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Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms where people spend most of their time connecting to their online friend and other activities. Facebook is even more popular when it comes to stalking. With the growing number of users, stalking has become a common practice on platforms like Facebook. If you are willing to know who has recently viewed your profile, then there are a few hacks that can help you know it.
By India Today Web Desk: Given how much data and personal information each Facebook account has, it's understandable to be concerned about your privacy from time to time. People can visit your account and always find something fresh because some Facebook information is public, regardless of your privacy settings.
Contrary to popular opinion, you do have the ability to see who has viewed your profile if you have a Facebook account. Most third-party programmes that purport to make it simple don't operate well or at all, and Facebook doesn't make it easy. You can, however, employ various workarounds to get a peek at your visitor list.
Applications you use may ask for permission to access content from your News Feed and Wall. Granting this permission does not allow applications to see who has viewed your profile. It simply allows applications to see which friends have interacted with posts, such as which friends liked or engaged with a particular wall post.
Update May 31, 2019: After an 8-month hiatus, the View As feature has now officially returned, slowly rolling out to both Android and Apple devices. The View As Feature was disabled back in September of 2018 because of a security issue that affected 50 million accounts. In response, Facebook disabled the feature temporarily.
To prevent further damage and stop the hack, Facebook fixed the vulnerability and alerted the authorities. The social network also reset the tokens of the 50 million affected accounts, as well as an additional 40 million that, although were not affected, used the View As tool. This was an extra precautionary step.
As a Facebook user, you may be curious about how many people have viewed your profile. You may even want to know specifically who has viewed your profile page. Although you may want to know this information, finding it may prove to be a challenge.
Facebook does not provide you with the ability to track how many people have viewed your profile. The inability to track your profile includes your pictures, posts and other parts of your profile. You cannot embed a tracker on your profile to determine how many people view your profile. Some users have turned to third-party applications in the hopes of finding how many people have viewed their profiles.
Many third-party applications on Facebook claim to give users the ability to see how many people have viewed their profile. The applications often claim to give users a chance to see exactly who viewed their profiles. In most cases, you must give the app access to your profile information including your friend's list. Some apps go a step further and encourage you to enter more detailed information. These apps are in violation of Facebook's Terms of Service and must be reported.
Just like you can upload something on your story for others to see, you can also see others' stories. This brings us to the question if there is a way to view someone's stories without letting them know that you have checked them out? Well, yes, you can view Facebook stories anonymously by following a few tricks. What happens is that when you check someone's story, they can check who has viewed it. Then, to view the stories, you need to go to the home page and click on any story on the top that you want to see. Since you want to become the anonymous Facebook story viewer, let's find some techniques to do that.
When you turn on the airplane mode of your device, your phone will no longer be connected to the internet. So, what happens is that when the Airplane Mode is enabled, and you check a story, Facebook will fail to register your account as one of the Facebook story viewers. This is a pretty easy technique. Here's how you need to apply this method.
Step 1: Launch your iOS or Android device's Facebook account. Once you are there, log in using your credentials, and then you will see the home page and, on the top, will be the stories of different people.
For the last resort, you can deactivate your account and reactivate it after a while so that your name doesn't appear on the viewer's list. Even though this is an extreme step to take, but it keeps you anonymous. So, here's how you can do this method:
Step 3: You will see the Delete Your Account option. Please click on that. Two options will be available: deactivate your account and delete your account. You need to click on the deactivate option.
Facebook allows you to check who viewed your stories. This is known as Facebook story viewers. This option will be available on your story. Here's how to check Facebook story viewers.
When you click on your story, it shows you the number of viewers and the name of the people you are friends with. If your account is public, you will also have the other viewer option, which will show you the number of unknown people who viewed your story. But unfortunately, it doesn't show you who they are.
Other viewers option appears only on the public accounts. So, when you upload a story on your public profile, it becomes visible for everyone to see. But you can change it by limiting the viewer to friends only. But if there is an "other viewer" option available, it means that someone other than the people in your friend list has seen your story too.
When searching the internet, you may find two different ways to show you who has visited your Facebook profile by using the \"View Page Source\" option.
One method involves searching for \"Initialchatfriendslist.\"
Technically speaking, the Initial Chat Friends List is the order of the displayed list of friends in your chat bar on the right side of your Facebook page. Many factors determine the order, but it is officially an ordered list of users that Facebook thinks you are most likely to chat with based on many algorithms. This feature is already available on your profile, so there is no need to hide it, even in the Page Source. The second method involves searching for \"BUDDY_ID\" to find stalkers and friends that recently viewed your Facebook profile.
First off, you won't see anyone on the list that is NOT your friend. Second, the Buddy List is just people whom you communicated with recently in one way or another.", "url": " -who-viewed-facebook-page/#step1" }, "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile using iPhone", "image": " -content/uploads/2019/08/Facebook-iPhone-profile-viewers-01.png", "text": "Another solution all over the web to view who sees your Facebook Profile states that you can use your iPhone to see those Profile viewers. You navigate to the \"Security and Privacy\" menu on Facebook and click on the \"Who viewed my profile?\" link.
First off, this scenario is against Facebook policies, even if someone states that Facebook worked out an agreement with Apple. Second, This option got reported to have been available in April of 2020, but there have never been any more words. Some reports state that it was available on April 1st, 2020. Maybe it was a temporary glitch or opportunity? Perhaps it was an April Fools joke? We'll never truly know, and no, this scenario wasn't a test, nor will it get rolled out to Android.", "url": " -who-viewed-facebook-page/#step2" , "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "See Your Facebook Profile Viewers using Third-Party Apps", "image": " -content/uploads/2019/08/Super-Viewer-for-Facebook-01.png", "text": "You may find browser extensions or even apps that claim they can show you who viewed your Facebook profile.
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