Tracking who's been viewing my Facebook profile

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I have 3 people pop up, who have absolutly no connection to my only 20 friends on facebook, these 3 are in totaly differents spheres of life. Why wouldnt facebook suggest people who have looked on your profile as friends, it saved it from having to generate randomes also. The 3 people occured in the time frame of 2 months also. I am a guy and 3 people are female, and well some people are nervous about adding as it may cause issues especialy with ex's if you get my jist.

The problem I now have is, do I add them, or even private message rekon will cause issues either way. I went to a club and asked for girl [1] over a 4 week period, her profile appeard on my suggested, 2 other girls are friends with each other, but with no connection with any one on my list at all in ANY way, and I had a good couple of nights out with em bout a year ago, they both became single last month, and low and behold they apear on my suggested. As I am a lazy ignorant "bar stuard" I have very few facebook pals, so it makes the idea of people profiling you facebook show up on as a suggest friend[without any mutual, school or work, or email connection] extremely plausible, and here is it simply, why wouldn't facebook do this? What harm is it realy doing, its facebooks sly wink, saying these people are looking at your profile oh no thier err...... its random or based on etc, well yer it is, but amidst that you have the people who are having a little look see.

The person mentioned before about some one important in thier past life apearing in suggested box, more proof, how many people google people from thier past life and facebook or myspace accounts shows up, come on guys wisen up, if you can discount the other ways these facebook profiles apear in you suggested, then you got someone interested.
I'm kinda romantic, so I like this idea also lol.

3 girls with no links to my massive list of 20 friends as thier ages and work etc are not connected in anways, sorry but its really that obvious.
I am not sure if this is known, and used as a sly form of flirtation i.e. like you text first, it means you like me kinda thing[if not it soon wil be lol] or people really aren't on to it.

Quite obvious and I am very happy that it does this!

i want to know whos viewing my profile.

Trying 2 track whos been looking at my page

I always use fake names and address. I even use new emails that nobody knows to join facebook. In theory facebook should not know who I am or the people I know, however they still came up with suggested friends that I know. Before I even added a single person. They must use tracking cookies

FaceBook is a public forum (your wall for instance). Unless you have a security lock/block on your site; anyone can surf around and see you. It's not stalking either; as some people surf and click to try and find old pals. Plug in Jim Smith and see what you get? How about Jimmy Jones or Susie Smith. The truth about secrecy is that it is not secret and thus gives people a false sense of security.

Finally I understand how facebook makes suggestions to be our friends, people do searches on us in facebook's search, then that facebook person is suggested to be our friend. Interesting, although I perceive problem & that is many people use my computer while i'm logged into facebook and they do their own searches for their school friends.
Best to be aware of internet apps spying on us while we are logged into any social site .... keeping the boogie-monsters away is a very good thing ! Have fun cyber-surfing and stay safe

I believe that facebook matches you to people on a number of different levels.

One of which would be friends of your friends, and their friends, and so on...etc...etc...

I do think that the main way they do it is based on your interests and the ads you click on on their site, etc...

Like if you like "Fight Club by Chuck Palanhuik(SP?)" [BOOK] then it will match you to people of a similar age (?) from a similar place (?) who like that same book or even a book/film/etc... of similar theme.

 

darksider

Nobody really knows because obviously nobody thats posted so far on this issue works for facebook.

Facebook gives you suggestions based on friends of your friends. If you take a close look at the suggestions you'll find that each of them is connected to you in some way. (ie, if you look at your friends list of friends, that person will show up on somebody's list.

Tested out the theory that facebook tracks who views your page and puts them in your friend suggestions. I made a few fake profiles and continually looked at my real profile. Not one of my fake profiles showed up in friend suggestions on my real page.

Could it have something to do with the searches you do on facebook, like on the Pieces of Flair or Bumper Sticker apps? I searched something on there (an inanimate object) and recently had a company that sells that same object show up on my friend suggestions. I've never searched for their company specifically or viewed their profile, and we don't have any friends in common, so that's all I can figure. I also searched for the object they sell in the general search area of facebook under "pages" and "groups" but had never come across their specific page before, so who knows...

There IS a way, they show up on the upper right hand corner as a suggested "friend", right above the ads. I've had a couple of people I know show up there and not request me to be their friends, so I know they were looking at my profile. And we had no friends in common. So they showed up there and, since we had no friends in common, how would facebook know we knew each other and suggest we be friends? can't believe no one else has noticed this!!

There's definately something that works, but I don't know what it is. I went on to someone's page & they new straight away..... a) who it was. & b) The time and date. Even though I was not a friend... so give me a clue what have they downloaded.....