Who Has Viewed My Facebook Profile?

There are no programs or apps that simply show you who has visited your Facebook page. BUT, the method below is an easy round-a-bout way to see who has viewed your Facebook profile.

Follow the 7 steps in bold below to learn how to see what profiles are viewing your profile. Hopefully one of them will be that co-worker you dream about. :-) Thanks to WikiHow for this great information.

1. Understand this trick. This trick will give you insight into who views your profile, but Facebook isn't confirming exactly who they are. This list that Facebook keeps is determined by a lot of different factors: who comments on your posts, who you message frequently, AND who looks at your Facebook the most often (among other things).

    You'll have to learn how to interpret the list that this trick gives you. For example, look out for people showing up towards the top of the list who you know you don't message and you don't comment on their stuff. If someone you never interact with shows up pretty high on your list, you'll know it's because they're looking at your page.

2. Open your web browser. You will need one which allows you to view the source code for a website.

3. Navigate to your profile/timeline.

4. View the source code. In Google Chrome, you can simply right click the background and choose "View page source". Other browsers usually have this option under the "View" menu.

5. Use the webpage search function. In Chrome and Firefox, click Control/Command+F to open the search box. This will search all of the text on any given page for the term you type in. You will want to search for "Friendslist" or "InitialChatFriendsList".

6. Look up the individual profiles. The numbers which immediately follow are the identification numbers of the profiles of your friends. You will see a string of numbers, each set in quotations and followed by a -2 or a -3, and so on. Copy the string without the - and the final number. Paste this after the ".com/" when looking at the main Facebook page. This will bring up the profile so you know who it belongs to.

 The profiles in the list are listed in order by who visits your timeline most recently.

7. Look up a specific profile. You can also see where a specific profile falls in this list, but you will need that person's Facebook user id number. This can be difficult. Search their id number on your timeline and check where it comes up in the Friendslist to see how often they view your page.

    The simplest way to find the user id is to view a picture that they uploaded. You will see a series of numbers in the address at the top. One of those strings will be the user id. You will have to simply test until you find it. The user ids are often about 9 digits long, but it varies depending on when you signed up.

That's it. As with anything in life, you get out of this what you put into it. Spend a few minutes viewing source code and analyzing the data, and who knows, maybe that co-worker you dream about has been dreaming about you.


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