Facebook still lets you know who's been looking at your profile...

craigb
Just another reason I don't use Feckbook.

Actually, one needn't worry too much about privacy on Facebook - the average audience for posts has dropped by almost 75% in the last years and the last revisions of the timeline made it increasingly difficult to get to the information you want to see.
 
The stuff you post will only get more visibility if more people push that "like" button - and since people can't "like" what they don't see...
 
The new algorithms make it so that you only see the pages and people you interact with the more regularly in your newsfeed - which obviously is a vicious circle. There are literally hundreds of pages which I like and which I am technically "following" but at some point they just vanish from my newsfeed.
 
One day, you notice you haven't heard from them in months. You decide to look for their page - and funnily enough, search engine won't even bring those pages you like at the top of the suggestion list. When you finally manage to get to the page, you realize that they've posted updates regularly, but the algorithm has decided to hide it from you...

bayoubill
That reminds me. I looked up one of my high school sweethearts on FB. It showed a picture of her at 16. Wow. She was beautiful! All it showed of her now was a couple of flowers and a horse. 

That's 'cos the horse is better looking these days. Either that or it ain't a horse ! ;)

 
 
 
I've seen pics of a bunch of girls I went out with and dated back in the days - in some cases, I really wished things had worked out back then. Seing them after so many years, I am glad things turned out the way they did and it only reinforces my feeling that I am the luckiest bastard on the planet. :P

spacealf
I am so thin I don't have a profile. Anyway, that is what class re-unions are for.
 

And I never had class reunion. :)
 
Anyway, I'd much rather see those people offline than in real life in 99,99% of the cases.

I've always assumed that everybody on FB was checking everybody else out all the time, so therefore, I've never put anything up that was the least bit controversial and/or political. It is a good way to keep up with people you don't see very often, or you might never see again.
Having said that, its startling how many people 'you might know' there are in your 'find friends section'.
 
Bert

Bert Guy
I've always assumed that everybody on FB was checking everybody else out all the time, so therefore, I've never put anything up that was the least bit controversial and/or political. 

You can rest assured that 90% of the folks who go on FB don't go there to check others.
 
I can't tell you how many times "old pals" chimed in asking me what I was up to and if I was still in my little hometown, back in Canada - when obviously, the answers to those questions are readily available to anyone who stumbles upon my profile; but people just don't read.
 
That's not mentioning those folks who simply send you a friend request w/o any message and never giving sign of life afterwards.
 
At any rate, you can always decide who gets to see what you post, on a per post basis. 

I do know for a fact that people you search for on fb (Who you have no mutual friends with) will eventually all show up on your People You May Know list a month or two later if you clicked to see their profiles. Also the people you don't know from Adam who fb keeps recommending to you are the result of you liking the same posts as they did, which explains why so many people from foreign countries are recommended to you. I don't know if people you "stalk" who are not your friends will suddenly see you on their PYMK lists but its fair to assume that will happen. Of course you don't show up on their list with the words "Stalking you!" under your name, so that person in reality has no proof you looked at their profile, especially if you are from the same city as that person, went to the same high school, e.t.c. as in their minds that could be the reason you popped up on their lists. On the other hand over the nearly 2 years I've been a fb user none of the old school chums, ex girlfriends, e.t.c. whom I've been passively "stalking" that whole time have ever blocked me nor ever tried to contact me, so maybe I never showed up on their PYMK lists. The only thing that happened was with a woman who I "kind of know" who I developed a huge crush on suddenly started acting really weird around me a few months after I had been habitually looking at her fb profile and then she deleted her fb profile a week or so after I noticed the change in her behavior around me so its possible she was alerted by fb that I was eavesdropping on her, but I also believe that this woman and I have developed a sort of psychic, telepathic connection and she found out about what I was doing because of that, but that's a topic for another day.

The more I hear the more I'm tempted to create a fake FB account and have fun with it. 

Each day I could add exciting material like:
 
- Took another nice dump this morning
- Feel asleep on the couch for an hour
- Noticed the sun came out today
- Trash day again!

It can be a little disconcerting when you see that most of the people "You may know" are famous serial killers. 

Rain

craigb
Each day I could add exciting material like:
 
- Took another nice dump this morning
- Feel asleep on the couch for an hour
- Noticed the sun came out today
- Trash day again!

No bacon? Though, actually, tacos seem to be the new bacon on Facebook... 

Oh no, that's only for "real" life. 

I tried experimenting with People You May Know and discovered if you look at someone's profile and they look at yours (you are not friends or have mutual friends) you will appear on PYMK list. 
 
What about the search bar? I heard people who come up on your search bar list are people who are looking at you. I have two people who come up high when I type in a letter. We're not friends but I know who they are. I messed around with it and when I log into Facebook anyone I've searched for comes up. About 5 or 6 people for that letter. After a little bit the the results suddenly change. The 5 to 6 people are pushed down and above them is a mix of pages I liked, whether celebrities or a local business, and different people I haven't been searching for. I'm not sure why this is. 

Rain
So that's how it works, uh? 
 
Oh well, nothing to hide here anyway. :)
 
Privacy on the internet is as much of an illusion
...

I've always said as much when working doing internet support ... the admin folks are "inside" the system, and have access to anything and they could easily bump/bust anyone if they had the inclination. 
 
I can tell you that the FBI had a good time entering a person's house, for threatening the wrong person ... an admin that knew what he was doing! 
 
My favorite comment, though, is the obvious one ... walk outside to the street and look at your house ... it has a number, right? Notice how it can be seen from the distance. Don't think of the internet any less that that!