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46 pointsthemanual16y ago10 comments

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This covers fan pages - anybody know how to do the same for personal pages, in case you feel like snooping on people who are looking you up?

But then I see this:

http://grownupgeek.com/facebook-forums-whos-been-looking-at-...

Apparently it's against the TOS.

mseebach16y ago

The value of Facebook would plunge to a fraction if that was possible. If you, before every click, had to consider what the "target" would make of your visit. Am I visiting too often? Too rarely? So my girlfriends ex is visiting my profile fairly often, what's up with that?

Frazzydee16y ago

I don't think your assumption is correct. Most Chinese social networking sites, by default, allow you to see a list of the most recent people who viewed your profile, and the exact time they viewed it at.

It's probably a cultural thing, but still think saying that its value will "drop to a fraction" is a bit apocalyptic, especially if you can disable the feature.

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ryanelkins16y ago

This won't tell WHO has been looking at your fan page either, at least not specifically. The data is fairly anonymous.

barrkel16y ago

If your profile isn't freely visible to the public, you can make a pretty educated guess based on city.

sabon16y ago

It's only valid for pages built with FBML. So it's good for tabs (sections) but not for the main page itself. The main page is a newsfeed where you just can't put any FBML. So it makes an interesting tool to track subpages but in general it's pretty useless. Clever idea though.

carson16y ago

I wonder if this might lead Facebook to start caching images on fan pages like they sometimes do for images in apps.

rksprst16y ago

They already do this... everything is run through a proxy and cached for a few minutes (regardless of etag or anything else).

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barrkel16y ago

This covers fan pages - anybody know how to do the same for personal pages, in case you feel like snooping on people who are looking you up?

But then I see this:

http://grownupgeek.com/facebook-forums-whos-been-looking-at-...

Apparently it's against the TOS.

mseebach16y ago

Frazzydee16y ago

It's probably a cultural thing, but still think saying that its value will "drop to a fraction" is a bit apocalyptic, especially if you can disable the feature.

2 more replies

ryanelkins16y ago

This won't tell WHO has been looking at your fan page either, at least not specifically. The data is fairly anonymous.

barrkel16y ago

If your profile isn't freely visible to the public, you can make a pretty educated guess based on city.

sabon16y ago

carson16y ago

I wonder if this might lead Facebook to start caching images on fan pages like they sometimes do for images in apps.

rksprst16y ago

They already do this... everything is run through a proxy and cached for a few minutes (regardless of etag or anything else).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse