Find Your Top Stalkers On Facebook | Over the previous few weeks much of my students insisted they understand 'a method' to see who looked at your facebook profile one of the most. Generally I do not care about such 'myths' however given that it didn't pass away and students didn't believe my 'that's impossible to work' here a brief blog post about it and the reason that it will not work.
Find Your Top Stalkers On Facebook
The idea: Discover out your facebook ID (if you have no idea ways to do that, google it. Easy as 1,2,3), navigate to your profile by means of your own ID, ideal click, open source code and then see your 'stalker'.
Here are some screenshots that reveal how it should work.
1.) Navigate to your profile via your ID, right click and see page source.
2.) Browse for the entry 'friendslist' in the source code.
And here the reason why this DOES NOT WORK!
1.) Friends and the private data Facebook collects from them and you is their greatest good. They would NEVER EVER make it accesible and simple to learn. If you can discover it out like this, everyone else might discover it out too. Just consider the issues this may trigger. That's something Facebook would never ever want to take place since they would enter into lots of trouble.
2.) This part of the source code does reveal some kind of a list, real. But it is rather most likely that it reveals the friends you are most likely to interact with. As you may now Facebook ranks your buddies and the news you see and on wich position your buddies appear on your interaction with them. So if you are most likely to communicate with a friend (say it's your sibling or someone you used to speak with a lot over the previous few days) this buddy will make it to the top of the list. It is NOT the individual who visited your profile the last.
3.) If you do not believe me, believe some of the other geeks and Facebook addicts out there. Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13789565/what-is-the-significance-of-orderedfriendslistinitialdata.
Hope that assists and the myth of 'I know who visited my profile last/ most' will finally die.
Ways You Can Block A Facebook Stalker
1. Via Your Block Lists
You can obstruct both people and applications.
In Facebook, go to > Account > Personal privacy Settings and find the item called > Block Lists at the bottom of the page. Click the > Edit your lists connect to proceed.
On the following page you can get in Facebook users by name and email address and block them.
If there are a number of people with the same name, you will see a list of matching profiles. Click the > Block button next to the person you were searching for.
2. Via Their Profile.
On each Facebook user profile there is a > Report/Block this Individual link at the bottom left. Click this link and a window will turn up that allows you to make a selection.
For example, you might report the individual for > Undesirable contact and inspect package to > Block this individual. If you go with the block, the name will appear in your Block Notes, as explained above.
3. Via Their Messages.
If the individual you want to block has actually sent you any messages, you can block them by clicking the > Report link next to their name and the date the message was gotten. To see the link you need to open the message. Once you click it, a window with more alternatives will appear.
Note that nobody you obstruct will be notified of the action. However, if they are on your buddy list, they will be removed and your profile will not show up to them. Similarly, you will not have the ability to view their profile. You both will be invisible to each other, with the exception of third celebration applications.
If you mistakenly obstructed somebody, you can quickly remove the block. Go to your Block Lists and click the > Unblock link next to the person's name. You will be asked to validate. Unblocking an individual will not restore a previous connection.
4. Eliminate Your Basic Directory Info.
If you have a severe stalker, possibilities are they will just set up a brand-new Facebook account once you block them. In this case you ought to think about making your profile private, so that strangers can not find and harass you.
The very first thing you must do, is eliminate as much of yourself as possible from the > Standard Directory Details. Go to > Account > Personal privacy Settings and click on > View Settings.
On the following page you can specify who can browse and find you on Facebook, send buddy demands or messages, see your buddy list, and more. For each item pick carefully from the following choices: Everybody, Friends of Friends, or Buddies Only.
Sadly, you can not totally hide yourself. Facebook specifies that "your name, profile picture, gender, and network are constantly open to everybody." This explains why.
5. Tighten Your Personal Privacy Settings.
Besides restricting standard directory site info, you need to also limit who can see the important things you are sharing. Go back to > Account > Personal privacy Settings and click the > Customize settings to adjust your > Sharing on Facebook choices. You can likewise select from a default setting.
A brand-new page with a list of alternatives will open. Go through all the points and decide who you wish to see your posts, your individual details, or things others show you. You can select from Everybody, Pals of Friends, Pals Just, or Tailor each point and make the info visible to just yourself or conceal it from particular people.
Conclusion.
It goes without saying that Facebook is just one medium through which an individual can stalk you. No matter how tight your privacy settings or how credible individuals on your good friend list are, somebody determined to find and bug you still has the rest of the web at their disposal. Make sure to treat your personal details, your contact data, and your online personal privacy in basic like a raw egg.