<![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Definitely is the alphabetical order thing..
and I was happy that people liked me enough to look at my profile hah..
I tryed yesterday and it worked the "." thing
but today doesnt work anymore :(
any new trick???? please!!

lurleen

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Oh give me a break already. Jack up your security settings. I tried all the different tricks and ya know what I got?

A list of 5 of my friends in alphabetical order....

Jeez!! Its just the damn people who's names you're inputting that pop up, not the other way around!

ShortStaK

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> damn they killed it before i could try it :(

spikenard

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @YourWildHorses:
Good theory. Again, I only had two. I only have two friends, but I looked up lots of other people and putative friends to see if I should ask them to be Facebook friends.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> man. late to the party and all i get now is a lame alphabetical list. i wanted to find out my stalkers!!

clumproll

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Does anyone know how to navigate to the "discussion thread" from theory #2?

LeGagneur

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It seems just to go in order by first name of people on my "friends" list.

bertram

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @lesbiansayswhat: okay, now i feel like a dope. right.

fishneversleep

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> All I get is people on my friends list whose names begin with, um, a. So you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to realize these are just the first five people on your friends list, if it's arranged in alpha order. Mystery solved.

fishneversleep

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> They finally changed it just brings up the first 5 alphabetical contacts.

lesbiansayswhat

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler:
@snuggleupas: I search for people I hate more than I search for people I like /

Isn't that just like, the most poignant thing? It's so true, and it's so Facebook
By poignant, I hope you mean paranoid, neurotic, and consumed by feelings of inferiority.

snuggleupagus

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @gurpinforjeeks:

Can you explain how to do this? I've got Firebug running, but... it gets difficult after that point.

unitedskates

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Well, now I know why the people I've been Facebook stalking suddenly deleted their accounts (or just set themselves to hidden...)

My list:

-ex g/f
-roommate's g/f (?)
-friend whose addicted to Facebook
-source from an interview
-another friend

All of whom are on my friend's list

shatteredmindofbob

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @lizzybennett: try a hyphen

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> last week of college semester, the library. students bound up and down marble steps and across the reading rooms to solemnly Enter The Period for their poor unsuspecting peers.

o facebook, never have we needed you more as an endless source of procrastination than during finals week. i feel so betrayed

lolosabrosos

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> why is it I just get a list of people with "." in their name? Am I not doing this right?

lizzybennett

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Played around with this a little more, using Firebug to set the "max_results" to a high number

//search_typeahead_onsubmit,max_results:1000}

-The first 90 people were somehow related to the algorithm -- they were not in any alphabetical order

-After that it goes alphabetical by first name for the majority of the list

-Towards the bottom there were some non alphabetical people listed for 10 names or so.

-At the very end, it listed apps I have installed followed by groups I have joined

gurpinforjeeks

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> My five are probably some of the least technologically adept on my friends list; the types who would probably type my name out in full and search for me rather than click on something I'd written on their walls or click on my name in their newsfeed.

Jetgirly

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @FitnessMadeSimple: 3055. Hmmm.

so it's NOT:
- the people I search the most
- the people I have the most friends in common with
- the people who I last exchanged messages or wallings or pokes with OR who I have exchanged the MOST of any of these things with
- the people who have the most, or most recent, pictures of or with me

there really is no other explanation

unless... go with me here... maybe it's the people whose profiles have the most in common with yours? I will go check.

ok no that's not it either.

2 of these people are really unexpected, I'm only sort of friends with them... they are, however, good friends with each other. 2 of them are my best friends. 1 is my ex.

I think what we've really learned today is that everybody stalks their exes.

arguablythemostfamous

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> i looked at my 5 people and they all could be people i search pretty often. although, to test this theory and make sure it wasnt people *I* searched I decided to do several searches for a friend who I normally dont search. I did at least 15 searches, if not more and my top 5 list didn't change so it may not be the people *I* search most.

AliceSerpent

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Hez: π

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Ok so I did the period thing and 4 out of my 5 make sense for people that would search me. The 5th one? Clark Duke of Greek and the internet series Clark and Michael. I wish that he was one of the people who looks me up the most, but highly doubtful.

Siolicious

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It still works if you just type a period into the search bar.

Jellybeanbonanza

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1) Wook
2) LDR dude I officially adore
3) dj/promoter whose gigs I never attend
4) busty friend who works in local TV
5) punk rock guy I barely know in Toronto
That's at least 900 points there... and more if Wook secretly wants to bone me.
Also what is the point value for "you have playfully smushed your tits together" (a game I call "Mammorammin")?

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> it doesn't work for me! i have nothing when i try the drop down bar... but more mysteriously? when i log out and type my own name into the search bar? "no resuslts".

apparently i don't exist on facebook, even though i very clearly do. what an odd feeling; an odd, empty feeling. does this mean that i also cannot be recorded doing some light stalking? invisibility may have it benefits...

as_per_usual

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> instead of pressing down, try typing a - (dash) character into the field.

--hawk

hawkxor

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> The ability still exists - Read how here:

[nobosh.com]

nobosh.com

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> As someone else pointed out, if you type a period or a space, you can still get results. I didn't check before they fixed it, so I don't know if it's the same set of people, but it works for both me and my roommate.

GuyVetus

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> facebook is quick, its already disabled.

atltony

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1) Someone I fooled around with and befriended
2) Internet BFF
3) Semi-friendly co-worker
4) Elementary-school classmate whom I've been meaning to reunite with
5) University friend/acquaintance who keeps blowing me off

Odd. Yet Fascinating.

Understater

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @DastardlyFunk: try typing in a period "." in the search query

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1000 pts

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Can we make this a game?

Of the five people who come up:

1000 points for each person you've watched a Land Before Time sequel with
500 points for each person you've had sex with
300 points for a current boyfriend/girlfriend
200 points for each ex
100 points for each relative
100 points for each person you've made out with
75 points for every best friend/roommate
50 points for each person you work with
50 points for each person you have a thing for
35 points for each person you think has a thing for you
-10 points for each person who has no reason to be stalking you

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Doesn't work for me. I tried both my desktop (Internet Explorer) and my laptop (Firefox).

DastardlyFunk

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Woman I sorted of dated about 5 years ago and just saw last week, friend (woman) who has recently admitted that she is consedring leaving her husband and has insinuated that I am the supervening cause, and 3 other women with whom I have had passing "fancies". This is a great day for me... thanks for the renewed self-esteem Face Book!

lucidether

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> this is function is now GONE. really fishy if you ask me. I asked the facebook gods if this is really true and pasted the gawker link in, NO response. Too bad, because I had some hotties on that list. Good to know who I can rely on for a sure thing

jamiebp

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Mine are bizarre. It can't be who I search for most often, because one is a girl who I haven't talked to in at least 3 years and have probably never actually "searched." She may be doing a lot of stalking these days as she just had a kid and maybe uses his naptime as facebook time?
2 of them sorta make sense, but none of my best friends/ex-hookups/ex-boyfriends made appearances, so I'm at a loss.

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Seeräuber Jenny:
This wins. I'm no longer curious. They made an algorithm that combines people who you looked at a lot a while ago but not recently, so that you'd be thrilled to know they are looking at you, a friend that makes sense, and a few random people from your network or with whom you have lots of friends in common who would kinda make sense. All so you'd be curious and refresh a lot tell all your friends and make Facebook more money. This is like when Denton makes up some bullshit scandal and posts about it on Gawker for the pageviews.

YourWildHorses

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Okay, I got sister, chick I have a crush on, dude friend of mine who is very lonely, cousin, and dude friend who is also friends with my sister.

my best friend, whose account info I have, got female internet friend, male high school friend, her boyfriend, her other best friend, and her actual legitimiate stalker.

That means, statistically, we each have one person who we KNOW stalks us on the 'book. (my cousin is obsessive, and 14). I hope it's what we think it is.

bookcat

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> you don't know me but --- straight from a very very reliable source I cannot reveal: it is code that is in development to help you look at people that you view most frequently - but not necessarily their profiles but they come up most frequently in all the browsing/searching you do
and its not functional yet - thats why it was a weird group

situate0024

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> What's a face book? Is that like an electronic high school yearbook?

I'm old.

And apathetic. Or maybe just pathetic.

Elle Menopi

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I just tried this again with the arrows and it's now disabled. A colleague confirmed it on his. Shitstorm accomplished.

misterlimus

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @snuggleupagus: I search for people I hate more than I search for people I like

Isn't that just like, the most poignant thing? It's so true, and it's so Facebook.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @TerseNursePornstein: Aw shucks. No you'refantastic.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I search for people I hate more than I search for people I like so this could totally be taken the wrong way.

Not that it matters, I'm not getting anything out of this trick. Which probably means that no one is searching for me. I'm okay with this.

snuggleupagus

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I quit. Myspace wins.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> For the geeks....

Use firebug etc.. and find the following in the source code:

search_typeahead_onsubmit,max_results:5}

Change the 5 to any number -- it will list more peeps.

Whatever the algorithm, its not actually limited to top 5.

gurpinforjeeks

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Mine's not doing it anymore either.

Fun fact: I noticed this feature like a week ago, but I didn't want to tell anyone about it because of its creepy implications. (I had assumed that it was based on the people I searched for the most, but I guess it's more complicated than that.)

Putney Swope Sequel

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: I think bribes are in order... and better spelling, too.

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LeanOnSheena:
not me. They're all friends, and all plausible stalkers

1. very recent Ex
2. cute young lady I occasionally Facebook stalked about 6 months ago
3. recent Ex's jealous boyfriend
4. some buddy of mine
5. cute acquaintance who spends a lot of time online

GrumpyMcGillicutty

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Whopperlicious: Can we confince Hamilton not to update with this info, so that only we have the secret?

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> ext212

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> FYI:
Definitely still works if you type a "." in the search field. My results are the same as they have been all day since I learned this interesting little trick....very intriguing results.

Whopperlicious

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Hmmm...I just emailed a random friend and asked what five names came up and mine showed up first...except I made sure NOT to check her profile before asking, on the off chance that it was just the last five people to view your profile.

I also don't check her profile much, which seems to suggest that it's not the five people who view your profile most...but who knows.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> To ease my anxiety, I have always kept this passage from Facebook's Privacy FAQs in the back of my mind as I FBstalk:

Facebook currently does not provide an application that allows users to track profile views or statistics on the views of any specific user content. Third party developers, however, may offer applications that provide some of this functionality. Please keep a few things in mind for these applications:

Applications CANNOT track profile visits for users who simply go to another person's profile; Facebook has made this technically impossible .

In order to be tracked by an application, you will need to specifically agree to allow the application to track your actions.

Adding an application that provides this functionality is purely optional. If you do not want to participate, please do not add the application to your account.

Of course, this does NOT apply to data on who SEARCHES you. Sneakiness!

Gazelle

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @The Dewd: Is your friend the fantastic Phylis Nefler? 'Cause she wrote us herself over an hour before you did. They appended her comment at the top of the post.

TerseNursePornstein

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Gazelle: I'm sure you're right, that's what mine looks like at least

rognbrow

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Is ANYONE getting people who aren't in their friends list, though?

LeanOnSheena

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @hortense: I'd like this to be my top 5 stalkers but I think that would be wishful thinking.

1)guy I used to date and still <3
2)guy I almost started dating
3)best friend
4)good friend
5)roommate

tunamelt

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: Agreed... I was about to paste this on Facebook and then I was 'oh my god no!'

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: It would still need data to pull the names from. In general these don't seem like random users

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @hortense: Nice, I like it like that. Now the secret to this is in our hands, buried deep, deep within the Gawker commenting sections. Let's not let this out, mmmmmmm kay?

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: Wow, that was quick. Somebody must have pulled Zuckerberg out of the hot tub for this one.

GrumpyMcGillicutty

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: And if Facebook moved so fast to correct it, it seems to me that this would suggest that it was true that these were your top 5 facebook stalkers. Definitely seemed plausible (albiet surprising) to me: with the GF up top, some old buddy from hs, another hs buddy who's now gay (and obviously virtually enfatuated with me) and other plausibles rounding it out.

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Just logged into my girlfriend's profile:

1. Her gay best friend
2. Me
3. Her adviser
4. #1's lesbian best friend
5. Some random chick in her program who really want to be her friend

Not sure what to make of this...

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: The down button no longer works.

Typing a period in the search box, however, does.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @blogissuchanuglyword: Are you sure? Everyone I IM'd about it is telling me there's stopped working too. Mine certainly did. Try signing off and on again. It definitely seems to have been "corrected".

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Theory 4:

Engineered faux Facebook scam to drum up site visits.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Incher_George:

Enjoy it -- something tells me the truth will not be be disclosed anytime soon, if ever.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @LoveHandles: mine still shows it...

blogissuchanuglyword

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It's fixed. The mighty hand of Facebook moved quite quickly to stop this little hanky panky. Just be glad we got to see it before the non-elites did!

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @misssgolightly: Ok me too -- please GOD let that be right.

GoodMorningAngels

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Shadowy Figure:
No! You mean you've purposefully cut yourself off from 3,000 carefully edited web portraits of your very dearest bestest friends for all time until tomorrow?

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: The threshold seems plausible... my money is on theory #3, but I'm not sure I'm being objective as I am overly inclined to believe that three separate attractive women are surreptitiously snooping on my profile.

Reading this thread, it seems as if most people are a bit too happy with the results they're getting

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Shadowy Figure: Freak!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I'm missing out on all the fun and hijinks, as I have no Facebook.

shadowy figure

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> oooh I hope those people are looking at me I just got way cooler

arguablythemostfamous

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Incher_George:

Oh yes. As I explained earlier up in the thread, they're really the ONLY people who would look for me because I use a made-up name suggested by one of the two so I could see how Facebook works.

I've looked up way more than two people, including ex-boyfriends (audible sigh of relief), so if Facebook were using my searches I would at least get five. Instead, I only get the two people who know my fake name.

The one who kept urging me to sign up said I was being a tad paranoid.

Who's laughing now? :-)

Alternative theory: A certain minimum threshhold of activity is required to generate five names.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> All of mine are my friends.

LeanOnSheena

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @GrumpyMcGillicutty: Yeah he is my Facebook friend, but I barely know the guy...

shanaisapunkrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Nope. This is def the people you search for the most (or something like that).

For mine, one of the entries is a friend of mine who passed away a few months ago. I have been going back to her profile a fair amount to see what people have said (another weird new-agey-facebook thing that someone should write a paper on [not me]). There is obviously no way that she would be using facebook, or that the data could be stockpiled long enough that she would show up even before her death.

Sorry to be a total Debby Downer.

coolbeannes

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Jesus Christ, people, they're Cylons. Isn't anyone paying any attention?

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @The Dewd: Oh well, so much for my paranoid fantasies

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: Do they seem like people who would look for you? I'm looking at my five and four of them I probably do look at more often than usual, but I never look at my boss' profile and I work from home so it would make sense that he would snoop on me to see if I'm working

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: Yeah, that's gonna be awkward when I show up on the list of the ex who last heard from me when I called his new girlfriend THE C-WORD via email.

Just keepin' it classy how I do.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> this is making me really, really want to stalk people but i'm terrified. way to take away my one pleasure gawker

blogissuchanuglyword

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @shanaisapunkrocker:
Is ex-hookup's roommate one of your facebook friends?

Because this is really bad if it shows random stalkers(me) but only kind of bad if it's showing stalkers you are already facebook friends with.

To my future wife - please don't judge me. I was only trying to see if you'd updated your pictures recently. I know we've never met, but I'm way over internet dating and really wanted to meet you this summer in person at that barbecue, my cousin was going to introduce us and everything. I'm not a bad guy, no matter what you think, and it's not like I am a boring person and have tons of time on my hands to stalk strangers on Facebook, it's just that I have this little brain itch that I have to scratch sometimes. I hope you can understand. sniff...

GrumpyMcGillicutty

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> interesting to see that they people I stalk most, stalk me too.

Amarain824

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> [www.margottobed.com]

THIS JUST IN... Facebook's official statement (aka what they wrote back to my friend about it):

"The five friends that you see below the search box are populated based on
people whom we think you'd be most interested in. Taking into account
various factors, we attempt to make an educated guess as to who it is you're
looking for when you start typing a name in the search box. Please note
that this information is only visible to you and will not be shared with
your friends. We hope that this feature is helpful and we appreciate your
feedback. Let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Brooke
User Operations
Facebook"

The Dewd

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Um... mine doesn't do ANYTHING when I click on the box.

katekate is squared

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Incher_George:

Did that. Got the same two.

I love being a control group of one.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> On the other hand, my mother does not come up so I think that means maybe it isn't the five people who search for me most... wild

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> If anyone has trouble, I got the five to come up by typing a period "." into the search queue...

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @BK_KT: I thought it WAS people who searched for you! Making it worse, because then you show up on the list of the ex who dumped you via email and never spoke to you again and who you were never friends with on Facebook and who you really don't lust after at all anymore, really, you just like that one song he has on his profile, the one in his pants.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Sara Benincasa: I agree with this as I almost never search for anyone, but have sought out the five listed. So it looks like I stalked Sara!

rod

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1. Lesbian (friend of my boyfriend)

2. Lesbian (smoking buddy in Yenching Library)

3. Man-eater

4. Man-eater (gay)

5. Man-eater (Norweigan)

All friends, the person I stalk the most (old crush from high school who would most assuredly not like to see my name) did not appear, which apparently means that people outside of your "My Friends" network don't appear on the list.

porklovingjew

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Maybe this is real:

1. Girlfriend
2. Former teacher who recently left post
3. Boss (yikes!)
4. Some girl who I suspect has a crush on me
5. Some other girl who I suspect has a crush on me

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> So I just get five of my friends, none of whom would ever have any reason to search for my name. So maybe it's just the five people who've last looked at your page?

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It'd be nice if Facebook would let us know what the deal is with this asap, because if it is the five people who search your profile most often, there are a couple of girls I need to go hit on.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> quick, i've got an algorithm: a list of top 5 commentators silent today? we'll know who

a) works at the 'book
b) is enjoying our misery
c) to beat up in a dark alley and get my dignity back

because there has to be at least one commie who knows the answer. otherwise, shudder at the impliction - we don't know the right people?

evelynwasaman

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Khrushchev: yeah. maybe it doesn't have any frequent searches for me simply because i don't frequently use the search feature. or something.

also, WHO BURIED WHOM, KHRUSHCHEV??

sorry, had to stick that in.

genevieveyorke

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> What do you do when you friended someone by accident, meaning you were new to Facebook and you got so geeked about friending someone that you didn't realize that you really shouldn't friend just anyone, but now they're there and they're weird and slightly stalkery, but they didn't come up in this little experiment, and you suddenly wonder why not, because if you were going to have a stalkery Facebook person they would be it?

Spirit Fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: I know. I am terrible. I wish LIEBook didn't exist. Seriously. For the past six months, my "about me" has been "I hate thefacebook.com". HEAR THAT YOU ZUCKERFUCKS?

BUT, the aforementioned ex is not on my list. So um, maybe it's people who search for you? If that, then, um, stop searching me, college professor.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> probably also takes into consideration number of friends in common, networks, and times you've searched for them crossed with times they've searched for you (or visited profile)

to figure out your best friends?

JustAnotherCommenter

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Hey, question for Nick Denton and co. Is the tipster who sent you this in the first place going to be getting 7 cents a pageview or whatever the going rate was?

Because if so, drinks on them. Just point me to their facebook page and I'll do the rest.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @genevieveyorke: I don't think many people have them in that order. I don't.

Khrushchev

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @modelbehavior: Has anyone explained to you how "best" works?

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I just talked to 2 of my ex boyfriends (who im still good friends with) and asked them about this and they both said my name came up in their list, when in fact I don't really recall searching them much. on the other hand i do spend way too much time on facebook just looking at everyones pages way. too. much. so maybe it's views and not searches? idk.

one dude said he only got pretty girls on his list (which makes sense for him)

the other one said he got pretty random names.

also i just searched him like 10 times in a row, made him check again and i was still in the same spot.

AAARRGGHHEE THIS IS SO CONFUSING

iodine

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @BK_KT: Oh, that is bad. You're the class representative. The damage award will be HUGE.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @sample032: me too.

so are all these other people not realizing that these are their friends who come first in terms of first name alphabetical order? or are we just getting a different list than anyone else?

maybe facebook is getting rid of that feature? and only some of our accounts have been updated to get rid of it?

because, yeah, my first names there are like aaron, adam, adam, anna, anna....

genevieveyorke

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> HA I wrote logarithm... I meant algorithm. Clearly I am not a mathy-sciencey person.

shanaisapunkrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: ME ME ME ME GAH I WANT TO DIE. Esp. since I unfriended AND blocked him but still sometimes unblock and search him. Don't judge me, I am weak.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I'm doing an experiment. I set firefox to reload my boyfriend's profile page every 15 seconds to see if I can alter either of our results, as we don't show up on each others' lists.

YourWildHorses

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> My #4 and 5 are "events" and "gifts"

I didn't search for these and am quite sure they did not search for me.

HamptonShmampton

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I don't get how this works.

My boyfriend, my sister, and one of my best friends all seem like logical people to have on the list, whether it's based on them looking me up frequently or me looking them up frequently or even on some other weird logarithm that I don't understand (maybe extra points for shared last name or having "in a relationship" status with you?). So that's not too weird.

But the other two are a guy I used to have a crush on and a guy whose roommate I used to hook up with, like, a year ago-- but I only met this roommate person once or twice. Why would he be searching me?

I want answers!

shanaisapunkrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Whose profile is featured in the picture accompanying this post? Read your 138 messages, already.

Khrushchev

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley...: Weeeeeirrrrdddd-- I got my sister, an old college prof, a girl I just became friends with, a guy whose profile I use to stalk another guy, and a random high school friend.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @VirusWithShoes: "Fuck" totally didn't belong in there. Perve.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Sara Benincasa: It would seem like that on the surface, but that can't be the whole story because mine wouldn't be right. There must be other factors at play ...

Stupid algorithms. First hedge funds meltdowns, now this.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: Alternate address, zerodignity@yahoo.com.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Am I just doing this wrong? I just get the last five names that came up when I started typing the letter 'c'

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @JustAnotherCommenter: i like this answer

narnio

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> i'm pretty sure that there is one facebook employee assigned to a group of 10 facebook users. they follow them, document their hookups, awkward relationships, and failed attempts to befriend people. top 5 relations make this list.

blogissuchanuglyword

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Also, it's been nearly two hours. How have we not solved this mystery yet?

Khrushchev

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> OH I FIGURED IT OUT! That's the people YOU search for most often. Cause that's who popped up for me!

Sara Benincasa

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: You're first on mine! We're Facengaged! Or Fuckbooks!

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING NOW BUT IT'S SUNNY!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @everyone: Don't shoot the messenger. We are trying our hardest over here to get "....the rest of the story." Developing...

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Unfun: Oh, absolutely. I check exes' pages about every day. I am vomiting all over Facebook about this.

Khrushchev

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @CodePink: I rarely hear the term gaywad. I think that makes you special.

HamptonShmampton

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Who else is mortified that they are invariably on a list of an ex whom they haven't spoken to in months? (show of hands)

I'm suing FB for emotional distress. It's a class action, write me to get in on it. (hotsexypantslawyer@gmail.com)

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @rod: Can we rectify that situation NOW, please? My boyfriend won't mind. I feel like I don't stalk you at all, but then I reflect that I should start! So I'm going to, right now!

Sara Benincasa

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Wait, so the people I search the most will know that I've searched them? Oh sweet merciful crap....Is there a way to change my name on facebook until this is resolved? I mean where's the dignity in having stalkerish behavior known? Whatever happened to privacy?

saralapua

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I've never searched for any of the people that show up, and with one of them, would be shocked if she ever searched me. My guess is its random.

oneinsixbillion

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1. Girl I flirted with three weeks ago.
2. Girl I was into three months ago.
3. My common friend with #1.
4. My common friend with #2.
5. #4's boyfriend.

What a tangled web I weave.

Cannot Find Server

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I think it's matching the frequency of times that you search for someone with the frequency of times that people search for you
and it's an attempt at interpreting who your best friends are

JustAnotherCommenter

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Best Girlfriend
Best Girlfriend
Guy who's obsessed with my blog
Guy I'm pseudo dating
My stalker

Nice.

modelbehavior

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @VirusWithShoes: I see you on my list, you love me! Woo!!!!!!!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Tell your friend to tell their friend that we ain't stupid. Emphasis ours.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @EleanorRigby: Maybe they're helping you complete the typed-in search based on the profiles you've viewed the most. Maybe their tying click-based "searches" to ones that are typed.

Or they're taping into the Narcissus in all of us.

clipper

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Is anyone getting people they aren't friends with?

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1) Keyzer Soze
2) Marsellus Wallace
3) KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
4) Tina Fey (Is God)
5) Suge Knight

Only Tina Fey, of course, makes sense.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> oh goodness! one of mine is, um, ONE OF YOU!

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @EleanorRigby: It sounds like this is the 5 guesses it makes before you start typing. You haven't given it any letters to guess from, so it makes guesses based on your viewing habits instead. Which would make sense, looking at my 5 -- it's the 4 people whose pages I actually visit, and one celebrity offspring whose photos I check often.

egg cream

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Most definitely not the people I search for most often - it includes a couple who, in fact, I never search for AT ALL.

nonpareil

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I come up with 2 former hookups, one of whom didn't call me back a few months ago! HAHA, now he gets to look at all the pictures of me with the hotter guy I started dating after him!

It's definitely not people I look at most, as 2 of the 5 I rarely ever look at, though they are facebook obsessed friends so I buy that they look at me.

YourWildHorses

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Hamud Ibn Hamud: I always said your plan to kill Jodie Foster to get President Reagan's attention was a waste of time. How's the kosher cherry cobbler?

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Lycosidae: Yes. It's worth $1,250 at auction.

@sample032: So I'm not crazy. Back to playing hopscotch on the subway platform!

@lawyergay: Yay!

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Eh...no.

kielbasasausage

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1. girl I'm into
2. girl I'm into
3. ex-girlfriend's sister(!)
4. gay dude who I guess might be into me?
5. girl who's into me

The first three I've definitely searched before, but I know for a fact that there are profiles I've searched more. The last two I rarely search.

So I'm pretty sure it's not who I'm looking for. If it is the top 5 who search for me, I'll be a very happy boy. I sort of doubt it's the last 5 to search for me - the fact that there's a sex interest in at least one direction for each of them is strange.

the_coast_guard

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @it takes a train to cry: I must live with my shame. Oh, the pain of it all.

clipper

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: that's for when you want to search for someone and start typing in the box. this is different, no?

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> For the record: ex-girlfriend, friend, friend's wife, other friend's wife, former co-worker. It's gonna be a hot time in Cloud City this weekend!

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Seeräuber Jenny:

To clarify, if the default is five people you looked up -- and I've looked up many more than five -- or five people at random I should have seen that.

But I saw only two. The only two people on Facebook who would know to look me up.

Can't take the time to link to a previous comment, but I look up people all the time. I've gone back as far as kindergarten -- mainly I was curious to see how many classmates' names I could recall.

For me, it's more cheap entertainment than stalking.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: no way.

narnio

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: I need more answers, and yet also I wonder why I need those answers.

Khrushchev

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: OK, but what is it ACTUALLY?

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @PickleTitsTurner:

I'm just wondering what your personal feelings are about the plans for refurbishing St. Elizabeths Hospital in D.C.

A lot of former patients think it was the nicest hospital for the criminally insane that they ever spent a lot of time in and they really wish people would just leave it alone because they have many very happy memories about it, especially that little storage room off the stairwell leading to the sub-basement where you could take a "special friend" for some private time together, but only if you didn't start smoking cigarettes after your private time because this could trigger the fire alarms and it was honestly not a lot of fun to have to stay for eight months in one of the isolation rooms in locked ward because you could scream for hours and hours but no one would ever call the President of the United States to tell him that you were sorry for everything and just wanted to be released for maybe nine or twelve hours so you could buy some magazines like "Tiger Beat" or "Junior Miss Beauty Queen" so you could read and relax a little and pry the staples from the magazines in order to have something very very sharp to jab into your eyes and lips when the BAD THOUGHTS wouldn't stop feeling like the way your mother's voice felt when you used super glue, which is really a laugh because there's nothing "super" about it like SUPERMAN, to keep your sister from using her ugly poisonous eyes to see all your personal things that in you had hidden for a lot of good reasons that have nothing to do with crime or so-called "DANGER TO OTHERS" in your bedroom closet.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> OK, my friend emailed her friend that works for the Good Book and here was the response (emphasis mine)

This is the canned response we've been using:

The five friends that you see below the search box are populated based on people whom we think you'd be most interested in. Taking into account various factors, we attempt to make an educated guess as to who it is you're looking for when you start typing a name in the search box. Please note that this information is only visible to you and will not be shared with your friends. We hope that this feature is helpful and we appreciate your feedback. Let me know if you have further questions.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @misskarina: Mine have been the same since the post went up.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @clipper: And they're all the same person, aren't they?

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @MisterHippity: Always.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I went to Facebook immediately after seeing this post and got an error message indicating the site was down. Five minutes later it was back up. I'm guessing that if it ever really did show who is searching for you, that "human coding error" has been fixed since Gawker posted about it. Unless the 5 people *I've* been silently stalking for the past couple of months (and definitely not the 5 people whose profiles I've most recently searched for/looked at) are really stalking me back. In which case--AWESOME!!!

misskarina

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I just checked and the person at the top of my list is my boyfriend, followed by 3 other people that I can see trying to be all up in my business. The other one is random.

WifeMotherCrip

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Okay now that I know mine this needs to go away. ASAP.

kielbasasausage

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> 1 girl I have a crush on
1 girl who I suspect has a crush on me
1 girl who I know has a crush on me
1 girl I haven't spoken to in a few years
1 girl cousin

I don't know what to think.

clipper

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @misssgolightly: We've created a rift in the time-space continuum.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It's probably the people who have searched for you most often or most recently.

A friend was nagging me to sign up; I had no interest. Finally he suggested I use a pseudonym, which he suggested. I just went to the site and the search turned up only my friend's name and the name of the only other friend who knows my nom de Facebook, in other words, the only people who would have any reason to search my faux name.

On my side, I'm sure I must have looked up a lot of other people -- I'm nosey and bored.

Sometimes paranoia has benefits.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Update: Facebook was down for a second there - We killed it. Can someone who checked a few minutes ago go back and figure out if they've corrected this amazing little fluke?

Please? I MUST KNOW.

L-dizzle

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @misssgolightly: Hey, thanks for working on that for us.

Also, didnt Zucker sell sell sell? God knows I would have....

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Now facebook says an error has occurred and they're working on getting it fixed as soon as possible. What error, Zuckerberg? The error of betraying my private stalking habits?

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> let's see.
It's definately not who I search most.

Foreign exchange student (from 3 summers ago)
Cousin
Brother in my Frat (who I always thought had a crush on me)
Best Friend in thrid grade (just had a baby at 19)
Summer Friend

It makes sense that this is maybe who seraches me the most. Creepy though.

kateb2637

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Anks329: Yeah, that's what it looks like to me

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I get my 3 best friends, my roommate and.... my ex boyfriend's best friend (who's profile i hardly ever look at)?! whoa there.

iodine

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> Nope, those are def. people looking at me. AWESUM.

kielbasasausage

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @VirusWithShoes: If you hold down the left-bracket, numlock, escape and "k" keys simultaneously, a random person in Guatemala will die.

NO! DON'T DO IT!!!

Oh, you cruel bastard! I can't believe you just did that!

Now another poor Guatemalan family has no father. Are you happy now?

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> I most often search for myself, so the list works for me either way.

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @In Other News...: It all makes sense now.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Clare: Yes.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> i think it is the last 5 people you searched for. at least, that's what it seems to me now when I checked it.

Anks329

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> gah. this is the most interesting thing i have heard all day (sadly, true). call zucks and find out what this MEANS

blogissuchanuglyword

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @Clare: yes.

Valerie Flame

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> These just seem to be the last 5 people I looked at? Nothing to see here... move along...

IntoAshes

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @In Other News...: I got five A's, too.

sample032

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @misssgolightly: I think we all use facebook to stalk, so there's no shame in it. But let us know if you get a response!

LeGagneur

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> @In Other News...: Wait, I'm confused. The Internet was Robert Rauschenberg's last piece?

Lycosidae

]]> <![CDATA[Who's Stalking You On Facebook?]]> It definitely seems to mea