4Adam.

by Anonymous

reply 29

August 7, 2015 3:19 PM

R29 Linked In gives you the option of browsing anonymously so you don't show up on their 'people who have viewed your profile' list. Facebook should give us that same option.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 30

August 7, 2015 3:42 PM

R28. I remember that, but all the code numbers showed was the people on your friends list you chatted with on Facebook, in chronological order. It was easy to think it was those who viewed your profile anonymously and many times, but that wasn't the case.

by Anonymous

reply 31

August 7, 2015 3:45 PM

Something that may help to avoid turning up on the People You May Know Lists of those you secretly lurk, is to clear your searches every single time before you log out.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 32

August 7, 2015 4:01 PM

I'm still not convinced that PYMK is an outing tool. All the profiles on my PYMK are profiles I've looked at, so of course FB think's I "may know" them. Their appearance on the list doesn't prove that they also looked at my profile.

by Anonymous

reply 33

August 7, 2015 4:06 PM

R33 Read R14. Try it yourself.

by Anonymous

reply 34

August 7, 2015 4:18 PM

Some searching on a popular search engine beginning with G yielded the following info WHICH WORKED.What I did was copy the number/code but when I put the facebook.com and the numer, I left off the - and the number that followed it. That will be at the end. When I copied all that into the bar, it went to the person who visited my page.

Here is what I copied from the page I found. Its easy to do. Just follow these steps and you’ll succeed in finding out who visited your Facebook Profile! Go To Your Facebook timeline- Right click on your timeline and hit “View page Source”. Now, you’ll be redirected to a new page with lots codes. Hold CTRL+F on your keyboard, a text box appears at the right corner, in that box, type- “InitialChatFriendsList” (Don’t include Quotes) Next to that word, you’ll see a list of numbers, these are the profile ID’s of people who visit your timeline. Just go to “facebook.com” and paste the ID number beside it with a “” . For example, if the ID is abcd, you have to put it as- The first ID shows the one who visits profile more often while the last ID never visits your profile!

by Anonymous

reply 35

August 7, 2015 5:15 PM

I think the PYMK feature also uses phone numbers you regularly call or text.

by Anonymous

reply 36

August 7, 2015 5:30 PM

R35 Those are just people on your friends list in the order you chatted with them on Facebook. Notice none of the numbers go to people who are not on your friends list.

by Anonymous

reply 37

August 7, 2015 6:08 PM

The "People You May Know" are friends of your friends. It's not difficult to understand. Sheeeeeeesh!

by Anonymous

reply 38

August 7, 2015 6:15 PM

R38 No it isn't. Only part of the list is. Scroll through and you'll also see a few profiles of people (who chose to click you after seeing you on their PYMKL) of those not on your friends list, that you lurked on.

by Anonymous

reply 39

August 7, 2015 6:45 PM

Who cares? Who cares if who has looked at your profile and in turn who's profile you have looked at. Are people really this concerned about FB popularity?

by Anonymous

reply 41

August 7, 2015 7:08 PM

R41 It has nothing to do with popularity, it has to do with privacy. Many of us have checked out the profiles of ex's, people we may have a crush on, people we barely know but are just curious about, frenemies/enemies; etc, and we don't want them to know we creeped on their profile. Facebook insured us that no one would know so we could creep all we wanted, but sneakily implemented a way where they can know if they check that list.

by Anonymous

reply 42

August 7, 2015 7:17 PM

So how to do to know who has visited your FB profile?

by Anonymous

reply 43

August 7, 2015 7:29 PM

Anyone on Fakebook or NSAbook is complete fucking idiot. If everybody who uses this ridiculous stupid bullshit died of AIDS I would hold a goddamn fucking party.

Perhaps talk to people face to face and you fucking zombies wouldn't be such fucking stupid cunt idiots.

p.s. WIFI is deadly. Go fuck yourself.

by Anonymous

reply 44

August 7, 2015 7:32 PM

It's fun on a boring night to have a few cocktails and check out people from long ago. But, fuck if that means I want them in my life again. If Facebook is outing all the profile lookers, I'm done with it.

by Anonymous

reply 45

August 7, 2015 7:52 PM

r39. I did. There's nothing. They are all friends of friends. Sorry.

by Anonymous

reply 46

August 7, 2015 8:09 PM

R46 Then you either don't check out profiles of those not on your list, or you're really lucky.

by Anonymous

reply 47

August 7, 2015 8:26 PM

^ also meaning that the profiles you do check out that aren't on your friends list, just happen to be friends of your friends.

by Anonymous

reply 48

August 7, 2015 8:28 PM

I noticed this awhile back and did a Google search about it with no real luck. I lurked on an old classmates Facebook page, and a couple of his family members, as well as some of my other old classmates and random people from my high school, and they all showed up in my people you may know list. I had no friends on my Facebook profile, I just used it to enter contests and giveaways. I immediately scheduled my account for deletion and created a new account with a different email and variation of my name. Scared the shit out of me! I didn't care if they showed up in my people you may know list , I just didn't want to show up in theirs so I scrapped it. I no longer look at anyone that I've ever knowns Facebook page with my new account.

by Anonymous

reply 49

August 7, 2015 9:06 PM

Here's a thread about it.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 50

August 7, 2015 9:18 PM

Don't know if anyone's thanked you R4... but thank you for letting us know. I won't be checking anyone's profiles!

by Anonymous

reply 51

August 7, 2015 9:25 PM

I randomly checked some of the ones who have been to my FB page, and I have not chatted with them.

by Anonymous

reply 52

August 7, 2015 11:43 PM

[quote]You can totally see who's looked at your profile

I guess everyone knows I'm gay then.

by Anonymous

reply 53

December 19, 2020 4:40 PM

OP Why would you be on Fakebook if you don't want strangers looking at you?

by Anonymous

reply 54

December 19, 2020 4:48 PM

[Quote] The lengths they go to invade our privacy continues to astound me.

That's Facebook and no company is as evil as they.

by Anonymous

reply 55

December 19, 2020 5:57 PM

What evil things you have done to your exes and friends that you are so skeered they would know you viewed your profile?

by Anonymous

reply 56

December 19, 2020 7:44 PM

Another 5 year old thread bumped...

by Anonymous

reply 57

December 19, 2020 7:48 PM