Who Has Seen Your Facebook Profile

Who Has Seen Your Facebook Profile: Back in March 2010, I created a message called Be cautious of "That Watched My Account" Application on Facebook. It's still among my top five watched messages, with greater than 4,400 page views in the past month alone. So it's certainly a topic of terrific rate of interest to individuals.

Who Has Seen Your Facebook Profile


What's weird is that despite the fact that the write-up clearly specifies that there are no applications readily available that let you see that watched your profile, a number of its viewers still upload remarks asking that can view their account. As well as rarely does a week go by that I don't also obtain that concern on the T4L Facebook web page and also through email.

Possibly individuals think something has actually altered in the last three years. So let me be clear: There is NO way for you to find out who has actually watched your profile on Facebook. Right here is Facebook's reaction to this concern in their Aid Center.



Every once in a while I additionally get a comment from somebody that they have evidence that Facebook does supply this performance since they considered somebody's profile and then got a message or buddy demand from that person. I never ever see the specific evidence they're referring to, so I can't talk about exactly what they believe they're seeing. I think it's feasible that if you look at somebody's account a lot, your name will appear a lot a lot more in position like the ticker or mutual friends' checklists, but that's an unlike showing somebody exactly who has actually been looking at their account, when and just how often.

Now, I'm the very first individual to be cynical about any type of claim Facebook makes concerning respecting their users' privacy (check out my recent series on Facebook and Personal Privacy). Yet I truly believe Facebook in this situation as well as think they will never ever permit this capability-- since it wouldn't be in their benefit to do so.

I believe there are lots of individuals who make use of Facebook mostly to look at profiles and images of other individuals, particularly those they have an interest in or have actually broken up with or that are presently seeing individuals they have actually broken up with. Currently, if Facebook were to start allowing people to see who had taken a look at their profiles, a great deal of individuals may effectively delete their profiles and also quit utilizing FB entirely since they do not intend to be caught stalking. As well as since there appears to be some proof that Facebook is currently starting to shed individuals, specifically amongst the more youthful set, they're not going to do something that will certainly drive more individuals away when that feature has no certain worth to the business itself.

So along with re-confirming that you could not see that viewed your profile, please consider this article another alerting never to click on any kind of link that states it will help you do just that. If you do, you're opening the door to having your account hacked as well as consequently facing actual hazards to your personal privacy.