Has Facebook finally introduced 'who's looking at your profile'? + UPDATE: Facebook respond

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• My dead grandfather shows up in mine though. He has been dead for 2 years, and I don’t go to his page much, and he obviously doesn’t go to mine. I also haven’t sent private messages to his profile, so maybe it is random. They might just show the same random people over and over or something.

• I tried http://www.whoviewedmyfacebook.com and no result. I think facebook blocks these type of applications along with their developers also :)

• One of the people in my list is my crush…:D

• why are people saying “oh crap, super creepy.” If these people are creeping you out, why did you add them in the first place? People need to start using common sense.

• Has the facebook chat bar stopped showing a list of people (as in when you drag the chat bar down) on it for the rest of you as well? I'd really appreciate it if people could give me some feedback :)

• I've tested this theory out myself. I have the same people who show up all the time on my friends list. They are people who I interact with. I commented on a girl's pic the other day who i hadn't viewed or communicated with for over a year. the next day sure enough she came up on my profile. that was because i interacted with her and she MAY have viewed my profile.

  I tested out another theory. I started viewing a random person's profile to see if he would start showing up on my profile. I didn't like his pics, comment or anything…i only viewed, there was no interaction. i have not seen him on my friend's list.

  I suspect anyone on your friend's list are people you've interacted with vice versa (messaged, commented, liked pics, poked etc) and consequently viewed. however i think it's more so someone with whom you/they interact with, NOT just someone you viewed. Just because you view someone's profile doesn't mean they'll be on your friend's list, but if you and they had an interaction either end you'll see them pop up.The other scenario is even if you haven't interacted, if THEY view your profile, they can pop up. I tested this out with a friend. I asked him to not look at my profile for a while. Over 2 months. When he started looking at it again, sure enough he started popping up on my friend's list. I believe this is the way the friend's list works, but Facebook will not disclose it because of privacy issues. I don't mind knowing whose looking at me.

• Anybody else tried testing the chatbar? You know, where u have to drag the chat bar down until everybody disappears one by one, until the last person is standing? The reason I'm asking is because I don't know if only the last three are the people most frequently visiting your page or are the last 4th & 5th person also counted? If anybody has any idea or proof, please do let me know :)

• it was random – sure and I never particularly noticed a pattern in who turned up there. 

• No doubt, the friend suggestion is based on who's profile you view.The following happened to me: One day I signed up on facebook and didn't import any addresses or anything … the only thing I did that day was searching profiles by using names of some of my coworkers – that was it! The next day I received 4 friend request from them!!! I asked them how they knew that I was now on facebook and ALL 4 of them said that they had noticed me in their friend suggestion list ~~~ I guess that should be answer enough!!!!!!   

•  Hey did you find out by experimenting in different computers? Were the results different? Please do let me know…

• 1). If you make them your “friend” in the first place, what do you have to worry about?2). Anyone worried about a “privacy issue” wouldn't be on FB in the first place.

  This is a really poorly written article that says nothing, and goes nowhere.

• Yea this would make sense…3 of the people that come up on my top 6 are people that I interact with in real life. Then there is a guy that perves over me, and then there is another guy that acts like he is playing hard to get in public but acts like he's super into me when nobody is around, and then there is a girl that absolutely hates and despises me. I un-friended this girl that hates me but when I did that she just started so much drama with me and overacted so then I re-friended her so the drama wouldnt continue. And the playing hard to get guy and the girl that despises me used to date but they both show up on my top friends the most…

• the list of ten shows who's profile YOU are looking at. I'm absolutely sure about it!

•  It’s happened again guys! The numbers of two to three people on my keesh-list whose profiles I very rarely or never open have increased again. I NEVER open my niece’s profile but she is still on the top four on my keesh-stalker-list. The same goes for a cousin of mine. & lastly there was a guy whose profile I visit once in while…but for the past couple of weeks I haven’t visited it. Although I did view an album on another mutual friend’s profile in which this guy had been tagged. Could that be the reason his number has increased? because I was viewing a photo that he had been tagged in?

• But… there is a profile that I look at very regularly and I never show up on that persons friend list… explain that…  :confused face:

• Seriously why can't FB just come clean and tell the truth? Multinational corporations are so full of the brown stuff it's sickening. Just come clean!!

  • Furthermore, stop hiding behind closed doors and provide a public phone number with real human beings on the other side to answer questions. It's called customer service, every private firm should have one. I mean…I see absolutely no reason that this lack of transparency should be legal in any way. Good thing I'm going into politics :) Watch out Facebook, I'm coming for you.

• it was random – sure and I never particularly noticed a pattern in who turned up there. 

• t's got to be something else. The the most obvious solution is that these are people who click on my profile a lot.

• Can anyone confirm if the chat bar thing really works? Is it true that the last person remaining in the chat list is the one who views your profile the most?

• Somehow,I have to agree with you. There seems to be a concept behind the displayed listof friends on your Facebook profile. Though until now, Facebook hasn’t releasedthe “who-has-viewed-my-profile” kinda feature due to privacy and protectionrights. Most people actually prefer it that way. However, in my part, I cantell that there is truth to your idea. Anyway, there’s this guy who’s been inlove with me for years now. I don’t want to sound cocky but yes, it’s true. WheneverI tried to view his profile, I don’t know why but I always see myself displayedon his list of friends, when in fact, we rarely interact with each other inFacebook. (We’re not that close.) I can really sense that he’s viewing my profilebecause whenever I post something, he’d post something quite similar to it.Guys do that actually, they instantly have the same interest with the girlsthey like. Just sayin’ :)

• Okay…does anyone have any idea why facebook keeps suggesting certain people to be added to my close friends list? I don't think facebook selects them randomly because I've noticed that it is always the same set of people being suggested. What is up with that?

• Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

• Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

• Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

• Anyone notice that the 6 friend box that shows up are the same as your phone Facebook app BUT it's missing some people!In relations, those missing people appear in an unpredictable fashion to your “view as” list. That is if you type in one of your friends who is in the six box, type their initials in “view as”, they are not the first to show up on that view as list. At first, I thought this “view as” must mimic my search bar, but if you type in initials in search and view as, the order changes. I know for sure search is who you search the most. So…view as, missing people on phone, six box,…what is this?!

  • I forgot to mention, missing people in phone app appears consistently in six boxes.

    • Yeah, i've noticed that as well!! So do you think these people are the ones who've been viewing our profiles alot?

      • Not sure. I can't even seem to match too well the view as list to the keesh list. But it's difficult to do do since the names on view as is alphabetically.

        PS. I haven't comment, liked, looked at people's profile who I'd love to look at over a year. I did however click on people who I don't really care about and went through their photos/new albums frequently. Actually I was getting more curious what they've become. Anyways, those people never show up on my six.

        But that six box definitely shows people who MSG me. If they didn't, they emailed me!! Which is scary to know.

• I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but for me this has been a pattern…You see, there is someone who I know is watching me, or those who may be checking out my profile. What I have noticed here lately has been the frequency of my chat bar switching between off (grey circle), and on (green circle). Where it starts is, I leave my chat to be offline. SO what I have noticed is how often after refreshing, the chat bar will sometimes go green without me actually putting myself online…so the little green circle goes green, and then after a while it reverts back to grey…what I have also found out is, certain people will frequently show up on my top six friends, either at the same time or shortly after the green circle is seen on. and sometimes, ads with specific friends, liking them, show up as well. SO has anyone else noticed this as well? this may relate to original alice's last post…

• It seems even the “main” larger friendbox, has changed. The top friends on the chat bar are no longer “stickies”. Actually, I find the box is pretty willy-nilly now.

• What I have noticed, is that if any friends appear in the top box of six (underneath your cover photo) enough, they end up appearing on your side chat bar (offline). The more oten they look at your profile, the higher up they go. Then the top two become “stickies” on your main friend list.

• I have been wondering since for some time now. If someone visits my profile, does facebook suggest me this person as friend in the homepage? I've noticed it for some time now.

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• Oooo Oooo I got one too… I made a fake profile of my hand and named her Hizzle Efthand and I put her in a relationship with myself so it would say: “Brian is in a relationship with Hizzle Efthand!!” It worked for like a week. Some people got it, some people are stupid. But in the end, I haven't logged in to that fake facebook in over 6 months, I'm not in a relationship anymore, and I save it for people who leave their facebook open on my computer haha!! And it only has 5 friends. BUT it is one of the 15 that pop up on my page every day. Just a stat to add to your confusion. I didn't read everybodys comments here so suck it if you wanna hate. ;o)

• for what it's worth: I PMed my old and somewhat forgotten friend two days ago, today she replied and all of a sudden there is “such-and-such (that same friend) likes blah-blah” under the “recommended pages” when I logged in to see her message. She never ever appeared there before. there is a huge chance she looked at my profile before replying, so I am a firm believer now people who appear there are those who most likely visited your profile very recently, same day likely. Makes me somewhat happy, since I saw my love interest there earlier today after not-being-there for quite some time, I know, I know, don't judge, let me live in my fantasy world for a while :) 

• I have timeline. The 8 people that show up on my timeline are ALWAYS the same when I refresh. The 6 people who show up in the “Friends” box above the actual timeline alternate, although it is the same collection of probably ~15 people. Of the 8 who always show up on my timeline, there are a few extreme examples: One is my sister, who I rarely interact with (don't chat, like/comment on each others statuses etc.), but I'm sure we both view each others profile's fairly regularly. One is a girl I know digs me, so I wouldn't be surprised that she looks at my profile, she 'likes' some of my statuses, although the only time I've ever been to hers was the day she sent me a friend request. The sister of a girl I used to date, (and recently deleted/blocked on Facebook), just started showing up. My guess is that is aforementioned girl looking at my profile from her sister's profile. I've never interacted with her sister in any way on Facebook. Another is one of my best friends from college, and he and I have been posting shit on each others walls with some regularity over the past few weeks.

  Take what you want from that, but I think it still has something to do with who is visiting your profile.

  • I have to agree with that. I have timeline and since I got it there is the people I know visit my page (close friends ect) and a few others who have started to be CONSISTENTLY there. I think it is who views your profile if I'm honest. Have seen myself come up in friends of a few people who I don't interact with often but have been checking their profiles a bit…

• My Keesh list has changed completely in the last week. Of my top five people, three are not even friends, and one is a person I have never even heard of. People I interact with the most are well down the list. My boyfriend- who I am always talking to on Facebook- barely makes the top 15. It makes no sense at all and I have no idea how they have calculated these numbers.The list used to be pretty accurate.

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• I think it used to be decided by mutual views, but that seems to have changed since the list was disabled and then revised earlier this month. I now have celebrities I subscribe to (e.g. Snoop Dog) at the top of my list. Obviously, he's not looking at my profile! I also see a direct and quick correlation between my looking at someone's profile and their number going way up. I think the list now functions as it was 'supposed to' — it tells you whose profiles you're looking at most… and nothing more. Bummer!

  • That's exactly what I have noticed as well.I came to the same conclusion after long time of testing.Too bad :(

    • I've noticed a slight shift in this over the past few days. You?

      • Yes but I have not seen/gathered enough data to jump to any conclusions yet. In the beginning of april all numbers in the list got reset (my highest number was -196. …); Before april I was 99% convinced it was based on mutual profile views. With the reset in april, all existing values seem to have been reset to a number below -1; all the numbers below -1 are still ranked in a certain order and on top of my list (with values of -0,99…) are the people who I suspect to be stalking my profile.

        When I check out a profile of a person below -1, the number increases to a value ABOVE -1… It takes some time for this to happen though (a few hours to a day) as there seems to be a delay in the refreshing of the list.

        Now… what about the values above -1… well they seem to reach this number only when you do the viewing of these other people; but then the question still remains if these actual values are further influenced by the fact the viewings were mutual or not;

        Although I am (after the reset) not really convinced anymore, I still believe mutual viewings play a role.

        The list seems to reset/refresh at a faster pace than before as the highest number I have gotten so far is -16…

        These are my *premature* conclusions so far. I made some testing and phonecalls to fb friends to aid me in the mutual viewing (and/or ask them if they had visited my profile)-) Any value above -10  –> mutual viewing-) Any value above -1 of whom you didn't visit their profile or interacted with –> they viewed you-) Any value above -1 but below -10 of a person's profile you visited –> One sided viewing of you

        Once again, it's too soon to tell. FB is messing with our heads clearly (and they know about our findings) by using different lists and putting many randoms into the equation.

        Let's keep sharing our thoughts and finsings about this!!

        • Great info! My findings are similar: The numbers are much, much lower since the reset, and the highest number I've seen is -18. (Before the reset, my top-ranked person was >-400!) I also think that time spent on the person's profile or looking at photos has an impact. Do you find that clearing your cache affects the rankings? 

        • Clearing the cache doesn't seem to have an impact. The list seems to be the same on multiple other computers as well. 

          In any case, no doubt about it that they've clearly changed the criteria. All my listed fb relatives also seem to have made the list, although we never have any interaction whatsoever – they are all clumped together.

          Hate to break it to you, but it appears more and more to be the case that the list has become definitely one sided :/The delay in updates of the list makes it hard to know for sure, but so far … I don't know anymore, it'll require more testing.

          Yes, checking out a person's profile and browsing through pictures seem to have the biggest impact.

          This just happened:I congratulated some people for their birthdays on their facebook. For a two people (A & B) I did this through the sidebar, for one (C) I went directly to his wall to post it.

          Both B & C 'liked' my birthday comment.

          Well now: A & B are still way below -1, while C suddenly skyrocketed to -9

        • Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

        • “Yes they’ve clearly changed the criteria. Relatives are all near the top, about 25 of them clumped together. I have tons of cousins listed as my relatives on fb- however, most we never interact and they’ve never made the list but this time they all made the list near the top regardless.”

          Clearing cache doesn't seem to affect my rankings and I checked the results on different computers, where they appear to be the same.

          I hate to break it to you, but it appears that the list has definitely become one-sided :(Today I posted birthday wishes on three people's walls. I used the sidebar for this for person A & B and I went to the profile wall of person CBoth person B & C “like-buttoned” my post.

          One hour later persons A & B are still low on my list far below -1, while person C has skyrocketed to -9.5

          Confidential question for you MD3, is your -400 and -18 your crush whom you stalk? Is there a lot of mutual interaction between you two? Just look at your list and examine closely if you have visited all their profiles recently or browsed through pictures in which these names were tagged. I seem to be able to say that this is the case for me…

        • Yes, my top person is someone whose profile I click on, although nowhere near often enough to make the number that high. That's more true about the -400 number. And no public interaction whatsoever. I don't have any relatives identified as such, so I can't speak to that. Clearing the cache has an instant effect on my numbers. Maybe it depends on your browser? I use Google Chrome.

        • -400 was in the period when it was definitely mutual based. I am using Safari, but will try to test out some things with Google Chrome.

          So far I am 98% convinced that after the update, the list has become one sided :(

        • Ok so I didn't visit anyone's profile for a few days (only browsed the newsfeed) and ALL values are below -1 now with on top the person I have 'stalked' the most recentl. At nr 5, the person whose profile I haven't visited in the past months, but before have stalked the most in my entire facebook history.And at nr 16, a person who died 3 months ago, but who keeps appearing in my list, although I haven't visited his page all that much.

          All facts combined, and alas to say, the list seems really one-sided :((((((((

          Google edgerank, which will explain a lot

        •  I have been reading about this stuff all day!How do you find out these values?

        • http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/wh…

        • Same here. It's probably for the best because I'm spending a lot less time on Facebook now. 

        • And they changed it again… Now no value seems to hit the -1 and above mark ever!! The friend box variables  seem to have been tweaked as well.

          I am through analyzing this MD3, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever anymore. Just leave it be for what it is, it's not worth it. And neither is facebook as a whole.

          The END

        • Oh yeah, they keep tweaking stuff and nothing makes sense in my list anymore either. The order of people in my keesh list just seems completely randomised.

        • I noticed a change in the lower friends box too. It's now the same box no matter who views it, and the person I'd like to be in it is no longer there. Oh well. 

        • Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

        •  I haven't viewed my crush's profile (I used to majorly stalk his profile at one time) for the past one year. Explain to me why is his number still showing way higher than the people I actually interact with everyday (liking, commenting, viewing profile, etc, etc)? His ranking suddenly becomes low & then suddenly increases every now & then (in spite of me having not viewed, clicked or stalked his profile or any part of it for the past one year). If it truly is one sided, then what my keesh list shows makes no logical sense :-/

        •  & I also forgot to mention: I've been asking my cousin to stalk my profile everyday. & guess what, her ranking has increased! I haven't opened her profile or touched it for a REALLY long time. So if it truly is one-sided, how come her ranking was high, reduced & then increased again in the past one week?!

  • Well, I've said before and I'll say again; the algorithm acts accordingly with who YOU interact with. It's initiated by what YOU do – clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth…. if you don't do any of this, then it doesn't kick-in. For example; if you simply view, then a clear indication of who that person views is ON their profile. Create a fake profile and only view other profiles…trial it and see. Timeline isn't much different. Last time I was rubbished for this 'one way traffic' finding, and I will be again, but it's true. If everybody simply viewed then you would know who looks  at you by looking at THEIR page and seeing yourself, but because this isn't the case we don't . Pick a friend who isn't active that often, then you'll see. Once we all start  clicking, viewing, likes, commenting so-forth, the algorithm begins to operate thus determining who views YOU as very hard. 

• i can't believe these girls talking about stalkers on their friends list.  You are paranoid.  If you think they are stalkers then why do you add them as friends??  That said my experience is:- I have people I have rarely publicly interacted with that show up- I have people I interact with often that don't show up- then I have people that suddenly show up for a day or two and drop off …   despite no public interaction

  I had been thinking that it had to do with who checked my profile, but then recently I verified with a friend that he had not interacted with my profile in any way in the past 2 days, yet he was showing top of the list.

  Personally, I prefer Facebook making public the true criteria , this way we are not imagining things

• I don't think it's a privacy concern. If you don't want someone looking at your profile then don't have them as a friend. It's kind of the point of having someone as a friend on facebook…they can look at your profile and you can look at theirs. Nothing has changed except that now you can see that they're doing what they're expected to do in order to actually make use of the site. The people you are looking at should have that same expectation. If a person feels like they need to hide and are bothered that someone knows that person is using facebook to look at their profile (which, again, is its purpose, no?) then maybe their issue is that they're not using it with the purest of intentions and really ARE being creepy…in which case I'm glad the creepee is aware of the creeper's activity

  • Thankyou! Someone needed to point this out. I fully agree that if you don't know someone, don't add/accept them. And if you do, expect them to see everything on your profile. At the same time, if you are viewing someones profile regularly without talking to them this is very “stalker” like, especially if you don't want them knowing you are doing so! GET A LIFE! Or even better, talk to them! It is called a 'social' network for a reason :)

• so is the edgerank described in the link below by Foxy Vixen the same as the Keesh/stalker list? I know we all think the Keesh list is based on mutual views, but what if it's just the pure EdgeRank?  I have been checking two FB profiles every day for the past few months (my friend's and my romantic interest/crush) and for a while both were moving up on the Keesh list with the same rate. But few days ago the crush's numbers went from ~120 to 50 (ouch!) while that friend's number went from ~ 130 to 150. I was a bit disappointed, assuming the number of mutual views went down. It may be still the case… but then I re-read the EdgeRank article again and realized that in the last month or so I clicked on many photos of my friend (she has old-style profile page), while I didn't click on a single photo of my crush even though he posted a lot of new ones. The reason I didn't click on them is because he got the timeline and photos appear so huge there, there is no need to click on them to see the details. He also shares  a lot of youtube videos, and since I always have troubles with video-viewing plugin on my laptop, I usually just click on the actual youtube link and never watch them on FB itself…. so I realized that maybe I reduced his EdgeRank by “ignoring” his photos and videos? He got timeline in the beginning of March, so I guess it took a month for the Keesh list (or EdgeRank) to catch up. According to that article, viewing photos and videos increases the EdgeRank….Both of those people still appear on my LSB10 friends with the same frequency, it seems, and the chat bar order didn't change.

  By the way, it seems there is another Alice on this forum that posted 3 weeks ago, so I post under the name of Original Alice :) I did post here few times before as “Alice”… and it was more than 3 weeks ago

• To whom this may concern for whoever has timeline. Okay, so now I can determine, some of the friends that show up on the friends list on the right side on timeline, they HAVE to be someone who has recently interacted with your profile. For me, it has always been noticing recommended pages, from certain people, then two days later, they show up on my friends list. Contrarily, I have been following suit on a certain friend, who uploads vlogs on youtube. he seems to be following me, yet doesn't talk. Sometimes, I would write out notes, and then a few days later, he'd upload a vlog talking in reference to what I wrote. I can prove this, because two days before he showed on the right friends list just now, recommended pages, showing what he likes, started showing up all at once. What made it even more suspicious was, not only were there recommended pages, but also a sponsored ad, saying “he likes this”.

• Has anyone ever noticed, that the right bottom portrait of the 8-friend box stays fix all the time, while the other 7 switch places when you hit the browser refresh button.

  With me the right bottom friend changes after a certain period in someone else, however for the last two weeks I have only have two different right bottom friends – alternating places with each other.

  I (almost) know for a fact that these two persons are the ones who visit my wall the most often (however I also interact with them and visit their wall)

• Has anyone ever contemplated about how certain sponsored ads tend to show with certain friend’s names such as “So-so likes this”? Like I could go on my profile page, and see that this person likes something, but underneath, this is the same person from the top friends in the smaller friends box. another case is, the ads are mostly also from friends that show up on the “deactivate” page.

  maybe if someone uses facebook much less, or is offline from chat, for a long time, they start to drop off. I checked my chatbar, and the some people who had a longevity of time up there, are now off the list. The search bar remains the same for the someone who fell off my chat list…hmmm…

• I know about the first and hope he fixes it soon. The second and third look to work fine. What did I miss?

• the keesh list, search bar and chat side bar have all been disabled!

• The Keesh list seems to have stopped working overnight.

• I literally only talk to one person regularly on facebook, and he doesn’t show up at all. Only people who I notice pay attention to my posts do, but I do not have any particular interaction with any of them. They don’t even like my shit that much. But it’s often the same collection, as you said happened to you.

• Thanks for the link to the article. It was informative. Obviously there are other “edges” involved in individual marketing campaigns. Especially the marketing and presentation of facebook data.
  Possibly now we can all stop believing we are the centre of a fantasy universe. Where ex-lovers pop out of the woodwork. And start remembering that we are, in fact, all being vaguely market manipulated by our own curiosity and self-centredness. Not that it’s a bad thing. In general.
  Thanks again.

• Interesting Article about the FB Algorithm

  http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7885-edgerank-the-most-important-algorithm-you-ve-never-heard-of

• Facebook programmers are highly intelligent people. Facebook can afford to employ the very best minds, recruited from anywhere in the world. They would never, ever allow a system to operate which could violate their privacy laws – is he stalking me? am I stalking them?
  Facebook is first and foremost a business.
  They would like to keep your custom. It generates revenue.
  A fool proof way of generating revenue is to keep people talking. . . to encourage people to check on other people.
  They do have an algorithm. It must involve a mix of parameters. One of which is “who has been silent for a while?” Another would be “who is popular”. And another would be frequent searches . . . . not necessarily current searches, but based probably at some time in the past.
  Clever aren’t they? These facebook programmers? People are still talking, and checking.

• I noticed this over a year ago. I agree with you 100% that these are the people looking at your profile. I mostly have proof because I’ve been told by 3 or 4 people directly that they stalk my facebook….and those people undoubtedly, appear on my page. Another thing, if you drag your mouse over someone’s name so you can see yours and their mutual friends, the same people on your page also appears on that friends list. Coincidence? I don’t think so!

• So funny that I noticed this over a year ago. I agree with you 100% and it is a privacy issue. Whether or not facebook realizes what they’re doing here, or if it’s just a technical glitch thats gone unnoticed….you can see who has been looking at your profile this way. I thought I was going crazy when I noticed that, happy someone finally posted about it

• So…there’s a lot of comments…so maybe someone said this already…but here we go anyway…

  Facebook knows that if they enable the “who’s viewing whose profile?” that all of you will rile up in rage about privacy over an actually super enlightening feature: you know who is creeping on you now.

  So what they did was add an element of randomness. This is so easy to do. I just finished making a video game and to have a consistent set of data, blended with some random set of data, is really easy.

  Also, has anyone thought at all that maybe these people, are people that YOU visit a lot? That’s definitely what I thought of first, because that’s what I noticed happening.

  Finally, I think it’s all three combined with “public interaction” so that you will be REALLY confused when you look at your data, so you can’t rile up in rage for something that may actually help make the world more safe because now you can avoid those creepy people who visit your profile a little TOO much.

• Does anyone know how to edit the number of friends displayed within the profile box in the main body?? I’ve noticed that some of my friends have 10 friends displaying, I have 6.

• I kinda like knowing.. it’s helped me predict a few stalkers that appeared at my work. Two separate occasions, two separate people. At least this way, I wasnt surprised.

• The new timeline has two boxes that show your friends. Does anyone know which box to pay attention to? Is it the one next to Photos, Maps, and Likes, or the friends box to the right?

• ..you like that lame attempt to give a dull post some energy by adding “!” at the end? Yeah boi

• ..you like that lame attempt to give that long winded post some energy by putting a “!” at the end?

• Even in the new timeline profile I’m noticing coincidences. In the six friends shown, my ex frequently appears – even though we were never ‘in a relationship’ on Facebook, nor did we interact much on there. Never come to think of it. Perhaps it’s just wishful thinking, but as it’s a relatively recent break up on good terms, it’s possible she’s checking out my profile. Further, after getting off the phone to a friend of mine earlier today – whom I rarely interact with online – she then appears in my top 6. Finally, there is one girl who consistently pops up – a girl whom I see often but again only interact with on the phone or in person. This too leads me to conclude she, like the others, are viewing my profile frequently.

  I actually have nothing against knowing whom is “stalking” me, nor do I care who knows whom I’m “stalking”. I understand privacy is an extremely, extremely complex and sensitive issue, but in this particular case I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest, who gives a f*ck? In fact I think it’s rather sweet knowing who’s been checking you out; like a subtle poke.

  In summary, my “top friends” are always either people I frequently interact with online, or girls I frequently see in person but never online. Both instances, as well as the opening examples strongly indicate that the friends whom regularly appear on your profile are those whom often frequent your profile!

• @Sarah. I have 2 fake profiles that I use to onseidedly stalk myself. One is a year old, the other is 2 yrs old. I can say that over time, both profiles have shown up in many of the expected places. Last summer, both of my fake profiles were showing up on searchbar, MO5, Make facebook you homepage, briefly no the offline chatbar, and relatively higher than expected positions on the keeseh stalker list considering I never viewed/ interacted w these fake profiles (ie #25 and #80 out of 500 friends)…. neither was ever on LSB10 curiously (I think that LSB10 has more to do w more mutuality?)

  However, as of right now, both fake profiles have disappeared completely from my keesh list, from search bar, from chatbar… Basically, i can’t find hints of my fake profiles anywhere on my real profiles anymore. I think it’s possible that facebook may have changed its settings so that profiles that use the same IP address can’t really show up so that suspicious ppl like us can’t easily do these tests anymore. I’m now running a test w a 3rd fake profile from a school computer to see what I can find out. I suggest other ppl to do the same too so that we can compare findings in a few weeks :) I can’t think of any other way.

• @Sarah00, I think your “experiment” is a good idea. However, take a look at Elle’s comments above. I think you would need to do this from a different computer with a different IP address. Otherwise, your results could be questionable.

  Btw, I have noticed the Keesh numbers jump up or down on my list every couple of days. This happens without my stalking or visiting his profile at all. No clicks, no “likes” no comments lately. So why would it jump from -89.blahblahblah to -92.blahblahblah? Just curious. Also the names on the list fluctuate as well. Again, without me “interacting” with those other profiles at all.

  • Yeah you are right…I’d have to try it from a different computer. But for some reason my stalker list takes one week to update itself & not every couple of days anymore. I wonder why it updates itself faster on other’s computers :-/

• Okay here is another question: Has anyone ever created a fake profile and stalked their own real profile and checked the stalker-keesh-list on their real profile to see the ranking of their fake profile name?

• guys, there has GOT to be something to that offline chat bar. I can’t figure out exactly what it is though :(

• k i just went to test this theory. went on my friends profile and saw my mom at the friends at the top 6 friends or whatever. now i know my boy wouldnt be going on my moms profile. she is old sick and crippled :(. and my mom is the stalker. so who knows right

  • @ annonymous, on timeline, the 6 friends you see on another person’s profile are different from what the account holder actually sees. what you see on their profile seems to be based on the mutual friends you have. For the standard facebook, i’m pretty sure the people displayed in LSB10 list is the same for the account holder and the profile visitor. I have multiple profiles so I’ve been doing many tests for many months to try to crack the code but still can’t come up with anything conclusive sadly :(
    However, someone mentioned above that stalkers with the same ip address as you may not show up in the same suspected places as regular stalkers so I’m about to try another experiment w a 5th profile using a school computer w a different ip address to stalk my real profile and see if i can FINALLY conclusively figure anything out. haha

• Sarah, the Keesh list changes for me too. I find it changes every couple of days or so (even after clearing the cache). The weird thing is that sometimes my guy is at #1 with a -32 score, then remains at #1 with a higher score, say -130, without me changing the number of visits to his profile. Lately my “interactions” have been limited to quick peeks at the profile picture (that everyone can see).

  • Actually “quick peeks” are also counted when it comes to the count/rank increasing (believe it or not!). Pretty much clicking on anything that is related to his profile including clicking to see who are the people who have “liked” a status-update of his/a link of his that might be appearing on your news-feed, can also increase the rank…Can you try not to take any ‘quick peeks”/or try not to click on anything related to him whatsoever, then maybe you can figure out if it is mutual.

• Has the Keesh list stopped changing the past few days? Mine hasn’t budged for at least three. I’d been comparing the changes day-to-day for a while, then suddenly nothing ever changed even though interactions both ways changed a lot.

  One thing I see on the dropdown search list is that new profile picture changes lag there for days while they update almost instantly if you check old messages.

  Too, it seems like there’re two almost not quite static dropdown versions that seem to alternate. They have very different contents. Maybe if someone is online or not at the time?

• Has the Keesh list stopped changing the past few days? Mine hasn’t budged for at least three. I’d been comparing the changes day-to-day for a while, then suddenly nothing ever changed even though interactions both ways changed a lot.

  One thing I see on the dropdown search list is that new profile picture changes lag there for days while they update almost instantly if you check old messages.

  Too, it seems like there’re two almost not quite static dropdown versions that seem to alternate. They have very different contents. Maybe if someone is online or not at the time?

• Sarah00, I haven’t been here in a while. Can you please repost the link to the Keesh list? Why with all the new FB updates and new profile timeline, I can’t keep track of what is going one anymore. Thanks!

  • http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/who-does-facebook-think-you-are-searching-for/

    This is the website.

• yea, it’s DEFINITELY who’s been on your profuile recently, because someone keeps appearing on mine, and i know why.

• The ten people that appear on my wall have barely Any public interaction with my facebook. There’s a group of people who I have been tagged in group pictures with recently but there are two people who appear every time I refresh my page and I have NEVER had Any interaction with them!! It definitely has something to do with who views your page!!!

  • try posting something that you know will be of interest to who you feel watches you. my indicator has been me finding people who I may know based upon a friend that hasn’t spoken to me in a month. I find this out after talking to someone else publicly on facebook.

    so let’s say, I posted a comment on someone’s post. Minutes later, these friends of someone who doesn’t even talk to me show up, in the people you may know box. I know it is this one person because he’s the only person who shows up when I click on the “1 mutual friend”

• @Joe: yep, that’s my point. people on your chat bar are not people who chat with you most, I am convinced those are people who have viewed your profile the most or have viewed it recently. I have multiple evidence of that, like some would mention they saw a pic of mine, and they instantly move up on the cat bar, and we never ever chat with each other.

  • the odd case is when the list on the chatbar tends to correspond with the search bar. For example, this random girl, that I honestly never talk to, has shot up first with her four initialed name, on the search bar. by tonight I’ll check my chat bar and see if she has been put up there. The wonder is, the guy I like, I haven’t talked to him for like a month and a half, an he is still first on the search bar for his username, and last name, but now he’s second to the guy who is now talking to me by his first initial. he has been on the chatbar for the longest time, and he is at the very bottom, right under the guy I have been talking to.

    I looked at someone else’s profile, who happened to be under the mysterious girl, then she went down as soon as I checked back. it has to be mutual viewing on that search bar, and chat bar. I want to know where you can drag it down, to where someone is the only one left. that would be very helpful.

• you know when you get these “recommended pages” or “people you may know”? At first it may appear to be different people liking something, but as you venture into your profile, such as going to your photos, it’ll line up to someone in particular. For whoever spots this, try going to your notes, photos, or anything that you know that is able to be looked at by someone else, and notice who shows up most as “so-so likes this” it’s been the same case, when sometimes, I wrote notes and saw friends of this one person in particular in the “people you may know”, a little while after posting. it.

  as soon as I noticed the pattern, it stopped, and this wasn’t the first time I noticed this either.

  I read your post alice. someone is definitely interested in me, yet doesn’t talk to me. this person in particular, has been on the chat bar for as long as I can remember, but doesn’t even talk to me and no one ever overlaps him.

• … sometimes I think FB just messes up with our heads lol! I wouldn’t be surprised if they have special stuff who looks all day at people interactions on FB, decides who our obsession is and starts messing up with us by showing or not showing them on our profiles. I’ve been following who shows up on my LSB and chat bar for a while, and most of the times I conclude it’s based on mutual interactions, but not always.

  the only certain conclusion I came up with so far is: if people are not showing up on your LSB or chat bar, then they are not interested in you and you are not interested in them.

  as an experiment, I went to few of my real-life friends profiles to look who shows up on their LSB10. All of these people have few hundreds of FB friends from their previous lives in school, college, jobs, hobbies or what not. Interestingly, people who were on their friends list were mostly people from their “current” life, i.e., their boyfriends/girlfriends, relatives, our mutual friends (including myself), their other good friends, etc. It’s almost like if you want to find out who is important to a certain person as fas FB interactions, go to their profile and see who is on their friends list. That’s why many make it private. It doesn’t always work, however. I, for example, have only ~60 friends on FB and interact/stalk regularly with only 3 people, plus occasionally visit other profiles if they have interesting photos, so my LSB list is kinda weird, but still is quite representative of my current life.

• This is such an interesting issue to discuss about. I have heard people saying that the top 15 are those who had recently viewed your profile. Though some people have been debating about the same person that keeps appearing on the top 15 are those they often stalk, I don’t think that is the case. I have been stalking a few profiles on FB however, their faces don’t appear on my top 15 list. I am not sure whether mine’s appears on theirs or not because unfortunately the person(s) whom i stalk had set their friend’s list as private. such a bummer. LOL. Regardless, I do believe it has something to do with recent views/interactions either publicly or in private. Nevertheless to what extend is the time frame of “recent viewers” is a bit tricky to be answered because apparently some of the friends who appear in my top 15 list are those who I barely (perhaps never) interacted with. Another question that wonders me is if we were to set our friend list as private, would our profile appear on the profile of person whom we stalk?

• Here’s what I have noticed:

  1) Most of the friends that are on my friends list are indeed friends that I have had the ‘most interactions’ with. This doesn’t necessarily mean I comment on their statuses, like, etc. ALL the time. This includes tags in pictures, check-ins, etc. I am tagged in TONS of the same pictures as 3 of my friends who I went on a trip with half a year ago, barely if not ever talk to them now. But they still show up on my friends and chat list.

  2) 3 of the friends that are on my list are the ones that I stalk. I doubt they are checking out my profile, but it’s funny how they consistently show up on mine. I stalk their pages all the time! But I’m never on their friends list!!

  3) I made a fake profile to stalk one of my crushes. There was an earlier post about Facebook using your internet cache to streamline ads, etc. This has to be somewhat true. I logged onto my fake account and looked at the suggested friends list. They were all people who’s profiles I’ve viewed using my REAL account! My fake and real account are not connected at all (i.e. I did not add myself). There is definitely some connection between the stored information on your computer and what facebook is presenting to you. This explains when you search someone typing one letter, it automatically brings up the person you’ve viewed or interacted the most.

  So I don’t know if it really shows who has been stalking you, for me it definitely shows who I have been stalking the most.

• delicious! very interesting, I liked it.

• I think FB also monitors who you email and who emails you but specifically from gmail and hotmail accounts. I did a test and emailed my business account from my gmail account and my business profile showed up as a person I may know. Also, I had emailed a person who is not a FB friend and he shows up in the people I may know. He has a hotmail account and I used my gmail account to email him.

• I’m convinced it’s people who have recently visited your profile and Facebook is just trying to cover their asses with the whole “public interactions” statement. There’s one person who consistently shows up in my top friends who I don’t publicly interact with on Facebook. Actually, most of the people in my top friends are people I don’t publicly interact with. Yet, the people who I DO publicly interact with almost daily, are almost never in my top friends. And when they are, it’s usually after a time when I know they had visited my profile.

• I found this interesting too and have been doing some experimenting with it and trying to figure out exactly how these people are chosen. It’s not who you interact with the most. Mine pops up with many people that I haven’t talked with in a long time soooo…I’ve been keeping track of a friend’s page list with someone I am friends with but not not direct friends on my FB page…this person is a mutual link between us. I’ve had interactions with this person offline mostly. Not stalking or anything. Same sex but just an experimentation to try to nail it down further. I know this person’s schedule, when they come on the most, etc. The times where I know they are not online and don’t have access to a computer they don’t show up in this friend’s friend list. This was spot on time and time again. I even called at one point asking if they were online and they said yes or that they had recently gone on that day; hence showing up either higher up or lower on the list.

  This person was not online for a number of days. I pushed it even further. I posted something on my page tagging our mutual friend and the context of my post would be of great interest to this other person. I was curious since friends of friends and tagging a friend will show up in their friend’s newsfeed as well. She would ultimately get wind of it and piqued curiosity since this friends that we are both friends with has been tagged in my post. Sure as you know what, within 12 hours of my posting and tagging our mutual friend with content this other person would also be interested in…the entire day and I tracked it, they were showing up nonstop usually higher up on the friend’s list. Come to find out, they in fact online that day and reading what I had posted because our mutual friend was tagged.

  Long story short. The more I’ve experimented with this, I believe it’s telling of who has been online most recently. Higher up on the friend list are the ones who are online at that moment or actively browsing. The ones who are lower in the friend list were recently on or haven’t clicked on a post or what have you for some time due to reading or signing off, etc. Of course, there are still those showing up that do seem to be random but very small few that show up but believe now it tells you who is online or has been online recently.

• Who cares? That’s what Facebook is all about interacting with people isn’t it. You can always not have any friends if it bothers you that much but you’d probably be unhappy if you were ignored. You sound like a paranoid, self obsessed moaner that probably no-one is that interested about anyway. Humans are curious in humans like cats are curious about other cats and dogs are curious about other dogs so don’t read so much into it. It’s not all about you! Grow up!

• Its soo true everyone on my friends bar i always talk to and i always catch them on my facebook page….
  thats sooo creepy haha

• I’ve been noticing for some time that my LSB10 hasn’t changed much at all. Everytime I log in, I see the same sort of people 10- 12 maybe in the rotation, when I refresh for some time, then log off. Some people I know check on me, have been coming on and off lately. However, my crush has been on the LSB10 list, every single day since I first realized his frequency of showing up on the LSB10…

  The note reader, he appears on and off such as a few others, but I have an idea that he does checks on me from time to time. I personally told him on another website, not to talk to me on facebook, and he rarely likes my statuses, or video links.

  Maybe the fact that I reduced myself to just visiting my facebook, instead of staying on it all day long, may be affecting this. I also noticed that my search bar has updated faster than it usually did when I stopped going on facebook all day long. These are just visits. Maybe facebook knows we may log on and refresh a lot, and expect us to expect our crush, or familiar friends to show up on the LSB10.

  I haven’t really been talking to people, and especially not checking profiles for a while, and few people have dropped off my LSB10(such as the note reader, but he goes on and off frequently), but as for my crush to remain on the list for more than five days, there must be something under the covers ;)

• SO ya, i just want to share my case .
  There are 1 guy, have 2 Fb accounts. The one is already full (reach 5000) and the other is still adding many friends. He’s sort of popular guy.
  I used to stalk the full account, maybe once in a while i visited his profile, liked his statuses, saw his photos, and he appear in my top list. The second account i did the same but no too much like the first one. The second account also appear in my list.

  So i just stop interact with these accounts, and the second one is gone from my list and the first account still there, for a long time (why?). I keep wait for that account to be gone from my list to show that the reason he appear in my list cos i stalk him. But i wonder maybe he visited my profile too.

• I definetly believe this. When you hover over a friends profile pic it shows a tab showing 5 mutual friends, and this one girl kept showing up in that tab over and over again. I have never interacted with her on fb. Also whenever I hit “see friendship” for someone, she always shows up on that page too. She doesn’t show up in my friends list on my profile page, but heres what happens a lot: I will be online, then ill see her sign on, and within minutes she will start appearing in my friends list with every single refresh…strange…almost like I can tell when she viewed my page…but the next day she wont be on there anymore.

• It’s true, if they like you enough to keep looking on your page why are they not msg you etc? It is strange, that it’s your crushes but there has to be something else in it?

• I don’t really interact on Facebook much. I’ll post maybe 1 status a month, maybe a like or a comment here and there that’s it. Here’s what I got:

  2 friends who always show up regularly on my top 10. I could imagine they check my profile regularly because I talk to them often.

  5 people who I talk to once in a while. They just started showing on my top 10 so maybe they checked my profile briefly to see how I’m doing.

  1 semi-famous person who I doubt would check my profile regularly if at all.

  2 girls whose profiles I have checked on and off for months now but never talked to them. They just showed up this past week. This happens often as there will be other girls showing up. However, I’m not in their top 10.

  What does this all mean? Who knows, it would be nice if the girls who checked out my profile were ones that were into me, but I bet if I messaged them they’d ignore me haha.

• if you want privacy then delete your account!

• Haha, if you’re suspicious about which ‘friends’ are viewing your profile, maybe you need to do a cleanup on your ‘friends’ list.

• anybody has any insights for the new friend box on facebook timeline…there are 2*6 friends photos…6 small photos under your name and another 6 bigger photos on the right….the small photos box looks like the old MO5…

• There is one particular friend whose profile page I view constantly several times a day, send & receive private messages from, occasionally chat with, I’m always “liking” her posts & she posted something on my wall last night, yet she STILL isn’t showing up on the list on my page & I’m not showing up on hers. Many of the people w2ho are showing up are people I almost never interact with. What gives?

• I’m pretty sure it’s people who check your profile often. None of the 10 people in my list are people who’s profiles I have visited recently. What’s also interesting is that those people have in person, shown an interest in me in the past. There are also four people whom I haven’t talked to recently… Those guys, I’m not entirely sure about… But, the other 6 girls are people who seem to like me.

• The keesh list doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know why, or if it will ever be fixed again. Which sucks…I really wanted to check it out

• Whats the keesh list?

• if this is true my suspicions about some friends has gay feelings towards me. ffs this is so lame. well, now there’s nothing left to do but to mock them for what they really is in real life, faggots who wants my penis up theyre ass. FFS its not cool to be a really handsome guy with a positive aura. Retarded noobs dont know how to act. gtfo my shit. should i just delete them? i’m not homophobic cause i’m secure about myself but this is just creepy. 1 positive thing though two of the hottest girls i know show up there too :)

• isn’t strange that our crash is always first on the keesh list, is this an illusion?..for some lucky guys is possible to have the crush who views them profile..but almost all of us have the crush on the first..strange no?

• @sara00: I too check the keesh-list ALL DAY! I noticed that an old crush remains at #1 and his numbers jump (way up in some cases) and I DO NOT look at his page at all!

  Keesh-list is based on both ways tracking…I’m SURE of it!

• Hey guys, thanks for the interesting read. I’ve been telling my friends for months that the people in your LSB10 are not random and are in some way related to who you visit and who visits your profile, so it’s comforting to know I’m not the only one dwelling on this.

  My LSB10 used to switch up regularly, but for the past 2 weeks or so it has switched back between two lists of people. All of them except 1 are people I correspond with regularly in public, and some people show up on both lists. I’d say it’s 15 people in total who are always there.

  There was one exception only – my boyfriend’s best friend. My BF and I haven’t told anyone about our relationship yet as it’s very new, but his best friend who is female and someone I know fairly well, has for the first time in the history of our facebook friendship been a regular on my LSB10, and coincidentally she is the only one he has told about us. She moves up and down the list, but she is always there. Whether it’s because she has liked my status’ and pictures recently or it’s related to the amounts of times she checks my profile I don’t know, but I have only checked her profile once so the communication between us is most certainly one-sided.

  Anther thing I am inclined to believe is the chat offline list being comprised of people who check your profile often, and not the other way around. When I scroll to the very bottom, my boyfriend is the one left, but as I continue to move up, every person on the list is a valid choice for someone who I have a lot in common with, and who would have a reason to visit my profile often. I don’t check people’s profiles a lot, not even my boyfriend’s because I know how inactive he is (he usually just signs in to lurk), and I mostly like or comment on my friends’ content from the homepage if at all, but I know for a fact that all of the people on my offline list check my profile regularly if not daily, some who don’t even leave comments or wall posts, but who occasionally hit me up in private messages.

  Also, I am never online on facebook chat, so the list has nothing to do with who you have chatted the most with.

  I don’t think people should expect facebook to reveal for a fact that their algorithms are based on profile visits and or clicks, that’s just counter productive for them. The way it is now keeps people guessing and keeps people coming back to check – everyone has a crush, a boyfriend/girlfriend they keep an eye on, an ex they wish stalked them etc etc etc, and facebook uses this to keep the traffic going, it’s brilliant and it’s not something they’re going to give up any time soon.

• My LSB10 has been goofing up with different people each time I refresh. sometimes it would be obvious people showing up, then others I have an idea that would be looking at me, followed by randomners. What I did realize was yesterday, my sister (one of the ones I have idea of) showed up on my LSB10 after she tried to add me down as her brother. Of course I refused. I have my page blocked fromm family seeing it. It’s nothing private, but it’s something about wanting to get to know people other than them. Anyhoo, after she sent me the family request, she sudden;y showed up on my LSB10, and she has been there since yesterday.

  Also I took note that someone liked a link that I shared, and afterwards, he started showing up on the LSB10 as well. Another suspicion I have is, I haven’t been talking to the guy I like, and this is the third day I’ve noticed that he’s been showing up on the LSB10. I noticed before, that he would partially show up during the day, and stay for a while on the LSB10, then disappear, then show up again, after the “7:00 PM” rotation.

  he’s one of the ones who usually stay on the LSB10 despite the list changing for the next day. I have been taking note of who shows up most, and he is one of them, and another suspect I have towards my family is my mother. She is showing up a lot on the LSB10. It’s nothing towards my family, but I really take facebook to be a way to communicate with different people. I’m guessing that the mother would keep showing up because I don’t talk to her in real life, so she would need to try to see what I am doing on facebook, but it shouldn’t be possible since I blocked her from seeing anything I post. In conclusion, I can tell that some people on my list of LSB10, are in fact looking at my posts, or my profile, but are trying to make it subtle at the same time. It’s been while, what has anyone else found about their LSB10, anything new?

• Might be some truth in it, i noticed that a while back also, with people whom i’ve never had any public interaction with online, they’re only on my friendslist as they’re relatives

• i constantly visited a profile..and two days ago on the keesh list this person was in the 2 position (-18), after one day she was at -9, and I’m sure she’s not visited my profile..and she’s not interested in me; good to know, cos my crush is at first and the number seems not to change..by the way, the person that was 2 appear on my left 10 list today..cos I visited her? probably will remain on that list for a short time..cos she won’t visit me..

• well I looked on my profile and there wasn’t this guy, seconds later after he logged on he was on that friends bar. I think the more people you interact with and the more people look at your profile make it harder to show up on this bar. I almost know it doesn’t have much to do with private chatting and mostly to do with commenting or viewing a person’s profile. I have talked to this guy for about 3 years all the time (on private chat) he never shows up and yet this other guy I’ve almost never talked to shows up in a matter of seconds. In conclusion (this is just theory not proven fact) , the more people that you interact with through your profile (and people that look at your profile) the harder it is to change those 15 people viewed on your profile. The less people comment or look at your profile the easier those 15 change. That’s why some peoples don’t change every so often and others do. Really it is true genius that Facebook did this in just the right way for people not to get too suspicious. Obviously people are catching on.

• well…i’ve been speculating with myself bout this top friends list. As i notice, when you view your page as different people (using view as feature) the top list change. So my friends who visit my profile will not see my top friend list. Maybe fb did this to cover our top list so it remains private to us. Why private? Perhaps the list shows our stalkers, or the people we interact the most. Thats just my opinion..

  • That’s not entirely true about the friends not being seen by the publuc, and it is not facebook doing this. You may have it on settings to have your friends list privatized from the public. I just checked it, with view as, and my friends are shown when I use the “view as” one of the friends.

• I have an update! a friend just wished me a happy new year, and then my LSB10 updated, and now that same person that PM’d me is on my LSB10, with others who were already on the list yesterday. I was around 4:10 PM when this happened, but the PM was sent hours ago.

  My speculation is, maybe the PMer checked out my page after I didn’t message back fast enough. My crush has been appearing almost everyday on my LSB10, and this is no surprise after I did tell him to be himself. I guess I must have impacted him… ~_~

• i believe that one girl who receive more private message from stalkers than a man can do a better research of what we are trying to understand..maybe a private message can be consider a true proof of a person who is interested in you..than the days ahead look the behaviour of the list on the left, or the chat list…

• Wow! I googled to see if there was someone who shared my opinion and apparently there is!

• I think it is more about…how frequently you go to their profile…I don’t think it is about who is viewing your profile…Logically taken…Maybe romantically talking..we wish our crush…to be in the list for ever…and we create this illusion…

• I still can’t figure out if it’s people viewing me or not. All I know is there are people who I interact with a lot more on there that don’t show up. So how do they choose who appears on your friends list?

• with a fake a account i see my crush (that is not my friend and even know me with that account) on the top of my stalker list..-17 is the number, impossible thinking that she viewed my profile..so sadly I have to say that the stalker list isn’t who view your profile..and a negative number means nothing..

• hello to everybody!I was reading your comments for a while..and in the maintime looking at those 10 that constantly appear in my profile too..and for a long time they were just the same ten…then I noticed that another friend happened to appear among those nine…after some minutes he sent me a message asking me about one of my friends..how do I know her cause she looks pretty ect..So this one was looking at my friend list. This is only an observation….and I don’t know if it means something.. I didn’t know about this site until today….but In my mind there was always this kind of logical explanation…not the one about profile viewing, but the interacting one…Yes I have these 10…which they do not change at all for a long time… subconsciously I used to think that they were the ones that I view their profile frequently…while the other ones do not appear..cause I do not look at them at all. Among these 10 for instances you can notice small variations of one or two friends at least..but that because you have interacted somehow with them Which I believe can be true because I noticed that too…

• better…in the morning take a note of the 12 or 14 or whatever people who see on the left refreshing the page many times…if someone else appear during the day on the list, well..maybe is viewed your profile…possible?

• I notice that I have a girl who usually remain on my list 2 days and when she disappear another girl take her place for 2 days more or less..seems there are person on the list who changes and ciclycally return in a week..we can try to take note of profiles that repeatedly return..then we could look who is online on facebook (for example the people who are posting something)..and if someone appears for a short time on your list in that day (for 1 hour or more)..probably is someone who viewed your profile..

• hay look someboy is plain with me and im gettin tired of thies bitches plain some body from any where from a different state needs to get off of my page cause im tring to talk to my father and familys and other friends ………. sincerely elissa m…….

• What’s with that field of six friends just left to the photo field in the new timeline setup??…

  It seems like the old mouseover five. The same 20 people shifting each time I refresh. And it does not seem like the 20 people I stalk the most.

• It’s very simple people. If you do not have any interaction with that person and you never look at his or her profile, then it must be him who is constantly “interacting” with you by clicking on your profile! Me and another guy both like the same girl and we are both constantly spying on each other’s movements. Naturally we both appear on each others top friend list. Of course, we NEVER talk, chat, or comment on each other. And if you ever wonder how did we become “friends” in the first place, well, thats a long story. As the saying goes “keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”.

• on LSB10:

  these are my observations based on ~ 20 recent daily recording on who appears there.

  I have 54 friends, and only 25 appeared on LSB10 in the last 20 days, they other 29 were completely absent. most of the 25 friends are people with whom I was tagged together on some photos, but not all of them. I have no common photos with 3 of the “25”, but I did comment on few of their posts or did wall posts. So even though “25” make some sense to me, I am not completely sure how they were selected, it’s quite possible mutual/ one-way profile views play role, but I have no proof. Most likely it’s all of the above: photos, posts, comments, likes, views, according to some formula or what not.

  then, I think figured out the frequency of daily appearance of the “25” on the LSB10. It’s pretty much random, but some rules apply:

  1) no one is there for more than 2 days in a row
  2) if someone is absent today after being there yesterday, it’s 100% chance they will not be there tomorrow
  3) if some one is absent for 3 days in a row, it’s 100% chance they will be there the following day

  so if I apply these rules, every day I get exactly 12 people who “qualify” to show up there tomorrow. I believe 10 is chosen randomly out of these 12. My list changes 7 pm ET, but I noticed one or two people can change the following morning (but stay within the 12 qualified people I mentioned above).

  bottom line: if your interest shows up on your LSB10, good news, but it means nothing if you have common things like posts or photos. And frequency of appearance on LSB10 doesn’t mean anything…. well, at least this is my conclusion for now…

  …chat bar is more interesting, see my post above

• Hey,
  somebody posted a while back about reducing right-side chat bar until names disappear one-by-one. I believe this method truly shows who visit your profile most. Works for me only if I am logged in, but am off-line for chat. then I just drag the lower right corner of my browser window up, until people start to drop off one-by-one. the last person standing is who visits you most, the second to last is who visits you second and so on. For me, only top 5 people make sense, it may be random after that. I checked it with two of my best friends “A” and “B”. I visit both profiles quite often and I am number 1 for “A” and number 2 for “B” – I just asked them to check this method while we were hanging out together, they logged in into their accounts, I was next to them and saw it with my own eyes. Friend “B” is number 1 when I use this method on my account, friend “A” is not a huge FB user and is not in my top 5. I hope this makes sense.

  and yeah, my crush is number 2, which is not bad, I guess :)

• on the new timeline you can still see the top people its just down to the top 6 friends now

• You do realise people that once the new timeline facebook profile comes in for good, this LSB10 will become obsolete and then you will all have to find a new way of seeking who is looking at your profile…tsk tsk tsk

  • What about the search bar? I mean the profile may change however it wants to, but the search bar remains the same with suspsicion…

• How do you refresh the Keesh list? I used Firefox on my laptop to get the list, but it doesn’t change at all after 3 days…I’ve cleared my cache etc and been clicking on a lot of ppls profiles but can’t refresh to get a new list.

• @JOE:I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, but I created my own “list” and called them ‘Freinds II’. On this ‘Friends II’ list I have 100 of my 44+ friends. SOme old(as older joining dates) and some newer (newer friending dates). Out of these 100 people I get a mix of 12. Of these 12 the SAME 20 make a rotation around! Now when crush re-freinded me he has been a steady on there since. Most of these people (20) corrolate with the LSB10, but some don’t. It is very odd.

• odd thing, now my LSB10 just updated…

  it usually updates at 7:00 everyday, now after refreshing for a while, my crush, and some others that were on the list the yesterday (before 7:00), mixed in with those who were up there after yesterday’s update of the LSB10, are now back up there today. this is just an update, to keep track of my LSB10, and it’s been bugging up lately…

• I’m really confused regarding this.because I have 2 accounts ok.In one account,people who show on the friends list are definitely people who watch my posts all the time.I’m sure of this.But in the other account,people who show up are those who regularly interact with me along with one or 2 people whose profiles I visit mostly.Here are my questions : I visit X,Y and Z ok. I know X is a regular FB user,Y and Z are ocassional users only.But X and Y are always on my list,Z never on the list.And i am on Y’s list most of the time but never on X or Z’s list.Now how do you solve that ? Also, I am very curious to know about the keesh and stalker list that people are talking about?Then one more thing is regarding the chat list Mr X always showing up as available on mobile

• Oh yeah, I wondered this as well. Does anyone ever ask their friends if they can run an experiment with you about the close friends page. For example, what if you tell a friend to add you as a close friend on facebook, via close friends. Wouldn’t this add up as to how some friends show up as results on the close friend suggestions, as soon as one goes to the close friends page. Someone should run this experiment. Ask a friend on facebook to add you as a close friend to their newsfeed, and see if that same person doesn’t show up on the suggested close friends list…

• It’s like this folks, if someone shows up on your page then you are instantly thinking of them. When this happens somewhere in reality it gives off this energy. So when you seem them on your page it gives you the instinct to try to figure out whats going on. Whats going on is this…………..I believe that its who views your profile the more they view you the more they show up… Also it defiantly has something to do with whether or not they view your posting and uploading pictures utube vids ect… you iv been testing awhile now and believe if u creep someone through a friend because you are not friends with them then you will show up on THEIR list. And its all whats recent within the past week.

  Only smart perceptive people notice this that’s why we google am I right? lol.. personally like knowing who creeps me… and if u creep them u will show up on their list!!!!! hehe just KNOW THIS MAN!!!

• Hi. I’ve been following this thread from the beginning and didn’t miss a thing, even though some were erased. Anyways, from many reasons I agree that in LSB10 if you see strange ones that you haven’t interacted with, are the ones that’s been looking at you, not you looked at them.

  But does someone agree with me that even many times of refreshing, there is this person stuck in LSB10 like a glue and I know we aren’t interested in eachother at all. Only went to one wedding together and took picture tagged together more than 1 & half year ago. I think facebook’s algorithm put more than necessary weight on event and taking photo together = closer friend to appear on LSB10, where in parties and weddings, you hug and take photo with everybody, even with a so-so friend, or just a boss’s son etc. Therefore, if your crush appears on LSB10, pls first check if you went to same event and tagged photo loooong time ago. If not, congratulations maybe he is looking at you:))

• It’s based on how recent someone has had something posted to their wall, either by them or someone else. My friend who is dead sure isn’t checking out my profile, but people occasionally write messages on his wall.

• It’s based on how recent someone has had something posted to their wall, either by them or someone else. My friend who is dead sure isn’t checking out my profile, but people occasionally write messages on his wall. When he does appear I click on his profile and sure enough, there is a message from someone.

• Out of the ten who appear under my friends thing.. I have only talked to two of them in the past one and a half months..the others I don’t even talk to them…

• Out of the ten who appear under my friends thing.. I have only talked to two of them in the past one and a half months..the others I don’t even talk to them…

• This is what I really don’t understand about the “stalker” list (keesh bar).

  I have a friend whom I periodically look at her pictures, and she periodically looks at mine. We comment on each other’s photo’s and post on each other’s wall. She is consistantly around number 16 on this list. I have not looked at her photo’s or been to her wall in about a month(for various reasons, work, nothing to post about, ect…). She still stayed at number 16 even though SHE commented on a few photos and ‘liked’ some of my stuff and posted on my wall within the last 8 days.

  A few days ago I looked at her vacation pictures she had just posted and commented and ‘liked’ a few.

  She never budged from #16! I waited for the ‘stalker list’ to catch up but HER number never changed.

  Why is it my top 4 or 5 people on that list change ALOT? Even when *I* have absolutly NO interaction with them? My crush whom I blocked then refriended has been at #1 since refriending and his numbers go waaaay up or stay at the same #1 number as before the blocking?

  Watch this list people. It is NOT a one way street.

• Anyone noticed the “view as” order differs from the search bar order? Why?!

  Also, people you may know includes people you’ve searched for, those who searched for you, and degree of mutual friends. I’m certain it includes people who’ve searched for you because a salesman appeared in my list. He has my email, full name and all that but I only have his first name. So obviously, he looked for me. We have nothing in common.

• For my LSB10, I only have thirty nine friends. What happens for me is that I see a list of people, then throughout the day, I notice how some people will stay on their after I refresh, a majority of the time, then some others, will rarely show up after I refresh at times. I did state that my list seems to update every everyday at 7:00 PM. Some people will change, and some others will remain up there. the poster before the poster who posted before me states a huge factor about how people show up, and it lines up to what I am noticing. Even if I don’t really look at people’s profiles, they show up because I had a longevity of PMing people, and sometimes looking at their profiles, and them posting on my wall, but all of this happened in the past. SO far as what you said about the letters in the search bar. My crush, (who I made clear not to talk to him anymore, so we can work on meeting in person)I used to creep his profile a lot after I friended him, but now I am avoiding him, and he is still first with both of his initials on my search bar. I looked at someone else’s page, a long time ago, and he happened to have the same first initial, and he surpasses my crush for a while, but then the crush went back to 1st on the search bar. I haven’t been looking at him for a long while. I figured, since I made it clear that we’d meet up, and I would stop talking to him, he’d be checking out my page to secretly see what I am up to instead of asking me, by PM. We did share alot of PM’s, which is my other factor since I usually initiated it first. anyone else have any ideas!?

• Look, don’t see it as an invasion of privacy. Obviously Facebook is putting those people there because they are the ones that click on your page the most. Try to imagine like we didn’t have facebook and people interacted like we did 10 years ago, the people who like you most would seek you out, but then they may have called that stalking, it is now they only look through the photos you deem worthy of posting, and yet you still call that “creeping” trust me it’s not as bad! I would rather have a stalker looking at pictures of me online than standing outside my bedroom all night waiting for me.
  So to all you people out there calling this an invasion of privacy, stop being complete pussies and realize that facebook is helping protect your privacy more than taking it away.
  AND another thing, if those people are already friends of yours and they are on that list maybe you should talk to them more because they are obviously more interested in your boring life than most and that is a rare thing to find. Now go make some real friends!

• My guess is that the last people that interacted with your profile in some way. May it be by simply stopping by your page, signing a photo, dropping a message or comment. NOTE: If the person hasn’t signed on in weeks or months and they still appearing at random in your “Featured Friends List”, this could mean that your profile was the last profile they kept coming to before signing out and the same goes with someone who might only have a small number of friends on their page they visit. Maybe they visit you more, so the FB algorithm system has it figured that you and this person are very close when in fact you might not be. Good way to see who’s watching you, but be careful…they will know too. Also, every first letter of the alphabet entered into search will reveal this information as well.
  ALSO: You will notice that people who are recently interacting with you will appear in “The Featured Friends List”, BUT KEEP IN MIND, that SOME FRIENDS WHO DON’T SIGN IN ANYMORE will be there too. WHY? Cause 1. Maybe they only have 5 friends and you are the one they visit when they sign on OR 2. You were their last obsession before signing out 2 weeks ago.
  P.S. EVERYBODY IS GUILTY OF STALKING ;-)

• There’s no doubt in my mind that Facebook is going way too far into what they tell us is our own private business on the website. The Terms and Conditions we agree to on facebook, which mostly go unread, stated (in suttle ways) that they own what we post, they own the pictures and words (private and public), even after you permanantly delete your account.They are written in a ”we care about you” way and Its also very long and in sections that you’d have to be really determined to read.

  A week ago i was talking to my friend about someone in chat, using only their first name, they were not on my friend list. I clicked into the chat message in inbox view and there at the side was the person we were talking about, 1 mutual friend in common!

  And the amount of money facebook has behind it, it can basically tell us anything about respecting privacy, true or not! I doubt a website based around publishing your social life will be based on a respect for privacy..

  As for the sidebar i’d say its based around people who look at your profile, one or two randomers(cos i too have noticed a barren profile that was made as a joke and hasnt been logged into in months showing up on the bar) and people you contact alot (and even then, the people you contact alot are likely to be viewing your profile alot)

  I base this on having people i rarely or have never talked to on the list, who i know might have reasons to be snooping on my page (outed stalkers, crushes, drama teacher!, family, ex’s)

  so basically im thinkin 90% stalkers 10% random?

• There’s no doubt in my mind that Facebook is going way too far into what they tell us is our own private business on the website. The Terms and Conditions we agree to on facebook, which mostly go unread, stated (in suttle ways) that they own what we post, they own the pictures and words (private and public), even after you permanantly delete your account.They are written in a ”we care about you” way and Its also very long and in sections that you’d have to be really determined to read.

  A week ago i was talking to my friend about someone in chat, using only their first name, they were not on my friend list. I clicked into the chat message in inbox view and there at the side was the person we were talking about, 1 mutual friend in common!

  And the amount of money facebook has behind it, it can basically tell us anything about respecting privacy, true or not! I doubt a website based around publishing your social life will be based on a respect for privacy..

  As for the sidebar i’d say its based around people who look at your profile, one or two randomers(cos i too have noticed a barren profile that was made as a joke and hasnt been logged into in months showing up on the bar) and people you contact alot (and even then, the people you contact alot are likely to be viewing your profile alot)

  I base this on having people i rarely or have never talked to on the list, who i know might have reasons to be snooping on my page (outed stalkers, crushes, drama teacher!, family, ex’s)

  so basically imm thinking 90% stalkers 10% random?

• @kava

  It’s called intelligent advertising…your search keywords are stored in the directory with your data on the facebook server and they load ads based on what you search. It’s all the result of personalization algorithms. Sometimes they work, other times they don’t. Anyway. Will someone please post their observations in the same format as my previous post? I would like to know if your top ten friends list is similar.

• Here is something I find odd and distyrbing about FB. I noticed a while back I was looking up stuff about Barry Manilow (don’t laugh! We had a work argument about the song Copa Cabana lol)anf not soon after I started seeing ads about Barry manilow…then I was looking up stuff about laser treatments (again, don’t laugh, no one is getting any younger lol!) and boom, there were ads for laser treatment centers in my area! Today I noticed ads for something I was researching online!

  None of the things I search for or look up are things that I am subscribed to, or ‘like’ on FB. HOW IN THE HELL ARE THERE ADS FOR THESE THINGS?!

  FB somehow is attatching itself to my computer? I am not being paranoid people. It is very disturbing. I have recently been researching a trip overseas…guess what? All kinds of ads for airlines and vacations and touring!

  I clear my cache at least once if not twice a day, so it can’t be that my computer is somehow ‘holding onto’ this information for when I log onto FB.

  Damn these friends of mine who are conspiracy theorists! Now they’ve got ME beleiving FB is ‘watching me’ when all I want is my ‘crush’ to be watching me!! :)

• I have never had any conversations with Shelby or Rachel. I never visit Nickolas or Damian’s page. I talk with Taylor, Ashley, and Reagin. Alexys occasionally. I only commented Morgan and Mary’s picture once. So two I have never contacted. Two I have only commented a picture once. Two are pages I never visit. Four are girls I talk with occasionally. My conclusion: inconclusive.

• I have never had any conversations with Shelby or Rachel. I never visit Nickolas or Damian’s page. I talk with Taylor, Ashley, and Reagin. Alexys occasionally. I only commented Morgan and Mary’s picture once. So two I have never contacted. Two I have only commented a picture once. Two are pages I never visit. Four are girls I talk with occasionally. My conclusion: inconclusive.

• I have never had any conversations with Shelby or Rachel. I never visit Nickolas or Damian’s page. I talk with Taylor, Ashley, and Reagin. Alexys occasionally. I only commented Morgan and Mary’s picture once. So two I have never contacted. Two I have only commented a picture once. Two are pages I never visit. Four are girls I talk with occasionally. My conclusion: inconclusive.

• I have never had any conversations with Shelby or Rachel. I never visit Nickolas or Damian’s page. I talk with Taylor, Ashley, and Reagin. Alexys occasionally. I only commented Morgan and Mary’s picture once. So two I have never contacted. Two I have only commented a picture once. Two are pages I never visit. Four are girls I talk with occasionally. My conclusion: inconclusive.

• I do notice this. Remember when I said “the poker” unfriended me. It just so happens, he didn’t unfriend me, or block me, so he possibly deactivated his account, because he disappeared, and come back after a while. What I do notice is this, he was right above the note reader on the chat bar (one of the seven who showed up when all were offline). When he came back, he never became one of the seven people anymore, it is someone else, someone I haven’t really been talking to. maybe those who show up on the chat list, based on my situation are those who have interacted with me more, or me talking to him. With the crush, I do notice, that sometimes when I PMed him, he would often reply back as fast as possible with the chat bar, instead of the PM box. This is something to consider, because I never actually initiate convos with the search bar. Sometimes, poker, and note reader, my sister, meesage me randomly with the chat bar, but I can’t explain why two other men are on it, when I have never talked to them on chat, at all. One of them I commented on his statuses rarely, and the other happens to be someone who likes my status updates rarely, and he just so happened to be one of the five people who posted on my wall for happy birthday as well. My conclusion for this matter is that interactions boils down to who shows up. If someone is on my LSB10, it is either them looking at me, or I recently talked to them. The note reader, I never looked at his page much, but as kava pointed out with her friend, I was on his LSB10 of friends, when I looked not too long ago. I never showed up on my crushs LSB10, out of all the times I took a peak when I stalked him early on after he friended me, maybe because he has over 400 friends, and they check him out alot more than I did

• @Joe: on the chat list you can make it go up and down. As you make it smaller you will notice people start dropping off. Do this until there is only 1 person left. THAT person is whom I refer to as number 1 on chat bar.

  • I didn’t get it when Cher said something about it. She was referring to the ticker bar, when she said that. On my facebook, all I ever do is click the chat bar, and seven people show up, and it’s the exact same seven people everytime, unless someone is online, and it starts to show more than seven people. does this pertain to the ticker bar, or the chat bar because there is no dragging ability for me. Maybe I need to update my facebook. I’ll figure it out, no use trying to make a big deal out of something…

    Since my crush is at the very bottom and the note reader is right above him, I can guess that whoever is at the bottom is the one. This is just based off my experience though. I’ve never posted on the wall of my crush, due to fear of seeing his convos with other people. It was always us PMing each other. Maybe PMing is a form of looking at someone and/or interacting with them, because usually it was always me initiating the convo. he posted on my wall three times, and rarely comments on my statuses, but only a while back. the first time he posted on my wall was when he friended me a year ago. The second time was when his PM page wasn’t working, and he had no choice but to reply back on my wall. The third time was when he posted “Happy Birthday” on my wall. I do notice how consistant he is when showing up on the LSB10, he started showing up again yesterday, to be honest. So far, he’d show up for one to two days, and sometimes be off for one or two days then shows up again either one or two days later. I’ll try to see about this chat bar kava, thanks!

• Kava, when you say “first”, on chat, do you mean “first” on top or bottom? My crush is also on the chat bar. Whenever I check my online/offline friends, he is at the very bottom, and has stuck their for a while. Here is how is corresponds to the search bar for me. The guy I lik shows up first with both initials on my search bar, and the guy who admitted to have been reading my notes has been under my crush on both initials of the search bar, but on the chatbar, crush is on the very bottom, and the other guy is right on top of him. the creepy thing about facebook now, is I avoid the homepage, in fear that the crush will show up first, and he also shows up first on many search bars, including the add people in the status update. I never do that, but was surprised that it was that way as well, in those other searchbar results. The other guy who told me he reads my notes, always shows up second, to my crush in so way or another on facebook. I don’t visit pages much, and even so, they still show up.

  here is a pointer. When I peeked at the guy (who reads me notes), he surpasses my crush on the search bar! Then after a while, My crush went right back to being first with both initials again. On a side note, my sister has been showing up surpassing the note reader, but is second to the guy on top

• Okay, I have done something sneaky to try to figure out which way the ‘search bar’ and ‘stalker list’ actually flow…

  Here is my experiment:

  I had said I had “restricted” my crush and a co-worker of ours started showing up on page (LSB10, *close friends* list when I don’t have a *close friends* list, high on stalker list, picture showing up on the ‘deactive account’ page, ect…).

  So a week ago I just blocked him. Flat out put him on the ‘BLOCK’ list. That took him off my right feed and made him able to view only posts I had made public. The next day he was still on the stalker list, jumped to numbers extremely high on that list. He had fluctuated between #1 & #2(with the work girl that stalks ME lol). He did however stay on the *mutual friends* 3 when you click ‘show all’ in the PYMK. He still stayed #1 on my search bar. And showed up for a day or two on the LSB10.

  He fell off stalker list about two days later along with falling off my search bar.

  If you don’t understand how a “BLOCK” works, it’s more than a restriction in the sense that the person you “BLOCK” cannot (I repeat, cannot) find you anywhere on the whole FB. It is as if you never extisted (on FB-to them). They can search for you, but you will never show up. This also works back the other way. It is as if THEY never existed to YOU. You cannot find them by search either.

  I would periodically within the following days check his FB page by jumping on through a mutual friend of ours, (whose number jumped a bit on the stalker list and search bar, go figure)just to see if he was posting anything (he wasn’t). He did disappear from my FB…except for STILL appearing in my *mutual frinds* on the PYMK main page! How is that possible?! My GUESS is that he was somehow trying to find me through mutual friends? I can’t be because I was looking at his FB because there have been people I ‘blocked’ and they COMPLETELY disappear from my EVERYTHING, soooo?

  Two days ago when he called about an hour into our conversation I happened to mention to him that it seemed he “blocked” ME on his FB and I was very upset as I thought we were friends (ha ha!)! He replied that someone must have hacked his account because another friend called to complain about the same thing! WTF?? Why would he comp to such a thing…unless…he indeed KNEW that something was up my FB page and him not being able to view it?

  So last night I sent him a friend request along with a text that said he better ‘re-friend’ me or else, lol.

  He just did (refriend) and guess what people? He is freaking #1 all over my FB page…he hasn’t shown up on my LSB10 but that seems to take at least 24 hours to do so.

  Conclusion? If there are people continuously showing up on your FB page they are there for a reason…THEY ARE WATCHING YOU!!

• This is bull!! Two people on mine are dead so I know they aren’t looking at mine!

• This is what I have figured out so far. I believe the LSB10 is somewhat about who looks at your page. I recently broke up with my ex of almost 7 years and 6/10 of people on my LSB10 are part of my ex’s family. Both parents, brother, brother’s wife, and two very close cousins. Two of my best friends on are there which isn’t a surprise and a co-worker of mine. The last person on there is interesting as well because its my new crushes roommate. A few days ago, I admitted to my crush my feelings for them and then all of a sudden the roommate appears on my LSB10. I never interact with the roommate on FB and had told the roommate my feelings towards my crush before I told my crush my feelings.

  After downloading the stalker link I decided to compare the people of my stalker list with the order of the search bar. The order is not the same. If the search bar was based purely on the who you stalk, then it should in theory be the same as the keesh stalker link, but it’s not. For example. when I type the first letter of my mom’s name she comes up 5th in the search bar order. When I look at my stalker list, there are many others in front of her that I stalk more who has either their first or last name start with that same letter. My mom is very low on my stalker list. I don’t look at her page often, but I’m sure she looks at mine to see what is going on in my life.

  Also, I did an experiment and started stalking someone who I believed would have no interest in stalking me. Her name also begins with the same letter as my mom’s. When I look her on my stalker list, she’s somewhat highly ranked but when I type her name in the search bar she has fallen off. I stalked her a lot this summer/fall but have stopped in the past few months to do the experiment.

  I also then created an account who’s first name beings with the same letter as my mom’s. I stalk myself on my fake account, but never look at this account through my real profile. The fake account is low on my stalker list, but shows up on my search bar list. When I first started stalking my fake account with my real account, the fake account never appeared on the search bar list. Then I briefly stalked my fake account with my real account. Ever since my fake account has appeared on my search bar list even though its been months since my real account has stalked the fake one.

  To me, its based on mutual viewings.

• Thanks for posting this. My interaction with facebook has been bothering me for a couple of months. On a slightly different but related point, a few days ago I set up a new account to check my own account from inside facebook. I didn’t use the proper account to interact with the new account. But this new account suddenly appeared in my ‘do you know?’ list (top right) and in the top few places in my ‘find friends list’! This is an account with no friends. That suggests that clicking on a profile generates a contact ‘visible’ in someway in the person’s own interaction with facebook. Presumably most of the time this is statistically buried in your own interaction with friends and own browsing of their friends (which presumably all of us do to varying extents). In this case, though: (a) the connection was made by clicking on a profile, and (b) the fact my new account has no friends means perhaps – I’m guessing – that it is prioritized in the list of potential new friends in my old account as a way of integrating this low or no friend account into the facebook matrix (sorry, community).

  I’ve also done the refresh thing to see the list of 10 friends on the left. They repeat, a lot. Spooky. It’s definitely not random. So how is the list being generated? Intuitively I’d say it’s mixing friends I’m currently interacting with, others who post a lot but I don’t interact with much, a few people I’ve clicked on out of curiousity recently, and a few who surprise me – these are presumably people who’ve been looking at my profile but are not interacting. Fair enough, they’re ‘friends’! It’s part of social experience in general. But I dislike this feedback from facebook (a) in the same way as I dislike the way the system now decides whose posts I want to see in my timeline, its second guessing ends up restricting my worldview, and (b) browsing someone is finding its way into that person’s facebook experience, even if subliminally. That’s creepy, both ways, the fact I don’t feel free to browse, and the way I know wonder why I’m seeing certain people, known and unknown, appear.

• @anon: that’s not true. I have my friend’s list block from ANYONE being able to see it, however, I was at a friends house the other night and she brought up her FB on her PC and I was ON HER LSB10! We don’t ever correspond on FB because we see each other all the time. She did tell me she had looked at my Thanksgiving pictures I had posted a day or two before.

  Also, my work friend whom I have not viewed his FB page since I friended him a couple of months ago is now showing up on my LSB10. It is deffenitly mutual views.

• I think the way you can block the whole ‘who’s viwing your profile’ thing by blocking your friends list from anybody seeing. then, people don’t see who’s stalking you.. and, you also don’t appear on anybody’s friend list ever.

  My best friend has her friends list blocked. and she stalks people ALL the time, but she never appears on anybody’s friend list.

• It’s been one day, and my crush is right back on the LSB10 of friends again…Is this normal. I understand this may not be anything new to anyone, but, can you please reply to me as soon as possible, if this has been this way for you as well. BTW “Smart1” I don’t mean to offend you, but can I nickname you “smartass”, because that was brilliant as in tactical, hahaha!

• Okay, so I decided to make ALL of my FB content private. My ex is a “friend of friend”, so I locked it all down, and GUESS WHAT? My Keesh/Stalker list finally moved for him! He dropped to number three. After 12 weeks of being number 1.

  My theory, he went to my page, nothing was there, and stopped, and his Keesh rating fell immediately. It’s been 12 weeks since I looked at his page (except maybe 3 times). No reason why Keesh would not change so much! Everyone else changes all the time.

  So yes, Keesh and search bar definitely about mutual views!

• Yeah, they clearly changed their “algorithm” a couple of days ago. Since the previous change, when MO5 was removed, the LSB10 changed once every 24h and it was almost always the same 20 people showing up for me.

  Now, LSB10 changes several times a day I’ve noticed and the people are more diversified.

  I’m curious to why they keep changing it? Are they searching for more effective ways to help FB grow or whatever their purpose is? Otherwise, what is the point of removing/changing things around?

  • Someone posted about how they see two lists of people that change throughout the day. I’ve been refreshing since two days ago, and my crush still shows up on my LSB10 despite the list changing, it changed again today, and he is still up their like a survivor from a previous horror flick, in a sequel.

    PiC I keep what you pointed out, in consideration.

• Quick update. trying to get over my ‘crush’ since HE is ‘crushing’ on another girl at work, therefore I *restricted* him (making almost everything on my FB impossible to see unless I make it public). I did that after my shift one day last week. We have a mutual friend at work whom I call my “work bf”, ‘crush’ was a wee bit jealous of the jovial relationship work bf and I had. Long story short, I pretty much didn’t talk to ‘crush’ that day but was overy flirty and friendly with “work bf”. That night I get home and wadda ya know? ‘Crush’ is on my LSB (hasn’t been on there for a lonnng time) and so is “work bf” (work bf has NEVER once appeard on LSB since I friended him a month or so ago)

  Also friends of “work bf” have started showing up in PYMK. and “work bf” has been *suggested* by FB as a CLOSE FRIEND (which he has never been listed before).

  Here is what I find interesting: when I friended “work bf” I of course checked out his pictures. He is not on FB very much because he and his fiancee ‘share’ their FB (they have kids and she’s really possessive).

  Trying to make this short so: I beleive ‘crush’ called “work bf” and wanted to know if my FB account was down (or something like that since he couldn’t access pictures or nothing on my wall), “work bf” then went on my FB and not being restricted reported to ‘crush’ that no my FB page was not down.

  My stalker (keesh) list has ‘crush’ soooo far ahead of anyone else and “work bf” went from waaaay down past the middle, to mid-top.

  Mutual views = A BIG FAT YES! No denying it now. I am 100% convinced. However, person A must have at least at one time visited person B’s pictures/profile/wall/pm’d them at least ONCE.

  • One person I have been focusing on, has been showing up as the first person on the LSB10 (5x times), when I refresh my profile, and so far it is the guy I like, who shows up with both of his initials on the searchbar. he showed up first five times, and he so happened to have appeared on the LSB10 yesterday. I think he read my note I wrote the day before he showed up on the LSB10

• OMG this is so scary i just did that and here’s who came up: the guy that all my friends think likes me, my BFFs neighbor,My Neighbor, My cousin, my friends sister, A mean girl from my beach club, a girl every one thinks is Emo, A guy in my grade’s sister, A girl who deliberately tried to ruin my life, and some kid who recently moved whom i havent talked to on or off facebook EVER!!! this is definately not random, I’m scared….

• Since my ex is still #1 in my Keesh/Stalker/Search Bar, despite not being friends and not viewing his page. I would be very inclined to believe this is based on some kind of mutual views. This has not unchanged in a 3 months or so for me, despite the web browser.

  Has anyone else Keesh/Stalker List not changed, despite trying it in other browsers? I’ve tried Chrome, IE, and FFox.

  And for the hater who says I am manipulating, we are viewing or not viewing ones page to perform a test for purposes of this site. Goodness I’d be hunting them night and day if I could, but the ex and I are no longer “friends”, new boy sends me enough love I don’t need FB, others are not friends either.

• Search bar algorithms changed a couple of days ago too. My ex is no longer at the top of my search bar for both his initals- such a relief to see him dropping down and hopefully he will be gone for good soon. The Keesh numbers have completely changed- some people on my list have had their numbers doubled, while some have been severely reduced (my ex is a third of what he used to be). Good changes. My list now much more accurately reflects who I interact with the most.

• My non-alphabetical friends grid also changed radically in the last day or so.

• My non-alphabetical friends grid also changed radically in the last day or so.

• BTW for those keeping track, the LSB algorythms definately changed on 26/11 or 27/11. Hven’t figured out to what yet, but something is different as prior to that since early October, it has cycled through everyone with certain key people being there for 2 days, now it’s something different.

• I noticed something yesterday, since for me, the LSB10 updates every 7:00 Pm as I noticed. I was profile surfing yesterday,and I noticed how the profiles I looked at just so happened to show up on my LSB10 for that short time, last night. then this morning, I see that it updated again. As this may tie into how long people stay on your LSB10, if they happen to look at your profile instead of you looking at theirs. So lets say I just so happened to have looked at your profile, you would show up for only a little while, versus you looking at my profile, and you’d probably be on that LSB10 for one to two days. All the people I randomly looked at yesterday, were on that LSB10, then they sort of got replaced so quickly by others, this morning. I also noticed how the search bar results changed, but then as this morning, it went right back to the original order. if you recall I had originally posted a post where I demonstrated my search bar results, and even after doing all this yesterday, it is still the same.

• By reading the comments hear and from my personal experience, I am inclined to agree. I decided to research this a bit because my ex of 5+ years, with whom I have had no contact with whatsoever for the past 4 months, has been showing up on my profile AND chat list (even though he doesn’t have the green indicator saying he is online) for the past few weeks. He was on there for a couple weeks after the breakup, but then he went away. I accidently ran into him at a football game and after that, he started showing up on my profile again… I have his stuff blocked from my feed and I have not clicked on anything of his at all. There are plenty more people, even before the breakup, that I interact with and check their pages on a regular basis. Makes me wonder if he has been creeping my page? Is this just a coincidence?

• i actually hid my ex so I DONT click on her profile and she is still on the top 10 or so on the left side of my page. I’ve only visited her site a few times in the past 6 months and im not on her top 10 or whatever, which makes me wonder if it really is her visiting me. a few of the other people ive made somewhat contact with recently.

• As to the way the search bar works, it is rather complicating. If you take a letter of a name which isn’t so common, like the letter ‘Q’ and run a test where you search up dozen’s of people with the name under the letter ‘Q’ you will find at a later point in that day, those people will show under that letter.

  Now after that, if you don’t click on their profiles, if you leave it that way for weeks, you’ll find it remains relatively the same. Some of those who showed up under certain letters that I searched randomly, showed up. This tells me it can’t possibly be mutual, like if you searched up some random person called ‘John Day’ and lets say there were about 50 of them and you viewed say about 15 to 20 of them, you will find a hand picked bunch start to show under those two letters ‘J’ and ‘D’ thing is, how on earth could it be mutual? Unless of course when you view their profile, for some odd reason it may come up on their search bar, your profile, but I seriously doubt that.

  So to a certain degree, some of this may come across as your own views and if you don’t look up anymore people under that letter, they will remain there.

  I do find it rather interesting however, how it fluctuates and sometimes new people that show under a certain specific letter, show up second from the bottom or bottom of that letter on the list, is that indicating that the ones already on the list of that letter have accumulated more views on my profile than they have? Again, that is rather questionable.

  I can honestly tell you this however. There was a guy I knew from high school who was in my year and some classes, I noticed he was constantly appearing under ‘People You May Know’ on the right hand side, (well at least once in a while.) What intrigued me the most, after viewing his profile a couple of times to find out why, he started showing up under two letters, and then at a later point, he sent me a friends request.

  Work that out for yourself, it’s blatantly obvious he was without doubt, viewing my profile.

• Smart1, you come across as someone who is manipulative. Are you proud that you sit and avoid your so called ‘crushes’ page whilst he texts you a lot? I can’t understand people like yourself, I really can’t. If you like someone, you talk to them, if you don’t, you avoid them.

  “I’ll play this game where I will ignore him for days and he’ll text me a lot, oh how I feel so wonderful”

  Both your exes need to sit up and waken the hell up, they need to sit up and realise there are millions out there far greater than yourself, which isn’t even opinionated, it’s simple common knowledge.

  Any manipulator isn’t deserving of anyone’s love and care, so no matter what your exes done to you, you have just proven you’re as bad as them. No wonder they chase your tail, a game player, a manipulative freak. Probably someone with no concern over the pain you cause over both your exes.

• My Keesh aka Stalker List has been unchanged for months (to some degree.) Person A, aka, Crush/Ex is still my number 1 person, AND we are Not Friends, and I behave and don’t look at his page. Weird! It’s been 10 weeks since I un-friended Person A.

  But lo and behold the new boy, and a few exes have arrived on the stalker list scene. Two of the boys I am not friends with, and the new boy, I get so many texts from him I don’t even look at his page, just his feed when I have the time, and even then I don’t reply much. I’ve learned a lot about how to handle men these days, less is more. :-)

  I tried to get the number to move on IE, Google Chrome and Firefox. All the same number, Ex/Crush is always number one, same number.

  He is also still number 1 in my search bar, for the first letter of his name (k). We do however share the most number in mutual friends, BUT he also showed up in my exclusive friends search bars (I got them to check) even before their own family, and they aren’t even “friends” with him on FB.

  Keesh or even Search Bar in my opinion, still shows mutual interest but at this point, I think the interest is a bit one sided. :-)

• I know the PYMK on the right side are freinds of people on MY friends list. How else could it be explained that out of hundreds+ friends the same four or five friends(of mine)are having THEIR freinds show up on PPYMK? One of whom is my ExHusband, whom I have not interacted with on FB for months and months? I know he is trying to see what is going on in my life and if I post anything about our children(because they refuse to speak with him). It can’t be about ‘mutual’ friends because everyone one (almost) will have the *1 friend in common* not anymore.

• Sorry for the double post but ignore that last one:

  Here is an theory about the search bar kava. The one I like, he just so happened to show up on my LSB10 today, and it has been two days since he messaged me, as I messages him yesterday. I was in a convo about nature’s weather a few days back, and I decided to watch his vlogs again, and he started talking about nature, in the similar way that I described it to someone else on facebook. I swear he has to be looking at my profile. The date on the vlog was 11/21/2011, two days before today, and now today he is showing up on my LSB 10, but I was looking at his profile four days before and he didn’t show up on my LSB10 at all, not until he sent that PM past midnight on monday. I sort of ignored him for that one day, and messages him the next day. Btw his friends keep showing up on my PYMK as well, everytime I visit a page. I looked at his page, for a while four days ago, but I stopped after that.

• Here is an theory about the search bar kava. The one I like, he just so happened to show up on my LSB10 today, and it has been two days since he messaged me, as I messages him yesterday. I was in a convo about nature’s weather a few days back, and I decided to watch his vlogs again. I swear he has to be looking at my profile. The date on the vlog was 11/21/2011, two days before today, and now today he is showing up on my LSB 10, but I was looking at his profile four days before and he didn’t show up on my LSB10 at all, not until he sent that PM past midnight on monday. I sort of ignored him for that one day, and messages him the next day.

• So it’s been a while since I’ve posted, only because nothing seems to be going on with my FB page.

  My ‘crush’ and I don’t see each other a lot IRL since I have changed positions and we work different times (although we have hung out a few times within the last month).

  ‘Crush’ is no longer on in LSB10 :( buuutttt he still is “the last person standing” (so to speak lol) on my scroll/chat bar to right. Also his friends pop up ALOT in my PYMK and he is #1 on search bar.

  Someone mentioned that a friend does NOT show up in the search bar and that they have to type in almost the whole name to get them to appear. This could be because they use an *anonymous* search engine while online, or they could be using a blocker that blocks IP addresses(thiers)from being able to be cached. In that case, it is as though that person never actually visited your FB page, when in fact they could be on it right now!LOL!

  I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving (for those of you in the USA).

  I really hate that FB has taken all the “FUN” out of FB.

• Answer to everyone’s problems:

  Originally, those who showed up on your profile were indeed clicking on your profile and looking at your stuff. I have concrete evidence of this.
  When my ex broke up with me, she went from always being on my page, to never. For a solid 2 months, she was never on there. Then, I noticed her on there one day, and the following night, got a message from her.

  Then a week of her showing up. Then gone for a month.
  Next time she resurfaces, I get a message later that same night.

  BUT NOW its not like that. Facebook has instead gathered together a pool of the people you have contacted most or have the most in common with of YOUR ENTIRE FACEBOOK HISTORY. Every person in my friends bar, I am either tagged in a photo with, or liked something they liked, or even just attended the same event as them.
  Facebook rotates through this group every couple of days, and will rarely toss in a random just to make you feel popular/looked-at.

  • You can’t just say that, because my facebook hasn’t changed yet, but I will keep what you stated in consideration. There are some people who I know have had high interactions with me, but I don’t talk much on facebook. The three I know who interact with me mostly don’t show up all together, so there may still be some randoms thrown in. I still notice how the friends sidebar is rotating with different people the very same day for me, then possibly two days later it is someone new. The thing is I have someone silently checking up on me, and he is always on my sidebar…

• My ex shows up every time. o_o and ive had NO contact with him since august when we broke up whatsoever.

• Sarah- I asked someone who works as a software developer, and apparently the problem is likely to be your browser caching copies of the list onto your computer. Do you have different versions of Firefox on your different computers, and do you use one computer more than the other for checking the list? I have found that the more I check the list the less change I get in the numbers ( I guess more cached copies are stored?). On my laptop the numbers have been stuck for days now.

  • Hey thanks for asking. I think your friend was right because I check my list everyday too. I guess I’ll have to check the list from a different computer to see if it has changed.

• The people that you see in the left hand sidebar on your own profile are different from the people someone else might see when looking at your profile. I’ve tested this with many of my friends, and they confirm. Make of that what you will. :)

• To test it now, I sat for an hour and pressed F5 (update) 41 times on my profile page, and took note of who came up. I have 300+ friends.

  Results:
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  -In these 41 updates, in total 25 different people came up. Each person came up between 6 and 15 times each.
  -All these 25 people are relevant to me, but the ones that came up the most are more relevant. Definitely a correlation there. It will show relevant people more often.
  -My 2 brothers and my 1 sister showed up. I have tagged them as brothers and sister. None of my 7 tagged cousins were among the 25 that came up, but I also don’t have regular contact with them.

  So far, everything seems to be in order. It is definitely not random, because I could not have come up with a better choice of 25 people.

  Here is the shocking part:
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  -3 girls I mainly added to look at their bikini pictures and stalk them are in. Yes, we do have some friends in common, but 2 of those girls I never “FB interacted” with, just sent the friend request and that’s it, and the 3rd one I only “FB interacted” 3 times with (2 mails and 1 “happy birthday”). In those 40 refreshes, they showed up 10, 11 and 15 times, respectively. The one I viewed the most recently was the 15 one.

  The reason I made this test was that I thought these girls showed up all the time. And it was true. No, I don’t have conformation bias, and yes, I know statistics.

  So why did these 3 girls show up? The answer is simply that I VISIT THEIR PROFILES ALMOST EVERY DAY. Yes I’m semi-creep, but if you saw how hot they are you would understand me :P

  Facebook, I don’t like this, because what if my GF reads this post, or starts wondering why they are always showing on my profile? ;)

• It definitely seems to work on mutual views as you would expect, but some aspects of Facebook’s ranking system puzzle me. I’ve got people very high up on my list whose numbers don’t change at all. Some of them I am not even friends with, but I have viewed their profiles in the past because they have been friends of friends. No recent views from me though but still they are ranked near the top. Are they going to be the first names on the search bar indefinitely and why? I’ve got close friends that I interact with quite a lot much further down the list.

  And I’m also sick of seeing my ex at the top of my searchbar! But no hope of him disappearing anytime soon as his numbers are fairly stationary- they fluctuate between -210 and -220. I don’t view his profile anymore but facebook still think we are important to each other, sigh. He has a new girlfriend now and I REALLY don’t want to see his name on my page. Maybe I will have to block him just so I don’t have to see him and her on his profile pic when I use the searchbar lol.

• however, I also think it’s interesting that some expected ppl don’t make the list AT ALL. There is this guy who I KNOW stalks my prof bcuz he tells me he does and he’s been stalking me in real life. I get like 10 txts and dinner proposals a day from this guy but I’m not interested and i ignore most of them. however, he’s not anywhere on my stalker list or search bar… i literally have to type in four letters of his name b4 it comes up on the search bar and i do look at his profile probably in the same amount that i look at my crush’s profile, every 4 days or so. I KNOW he’s stalking my prof.. It’s just weird he’s completely immune to all of my stalker tools.

• sry bout the double post in one.I also have 2 more things to add…I’ve noticed that If I view the profile of one of my friends who I don’t expect to look at my prof, they’ll shoot way to the top of my stalker list for a day and then the next day they’ll drop significantly. Case in point, I viewed and liked the prof pics of a friend and she shot up to #28 on my list. The next day however, she dropped all the way down to #503! How come when I briefly view and NOT like my guy’s prof and then wait a day for his #3 rank to drop, it only drops to #8???? Dropping five slots is wayyy different than dropping almost 500 slots and I even LIKED that girl’s photo, it seems like the interaction should weight more heavily.

  ALSOOO, there is DEFINITELY something to the search bar. If anyone remembers, I have to two fake profiles that I use to one-sidedly stalk myself. My real profile NEVER looks at these fake profiles, but BOTH profiles appear halfway down on the search bar for both initials of the fakes. This only recently started happening a few weeks ago…. the fake profiles also appears at #’s 22 and 62 on my stalker list… both i never look at using my real profile but i have used #22 to like a few of my photos…haha… all interaction is completly onesided though… so I do think that the ppl at the top of the stalker list have to do with more mutual interest. Logically, if you have 2 ppl who have regularly or regularly in the past looked at each others profiles, fb is going to assume that the two ppl have some sort of interest in each other/ close connection in real life and their going to rank these 2 ppl as having a strong real life relationship, even if that’s just expressed through page views…. If it’s just a one-sided connection and it’s never been mutual (ie a true stalker), it’s logical that it would rank lower becuz fb see’s that one of the ppl is not rly interested and nvr has been

• Hey guys. I posted here about 3 months ago and then I realized that I was tired of analyzing facebook, In short, I have a new love interest and have once again become obsessed with how much he’s looked at my profile. Within the last 2 months, I met a new nice guy. We’re not ‘together’ persay (hed just broken up w his 3 yr gf so he said he’s not looking for a relationship?) tho we’ve definitely been seeing each other every single day for 2 months, and he’s usually the one to initiate seeing me. Anywho, the day after I met him, I looked him up once (learning from past mistakes I made an effort to look at his prof once and not look again so that in the case that he started showing up everywhere, I would know whose fault it was.) So the funny thing is after more than 2 months, we just became fb friends a week ago, weird I know, (I think we were both playing a mind game to see who would crack and friend request the other person first haha). we both go to the same school and have a ton of close mutual friends and I knowwww he’d looked me up (tho how often over the 2 months Idk) becuz I purposefully made my wall and photo albums accessible to ppl in my school netwrk after meeting him so that he’d easily be able to stalk me…. Lol. And I know he’s at least looked bcuz he’d slip certain details about my life that a person would only know from looking through my fb haha. I should also add, in the 2 months when we were’nt fb friends ut we were seeing each other, as expected he CONSTANTLY popped up on the side in the PYMK (this section I am 100% sure as most of you are has to do with which nonfriends have been checking out your page. )
  Hey guys. I posted here about 3 months ago and then I realized that I was tired of analyzing facebook, In short, I have a new love interest and have once again become obsessed with how much he’s looked at my profile. Within the last 2 months, I met a new nice guy. We’re not ‘together’ persay (hed just broken up w his 3 yr gf so he said he’s not looking for a relationship?) tho we’ve definitely been seeing each other every single day for 2 months, and he’s usually the one to initiate seeing me. Anywho, the day after I met him, I looked him up once (learning from past mistakes I made an effort to look at his prof once and not look again so that in the case that he started showing up everywhere, I would know whose fault it was.) So the funny thing is after more than 2 months, we just became fb friends a week ago, weird I know, (I think we were both playing a mind game to see who would crack and friend request the other person first haha). we both go to the same school and have a ton of close mutual friends and I knowwww he’d looked me up (tho how often over the 2 months Idk) becuz I purposefully made my wall and photo albums accessible to ppl in my school netwrk after meeting him so that he’d easily be able to stalk me…. Lol. And I know he’s at least looked bcuz he’d slip certain details about my life that a person would only know from looking through my fb haha. I should also add, in the 2 months when we were’nt fb friends ut we were seeing each other, as expected he CONSTANTLY popped up on the side in the PYMK (this section I am 100% certain deals with who has looked at ur prof… due to a previous encounter where an ex of mine admitted to trying to spy on me using a stupid alias that constantly kept popping up on my PYMK )
  In the one week that we’ve been fb friends, he’’s currently #8 on my stalker list out of 630 friends (he was #3 two days ago, the day after I peaked briefly at his prof). Now I already mentioned that from the first day I met him 2 month ago, I’ve been meticulously anal NOT to look much at his profile. I peak occasionally, once every 4 days or so, but to be honest, I friended my guy’s BEST Bro about a month b4 I friended my guy. And during that month, I stalked the HELL out of best bro’s profile. Literally looking at every pic in ev album and refreshing best bro’s page like 5-10 times a day. Haha. So tell me why Best Bro is #34 on my stalker list and my guy averages around #8 with me having way more interaction with Best bro… I’ve posted on best bro’s wall, tagged him in a photo w me (which he liked) and liked a few of best bro’s statuses.. … so why is he #34 when my guy who I’ve had zero interaction with and only friended a week ago is #8 (and #3 on days after I peak at his prof?) possibly because best bro insnt the one interested in me, and thus looks at my prof less than my guy? I swear, this list has GOT to be mutual viewings…..

• I find it very funny that my girlfriend is always on that list, although we never communicate through facebook. Some time ago I heard that a girl was interested on me, and she suddenly appeared on this list for days and days. We met one day and it became clear to her that I am not interested on her, and almost instantly, she disappeared from my profile.

  I tried refreshing many times before I started writing this, and the list didn’t change. But just after I started, the list changed completely, my girlfriend is not there anymore and the other girl who fancied me is back.

  The funniest thing though is that my mother recently signed up on facebook, and after a few months I added her as a friend. After that, her name misteriously appeared as a member of my family, although neither of us had changed this configuration (we are both paranoid about internet privacy). I deleted her name from this list, and today it appeared again, listed as someone from my family, but with unknown relationship status. I never posted on her wall and she has liked just one of my posts.

  The fact that facebook somehow knows that my mother is part of my family, and that my girlfriend is my girlfriend, although we never communicate through facebook, makes me think there might be some exchange of information between google and facebook (which doesn’t make much sense, I agree). On my emails it is very clear that person A is my mother and person B is my girlfriend. What intrigues me is how facebook could come up with that with almost no information exchange between us through facebook.

  I believe there is some sort of data collecting to organise the friends list, yes. I may sound totally paranoid, but my guess is that it might be more complex than just processing facebook interaction.

• I agree with the above poster that friends on your profile will show up at top of friends list when they visit and then will gradually move down the list.
  My keesh list hardly changes anymore-but does a bit.
  Also notice people you may know will be almost exclusively one of my crushes people, or another crushes people at another time. So I also beleive, when they are looking at your profile, there people will show up in people you may know either on home page or beside your photo albums. noticed that last night and this morning.

• I only just picked up on the friend list showing who visits your profile, i think it is definetly showing who visits your profile, there have been friends that have been away and they dont show up and then when they get on facebook again they immedietly show back up at the top of the list and then slowly after two days or so drop to the bottom and then there off the friend list again when they arent looking at the profile, its changed what i do on facebook now, certainly dont look at many peoples profiles anymore.

  • I’ve been experimenting with that as well. The last time I messaged my crush, I am very sure he’s been checking my profile out, because he usually messages me back when I only ask him questions; this time he asked me a question after I spoke my mind. The last PM, was on 11/5/2011, and after that he’s been consistently showing up on the friends list, and for one day, he didn’t show up. I think a day after, I checked on my last PM, I sent him, and after refreshing back to my profile, he suddenly was back on my friends list, in fact, he’s still showing up consistently on my friends list today, which would make day two, after he reappeared, if he shows up tomorrow, then something is definitely up. I do notice that ever since that last PM, his friends haven’t been showing up on the people you may know, or people to subscribe to.

• Well i dont know but I think it does show whos been on your profile because I posted on my ex’s wall and all of a sudden his girlfriend showed up on my friends list. and another thing my boyfriend gets on facebook once a week we dont interact on facebook at all !!! and he shows up on my friends list the day he logs on.. meaning he looked at my page right?!?! then he’s not on there for like 3 days and then returns we arent even “In a relationship” on facebook.. so idk?

• @Sarah and @Bex – and Joe if you’re out there:

  My Keesh stalker list rarely if every changes. My “Person A” (I don’t like saying “crush” or “ex”, is still #1 on my list, and their points/value changed only one time and dramatically. Still Person A’s number is more than half higher of the person below. I think I downloaded Keesh in early October.

  Again, my Person A is no longer a friend. I did slip up and view their page once. But that has been the only time.

  My stalker list did begin to show an ex I knew from long-long ago, and a guy who is pursuing me now as 3, 4. I found that super odd becasue again, to keep my jealousy/stalking at bay, lol, I don’t view their pages, esp. the ex from way back, I looked him up about 2 months ago, and sent a friendly email. That’s it. You really think he then deserves #4 on my Stalker list, hmmm.

• I’ve got a new list now that matches the order on my search bar, so at the moment I think I am seeing the most recent numbers.

• Who was on my facebook profile?! is the new all-in-one solution to answer that question. Find out who is stalking you and get realtime updates of new requests, messages and notifciations wherever you are surfing.

• Also the order of friends on the search bar no longer matches any of the lists the keesh program brings up. I suspect the search bar order has been updated though and is accurate – maybe Facebook have found a way of loading the information onto our pages that cannot be seen from the client side. Pity as I was finding this all quite interesting!

• Sarah- just out of interest what browser are you using? I am using Firefox. I am still continuing to get a choice of 3 old lists when I refresh the keesh bookmarklet.

  • I’m using Firefox too.

• I have been playing with the stalker bookmarklet from thekeesh for the last couple of days- very interesting.

  The numbers that come up seem to determine the order of people on the searchbar. I now know why my ex is the first on the searchbar under both his initials- all our previous interactions gave him an index number three times greater than the next person down. I guess over time he will fall off the searchbar as the numbers gradually decrease. He fell 3 points in 24 hours so maybe in a few months…

  It is also definitely a two way thing- it isn’t just who you stalk. I had a girl who is interested in my ex jump from around -10 to -15 yesterday and I hadn’t viewed her page for some days. A couple of friends made similiar sized jumps but I hadn’t viewed their pages the day before either.

  Someone who added me as a friend made their debut at -9.08 the next day and have now dropped to -7. I guess we both looked at each others profiles the first night and haven’t been back since. Someone else here mentioned 9.08 being a common number on the list.

  I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but there seems to be some sort of caching issue with the list- I’m not sure if the problem is at facebook or with my computer. I do repeatedly clear my browser cache but still have problems. Sometimes the stalker list brings up an old version of the list. I haven’t had a fresh update today- I just keep getting a rotating cycle of what seem to be cached versions (I have kept a record of each time the list changes). I downloaded Firebug to see in detail what was happening and I noticed the date stamp on the file download can be from anytime in the last 24 hours. Suspect the problem must be at Facebooks end.

  • I had the same problem too. For the two days I’ve started commenting and liking many of my friends status updates and photos, but for some reason, no matter how many times I refresh the stalker list, it comes up with the old one.

• I have been playing with the stalker bookmarklet from thekeesh for the last couple of days- very interesting.

  The numbers that come up seem to determine the order of people on the searchbar. I now know why my ex is the first on the searchbar under both his initials- all our previous interactions gave him an index number three times greater than the next person down. I guess over time he will fall off the searchbar as the numbers gradually decrease. He fell 3 points in 24 hours so maybe in a few months…

  It is also definitely a two way thing- it isn’t just who you stalk. I had a girl who is interested in my ex jump from around -10 to -15 yesterday and I hadn’t viewed her page for some days. A couple of friends made similiar sized jumps but I hadn’t viewed their pages the day before either.

  Someone who added me as a friend made their debut at -9.08 the next day and have now dropped to -7. I guess we both looked at each others profiles the first night and haven’t been back since. Someone else here mentioned 9.08 being a common number on the list.

  I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but there seems to be some sort of caching issue with the list- I’m not sure if the problem is at facebook or with my computer. I do repeatedly clear my browser cache but still have problems. Sometimes the stalker list brings up an old version of the list. I haven’t had a fresh update today- I just keep getting a rotating cycle of what seem to be cached versions (I have kept a record of each time the list changes). I downloaded Firebug to see in detail what was happening and I noticed the date stamp on the file download can be from anytime in the last 24 hours. Suspect the problem must be at Facebooks end.

• I have been playing with the stalker bookmarklet from thekeesh for the last couple of days- very interesting.

  The numbers that come up seem to determine the order of people on the searchbar. I now know why my ex is the first on the searchbar under both his initials- all our previous interactions gave him an index number three times greater than the next person down. I guess over time he will fall off the searchbar as the numbers gradually decrease. He fell 3 points in 24 hours so maybe in a few months…

  It is also definitely a two way thing- it isn’t just who you stalk. I had a girl who is interested in my ex jump from around -10 to -15 yesterday and I hadn’t viewed her page for some days. A couple of friends made similiar sized jumps but I hadn’t viewed their pages the day before either.

  Someone who added me as a friend made their debut at -9.08 the next day and have now dropped to -7. I guess we both looked at each others profiles the first night and haven’t been back since. Someone else here mentioned 9.08 being a common number on the list.

  I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but there seems to be some sort of caching issue with the list- I’m not sure if the problem is at facebook or with my computer. I do repeatedly clear my browser cache but still have problems. Sometimes the stalker list brings up an old version of the list. I haven’t had a fresh update today- I just keep getting a rotating cycle of what seem to be cached versions (I have kept a record of each time the list changes). I downloaded Firebug to see in detail what was happening and I noticed the date stamp on the file download can be from anytime in the last 24 hours. Suspect the problem must be at Facebooks end.

• I have been playing with the stalker bookmarklet from thekeesh for the last couple of days- very interesting.

  The numbers that come up seem to determine the order of people on the searchbar. I now know why my ex is the first on the searchbar under both his initials- all our previous interactions gave him an index number three times greater than the next person down. I guess over time he will fall off the searchbar as the numbers gradually decrease. He fell 3 points in 24 hours so maybe in a few months…

  It is also definitely a two way thing- it isn’t just who you stalk. I had a girl who is interested in my ex jump from around -10 to -15 yesterday and I hadn’t viewed her page for some days. A couple of friends made similiar sized jumps but I hadn’t viewed their pages the day before either.

  Someone who added me as a friend made their debut at -9.08 the next day and have now dropped to -7. I guess we both looked at each others profiles the first night and haven’t been back since. Someone else here mentioned 9.08 being a common number on the list.

  I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but there seems to be some sort of caching issue with the list- I’m not sure if the problem is at facebook or with my computer. I do repeatedly clear my browser cache but still have problems. Sometimes the stalker list brings up an old version of the list. I haven’t had a fresh update today- I just keep getting a rotating cycle of what seem to be cached versions (I have kept a record of the numbers each time the list changes). I downloaded Firebug to see in detail what was happening and I noticed the date stamp on the file download can be from anytime in the last 24 hours. Suspect the problem must be at Facebooks end.

• Check this out! on the chat bar, there is another search bar at the bottom, and it highly relates to the search bar at the top of the facebook page, as it also shows auto search results. I can type in the first or last initial, and still see the same order, that I would I see on the search bar at the top, minus the non-friends.

  Try typing the first or last name initial of those seven people, who are left, and see if they all are top search results on the chat bar. This is something I am experimenting with, but as for (Smart1), this may not be of any interest, since she has someone who is not a friend…but still something to look at…just putting it out there…

• There is another thing I didn’t understand: Why is my own name in the list? And that too it ranks as the 7th person who stalks my own profile! :-/ :-? That really makes no sense! Why does it have to list my own name? Considering the fact that it is MY profile, why wouldn’t I be ‘looking’ at it! :-/

• There is another thing I didn’t understand: Why is my own name in the list? And that too it ranks as the 7th person who stalks my own profile! :-/ :-? That really makes no sense! Why does it have to list my own name? Considering the fact that it is MY profile, why wouldn’t I be ‘looking’ at it! :-/

  • keep refreshing your profile page, and you’ll see what I noticed! I went up on my search bar after refreshing my profile!

• @FoxyVixen: Of course I am not 100% sure as we don’t know anything for sure with any of this. BUT….I have been talking to my ex-b/f A LOT on FB, and he recently admitted to me (through a text and a pm) that he is still in love with me and wants me back. We have been pm’ing a lot through our phones, and he is always commenting on my status whenever I post. It is strange, b/c it seems like whenever I post something, he replies to it within minutes. So I think he also has it set up on his phone to notify him when I post.

  He has also TOLD me that he stalks my profile all the time, and stares at my pictures because he is still in love with me. Since he started to do this, he shot straight to #1 (way higher than anyone else) on the stalker list, and also to the last man standing when I lower the chat bar. The others that are #2 and #3 when I lower the chat list are another guy who reads/replies to my posts ALL the time, and my crush. Which leads me to believe that the last person left is who looks at YOU the most, because I rarely (if ever) look at his profile.

  Try this guys…post some pictures. And then see who moves on your stalker list. I notice major shifts in the stalker list (and the LSB10) whenever I post pictures. I know a lot of friends will look at my pics and not say anything, because they will tell me in person that they saw my pics.

  • on what specific page is the ticker on? is it on the homepage, or when I click on apps? In fact, how do you get there? I noticed something similar that displays which game someone played, but I don’t know what you mean as far as moving the chatbar, it won’t let me move my chat bar : (…)

• @? Maybe that is because there wasn’t any mutual viewing. After all the viewing was one-sided, as you said.

• @Cher, how do you know for a fact that the person left over in the chat bar (after dragging it and seeing everyone disappear) is the one who views you the most? I want to know because for the past two days my crush is the only one left over there. We’ve had a couple of PMs recently but I’ve been on chat A LOT more with some of my best friends, and for a lot longer, and more recently, and yet they disappear from my chat window once I drag it. If it’s true what you say about who’s left over, then crush is viewing me the most. I’m in heaven!

• the only problem with that theory is my friend admitted to checking my profile every day, multiple times a day. I almost never look at her profile, or interact with her outside of chat. she also publicly interacts with my profile often and yet her stalkerlist number drops consistently…

• What the…??? Guys I just noticed something about that Keesh website (the stalker list). I started experimenting with it two days back by installing it into my bookmarks bar and not clicking on my crush’s page. As it correctly tracks who YOU have been stalking, I wasn’t surprised to find that my crush’s name happened to be at the top of the list (in other words, his was the very first name) with a ranking number of 188 (along with a decimal point, but i don’t remember the exact numbers that came after the decimal point). That happened like two days ago. I wanted to experiment to see if the viewing might be mutual so I didn’t view his profile or ‘like’ or comment or click on any of his posts the next day. But I did check my stalker list and it reduced from 188 to 187. The day after that, I again refused to view his profile, his comments and posts, so I didn’t ‘like’ click or comment on anything. Now it’s been two days since I’ve been keeping away from his profile, so I logged onto Facebook a couple of minutes back and opened my stalker list to find that the ranking had NOT reduced further from 187 to 186 but had instead INCREASED from 187 to 192!! :O :O How is that possible if it only shows who YOU stalk?!?!

• @magicdonkey: most everything we have found pretty much is the same as the search bar, LSB10, MO5 (prior), ect. It seems that FB will show you who they think they want you to see. I am at a loss with all of this myself right now.

  Here is something that creeped me out. I GAVE IN and looked at the crush’s profile. Only bc I wanted to see what he was doing and didn’t want to drag through hundreds of posts to get to his. So when I clicked on his profile, I was #1 on his LSB10. WHY???? I have never appeared in his LSB before!! I don’t look at his page often (rarely) but when I have I was NOT on there. WTF? Either it has something to do with who you look at, (but I DONT look at those on MY LSB10) OR…..there was a RECENT mutual view. what do you all think?? This is all such a puzzle and I can’t stand not being able to figure it out. And i want OFF his LSB10!!!!

  Oh and FB, if you are reading…….please bring back the MO5. There are only a select few of us who knew about it and we liked it. No one else will know. Please….

  • You might wanna check out this thread, the latest post in there might give major pointers! this person refers to chat, but then talks about who shows up (possibly by LSB10 or something)

    http://www.gotknowhow.com/answers/how-does-facebook-determine-which-friends-appear-on-your-profile-sidebar

• PIC: What Joe is talking about in “People you may Know” section is the 3 people who appear on the left hand side when you click on people you may know. You can click on one of their boxes to only bring up THEIR friends. Those that constantly appear there are the same ones who USED TO appear in the MO5.

  As for the chat bar, they are also showing you the same ppl who are on LSB10, PYMK3, search bar, ect… They are not necessarily online. To find out if they are (and that will be only if they are logged on to chat) you have to make yourself available to chat.
  Did you guys try what I said previously? Drag the chat bar down and watch the friends disappear one by one….when you get to the last person, I believe (well I know for a fact) that this person is the one who looks at you the most.

  • What I noticed about the chatbar as of now, I don’t see the option to make oneself unavailable to chat, so maybe after the update, it shifted me back to be available online. Remember, one of my friends knew I was online after I asked him about it.

    As far as the people you may know, and people to sub to, I was referring to how many times a certain friend showed up after clicking on who the mutual friend was, when I refreshed the page, and saw that the friend of the friend, was the same person when I clicked on “1 mutual friend” or “1 mutual friend subscribed” I’ll have to check out the PYMK3 page again, cher. I noticed the search bar on that page, is the same as the search bar on my friends page, and the search bar at the top of the page…hmmmmm…

• Joe:
  It’s difficult to understand what you mean since you keep saying that someone who you are friends with show up in “people you may know”. You do realize that a friend can’t show up there, right? If you are friends with someone, obviously you know them.

  I don’t know if things are moving too fast for you or what, but try to review what you write before posting, so people will have a better chance of understanding what you mean. Thank you.

• Has anyone else noticed the ever changing chat window? When you leave just seven FB friends to appear on this window, it appears that they show you the people who might be online, but not making themselves available for chat at that moment. Can anyone else here confirm this?

  • I noticed the same thing! and the three who appeared at the top of my search bar, are mostly seen on the chat bar, even when they are not online. One of the three, was “the poker”, and he has unfriended me, but I am still second on the search bar due to someone who unfriended me a while back. her last name initial starts with “J”. Now the two I am experimenting on, is my crush, and the one who admitted to have been reading my notes. I was refreshing my notes page, last night, and the only person showing up in the “people who I know”, and “people to subscribe to”, is my crush. The one who admitted to have been reading my notes, doesn’t show up often in them though. These two are frequently on my chat bar list, the crush is at the very bottom, and the other guy is right above him. The other five keep varying because they keep changing, except these two ~_~…

    So as for the crush, he sometimes ends up on the LSB10 of friends, but remains a permanent fixture on my search bar, frequently shows up in my people I may know, and people to subscribe to. I noticed yesterdaym he showed up when I kept refreshing the friends and family page, but today, he wasn’t showing up, nor was he showing up on the LSB10 today, but he did show up on my people I may know, and people to subscribe to, whenever I write notes.

    I wrote another note, unusually earlier this morning, but the crush didn’t log on as soon as I published the note, so I am guessing he was sleep, and didn’t expect me to write out anything. during the day, I usually write them out in the evening, and he logs on minutes later. The oddness is he seems to log on whenever I log on…

• Ummmmmmm~ My sister died over a year ago I do NOT go to her FB page ( to painful) but every few days her name appears at the top of my friends list..any ideas?

  • It’s a possibility with this…facebook mixes in people who possibly view your page, or those you haven’t talked to in a while. I noticed my family shows up, but I don’t talk to them…

    @sarah, there is someone who just so happens to keep logging on everytime I write notes to myself, and the weird thing is, I wrote one out, yesterday, to chronicle myself again, but the person didn’t log on minutes later, but I did notice, he started to show up in the people who I may know whenever I read my notes…try using the search bar and see who shows up first as soon as you type in a letter, this is what everyone is experimenting on really, this would shock you…

• I’m still wondering why they have removed MO5…The “people you may know” list is definitely about who views you because right after someone has appeared on the “people you may know” list, I end up getting a friend request from them. It’s already happened twice, so there is no doubt about it.

• I’m still wondering why they have removed MO5…The “people you may know” list is definitely about who views you because right after someone has appeared on the “people you may know” list, I end up getting a friend request from them. It’s already happened twice, so there is no doubt about it.

• I’m still wondering why they have removed MO5…The “people you may know” list is definitely about who views you because right after someone has appeared on the “people you may know” list, I end up getting a friend request from them. It’s already happened twice, so there is no doubt about it.

• I’m still wondering why they have removed MO5…

• Have you people asked your “friends” if you have also shown up on their list? Might be interesting to know.

  • My stalker list made some crazy changes recently. It’s like it has a memory, but it is often delayed. For example, people I was clearly clicking on their page, are now showing up higher on my staler list.

    The search bar still puzzles me – it is not in abc order, it is not always based on people I have even looked at in weeks and weeks.

    Lastly, someone mentioned having your friends check things out for you, run tests. I think this is very helpful.

    For me this was the greatest indicator, becasue my Ex was showing up in my friends search bars before even their own friends and family, and they are not friends with the guy. Now why would that happen?

• Wish whoever edits messages in this list did so with some coherent basis.

  Noticed some patterns now but it would be stupid for me to post them only to have someone at FB eliminate them. Damned if you post what you’ve figured out and damned if you don’t. The MO5 connection hit a nerve at FB. Why, I don’t know. Almost nobody had figured it out so it made no real difference to 99.8% of the users. Why bother?

  Maybe the name of the game is to find ways to engage everybody in mind games with FB developers.

  What is interesting to me and what I WILL comment about is the connections with the people who suddenly are showing up as people you might wish to consider as friends. Before they seemed to be random. Now they seem to tie to people who formerly might have shown up on MO10/MO5 at or near the top of the frequency list. This is so ‘remote’ as not to be very useful, but its a new pattern.

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• This just in! The poker unfriended me, and now I am first with both initials… he fell right off! Maybe this will give you more insight about your search bar smart1…

  I mean this other person that unfriended me, stayed on the search bar, but the poker is now off the search bar, weird…

• I really hope that this isn’t the case because my boss and a few other people I don’t want creeping on my profile show up in my list. The people I interact with the most don’t really show up on my profile. Until this gets figured out I am definitely not going to creep on anyone…

• Facebook is dead anyway, Twitter is the new place to go :D

• I don’t remember if this has been the case for long, but have you noticed that LSB10 is now the same 10 people for 24h, regardless of how many times you refresh your page during that time? The order changes when you refresh but they are still the same 10 people. Then there are 10 new people for the next 24h.

• If my crush shows up on my LSB10 at the same time as I show up in hers does it stand to reason that we are both looking at each other’s profiles? Thanks everyone! I love this thread!

• @Smart1

  You really should nickname yourself as your username for this thread. Here is a kicker, that I have stated before. This one guy who appears under my crush with the same initial of “R”, he admitted to me, that he has been reading my notes on facebook. He stated that he may be second on the list because he said, he wanted to get into the notes I have been writing. My crush appears #1 over him with the initial “R”, and is first with both of his initials! I took a sneak peak at my homepage today, and could not find the ticker (sorry cher), and saw that the guy who has been poking me, is still at it and poked me again, hence the reason, why I went back to #2, on the auto search bar, after one day. This signifies that my profile is being clicked on by the poker, possibly the one who adnitted to have been reading my notes, and the guy who appears with both of his initials( he is making it very subtle, but I see him in people I may know, and people to subscribe to). These three people, appear at the bottom of my chat bar.

  • Would love to name this thread after me!
    @Joe are you not viewing Crush and Pokers pages?

    Again, my Person A, is not even my friend.

    The part I really do not get is how Person A is the 2nd or 3rd person in my other friends search bar. That is the really creepy part.

    • The difference between our situations is the fact that I have suspicion that someone is viewing my profile more than I am, but these three are friends. For you, it is someone who is not a friend, but I got your perspective when I found that my mother’s old BF started showing up third in the auto search results on his last name, and fifth, on his first. My sister did tell me that he has been wondering how I am doing, but why would I want to hav anything to do with someone who stole my identity before…?

      Yes, I haven’t been viewing their profiles, yet the both of them remain a fixture as first with both of their initials on my search bar. I am second under my first initial, because of the poker (it is evident that he had to had been going to my page to poke me!). As for my crush, he won’t openly say his feelings to me, as I used to watch his youtube vids. One night, he made a vid, indirectly referring to me, obviously, and the funny thing is this vid was uploaded a hour after I sent him a PM about sharing an apartment with him. I didn’t find out about the vid until the next morning. So this may be why he remains a huge fixture as number one on my facebook, to see how I am doing without asking me, because he doesn’t talk to me, it is me talking to him. I do notice how one of his friends are in my auto search bar results now. He must have been on my profile, monitoring me.

      It may also be evident that he is silently reading my notes as well, besides the guy who admitted to have been reading my notes. Again, yesterday I wrote a note yesterday, and my crush just so happened to start showing up in the cycle of LSB10 friends, and people who I may know, and people to subscribe to, again. The search bar is really suspicious, but I would like to get more insight into the ticker, Cher had told me about…

    • So far this is what it looks like!

      Search Bar– J
      “J” — Poker( I surpassed him for ONE DAY, and then the next day I was back under him. Yesterday I checked the homepage, to see that he has poked me again, as I used to see when he poked me, whenever I went to my profile.)
      “J”oe– ME
      “J”– the last name initial of who unfriended me
      “J” — I know its my father because he has same name as me.
      “J” –Mom’s old BF

      Search Bar– R
      “R”– My crush, (also appears first on his last name initial)
      “R”– admitted to have read my notes…
      “R”– some random farmville friend.(he just so happened to appear third suddenly…)

      Search Bar– G
      “G”– My crush (obviously…)
      “G”– Someone who is part of an online cult, that my crush was trying to join.(they have been sending me friend requests as well, and I had to unfriend them…
      “G”– some random relative of one of my friends, who was a farmville friend
      “G”– My mother… :)

      Search Bar–T
      “T”– admitted to have been reading my notes, under my crush under “R”
      “T”– some random friend of one of my friends
      “T”– Mother’s old BF
      “T”–the last name initial of one of my crush’s friends

• @ Smart1: I definitely think the stalker list and search bar is mutual views. Because there ARE people on there who I have recently looked/searched for and they would have NO reason to be looking at me. But get this…..remember I said my crush fell to like #6?? Well, today he was back to #2 (just behind that ex-b/f who admits to looking at my profile A LOT). His number jumped from 6.0000something to 12.000something. Now how is that if I haven’t looked at his page at all since it was lower before?? I just posted some pictures this weekend, so I am guessing he jumped back up because he was looking at my stuff. He is back on search bar as #1 under his last initial, and #2 on his first initial (and that is only because stalker #1 (the ex) has the same first initial in his name. My #1 is at 21.00something. GEEZ….and I am NOT looking at his page at all. But we have been pm’ing a lot.

  • Good Observation @Cher

    My situation is so unique, I think it’s good to compare with others.

    I don’t Pm my Person A, nor am friends with, and so on.

    Has anyone else checked with other friends, perhaps other friends your crush or whatever would stalk?

    Try it and let us all know.

    Person A continues to show up 2nd and 3rd on two of my guy friends search results, despite not being his friend, and not ever looking him up.

• My only theory on the retention of someone still high in ranks is they were viewed/interacted more and even though you have left them alone for even months, f/b still has them at the top, rank wise, until someone else “pushes” them out of the way.

  • Well that makes sense, but it doesn’t MESH with other results. Example: @Hells Bells said she did not look at person A’s page for a few days and both their rank and stalker list number fell. Whereas my person A stayed at #1 for both, despite abc order, not being friends and so on.

    More important: The MYSTERY here is that this still DOES NOT explain why Person A showed up in 3 of my FRIENDS auto-complete searches. They never searched for Person A, not friends with Person A, and Person A has a VERY common name.

    It does however make sense that Person A would be cruising their pages for bits of info I am not making public to friends of friends.

• @ Hells Bells– Your reply really intrigues me becasue when you stopped stalking Person A, their number fell down on your Stalker List. That makes sense right?

  So tell me why my Person A, who I am not friends with, have not looked at their page in 6 weeks now, is still #1 on my Stalker, and Search Bar? If your theory holds true for you, them my results show the Search Bar is a valid indicator of who is looking at your page.

  If I am not looking at Person A’s page, 6-7 weeks now, don’t you believe they’d be losing steam on my Search Bar and stalker list #. But no, there they are everyday #1.

  I doubt they have the perseverance I have to NOT look at their page. :-)

  I agree, Search Bar is based on some kind of mutual views, but it is clear to me that my Search Bar is not operating like yours is, if I am not viewing person A, why are they still showing up? Search Bar is who is looking at your page.

  Answers and theories please! We’ve been at this thread a long time!

• Now that you mention it, it does seem odd how the people in my chat list, are mostly the people who show up first in the search bar. Does your aunt show up first with both of her initials in the search bar. I recognize what the ticker is and I pretty much would like to fidn it without going on the homepage, whereas, I do not want to stalk, or see anyone else’s convos. I found a way to skip it. just log on, and fav your profile page, and that is how I log on. Even after doing this for months, I still see people who I may know, or suggested friends, or suggested subscribers. The fact that my crush hasn’t left my chat list( there are always seven people there one is my crush), may in fact go hand in hand with the reasoning as to why he is first on the search bar, but he hasn’t been showing up on LSB10, and occasionally is seen in the “people to subscribe to”.

• Joe, my aunt appears on the chat list above the one that says “more online friends”. I think she comes up there and on my LSB10 (and USED to be MO5/10) because my pictures were one of the last things she looked at before she died. It was mentioned way back in this thread that she still appears there b/c FB “remembered” her since she had viewed my page. FB doesn’t know she died, but someone told me that she shows there so that I will look at her, and try to bring her back to FB since she hasn’t logged on in a long time. Does that make sense?

  On the right side of the screen, you should see the new ticker (that bar that continuously shows the updates your friends are making.) Under that, there should be a group of people in your “chat list”. Between the two, there is a line/bar….just drag with the mouse and you will see what I am talking about. This works much in the same way that the old “zoom” feature used to work. I noticed that doesn’t work anymore because of the new ticker. It just makes the screen larger, it doesn’t eliminate the people on the chat list one by one like it used to. (hope this helps and makes sense!!)

• @ Joe: How can you tell when someone is online, even if they are not available to chat? I have a group of people in my “chat list” who are always there, but I thought they were only online if they have the green light on (and if they make themselves available). The people on the right in the chat bar are not necessarily online….they can’t be. Because one person on my chat bar who is always there is my aunt who died 5 months ago.

  You asked how to drag the chat bar…..right above the list of people there is a line separating the list and the ticker. Just drag the chat bar down on that line with your mouse, and the more you drag it down, the more people disappear. The person who is left is the one who stalks you the most (and I know this for a fact, because he told me how much he stalks me.) lol

  • Because I made myself unavailable to chat, and I thought I was not able to be seen online by anyone, but it is a dead giveaway on any of the friend’s homepages, to the left of their homepage screen. I tested it with a friend, and he told me that he can still see that I am online on facebook, on his homepage, despite the fact that I made myself unavailable for chat. My sister has one of those fancy sliding phones with facebook on it as well, and I am still able to know when she is online, and she is on my chat bar. There would have to be a separation between the chat bar, and the homepage, where it shows who is online on facebook. Yes, sometimes, friends are shown offline, but are still in the chat bar for some odd reason. What gets me now, is the separation between friends, that are shown above the “more online friends”. I notice how the “more online friends”, are people who I never actually had interactions with. My guess is that the chat bar has an affiliation with the auto searchbar as well. I also notice now how I am showing up first in the auto search bar, with both of my initials, which lets me know the guy who also shows up first with his initials, may have actually been checking out my profile. I noticed the changed in order of my first initial over, from being second to first, after continuously refreshing my profile page.

    Another set of questions…does your aunt show up under more online friends, or above that set, on the chat bar?

    I’m not too familiar with this “ticker”, is it on my profile, or my homepage? If I can figure this out, I will be very much appreciative for the answer, thanks for the info!

  • yeah, you are correct about the little green circle, it does show when your friends are online, only on the chat bar. on the homepage, friends, can see little profile pictures of whoever is online on the left of the homepage. The little green circle you see on their smaller profile pic, signifies that they are using chat, and when the green circle disappears, and you still see their small profile pic, on the homepage, they are still online, but idle on their chat.

• @hells bells: If the person is ‘subscribed’ to FB via phone (and pretty much ANY phone now has web access. even if you don’t have the web based plan, one can still access it-just on a pay-by-minute basis), then you have no clue if they are logged into FB or not. Even if they use a standard ‘ol computer all one has to do is take themselves off the chat…then how would anyone know if they were online? I go on all the time, peruse the pages that I want, don’t post, like, comment, play games…just basically ‘stalk/creep’ all without ‘available to chat’ and how would ANYONE know I was ON FB? They wouldn’t. There is nothing that pops up and says ‘hey, guess what? your friend kava is online and on facebook but doesn’t want you to know’. Just because someone says they never go on FB doesn’t mean that they in FACT don’t. I have been to known to tell certain people I ‘stalk/creep’ this (unelthical? ya I know :])

  My ex claims he very rarely if ever goes on FB. He never posts anything on his page, never comments on anything and only once in a while I will see a ‘friended’ someone. BUUUTTTTT…he always seems to know what is going on in my life…somehow always related to something I or someone posts on my FB wall, or comment on. How is that? Simply because he is stalking/creepin’ on me, that’s how.Via phone, laptop, work computer…

  So just because YOU think someone is not on FB doesn’t mean they aren’t. Savvy people know how to check out profiles without lettint their “victim” know they are.

  • Not entirely sure about that one kava…even if I am not available to chat, my facebook friends still know I am online, even if I don’t do anything. They confirmed that they still saw my little profile pic, as an a sort of of online status to their left of their homepage, even while I thought no one would see that I was still on.

    The little green dot that shows up signifies that the person is using chat, and without it, they are still online, but idle..

    At least someone here sees my point about the online status perspective. Tell me kava, have you been checking your emails? There is something that came up for me, and it told me that I was “missing important notifications”. It showed up in junk mail. I also bet when ever you posted something, someone unusally logged in minutes after, didn’t they? The search bar is still the same for me, and people have changed around, but the guy I like, is still first, even when I haven’t been talking to him.

  • after reading your post again, it donned on me, people do have facebook mobile, and my sister happens to have it as well, but even when she is using it, I can tell if she is online. I don’t know what kinds of phones make it visible or if people are actually relying on their emails to know friend activity, without logging on. don’t forget, with close friends, people can have it set to where they can see what you do via email, but then I don’t have anyone assigned to close friends, and I got this junk mail telling me, I have been missing important emails. Mysteriously the MO5/10 has gone, and has been replaced with where I work, but when I mouse over someone else that has posted on my page, it shows where they work, and then shows mutual friends as usual…

• I found another site recently having to do with Facebook behavior monitoring. The link (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets.html) doesn’t contain anything like a hidden script, but it does give a little bit of insight as to how Facebook continues to sort user habits. Perhaps one of you will know how to make better use of this information.

• I have been trying an experiment since September the 5th-not looking at anyone’s profile or commenting or “liking” on any posts or photos, I then selected a random 15 people out of my 46 friends and just checked my friends list the MO5 and the MO10 once in the morning and once at night every day and the following were the results.

  Also part way through this experiment, I discovered the “stalker list” and have added the current results as well to compare; the result are:

  Person—- 10 Friends List—-MO5—MO10—Stalker list
  1—-39—-22—-12—-139.271384
  2—-12—-22—-18—-14.286293
  3—-12—-0—-0—-3.406578
  4—-17—-19—-13—-9.721573
  5—-37—-22—-22—-31.2101833
  6—-17—-0—-0—-0.2352638
  7—-27—-21—-13—-9.1972978
  8—-38—-15—-27—-9.0204511
  9—-38—-20—-26—-4.8504472
  10—-17—-25—-22—-21.4456068
  11—-28—-27—-12—-203.447562
  12—-20—-29—-16—-7.064314
  13—-12—-0—-0—-1.617892
  14—-36—-19—-16—-13.4093792

  Those figures are the number of times that that person appeared in that area.

  So from this, given that I looked at no ones profile, I can reasonably conclude that either:

  1. All of the figures are random-unlikely, as a random numbers would surely have a slightly more even spread. (perhaps a statistician could comment on this).

  2. The people are calculated from number of views that I made some months ago-possible.

  3. That there is an aspect of when these people are on FB combined with profile views-certainly feasible as persons 1, 8 and 9 are on FB at least a few times a day.

  Or perhaps it is a combination of all 3, the patterns certainly changed at least twice in this period.
  Can anyone else suggest anything.
  (Yes I know too much time on my hands)!

  The Stalker list is pretty spot on with my most viewed people before I started this experiement.

• I dont see this is right with the friends list thing with the people that click on ur profile the most becausae i just did my several times and yes the same people kee popping up but just in a different order becauase one of the people that is popping up is currently incarcerated so theres nowayy hes peeping my fb from inside a jail cell there has to be another reason on why

• @ Smart1– Interesting…I do think that the first person that shows up on the search bar is the person who you have searched for the most over time, as mine is the first person on my “stalker list”. I’ve searched for this person more than I have anyone else, yet haven’t in the past 4 days, so their “stalker list” number has gone way down. I imagine since they’re probably not looking at my page much anymore either, they’ll fall down the list eventually, and probably will fall off of the number 1 spot on the search bar, too.

  @ kava–I just don’t see the connection that everyone else does with the MO5/10. Mine are always people whose profiles I’ve checked over the past 6 weeks, and I know for a fact that a couple of them don’t ever get on fb much and 1 of them never checks my profile. I’m starting to really think that the MO5/10 really was just one sided.

  • I disagree with that…for some reason, the guy who shows up with both of his initials, I avoid his page( at all costs), and he continues to show up first on my serach bar. there is a BF my mom used to date, and he is not friends with me, let alone, I have never checked out his page, but he sent a friend request, and I rejected it. people have to realize, just because someone doesn’t talk to you or interact on facebook, there is always a chance they have to be checking you out, by their best not to let you know they are doing it. I mean for months, he has been first on my search bar, and has never fell off my chat list. he over laps everyone under him on the chat bar…This is just me though, it may be different for you, but I don’t check out profiles.

    Can someone reply and demonstrate how to move the chat bar? I saw it in a previous note. How are you able to drag it up and down?

• search bar is totally different now too…..wth?? Brought up totally random people. And my LSB10 is now showing all different friends who were not there before. I really want the MO5 back too. :(

• Please, bring back the MO5. I loved them. Also, I don’t like to see where I work / study.

• Mo5/10 is gone :(

• Wow. They take away my favorite part of fb…MO5/10. Maybe it’ll reincarnate somewhere else, which is the trend, imo.

• I am really upset they took the MO5/10 away – that was one of the only things I ever checked when I came on FB (well I checked that the most). Well, FB must be reading this, I think. I can guarantee I will not be on FB much now. Hopefully this is just a glitch, and at 8 pm ET it will be back when they do their “updates”. (it always seems that is the time they make changes).

  My stalker list changed DRASTICALLY. No rhyme or reason for the order of this list now. The first 10 I can see, but after that I am confused. Oh my crush dropped down from #3 to #6!! WTH??? He was #1 on everything FOREVER!! And the person who FLEW up to the top is my ex-boyfriend who has been flirting and talking to me a lot on FB, and admitted in a pm that he stalks my page! I don’t look at his. Hmmmmm.

  On the chat bar, with the new ticker, you can drag your chat bar up and down to hide the ticker. Try dragging your chat bar slowly down, and watch who disappears one by one. The one that is left is the one who stalks you the most, I think. And guess who mine is? That ex I talked about in the previous paragraph. My crush drops off at #3. :(

• I forgot to add, the email also tells a person who did what, as far as posting on facebook, liking another’s status or commenting to someone else.

  I’m not too sure it is friends, or those who are not friends, that is shown when friends post anything, because I didn’t want to delve the deep into the habit of stalking on facebook.

• Why was my post removed?? Anyway, interesting that MO5 is gone and is now replaced with where you work (if you have given that info) displayed on yourself and your friends.

  • Have you ever looked at your emails, and seen something from facebook notifying that,”you have missed important notifications”?

    I find it odd because it showed seven peple that usually show up on my friends list, but also the first two that are seen are the two who show up with the same initial of “R” on the search bar. It’s the guy who shows up with both his initials first, then the guy who admitted to have been reading my notes, and five others who regularly show up on my friends list as well, and I never really talk to the other five, but here lately I haven’t been talking to anyone. I don’t even have any friends assigned to close friends. This let’s me know that facebook has been telling people about latest activity that I have been up to without any of my friends asking me. They can find out by their emails, even without close friends!

    everyone should experiment with this!

• What I found out today: When my friends look at my profile, my LSB10 shows exactly the same 10 people (even after 10 refreshes). On the other hand, when I look at my profile from my own account the LSB 10 looks more random and changes with refreshes (although some people stay the same). So, now I’m wondering why does FB shows the same 10 people to my friends, but not to me? How are these 10 people picked?
  I found this permanent LSB10 today when I visited my profile from a friend’s account, and then when I was using the “View as” tool from my own account.

  As for the disappearance of the MO5 I think it showed who stalks you and that’s why they removed it. At least mine (and most of the people here) observations suggest that idea. And now with the disappearing…something smells fishy here!

• Hi PiC, I noticed that it stopped appearing last night. I was trying some of the suggestions on here & refreshing, and then it just stopped around 8 or 9 eastern. Still not up. I’ve never paid attention til the other day, honestly, so I don’t know if that happens every week around the same time or if tech’s working on it for some reason.

  Just for anyone who’s been reading some of these posts & doesn’t know what the different acronyms stand for, here goes:

  MO5/MO10–On your profile page, hover mouse over your name anywhere on the page that you’ve posted. You’ll see 5 friends’ profile pics in miniature. Hover over your pic next to that, and you’ll see 5 more. Refresh the page, and a new batch of friends will replace/be mixed in with the originals.

  LSB10–The 10 friends on the left side of your profile page displayed under “Friends”.

  PPYMK–“People You May Know” suggestions on your home page.

  “Close Friends”–5 people fb suggests for you to add when you click the “Close Friends” list under “Lists” on the left side of your home page.

  Chat List–Self explanatory, but it’s been mentioned as a possible window to who’s looking at your profile, so I’ll throw it in.

  SB- Search Bar

  “Stalker List”– A downloadable algorithm from Keesh.com that when employed through fb, lists people who you have searched for/had interaction with the most. And “possibly” vice-versa. The list is set up with the most viewed profiles highest to lowest, and each is given a number with a decimal point and several numbers after the decimal, usually looks something like 46.19468109984500099 or whatever. That’s just for explanation purposes, not an actual number you should be seeing or anything.

  “Friends Grid”–Click “Friends” on the left side of your profile. A page will show up with your friends listed in alphabetical order. To the right of the search bar at the top of that page, there are two small boxes for different viewing options. Hit the “tic tac toe” box that has 9 very tiny squares, and the page changes to a random view of friends.

  So far, I have not seen much in the way of any pattern, other than the people that YOU search for the most showing up more everywhere. I do believe that there is a major memory to the “stalker list”, so if people you’ve searched for in the past, even if it’s been months ago, or you’ve even unfriended them, will still be at the top of the list now.

• Hi PiC, I noticed that it stopped appearing last night. I was trying some of the suggestions on here & refreshing, and then it just stopped around 8 or 9 eastern. Still not up. I’ve never paid attention til the other day, honestly, so I don’t know if that happens every week around the same time or if tech’s working on it for some reason.

  Just for anyone who’s been reading some of these posts & doesn’t know what the different acronyms stand for, here goes:

  MO5/MO10–On your profile page, hover mouse over your name anywhere on the page that you’ve posted. You’ll see 5 friends’ profile pics in miniature. Hover over your pic next to that, and you’ll see 5 more. Refresh the page, and a new batch of friends will replace/be mixed in with the originals.

  LSB10–The 10 friends on the left side of your profile page displayed under “Friends”.

  PPYMK–“People You May Know” suggestions on your home page.

  “Close Friends”–5 people fb suggests for you to add when you click the “Close Friends” list under “Lists” on the left side of your home page.

  Chat List–Self explanatory, but it’s been mentioned as a possible window to who’s looking at your profile, so I’ll throw it in.

  SB- Search Bar

  “Stalker List”– A downloadable algorithm from Keesh.com that when employed through fb, lists people who you have searched for/had interaction with the most. And “possibly” vice-versa. The list is set up with the most viewed profiles highest to lowest, and each is given a number with a decimal point and several numbers after the decimal, usually looks something like 46.19468109984500099 or whatever. That’s just for explanation purposes, not an actual number you should be seeing or anything.

  “Friends Grid”–Click “Friends” on the left side of your profile. A page will show up with your friends listed in alphabetical order. To the right of the search bar at the top of that page, there are two small boxes for different viewing options. Hit the “tic tac toe” box that has 9 very tiny squares, and the page changes to a random view of friends.

  So far, I have not seen much in the way of any pattern, other than the people that YOU search for the most showing up more everywhere. I do believe that there is a major memory to the “stalker list”, so if people you’ve searched for in the past, even if it’s been months ago, or you’ve even unfriended them, will still be at the top of the list now.

• Hi PiC, I noticed that it stopped appearing last night. I was trying some of the suggestions on here & refreshing, and then it just stopped around 8 or 9 eastern. Still not up. I’ve never paid attention til the other day, honestly, so I don’t know if that happens every week around the same time or if tech’s working on it for some reason.

  Just for anyone who’s been reading some of these posts & doesn’t know what the different acronyms stand for, here goes:

  MO5/MO10–On your profile page, hover mouse over your name anywhere on the page that you’ve posted. You’ll see 5 friends’ profile pics in miniature. Hover over your pic next to that, and you’ll see 5 more. Refresh the page, and a new batch of friends will replace/be mixed in with the originals.

  LSB10–The 10 friends on the left side of your profile page displayed under “Friends”.

  PPYMK–“People You May Know” suggestions on your home page.

  “Close Friends”–5 people fb suggests for you to add when you click the “Close Friends” list under “Lists” on the left side of your home page.

  Chat List–Self explanatory, but it’s been mentioned as a possible window to who’s looking at your profile, so I’ll throw it in.

  SB- Search Bar

  “Stalker List”– A downloadable algorithm from Keesh.com that when employed through fb, lists people who you have searched for/had interaction with the most. And “possibly” vice-versa. The list is set up with the most viewed profiles highest to lowest, and each is given a number with a decimal point and several numbers after the decimal, usually looks something like 46.19468109984500099 or whatever. That’s just for explanation purposes, not an actual number you should be seeing or anything.

  “Friends Grid”–Click “Friends” on the left side of your profile. A page will show up with your friends listed in alphabetical order. To the right of the search bar at the top of that page, there are two small boxes for different viewing options. Hit the “tic tac toe” box that has 9 very tiny squares, and the page changes to a random view of friends.

  So far, I have not seen much in the way of any pattern, other than the people that YOU search for the most showing up more everywhere. I do believe that there is a major memory to the “stalker list”, so if people you’ve searched for in the past, even if it’s been months ago, or you’ve even unfriended them, will still be at the top of the list now.

• Hi PiC, I noticed that it stopped appearing last night. I was trying some of the suggestions on here & refreshing, and then it just stopped around 8 or 9 eastern. Still not up. I’ve never paid attention til the other day, honestly, so I don’t know if that happens every week around the same time or if tech’s working on it for some reason.

  Just for anyone who’s been reading some of these posts & doesn’t know what the different acronyms stand for, here goes:

  MO5/MO10–On your profile page, hover mouse over your name anywhere on the page that you’ve posted. You’ll see 5 friends’ profile pics in miniature. Hover over your pic next to that, and you’ll see 5 more. Refresh the page, and a new batch of friends will replace/be mixed in with the originals.

  LSB10–The 10 friends on the left side of your profile page displayed under “Friends”.

  PPYMK–“People You May Know” suggestions on your home page.

  “Close Friends”–5 people fb suggests for you to add when you click the “Close Friends” list under “Lists” on the left side of your home page.

  Chat List–Self explanatory, but it’s been mentioned as a possible window to who’s looking at your profile, so I’ll throw it in.

  SB- Search Bar

  “Stalker List”– A downloadable algorithm from Keesh.com that when employed through fb, lists people who you have searched for/had interaction with the most. And “possibly” vice-versa. The list is set up with the most viewed profiles highest to lowest, and each is given a number with a decimal point and several numbers after the decimal, usually looks something like 46.19468109984500099 or whatever. That’s just for explanation purposes, not an actual number you should be seeing or anything.

  “Friends Grid”–Click “Friends” on the left side of your profile. A page will show up with your friends listed in alphabetical order. To the right of the search bar at the top of that page, there are two small boxes for different viewing options. Hit the “tic tac toe” box that has 9 very tiny squares, and the page changes to a random view of friends.

  So far, I have not seen much in the way of any pattern, other than the people that YOU search for the most showing up more everywhere. I do believe that there is a major memory to the “stalker list”, so if people you’ve searched for in the past, even if it’s been months ago, or you’ve even unfriended them, will still be at the top of the list now.

• @Smart1- -I’ve been reading a bunch of these posts and I think I can help you understand why the search bar is coming up with “Person A” in the number 1 spot for you, even though you haven’t looked at their profile in several weeks. My guess is that since you probably USED to look at their profile and had interaction, probably a lot, they are probably high on your “stalker list”. It’s just a matter of memory. My ex of a couple years is number 2 on my stalker list, and I haven’t looked at their profile in 4 months(unfriended them), and they never get on fb. Yet their name comes up first when I search for the letter the name starts with. Seems pretty simple. As for your “Person A” coming up 1st on your friends, it would make sense that “Person A” has been looking at your friends’ profiles…But I have a question before I decide that’s a valid point. Are your friends checking from your computer? Or theirs? Does “Person A” come up in their search from their own computers where you have never personally searched for “Person A”? If you have never been on their computer or phone, and searched for “Person A”, and “Person A” still comes up first for them, then I believe that he has probably looked at their profile recently.

  • Hi HellsBells. Thank you for interest, as we are on to something with the Auto-Fill/complete search bar.

    My friends are checking from their computers at home.
    I have never used my friends computers or phones.
    My friends, two of them had never even looked at Person A’s profile.
    None of the friends I ran this experiment with are Friends with Person A.

    Again, Person A showed up higher than their own friends, even family in the Auto Search Bar – which leads me to believe the Search Bar shows whom is looking at your page (in addition to who you seek).

    As for my Auto Search Bar’s Memory, Person A is still number one, but recently, as others noted I say a huge shift in the stalker number. Still, the reason as to why FB would have such a long-term memory for a search bar is unknown to me. FB works on keeping us surprised and interested. If the same people are always and nearly forever in our auto-search, what fun is that?

• MO5/MO10 is gone! I absolutely despise FB now!

• The MO5/MO10 option is GONE!!! I hate FB now!!!

• There is no longer a mouseover five for yourself

• when you click on the “Friends” link above the LSB10, it takes you to a screen where you can search for friends. they are listed alphabetically, but when you click on one of the grids next to the search thing, it shows you all your friends in some order.

  i noticed that the first 15 or so usually appear on the LSB10, some i interact with, some i dont. the rest of the list kinda goes the same.

  is there some sort of correlation between interactions/stalking/etc or are they just random?

  they don’t appear to be random, and they constantly change all the time too.

  and, for example, lets say Suzy Homemaker is top 3 on my list, i’ll go check her grided list, and i’ll be way down her list.

  does that mean i’m stalking her and she doesn’t stalk me? or vice versa?

  maybe its been answered but too many comments to go through, and it’s so confusing!

• I’m sorry to keep throwing these people out there, but I tried the “zoom in, and zoom out” tactic, and when I zoom into 300%, the guy that appears first on my search bar with both initials, the guy that has admitted to have been reading my notes, and the guy who has been poking me on facebook(he appears before me on the automatic search bar with the initial “J”), they were the only three that showed up on the chat list, and when I zoomed in at 400%, it eliminated the “poker”, and it was only the two friends who had the same initials of “R”

  The guy, that admitted to have been reading my notes, is right above the guy who appears on my auto search bar, and he has never over lapped him, nor has the the person on the bottom ever left my chat list, for months.

• hi all, came to this page because I had a similar theory, that LSB10 is showing who is checking out your profile when I noticed a good friend of mine, who I never interact with on fb would regularly showed up on my LSB10 alongside with people whose profiles I never look at, while I do check my friend’s rather frequently.

  Anyway, it’s an interesting thought, but I don’t know about everything else necessarily showing who is stalking your profile.

  Some time ago, I found this article. And I think the algorithm for the LSB10/MO5 probably has some parallels to the news feed.

  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets.html

  essentially, if people keep clicking on a person’s profile — that person becomes “popular,” so that the person will even appear in 3rd degree/party search bars.

  so if person a stalks person b,
  person b becomes popular
  person b shows up in person a’s circle of friends, because all of person a’s stalking and clicking has made person b popular,
  so person a’s friends will probably be interested in viewing person b’s profile.

  i would definitely think that fb would keep track of stalkers habits (more clicks, more time spent on fb =$$), but i think that would be a bad move on fb to do something that would cause people to fear that their stalking habits are made public information. something that makes people stop stalking, means less clicks and less time spent on fb. though most def wouldn’t put it past fb to use stalking habits information to keep people continually stalking…<=scary, like tobacco industry!

  • Good thoughts on this “Same thoughts”.

    It seems though, that out of everyone my friends know, many have 900+ friends, why would a non-friends show up so high in their search results? So high up, even by-passing their friends with the same name, or people who’s profile they look at regularly?

    Again person A is not my friends (but used to be).

    Person A shows up #1 in my auto search bar, despite not clicking their page in over 6 weeks! Not in abc order either.

    Person A showed up high on three friends auto search bar, even surpassing their own friends with the same name, nor are they “friends” with person A.

    It has to be more than just popular, and mutual friends. Persona A is not my friend, nor friends-friend. That does not explain.

• Enjoy your imaginary relationships. I hope you all are able to keep your stalking limited to Facebook. As obsessed as some of you sound, if I was any of the guys, I’d be terrified you girls were hiding out in the bushes in my yard.

• Actually, i’m a girl & my entire LSB friends list was all girls yesterday. Don’t know if that’s anything unusual though.

• gaz,
  lots to think about and my thoughts were going in the same direction about the LSB10/15 list. I was tracking about 15 friends in the last month as far as their appearance on the list. the list changes every day 8pm ET, so a person would get 100% if he/she is on the list and 0% if not. My guess was that all my friends fall into 3 categories (kinda goes along with x,y,z in gaz’s post:
  1) people I interact often either through wall posts, chat, pm, or profile views, people I stalk or we stalk each other mutually.
  2) nobody, i.e., people I have no interest in and they have no interest in me;
  3) people who FB thinks I may be interested in, like we attended same events, have lots of common friends, belong to the same groups or posted something on each other walls at least once a long time ago.

  I think FB “looks” at each group and randomly selects 3-4 people from each category to show on the LSB list.

  Since I interact through FB with only 3 people on a regular basis, I have only 3 people in my (1) category. All of them appear 40-60% of the time on the list. they are also top 3 on my “stalker” list, by the way. People in category (2) appear ~30% of the time. Category (3) includes majority of my friends and it makes sense that that group gets 5-10% appearance for me. And I never thought before that boys/girls get an equal share in appearance, makes sense and I am sure affects your list as well.

  So, let’s say you have 10 friends and interact often with 9 of them every day. that 10th person that you may have nothing in common with would be the only one in your category (3), which means he will show up on your list all the time.

• For Anon and Joe. SOMEONE RUN THIS EXPERIMENT!

  Anon – don’t give out advice unless asked. Not all personality types work the way you’ve described.

  Joe: You are now seeing what I pointed out about the Search Bar results, as you wrote in your last post.

  I have asked this many times but no one replies! So please experiment.

  Have a non-mutual friend and someone who does not view your crush’s page, but someone your ex or crush would be looking at their page help you do this. (Such as a good friend.) In their search bar, have them type in your crush’s first letter of their name, or even first three. You may find it interesting to see that your Crush or Ex shows up before they reasonably “should”.

  FACTS 1: Person showing up #1 in my auto search bar for the letter F is my ex. He is not a “friend”. Others friends should show up first based on abc order. I do not look at F’s page (not in over 6 weeks now).

  FACTS 2: F shows up in three other of my Friends search bars automatically as #1, 2, or 3, before their own friends. F is NOT friends with them! It does not follow abc order, they even have friends whos name is also same as F. They have zero mutual friends. Explain!

  FACT 2 is the biggest indicator I have so far!

  Here is an explanation: F is showing up in several of my friends auto search bar becasue he is looking at their page. All three of them said they never looked this guy up except once.

  F is looking at their pages. F is looking at my page. I do not visit his page in over 6 weeks, we are not friends.

  Also my Stalker list does not necessary match my auto-search results except for #1 F.

  I would appreciate some intelligent replies!

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• what we all need to realise,is that there is no secret key(formula)this would be very bad for fbook(mathamaticle proof)that fb violates its own privacy policy would be a suicide move on ther behalf,but & i say but this does not mean its “totaly random”it is far far from it!we av two factors to consider(initialy)probability & the sphychology of sociology”after all this is a SOCIOL networking site..the lists are not purely random,”these folk have hired sphychologyst,human behavior analyst from all the top fields”especialy” compulsive behavior shrinks(what gets us addicted)it makes no sense to be “totally random”they would be no room for them to capatalize on US!firsty its not purely random(which is clear to u all)without the need for a degree in probability)infact its a very thin line they tread..the bc bone of the algorythemit will never display all & only male or females(its designed to pick a mixture,all so it will never display an entire list of people with the same first name,,in the world of chance(probability)it is a fact,certanty that a entirely random algor/proghram would from time to time create lists that r all male or female(the laws of pure randomnes dictate this has to happen)yet it never will hapen on fbook(its designed not to ever ever create such biased list/s..bare with me here..i am well aware fb monitors sites like this”so without giving two much away & screwing masen over”create an acount with 99 or999 males & one female or deleate all but one female or male(u get ma point)that single male or female will ALWAYS apear)be choosen!the point bieng that if u was a hot chick”wich males stalk”or vice versa!then the coralation between who stalks/views u & who is shown in the friends list would be nearly all male or female,which it clearly is not!its a balanced mixd..here lies the problem ite a double edged sawd”part random to create a balance”& highly non random to entice you(sphychology)..will come bc to this in second..i want to explain x,y & z..to keep this simple x=5 people u aint ad contact in a while”lets asume one of the five is named adam & another called bob,bob as the exact same friends as adam(lets say 100)bob only realy ever chats with 50 of the 100,,but adam chats to all 100..what will hapen if both stop using fbook all ov a suden?fbook wants them bc,so it displays them in all 100 friends list to create the gratest chance of someone contacting them(poke ect)fbook is trying its best to keep them”actively”involved in fbook!!now lets bc track to before adam and bob stopd actively using fbook!adam chated to all 100,but adam only 50(the same 50 always..fbook will display him in the 50 he doesnt ever chat to”creating maximum exposure to him!but not for bob”he doesnt need it as such!!!thats part x of xy & z explaind as simply as i dare to share,,lets look at “y”…u understand that it displays people to give them exposure depending on its own criteria(factors)how active they were,how many friends they spoke to out of there list”amount of friends”ect..u also know that despite aving say 15 male stalkers,all 15 could not be shown to u,the lists are created male & female almost equaly to give a balance…..so u will asume the best fb can do is to present u with around half of ya 15 male stalkers,,lets say 7 ov them(the rest bin girls)& with the knowlidge in mind that from say the 15 men & women shown to u,5 ov them are shown simply to create exposure to them..that leaves ten people,around 5 males & females,,so allready ya 15 male stalkers are windled down to around only 5 that can be exposed to you!in any one list…understand?to make it simple ya shown 15 people will say,5 are ov no importance,the other 5 are girls,,that leaves 5 menfrom 15 or 150 stalkers u have!!that can only be slyly exposed/shown to u at any one time…also wen u stalk an account u show up on theres,it makes no sense for them to just show up on yours(fb already knows u r intersted in them,its now there goal to get them intersted in you(by drawing awarnes to you…also wen fb sugest a friend to you of which shares no friends with u,this is an atempt to widen the gene pool like spiders web..& will often show u a stalker as clearly they like u & would eagerly add you given half a chance!in fb eyes/logic,one part of the equation is allready solved…ask yasen this!do u introduce 2 people to eachother wich u av no clue as to if either likes the other?or do u introduce 2 people of wich u know for a fact one likes the other…also if a certain person is mostly present in the friends bar & which as not stopd actiively using fbook,& u stalk/view there acount alot then u are both shown to eachother,simply as its obviose u stalk each other to fb,if not to each other,fb is slyly keeping u both in each others thoughts,not so much as match making but more an atempt to keep u both actively using fbook……..i av so much more to say,tests for u,to prove certain things without a doubt,but trying to prove they slyly reveal your stalkers to you”beyond a shadow of a doubt,100% certanty, is imposible due to the part random process & equaly none part,hence showing men & women always,some of these for exposure & others who are ya stalkers,,,,x=exposure,,y=stalkers,,z=the balance of these in reguards to girls,boys,,& other factors a wont go into……in a nutshell if there on yours & your on there,then u like each other!!!ps sorry bout the spelling mistakes….
  a hope this helps u guys,let me say that opening dumy acounts & using a simple deductive logical aproach will reveal all i dare not say,buts its a 99% u can work out who is checking u out with 100% acuracy….the only reason am trying to help u guys is that until a stumbled upon this”genuine”site,,a thougt a was crazy lols,,for years me & my brother av worked on project fbook,as we like to call it..& all aspects of it..your on the rite path guys & girls,your miles a head ov most people wha r in the dark ages”account hacking ect”remember this FBOOK reveals & shows u all u ever wanted to know,,u av just got to simply change how u look at it,& believe nothing fb tells you”nothing,not ever!!

• The automatic list that appears when you type a letter is based on who Facebook thinks YOU are searching for. Anyone who believes anything else is in denial. You girls (and its obvious you’re girls by the obsessive way you’re overanalyzing everything) need to understand that guys are pretty simple. If we really dig a girl, we’re pretty dumb and will “show our hand” early on. If we like you romantically, and know you like us, we will ask you out. If we’re not asking to SEE you, we’re not interested. Talking on the phone, exchanging emails and FB messages are meaningless if a guy is not asking to SEE you face to face. Again, if a guy is not asking to SPEND TIME IN YOUR PRESENCE, even after you have let him know you’re receptive, he is simply not interested – at least not interested enough to make a move. And if he’s not interested enough to make a move, what’s the point? The guy who is genuinely interested in you, you won’t have to analyze anything because you’ll be too busy spending time with him to need to.

• I’ve just tested this the people didn’t change just got mixed around, and there are people I interact with on a daily basis and they’re not even on the list!

• just refreshed 15 times….. got the same 10 people everytime…….. i can see that being true……

  • try posting something like a status, and see who shows up suddenly. sometimes people will be up there, then they drop off fast.

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• Okay, okay, okay…I HAVE asked him out, it’s just almost impossible the way our work schedules are and as far away as he lives. He knows I dig him…so we will just have to wait and see.

  I really didn’t mean to turn this into a dating advice page, lol!!!

  I DID however find the friendship page. I had to go through my page and find some errant comment made to someone and after that is said ‘see friendship’ and sure enough, there was the page. I was releived and happy, so now I can check if SallySlutManStealer is crushing on MY crush!!

  Crush told me he thought she was ‘cute’, bleh. Cute? I don’t think so with her leftover ’80’s hairdoo and her nasaly Roseanne Barr voice.

• lol! If your crush calls you everyday what are you worried about? Just keep being your sweet and amazing self – jealousy is a completely wasted emotion!! (but yaeh, you should probably take SallySlutManStealer out, just in case !

• lol! If your crush calls you everyday what are you worried about? Just keep being your sweet and amazing self – jealousy is a completely wasted emotion!! (but yaeh, you should probably take SallySlutManStealer out, just in case !

• lol! If your crush calls you everyday what are you worried about? Just keep being your sweet and amazing self – jealousy is a completely wasted emotion!! (but yaeh, you should probably take SallySlutManStealer out, just in case !

• Lol Kava.

  Listen if the crush is calling you daily. Then he is into you. Maybe it’s time you got upfront and asked him out yourself? Before you get beaten to it…

  Maybe he was busy when you called him back, just like you was when he called you. Maybe you’re just overthinking why you missed each others calls.

  Either way, ask him. If he says no then at least you know where you stand and can get over him and not have to worry about this whole site again, and you’ll know he has played you and then SallySlutmanStealer is welcome to him. If he says yes – then v happy days for you! :)

• lol! If your crush calls you everyday what are you worried about? Just keep being your sweet and amazing self – jealousy is a completely wasted emotion!! (but yaeh, you should probably take SallySlutManStealer out, just in case !

• Lol Kava.

  Listen if the crush is calling you daily. Then he is into you. Maybe it’s time you got upfront and asked him out yourself? Before you get beaten to it…

  Maybe he was busy when you called him back, just like you was when he called you. Maybe you’re just overthinking why you missed each others calls.

  Either way, ask him. If he says no then at least you know where you stand and can get over him and not have to worry about this whole site again, and you’ll know he has played you and then SallySlutmanStealer is welcome to him. If he says yes – then v happy days for you! :)

• No questions about lists today nor do I have any insight into anything lately.

  This is more of a I HATE THE NEW FB rant.

  I uaed to be able to ‘see’ interactions with common friends on what WAS ‘the friendship page’.

  Now I cannot. I am thoroughly disgusted at this because they hired a new girl at work who made a comment that she thought the guy (MY CRUSH!!)was cute and she’s going ‘to get him’ (her words, not mine). So dontcha know, the first chance they get to work togher and BAM they are FB friends. I wish I knew who friended who (who asked and who accepted). The news scroll said SluttyNewGirl is now friends with Kavas Crush. Does this mean HE asked her or SHE asked him? Because if he asked her then I don’t know what coz he has like 2000 friends, but if she asked him..then she’s going after my crush (who is really comming around very nicely) and I WILL have to get her fired!

  the reason I wanted to find the ‘friendship’ page was to see if they were in anyway interacting (not PMing).

  Crush calls everynight before he leaves work( I know sweet), I won’t drag on a long story, but I missed his call and when I called back an hour later…no answer. I betcha SallySlutmanStealer asked him for a drink!!! Plus she lives much much closer to him and they share the same days off!!

  Now there is not FB friendhsip page…I may neve know if I’m being played! :(

• If anyone is interested… try clicking on friends, and seeing who shows up even on that page, with their initials. The the guy that shows up first in my search bar, is first on that page as well, with both of his initials. In other words, it’s the main page for friends, but then it is somewhat the same as the search bar at the top of your facebook page.

  It is interesting enough the guy ( who shows up first with both initials) showed up on my friends list of ten friends, disappeared for a little bit, then showed up again, then disappeared again off the liste of ten friends, when he logged on once. this was when I just posted a note. keep this in mind with your left side bar… it issomething to think about

• The link that was provided to see ”Who’s viewed your facebook profile”does not allow any access.Is there actually a site?Can it be posted?

• I suspect that many people end up visiting this site after their secret crush appears on their top 10 facebook friends.

• The list that automatically pops up when you type in the search bar is based on your stalker list. It’s obvious. However, the list of friends which appears after you type in any given letter in the search bar and hit “return” to search IS interesting… and quite different from the automatic pop up list. Both of my crushes (one of which I’ve been dating for several months now) appear when I type their first or last initials in the pop-up list (which is expected as they are numbers 2 & 3 on my stalker list). However, upon hitting return and searching for single letters, crush #1 (who I’m dating) appears first in search results for both first and last initial. Crush #2 appears much farther down (between 12 – 16) in the results. The people listed ahead of crush #2, especially the friends who are listed first and second, I KNOW check out my profile a lot because they’ve told me they do.

  • I’m not too sure about that. The person that shows up before me, on my first name initial has been poking me on facebook, opposed to the person that shows up with both initials when I put his initials in. don’t look at their profiles, but they both also show up frequently on my left side bar with friends. The guy that shows up in my search bar is at the very bottom of my chat list. I have the feeling that even though you don’t talk to a person, they will check up on you. here is the coincidence: try posting something and seeing who logs in almost minutes later after you post. the guy that shows up first with both initials, logs in minutes after I do, or if I post something. he might have me on close friends, in which they can check on what you post, without you knowing if they added you on close friends. They can even see what you posted by their mobile phones, or by their emails, without even logging into facebook. just another theory…

• I did download the Keesh thing, and it is spot on with the search bar.

  Still it does not explain why this guy is in my friends search bar before others with his name, and those who share mutual friends.

  I wonder how long FB stores the data for the search? There are people in my stalker(keesh) list with high numbers who I viewed for the first time yesterday.

• People,
  Search bar, when you type a letter and a list of names shows up, is based on the “stalker list” from that Keesh website. it’s pretty obvious, try it and see. If I type “K”, for instance, it brings up people with first and last names starting with “k” and the order is the same as in my “stalker list” from the “facebook friends” bookmark. So the search bar is 100% based on that list and those are people YOU stalk… Well, I agree that the way the “stalker list” is determined is somewhat questionable and I have my own theory how the numbers are assigned.

  so here it goes, my theory on the “stalker list” numbers (by the way, the list and numbers haven’t changed since last week, I believe it changes weekly or so now):

  1. people with equal number views from you and them get higher numbers. checked with some of my relatives whom I visit rarely but they are high on the stalker list because of many mutual views of some family photos in the last couple of months. I think you get 9 points for every “mutual” viewing occurrence (what defines an “occurrence” it’s separate question, maybe it’s certain number of views per week?)

  2. If you had many mutual views in the past but stop checking those people profiles, the numbers stay high and don’t fall, at least not for as long I was watching them (based on mentioned above relatives example).

  3.if you had only few mutual views in the past and stopped checking that person’s profile, the numbers will eventually go down.

  4. for each person on your stalker list, I think fb stores your average number of views per week or so, and if you exceed that average in some week, the number on the stalker list goes higher by ~ 1 to 3points. If it goes up by 9 points or so, it may mean you are looking wayyy more often, or it may mean they look back (see #1 above).

  5. people you ever searched for or clicked on their profiles are also listed on the stalker list but with much lower numbers (1.x or 0.x for me). I think they get higher numbers if you have mutual friends or of they searched for you as well.

  … next time I will post my theory on LSB10… too tired ow :)

  • you’re forgetting that there are those who do not check out other profiles…

    I don’t check out this person’s profile, and I noticed after putting my first and last name initials in my search bar, I am first on my last name, but second on my first name(whereas the person at number one with a name starting with “J” has been poking me a lot on facebook) while the person, who I am highly suspicious about, yet I like him, he shows up on my search bar at all times when I put his initials of his first and last name on the search bar, he is always first. what do you make of that? could it be that I am tracking myself looking at my profile lesser than this person, plus to back this up, I never log into facebook that much, so this may conclude that this person may be looking at my profile, and I notice it when I post notes; he logs in everytime I post a note, which is the coincidence…in fact he’s been first on my search list for months, even after the LSB10 seemingly went random, as other posts had stated. I don’t know too much about this stalker’s list, but if someone can take note about the search bar, yet does not look at other profiles other than their own, then it would be notceable how people look at your profile. I don’t get why everyone seems to say it’s who you look at. I don’t look at other profiles, like some others do…

  • Ditto to Alice… (please read Joe)

    1. I don’t check my ex’s profile. (not in over 6 weeks.)
    2. We are not even friends. (Dropped his butt 4 weeks ago)
    3. He showed up 2nd and 3rd on three others friends of mine in their Search Bar results –>and they are not friends of the Ex, and have NO mutual friends with the Ex.

    He is checking me out, and checking these three other friends page out (becasue I do things with them often.)

    They have never looked at his page, and for privacy reasons I wont reveal his name, but it is super-common male name. Two even had friends with his same first name, but he appeared before those.

    Try this out with some friends help. Search bar is who is viewing your page, period.

    • I think I meant that with the sidebar, about those people checking out the profile. It find it odd that I am second on my first initial, but first on my last name. The guy that I do my best to avoid, he is the first, with both initials, but I haven’t checked it out with other friends, yet. that is something worth trying!

    • I tried out what you pointed out, and I am not too sure about the “return”results thing. It points out that one of my friends shows up under the guy with both his initials. they both have the same initial of “R”, and the guy with both initials shows up first, but then the guy who admitted to have read my notes, is under the other guy. The friend told me that the reason he may be near the top is because he wanted to get into the notes I have been writing, so that would mean that the guy with both of his initials has been checking me out– possibly reading my notes as well, but not notifying me. I’m not to sure if the “people you may know” or “suggested subscribers” or “tagged photos” even line up with this anymore… but close friends also seems to be of a suspicion as well.

      My mother has this old BF that left her, and he tried to add me of facebook,and I was told by my sister that he has been wanting to know how I was doing, and guess what, he is under the friend that admitted to have been reading my notes, so he is definitely checking out my profile.I don’t think it’s the search results after you search because it will show u nothing but randomness, but the automatic search results seem to line up well!

      The funny thing is, the guy that shows up with both of his initials, we had agreed on a relationship, and we are pretty much ignoring each other, to work on where we are first, but that does not mean that he cannot be checking out my profile as well, because I promised myself to him, plus when I ask him how he is doing, he askes me as well.

      @kava, if your crush is ignoring is callng you, he is interested. Looks can be deceiving, when it looks like he may be interested in that girl, or whatever. The worst that could happen is getting blown off by him, but tht hasn’t happenned to you, so there is no giving up there. I asked the guy I like if I could invite him to where I am, and he didn’t like me asking him, so that let me know, he is giving me up, unless I give up on him, so don’t give up on your crush either…

• I think the side bar does have some relevance to who is looking at your profile. For instance, I keep noticing that my ex stays on my sidebar for a long time even though I haven’t looked at her profile :S

• SEARCH BAR UPDATE:

  I got two friends, who are not friends with my Ex, to type in the Search Bar the first two letters of his name, and he came up in their search bar. Which likely means he is looking at their page (if he is truly FB stalking me, he would want to know what I am doing with these two people).

  So search bar tells you who is looking at your page.

  • I noticed the same thing on my facebook profile. I have someone who we both established that we would be in a physical relationshipwith each other at some point, and ever since then, he has had no interactions with me, but it was me sending him Messages to check on him, but the thing is, I do not visit his page to message him, I go instantly to the messages inbox where he last sent back a reply. for those who suddenly have no interactions with someone after they agree on a relationship, this may be because they are affected by it as well. I did hear a saying, and it said, what you avoid the most is most likely what you focus on the most, and this guy, avoids me at all costs, but freely talks to everyone else on facebook. Maybe I affected him, and I notice that he is also the first person that shows up on my search bar, with both initials, and it has been that way for a long time. I also have people I may know, and every time I see the mutual friends, he is there. I had recently posted before that this person seems to log on everytime I post a note, or something. He could be reading my notes. Btw the way, there was another post I posted up here about the friends list on the left, he showed up twice and disappeared after I wrote a note about him. I think he may have the clue that I like him…The searchbar, is very suspicious in a way, followed by the close friends. I notice when I see the home page, he is shown directly at the top, and I do not have anyone on the close friends, nor do I have any reason to check out his profile, or anyone elses for that matter.

  • So in your thesis, I am very sure those who show up in the search bar first, may be those who do not openly interact with you, but may be check you out. In my case, my crush does not talk to me, and it is me talking to him a lot, so maybe he is playing “silent” because he thinks I am not seeing that he may be checking me out. he does stay logged in for a while when I am on, maybe because he expects a message from me, or he may be worried I may be talking to someone else. Sometimes, he’ll log in and log back out, and then there are times when I am logged on, and I log off as soon as he logs on…My other thesis is, a friend can see on the left on their homepage, the little picture icons that specify if one is on chat, with the little green dot off, recognizes one that they are not available to chat, but they are still shown to be online. so maybe he gets curious about my prolonged online status, and clicks on my picture maybe, because I only go on face book to either talk to him, or write notes, but here lately I haven’t been talking to him, maybe one day he’ll ask me how I am doing…I don’t know…

• @AgainstFools, exactly! I’m not even friends with this guy, and he continues to be in my search bar as the top one, despite alphabetizing, and I have not seen his page in 8 weeks!

  The Search Bar HAS to be who is looking at your page most.

• THE PROBLEM IS not only your friends, i was looking for a month about 5 times on my ex-girl profile. I am not a friend on facebook with her, i don’t have any mutual friends with her nor any interesting staff nor comments…nothing just silence…after a while a saw that when i type in the SEARCH box the first letter of her name she appears first in the search…how is that possible? after another couple days she gives me a friend request…i was, ok what a coincidence BUT IT IS NOT…
  I made an experiment: i went to my friend’s house, we did a new facebook profile through a proxy site. we both started to visit that profile for a week…and guess what…now when i enter that fake profile when i type in the search box my first two letters it immediately shows up my full name….how the *uck came up this suggestion?

  • Have you tried putting your own initials in the search bar, on your regular account? I’ve done it, and a person with the same first name initial is first, and I am second on the search bar, while when I put in my last name initial, I am first. My only clue is that this person used to poke me a lot on facebook, until I stopped doing it. The person I like is also first when I type in both of his initials, and I only interact with him by PM, but by clicking on the inbox, but never by visiting his profile…but I haven’t been doing it lately, yet he is still first…but I do notice when writing out my notes, he mysteriously logs in minutes after. he doesn’t even have to ask how I am doing, he can just read my notes, to find out my current status, yet he talks freely to everyone else on facebook.

• woahhhh! left side bar being so so random now…today only one person on there is a usual LSB recipient.

• EXPLAIN THIS: I never look at my ex’s profile, we broke up for over 8 weeks now, and we are no longer “friends”. So PLEASE EXPLAIN why he is the first person at my SEARCH BAR?

  It is not even alphabetized! His name is Mutt, my best friends name is Mandy, but he ALWAYS shows up first. I have not visited his page in over 7 weeks, but go to Mandy’s every day!

• To find out who views your Facebook profile the most, look in the mirror ;)

• I have been following this site for all comments, i encountered some similar scenarios. However, the outcome is driving me mad, as there is not solid pattern, and I can not make any solid conclusion.I have experience with programming, I will talk about my thoughts on programming on random list in another reply.

  However , today I found out something about chat sidebar. The chat sidebar appeared on my FB suddenly one day early September replaced the old chat window. At that time, i noticed there were about 10 people names displayed, and one of them was the guy I broke off 3 months ago, but I never chatted with him at all, in fact I have never had any interaction with him, but I looked at his profile a lot initially when we connected in June. Then after 2 or 3 days, the sidebar disappeared totally. 2 days ago (4 October), the sidebar appeared again. The strange thing i noticed was there was a discrepancy of the list of friends displayed on IE and Firefox. My ex appeared in firefox but not in IE,i signed on to my account same time using different browser. After a few thinking, trial and error, I realised it was because of the display on the screen, some names got overlapped. My conclusion is the chat sidebar is supposed to display all your friends, however due to the limitation of the space on screen, some names in between get overlapped. So don’t look into the list of friends on sidebar, they meant nothing.

  You can try this to understand what I said. When you sign on to FB, you probably see 20 names displayed on your sidebar, now do a Control and ‘-‘ (minus sign) to reduce the display, and keep doing the step, you can see the list getting longer. For my case, I have 60 friends, i managed to see them all almost.

  Try and let me know what you thing! Happy Trying.

  – ZZ

• Something unusaul happened to my ‘stalker list’ yesterday. Crush has been at #2 for over a week. That due to the fact that WorkStalkerGirl and I have been exchanging pictures,wall posts and links for the past week which shot her up to #1. Okay, I understand that.

  However, yesterday when I logged on (via Opera) crush had shot waaayyy up to #1. I have not visited, nor pm’d or had ANY contact what so ever via FB with him. As a matter of fact, it’s as though were were NEVER FB friends at all (weird, but we’ve moved past the FB postings and into a ‘real-life’ communication mode).

  Checked Firefox and stalker list was the same until mid-day, when crush was shown at #1 (I don’t know if it takes a while for different browsers to “catch-up” with the list, but I think it may).

  This was like this ALL DAY.

  Crush & I had a bit of a tiff the night before, soooo…perhaps he was looking at my wall to see if I was talking to anyone else about it??

  Then about eleven last night the list revereted back to how it had been, with WorkStalkerGirl #1 and crush #2.

  Crush is still in MO5/10 (either in picture or name mouseover. Sometimes both) and in PYMK and PYMK3. Also in Deactivate Your Account, Tag and Search Bar. He is gone from LSB.

  I just think it is strange how for about 24 hours he shot so far ahead to #1, and only for that short period of time. Everyone else on the list their numbers stayed the same.

• here we go, the algorithm changed again! everything is different now!…search bar, and close friends lis are differentt…and I see new people in MO5 (picture and name)…I still see ex in the MO5 but not as often :S!..I believe, now, they have made it more random…@cher, if your deceased aunt used to show all the time in the MO5, then this means that thet MO5 had never got anything to do with the profile views!! :((((
  (although I still believe that MO5 are the people who click on you more than your other friends in your fb

• Well I have a fake profile. I stalked it w/ my real profile for 2 months. My list has my fake profile at high numbers(-84.xx). My fake profile’s list has all friends at 0 since I did not visit pages w/ it. I just added friends . Kept it clean. The list is who YOU view.

• If you mean the stalker list, it is not the search bar. There is a link posted by @guy (it’s a script) that shows you whose profiles you look the most. But it looks like it registers mutual profile viewing as well.

• What is the Stalker Bar? Is it the Search Bar?

  Also, when does the new Facebook Timeline kicks in? That will be the last we see of the LSB, but the MO5 and Search Bar will still be there.

• Can someone tell me what PYMK3 is?
  The list is based on two-sided viewing for sure. I noticed today that a friend of mine (once best friend) whom I deleted from my friends and have not checked her profile for ages, has moved up. Her number stayed the same for the last week, except for today. I haven’t visited her profile, so I suppose she visited mine?!!
  There is something about this list and I want to figure it out, it drives me crazy :)

• Yes, @ hello, the side bar has changed – new people have been added that were never there before. I also have noticed that the MO5 has changed. Some have dropped off completely that were there forever. (my deceased aunt has dropped off – she passed away in May and was there forever). The PYMK3 has also changed. I noticed that those who have been added (about 5 new people) are those who I have been interacting with a lot lately, so that makes sense. Also some are my close friends who I don’t really interact with on FB, but they are suddenly showing up?? odd….

  I have also noticed that the stalker bar is working again. And there are strange results. Crush keeps dropping :( But I have also dropped out of that #2 spot. The person who is now my #1 is someone I know very well who has been looking at my profile (I told her to so she could get some links I posted). Mind you I never go to her profile, so this list is definitely not just who you look at.

  I saw some new names on there as well, so I had to see who they were. Some were people I didn’t even know, so I would not have been viewing them. I posted on a public page recently, so I am assuming they looked at my profile from there (we had no mutual friends either). I also found some of my crush’s friends on there – people who I have never looked at, nor do I know who they are. Hmmmmmmmm. Since we don’t interact publicly, why would they look at my profile? Did he tell them to???

  Luckily he is still coming up in the MO5 and PYMK3, but not as often. :( There is definitely something to the phone app thing. I notice whenever I post anything, within a few minutes of posting, he comes up in both MO5’s (name and pic). Which, why when he is not coming up as often any other time, after many refreshes?

  Something did change….maybe their algorithm was recently updated, and that is why so many of those who were regulars on my LSB10 and MO5 have dropped off, and been replaced by new people who I have been interacting with quite frequently. My fear is that crush is going to drop off soon too…. :(

• I have noticed since the past 2 days, that my left side bar’s friends list has been changing like 2 times per day….weird.

• I have noticed since the past 2 days, that my left side bar’s friends list has been changing like 2 times per day….weird.

• @iPhone 5 – I was just about to let people know the same thing.

  Been a while – was here a few weeks ago, but my comment disappeared along with some other peoples…

  Anyway – Just an FYI – If you make use of FB’s new “Close Friends” List your MO5/10 will only show those people on the list. I did it, checked my MO5/10, then removed everyone, and it went back to “normal”.

  And as well, I would never want FB to show who I’m viewing or who’s viewing me. I would no longer go to anyone’s page unless they post something of interest. But no more creeping for me = less time on FB = less log ins… I don’t think FB wants to go there. :)

• it happened again, the person logged on, and came back onto my LSB10 friends, on my profile! it may actually be those who do recently look at your profile. I usually talk to him over PM. Maybe he keeps logging on because he expects me to talk to him with PM, so he could be checking out my profile. this is only pinpointable when you don’t check out profile. I’m not like THAT of a stalker…

• the people who i chat/message the most aren’t even on that list..? theres people on that list ive never even talked to in real life.. i got creepers.

• I have noticed that the MO5 shows people who have been placed into the Close Friends list. Try it and see?

• Look here guys: http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/who-does-facebook-think-you-are-searching-for/

  You have to drag the link to your bookmark bar, and then log onto FB and click on the link, and a list will pop up. “Supposedly” it will be a list of those YOU stalk on FB. But we all have decided it is mutual views not always who YOU stalk. The only problem is, we have come to the conclusion that the link has been disabled because it isn’t working like it first was. (see our previous comments). I’m sure you can give it a try anyway!

  @ kava: LOL – I feel the same way. This is really starting to consume WAY too much of my time. LOL

• what is the stalker list????

• Not true, as i can see people who never even log on to facebook.
  moreover, i visit my best friend’s profile 100 times a day.
  yet, i donot appear in her friendlist area.

  • something happenned to me today. I wrote another note referring to someone I like on facebook. they just so happened to be online as the same time. when I published the note, after refreshing the page a couple of times, the person I liked was on the left side bar on my profile, but only for a little while, then after that, they disappeared off of it. It may be so that it is those who view your profile, because this person doesn’t openly say how he likes me, but he always ends up on my LSB10 friends every few days.

• re:stalker list.

  My conclusion, due to my savvy scientific research(lol), is that the list is indeed definitly based on ‘two-way’ intereaction.

  Last night I “visited” the site of an old HS friend, she has looked at my stuff & posted on my wall & we have PM’d each other a couple of time.

  Then I “visited” a friend that I know never goes on FB, let alone would look at anything on my site(a friend of a friend I ‘freinded’ over a year ago)

  I went through BOTH friends “friend’s list”. This AM, old HS friend shot up about 10pts, friend #2 stayed exactly the same. Just like my ex did the previous day(when crush shot up).

  HS friend is now #6 where before was waaayyy toward the end of the middle of list.

  I know she hardly ever is on FB, but when she is i’t usually to browse around(I know, because she has told me she does this)and keep up on correspondence.

  I did notice that the numbers between FireFox and Opera were a little different. Why that is, I haven’t a clue. But then I haven’t a clue why I have become so “OBSESSED” with this whole ‘stalker-list’, ‘numbers game’, ‘is he watching me?’ thing I’m doing!

  Somehow I can see myself in a straight jacket in a padded room, mumbling to myself “the numbers, the numbers, facebook numbers are real…he was on the list”

• my stalker list has recently changed a bit. That one girl is still at the top with a really high number. But crush jumped up to #2, but his number did not change. I WAS #2, and I have dropped down to #4. My ex is at #3. But I did just look at his profile last night because he posted a new pic and I wanted to look at it. Strange….

• @Kava: I believe the stalker list has been non-functional for quite a while now. It hasn’t changed for me in over a month!

• It is definitely strange to see someone on the MO5/10 on both lists right after you post something. I was chatting with a good friend last night. We just started chatting recently though. So he is never on my MO5/10. He wrote something earlier in the day, and I replied at night. He responded within SECONDS. Makes me wonder if he has his phone set up to get my updates. hmmm. This was on my wall post.

  @kava, are we the same person? lol I swear everything you write about sounds just like my situation. I will write more later…gotta go.

• ok, I was sooo right about the LSB10!..Today, its showing the exact same badge of people as it showed the day before yesterday (maybe a few differences). as for mo5/10 picture and name, I like the idea of notifications on the iphone that most of you mentioned…in general (without getting into details) I think we all agree that the only explanation for the appearance of some people in mo5 that we hardly ever interact with, is that they click on you (your profile, status, photos…) more than others.

• Ok Check this out, if someone replies to your status and then you comment again – what happens to your pic and name MO5/10. Mine is currently showing all 5 pics the same on both the name and pic MO…. 4 I interact with a lot. The last one is crush, and dont interact with at all….

  Just when I thought I’d had it figured…

• I think this is an excellent feature for facebook because now you know who is checking out your profile.

• okay, guys I tried posting this question on Facebook help centre, but you either don’t get answers or get answers that are not helpful, plus you cannot type your question completely if it is too long (they have a very short word-count!). I don’t know where else to type this for quicker responses and answers, so here goes: I had customized everything on my Facebook account, right from my default wall posts, photo albums, who can view my friend’s list, etc…but when I press “View as” and type the name of any of the persons on my customize list of “Make this visible to” list, that person cannot view my photos and my two latest wall posts (they can view my tagged photos though). Is the customize option broken? It was viewable to the specific people on my “Make this visible to” list in the customize options some weeks back. It was working some weeks back. It would be really helpful if someone could shed some light here and help me work this out.

• @Cher you are correct it does also happen when I post. However, the crushes pic comes right up on MO5/10 pic and name after one refresh for me. So is it because of view? I doubt it. They’d have to look literally a second after I post an update.

  Is it possible to get notications just for particular people on your phone? I’m not sure I’ve seen that feature???

• @ Kava: It is interesting now that you said your crush appeared on your MO5 in both places right after you did something on FB, and that it’s possible he has his phone set up to notify him whenever you post something. I tried something last night. I kept going back and forth with another friend on one post. Then I would wait a minute and check the MO5/10. Sure enough, my crush appeared on BOTH at the same time!! I know he wasn’t on FB at that time on his computer (he wasn’t home). But I know he uses some phone app for facebook, so MAYBE, just MAYBE, he got a notification on his phone when I posted and checked what I wrote through his phone, and that is why he came up on MO5 in both places. What do you think??

  I don’t have my phone set up to get any notifications when a certain person posts. What exactly happens on your phone when they post? Are they able to see what you posted on their phone? Hmmmmmmmmm.

  See we admitted how we felt about each other last week, so I KNOW he likes me A LOT, but I think I screwed up, and now we are ignoring each other. I don’t know why. :(

  • I notice the same whenever I write notes. the person that shows up the most must know I must have written a note because it would show up on their newsfeed. The coincidence is that they log in minutes after when they are not on facebook. remember, with close friends, friends do not know who is picked, or if they are picked by their friends. They have the option to see what you posted something like a status or note, either while on facebook, and/or with their email…

    so don’t be surprised if people keep cycling frequently more than others in your friendlist, or MO5/10…

• I got my friend to comment on my status, and exactly that time she showed up on both (mo picture and name), but not more than 2 minutes…I mean after refreshing the page she was not there anymore..so I guess, the thing you guys say about this mo5 is true but it only works for 2 minutes, after that it changes again..keep on discovering things guys..I really like it :P

• So I noticed something interesting just now. When I view somebody’s profile on one facebook account, as a friend, they will have the same 10 people appear in their top 10 list no matter how many times the page is refreshed. However, when I use a different account to view them, without being a friend, the list appears to be half the same as the other list, and half different. However the same 10 friends appear regardless of how many times the page is refreshed here as well.

• If it’s creepy, why are you still friends with them?

• @Kava you’re def right regarding the MO5/10, I usually get an independant email or he will comment on another social network. And I know my crush has a crush on me too, he tells me all the time…. Just a shame we have an ocean between us! It’s just interesting to me to know he is stalking my profile and quiet funny too!

• When FB rolled out the new layout I was getting a lot of ads and PPYM from a bunch of “local news people” I had recently ‘friended’.

  Within the last couple of days I have noticed my PPYM and Tagged Photos comming back to life with the ‘regulars’.

  I have NOT been to crush’s page or PM’d him, commented, liked or anything to do with him for at least 2 weeks now. We are sorta playing a cat&mouse-hard-to-get game with each other.

  Last two day he has been almost exclusively the ONLY PPYM & tagged photos that are showing up. Interesting to say the least.

  In regards to MO5/10: I have noticed that when both the photo and name show the same pic, that person is definitly online and either clicked your page through the status or has you listed as a ‘status update’ for their mobile. I beleive this because right after I notice someone on BOTH, I will get some kind or comment or like from the person (or perhaps a phone call or text in reference to my status).

  Like I’ve said “I DON’T CARE” cause I know my crush has a crush on ME!!!

• @YES, thats what I have concluded. Happened again just now. I know he has just woken up, as there is an 8 hour time difference and he awakes around this time every day.

• Me, So, if they appear in both (mo picture,name) is more probable that they just checked you, rather than if they only appear in one?? Ex appear in one of these, everytime I refresh, but ususally not in both at the same time !!! although everyitme of th day I open facebook he’s in one of them

• Further proof. It’s just happened again. MO5/10 at the same time just as I know he has gone online at another social network site and he has also emailed during the same time period. Also, my dad just appeared on both, so I asked him if he had just looked at my profile and he said yes!

  • Shhhhhh! Keep it to yourself! ;)

• seems ‘THE KEESH’ site is down. Stalker list unable to open in Opera, but remains the same in Firefox.

  A person would have to be an idiot not to know FB was behind this, which leaves me to conclude that ‘THE SALKER LIST’ was a two-way street. Otherwise why would ANYONE care, let alone the people who installed it, as the person who installed it ALREADY KNOWS who they are looking at continuously!!!!

  AHHHH, well, at least I got to KNOW that crush has a crush on ME!!!

• I am very dissapointed . I have been told I am doing freinding to poeople I don’t know , when you are in the wrong , I have not freined anyone I didn’t and more so , I have not frende anyone in a about a month , isn’t that harrassment or discrimanation .

• oops, sorry, it gave error! sorry, for sending it a couple of times!

• @Guy, thanks fro you opinion
  If you ask me, I say I don’t count on this LSB10 to make any conclusion anymore. I think it’s now (at least for me) 3 saved badge of people that take turn in showing up in your LSB10 everyday!…it’s like that facebook has a “saved”record of the lists of friends for each one of us and keeps showing that. For me, most of them are those whom I said hapy bday on their wall (I call them “bday badge” from now on :P). so, these people are ALWAYS in my lsb10, they never go 
  And yes, ex is in one of the badges too, and he appears every 3 or 4 days.. But I don’t count on it anymore
  What I have focused on at this moment is the mo5 and close friend suggestion list, as he and his best buddies are there EVERYDAY!

  Another thing to note: I’m very careful not to have any interaction with his profile, for example I never click on “show more comments” on his status as I know facebook probabely record that as the “interaction”!…YET, he is always in mo5, which makes me happy! :P

  One more thing to note: my LSB10 and mo5 have discrepancies for many people! For example, “happy birthday badge” NEVER appear in mo5, which make me conclude that they are obviously not interested in my profile!, another proof is my English teacher which I talked about before; I have interaction with her profile almost everyday, but she NEVER EVER appears in my mo5, not even once!!!!!!

  What I like to ask from you guys is to keep an eye on mo5, and put your findings here, I always check this thread although I promised to myself to stop thinking about mystery of facebook, but I just cant help it! :P
  Thanks

• @Guy, thanks fro you opinion
  If you ask me, I say I don’t count on this LSB10 to make any conclusion anymore. I think it’s now (at least for me) 3 saved badge of people that take turn in showing up in your LSB10 everyday!…it’s like that facebook has a “saved”record of the lists of friends for each one of us and keeps showing that. For me, most of them are those whom I said hapy bday on their wall (I call them “bday badge” from now on :P). so, these people are ALWAYS in my lsb10, they never go 
  And yes, ex is in one of the badges too, and he appears every 3 or 4 days.. But I don’t count on it anymore
  What I have focused on at this moment is the mo5 and close friend suggestion list, as he and his best buddies are there EVERYDAY!

  Another thing to note: I’m very careful not to have any interaction with his profile, for example I never click on “show more comments” on his status as I know facebook probabely record that as the “interaction”!…YET, he is always in mo5, which makes me happy! :P

  One more thing to note: my LSB10 and mo5 have discrepancies for many people! For example, “happy birthday badge” NEVER appear in mo5, which make me conclude that they are obviously not interested in my profile!, another proof is my English teacher which I talked about before; I have interaction with her profile almost everyday, but she NEVER EVER appears in my mo5, not even once!!!!!!

  What I like to ask from you guys is to keep an eye on mo5, and put your findings here, I always check this thread although I promised to myself to stop thinking about mystery of facebook, but I just cant help it! :P
  Thanks

• @Guy,Thanks for your opinoin!…if you ask me, I say LSB10 is not a reliable source to make any hypothesis anymore!..I think this LSB10 is now ( at least for me) three “saved badge of people” who take turn everyday in appearing in my sidebar!…most of them I said happy birthday on their wall 2-3 months back and they have just decided to stick to my LSB10, they just don’t go away!!! :S

  it’s like that facebook has a “saved” record of lists of friends for every one of us and they change it everyday…

  >>>>>proof: my LSB10 and mo5 don’t have consistency for many people!….those “happy bday badge” who are always on LSB10, never show in my mo5, which makes me conclude that they are obviosuly not interested in my profile. another proof>>my english teacher whom I have interaction with her profile on a DAILY BASIS,NEVER EVER appeares in my mo5, not even once!!!!!

  and yes, Ex is in one of the badges of LSB10, and he appears every 3 or 4 days! but I dont count on it anymore!…the thing I have focused on, is this MO5 and close friend suggestion! he appears on these 2 lists everyday, along with his best buddies!

  I don’t like to talk much, but I should just say, I’m very careful not to have any kind of interaction with his profile!…he is in my newsfeed, but, for example, i never click on “show more comments” on his status, because I know that facebook probably record that as an interaction!…YET, he is still there in mo5, which makes me happy! :P

  what I like to ask from all of you is to keep an eye on your mo5 and put your findings here!! :P…..I always check this thread, although I promised to myself that I never think about this mystery in facebook anymore, but I just can’t help it!

  Thank you all :)

• @Yes: I don’t have a concrete answer to your question, but if you’re asking me for my opinion, I happen to believe the LSB10 and MO5 are a mixture of people who YOU interact with and who has (recently?) interacted with your profile. For those unexplained people whose presence we can’t explain are probably the people visiting our profile.

  I stalked myself with a dummy profile persistently enough a while ago (with a like button or two sprinkled in) and managed to maintain this dummy profile on my LSB10 and MO5 rotation. Other people have appeared whom I purposefully stalked did eventually appear on the MO5, but not the LSB10. It took several weeks, but she did eventually begin appearing on the MO5 where she had never appeared prior.

  That’s all I have.

• Ok. Here’s my latest observation. My crush and I chat via email. It’s a long distance thing. Hence why we have never communicated via fb. He was only either showing above my MO name or MO pic. Then he emails me. I check my MO5/10 and within minutes of getting that email he is on my MO5/10 both pic and name. So I do agree with whoever said if they appear on both they have just checked you out within a small time frame. But I will keep a check on this and see if it happens again. He is still on my friends suggestion list too.

• I know that there are people of those 10 that I know I haven’t had had public contact with on Facebook. I haven’t even liked anything that they have ever posted. I believe that it is who is checking your profile the most….which creeps me out….because some people I’ve only talked to once….like 2 years ago…..

• @ YES MO5/10 has nothing to do with interactions. It has to be something to do with views. Theirs or mine, or even both – not sure. But it is related somehow.

• one more thing to add, my teacher from middle school always post very nice poems on her status and I “like” or comment of them almost everyday! yet, she NEVER shows up in my mo5, and only very rarely she shows up in lSB10!..that makes me think that this mo5 got nothing to do with facebook interactions!

• @Guy, how much is the possibility that mo5 and close friends suggestion list be those who stalk you (or let’s just say view you, or you are in their news feed?)??..I know!there is no certainity in fb! we all just guess based on our experiences!! ex, still shows up in mo5 and close friend suggestion! I really wanna know why! I should say, I usually don’t stalk anyone in facebook and generally not very active ( although I go to facebook everyday, but I dont have any activity)

• @Cher: Unfortunately, whenever you comment or like a post from someone else who has their privacy settings to public / friends of friends, it will end up as a viewable story to all of your friends. Short of not leaving comments on people with public posts, there is nothing you can do to stop these ticker-updates from going up – at least not for the time being.

  To everyone who thinks Facebook is deleting comments: I really doubt that. For one, this site is not hosted nor affiliated with Facebook. In fact, the original article we’re all commenting on is somewhat critical of Facebook. If they really wanted to sweep this under the rug, they would just have this page removed. A more likely explanation: the servers are acting up. Keep in mind, this thread has been up for a few months short of a year. These things do happen from time to time.

  @Kava: My ‘stalker list’ has not changed for about ten days now as well. In this case I do think Facebook found out about the stalker-script and decided to disable it from prying eyes, which sort of implies there may have been some elements of tracking beyond your own involved. (Pure speculation, of course.)

• -833 wow… I really need to stop, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with that high of a number yet .

• @cher: on Sept. 20th(when I posted the ‘stalker list’ was disabled) i noticed that the whole KEESH site(where the list java script originated from) was down. I assumed because it had crashed, but now I’m not so sure. It was right after that that FB ‘debut’ it NEW layout, so put two and two together = something smells fishy here.

  Plus my list has not changed at all either…except for my #2 spot has now moved waaaayyy up (from -19 to -28!) and I haven’t a clue why. I posted a photo on her page on Monday, but I ALSO posted photos on about 5 or 6 OTHER people pages that day also. ANd that was 4+ days ago? She’s the only one that moved, and moved alot.

• My comments from the other day got deleted as well. Maybe it was just a glitch with the page or something? Because we weren’t saying anything worse than what I have been seeing on my News Feed! People are really upset about the changes. I do not like that ticker on the side at all. I don’t really care that one of my friends “liked” her friend’s post. I want to know how to set up my privacy settings so I don’t have my comments on that ticker. Anyone know for sure??

  Also, back to the other stuff. Are you all still checking out your “stalker list” with the numbers? I have been checking every day, and it has NOT CHANGED at ALL in over a week. The names are STILL in the same order, and the numbers (which I wrote down) are EXACTLY the same as they were a week ago. At first, it wasn’t doing that. It was changing constantly. Do you think it is no longer working for some reason? Have any of you noticed the same thing?

• @kava What is Facebook so worried about? Why are some of our posts getting deleted? Someone from the Facebook offices are checking these messages…There is no other reasonable explanation I can think of….The next thing you’ll know, they’ll be shutting down this blog itself! :X :X

• @kava What is Facebook so worried about? Why are some of our posts getting deleted? Someone from the Facebook offices are checking these messages…There is no other reasonable explanation I can think of….The next thing you’ll know, they’ll be shutting down this blog itself! :X :X

• @FoxyVixen: My Bob/Mike senario seems to be deleted?! Well since you saw it, my point is that if someone does not know to post their post specifically to that ONE person or customize their list and say they have it listed as “friend of friend”, then YES everyone on their friends’ list AND their friends’ list is going to see that information on the ticker!!

  This has to be the case because if you look at your ticker you may see SusieQ commented on JoeSchmoe comment. Yet YOU are NOT friends with JoeSchmoe! JoeSchmoe is someone who went to school with SuzieQ fifteen years ago, get what I’m saying?

  This whole “customizing”, “List”, “Public” posting crap is confusing to almost EVERYONE.

  It’s going to get to the point where NO ONE is going to want to post anything at all for fear of who might see it.

  @sarah: I agree with you!

  I noticed on home page a LOT MORE ads? Not very may suggestions or photo tags or PYMK? What’s that about?

• I think Facebook is watching us because even my post got deleted!

• yeah, there’s at least two people on my suggested close friends list I’ve had no interaction with whatsoever- I think it’s almost the same as my MO5 (except for maybe two people). Obviously, my ex is up there,too and I have restrained from stalking her in a while now. There’s also some people I’ve had public interaction with once like happy birthday on their birthday and that’s it. plus like 3 close friends of mine but that makes sense. What’s most interesting to me is that most people up there are my ex’s close friends whose profiles I NEVER check out. If it hadn’t been for this I think I would have given up hope a good while ago so this better be for real;) On the other hand, though there’s this guy who’s a good friend of mine and who I’ve been stalking recently as an experiment and who I know rarely logs onto Facebook. And he does appear on the suggested close friends list. He’s still absent from the MO5, though..

• people can choose who they want as close friends, then they are able to see more of that person. what the other does not know is when or if they are added by anyone, so you could count on that person who mysterious added you to close friends to check on your profile more often, by either looking at what you publish. in my case I wrote a note and the person I was writing about just so happened to log in a few minutes afterward. maybe I am his close friend. I also switched back to my page to notice that he was back on my LSB10 friends list on my profile. with close friends, they have the option to see more of what you post, and can find this out while on facebook, or by their email. this may explain why this person logs on everytime I submit a note I write for myself, not that I have anything to hide on facebook. I would like to know who views my profile, and it may be the person that I was talking about because he also appears on the searchlist when I type the first letters of his first and last name.

• How comes my post on here about the close friends suggestions got removed? Strange….

  Lets see if it stays up this time!

  On my close friends suggestions everyone except two people I intereact with regularly. The two I dont react with are a. an old school friend who I have never interacted with, no chat, no likes, no wall comments and no tags. Only interaction has been the add that was over a year ago. Yet she show’s up here. I haven’t even looked at her profile since then either.

  The other is my crush… again, I have never interacted with, no chat, no likes, no wall comments and no tags. Only interaction has been the add that was over a year ago. I do look at his profile occasionally, but have tried not to in recent time. Yesterday morning he wasn’t on my MO5/10. He claims he never goes on FB but yesterday afternoon on another social networking site, he made a comment about the new fb lay out. Straight away I deceided to look at my MO5/10 and he had re-appeared.

  But it’s the close friends suggestions I find really interesting, because like I said I have never had fb interaction with either. Why would it suggest them to me?

• Question: Has anyone notice the new privacy settings for posts/pics? If I want my crush to see my picture, and I also want my sister, and some other close friends to see it, but not my remaining 1390 FB friends, I can go ahead and set the privacy to the five or six people I choose. Right? HOWEVER, when this pic gets published, guess what happens? Crush, sister, and close friends will see the “custom” setting on my pic and be able to see who else is on the list of people I’ve allowed to view my pic. What gives? Isn’t the point of customizing your privacy supposed to be just that? A way to have people view what you want without knowing whether they are the only ones who do or don’t? Seriously? FB is gone too far.

  @Kava, If I’m understanding your argument correctly then privacy on FB is non-existant. Let me get this straight. You are saying that the BOB/MIKE interaction will be seen by everyone on the Newsfeed regardless or whether or not Mike intended it just for Bob? Say Mike sets the “Kava is a douche” post to a setting that is customized for Bob’s eyes only. Are you saying that YOU, and the rest of Mike’s friends, can see this on the Newsfeed? Really? Then if that is the case there is absolutely no privacy on FB. NONE whatsoever!

• Facebook friends list ‘disabled’? will not work on any browser and cannot log into mashables or the the keesh’s site! F U FACEBOOK!

• i think you are right becouse the same group of 20 peaople (i never spoke with on facebook) allways came up again and again. and there was one person that was allway came up (i did this 10 times).

• @anonymous: someone on here posted that they beleive the LSB10 is a listing of eveyone whom you may have had at least ONE FB encounter with, after that, after they visit your page they begin to show up on your list. I am beginning to beleive that theory. There is a person on that list that I used to talk with a while back but lost contact with over the past months. Their birthday was this past week and I’m sure they were checking out my page as we used to have some pretty wild birthday bashes back in the day and was probably reminicing(sp?) about it. Now thay are a constant fixture on that list for the past WEEK!

  The search bar I’m guessing(as others do also)is based upon either/or. Either someone YOU looked at or someone who looked at you. As far as the times of day go, perhaps it’s when they are logged on?

  I beleive the logged on theory goes for the MO5/10. Here is why. If I mouse over my name and a person is one of the 5, then I mouse over my picture and said person is ALSO on that 5 they are deffinately perusing FB. I’ve had too many numerous occasions when I will notice that someone is on BOTH MO5/10 and then get a PM or a wall-post or a tagged photo or reply to a status I posted. The coincidence is just wayyyyy to high for it not to be. At least that seems to be the algorithm for ME.

  On the ‘stalker’ list regarding Mr. Crush. He has not been on the list for about a day and a half. Today I noticed his stalker number jumped up some around mid-day, when he was on both MO5/10. I know he was on because he had a status update and some ‘likes’ posted on the news feed. Just checked my FB page and lo-and-behold there is MR. Crush on the LSB10! Mr. Crush was all over my page after his number jumped. I still think he is using my page as a jumping off to other people’s pages(even though I have my friend list blocked from others seeing it)who have blocked or unfriended him (yes, Mr. Crush can be a bit of jerk at times :)).

• Just wondering about the search bar list, which I find most interesting. Someone I searched over a week ago immediately started showing on this list, yet in certain periods of the day seems to disappear off the search bar list, then reappears there at certain time periods. Fluctuating from 1st under a certain letter to third. It seems to me this suggests the person views the profile. Maybe I’m wrong. That same person however whilst I use Chrome, has dropped off the stalker list completely. Very strange.

• I think a few of you are misunderstanding what is meant by “THE STALKER LIST”. It is a java based app that is run from the ‘bookmark’ bar that is installed via the link posted above by Guy. It is NOT the list that is on your profile page to the left.

  The ‘stalker list’ is supposed to show you who YOU are stalking, however most of the posts show that this does not seem to be *whole truth* relating to the coresponding numbers on that list.

  I do have a question for anyone out there who would care to venture a guess:

  Q: Why is someone I totally UNFRIENDED over a month ago still appearing on my search bar (sometimes as #1!!) and my ‘stalker list’? There are about 3 other people I unfriended around the same time that have totally dropped off my FB radar.

  This unfriended friend is BFF’s with ex’s new GF(who doesn’t have a FB, not one that I can find anyway). Is there ANY possible way this unfriended friend is still able to somehow get access to my profile? I thought once you unfriended someone they could not find you at all and were unable to view your profile in anyway.

  How is this happening? Anyone care to guess?

• My top friends are still unchanged today. One is a crush, two are his friends, and one his sister. I don’t look at any of their pages. Meanwhile, I checked a few friends page and I am still no where to be found. Since I do not look at anyone’s page, is this why I am not on their left side list? They are probably checking me out good though.

• I think a few of you are misunderstanding what is meant by “THE STALKER LIST”. It is a java based app that is run from the ‘bookmark’ bar that is installed via the link posted above by Guy. It is NOT the list that is on your profile page to the left.

  The ‘stalker list’ is supposed to show you who YOU are stalking, however most of the posts show that this does not seem to be *whole truth* relating to the coresponding numbers on that list.

  I do have a question for anyone out there who would care to venture a guess:

  Q: Why is someone I totally UNFRIENDED over a month ago still appearing on my search bar (sometimes as #1!!) and my ‘stalker list’? There are about 3 other people I unfriended around the same time that have totally dropped off my FB radar.

  This unfriended friend is BFF’s with ex’s new GF(who doesn’t have a FB, not one that I can find anyway). Is there ANY possible way this unfriended friend is still able to somehow get access to my profile? I thought once you unfriended someone they could not find you at all and were unable to view your profile in anyway.

  How is this happening? Anyone care to guess?

• @kava, I know, it doesn’t always work! I tried checking one of my bf’s profile, who hangs out at ~11.000, went through her new album clicked likes and made comments, and yet my position didn’t change. Also checked on one of the men who is in top 10, a boyfriend, checked his profile and that number didn’t move either – stayed at 15.21 …… but number one crush did increase after I sent him a PM from 147.42 to 156.51 …. or 9.09.

  And some that I check for fun increase and then fall – others just always stay at the same number…??? I think those are – history, over time rate of checking??? or mutual looks??? Kind of leading me on though, if it is just based on my checks :(

• I’m not showing up in ANY of my friends “stalker list” when I look on their profile page. My crush, and a few of his friends are on my page/list, including his sister. I never look at their pages. (So this must mean they are looking at mine?)

  Again, I am not on anyone staler list! I clicked about 10 of my friends I talk to and message, but do not go to their page, I was no where to be found in the list and hit refresh several times. I look at my crush’s page about 5 times a week, and rarely anyone else. Still I am not even on his page!

  Any theories why I do not see myself on anyone’s stalker list?

  As an experiment, I have begun clicking a random “friend’s” page and photos. Will report my findings and see if I show in their stalker list or on my page.

• well i also think this is true, becaus my mum always comes up on mine and people who always stalk me, my name also seems to come up on my crush’s list omgggg!! cringe!

• Hello! Ok, this is what I have found out about the stalker list. Most any view you make, or search you enter or profile you look at will come up on the stalker list at an increase of 9.08 greater than whatever number it was prior to that. So if you see a name you don’t recognize on search bar for instance, said person will show up on stalker list as 9.08. If you have veiwed them in the past/mutual views you will see a jump from say 14.33 – 23.22 as Kava pointed out earlier.
  9.08 is a reflection of your viewing the other site.
  That number will decrease at a rate of approximately 1.74 per day until …. I don’t know ….I haven’t tracked that yet. That seems to be the case when there is no mutual looks.
  In other instances, the number may decrease, but only to a certain level and then it seems to stay there – because of mutual looks I suppose. – or because they are looking at you one sidedly.
  I have two guys at the tops – both former/ongoing lovers whose numbers never change – for this week anyways. one I look at and send messages to – he is 147 and he appearss all over sidebar …first on all searches, his status updates, photos, etc. the second one, I haven’t looked at in a month, nor have we spoken, nor can I see his friends lists or wall or photos – he remains at 60, and he shows up everywhere first and his friends show up on my search bar too.

  So conclusion – increase in 9.08 is your look!! not theres. If that number remains high, they are looking back or there have been a lot of looks over time. I kind of think you control how high the number goes though. I think there looks at you will only register if you have looked at them – if that makes any sense. BC about four of the guys that stay 20+ I have looked at the most over time in the order they appear on my list – but for the numbers to stay high, they have to be looking at me, too. I could do an expt. with number 3 or 4 to see how high I could push the number and how long it would stay high to see if they are looking back.

  However, if the person is high in numbers

• I find it odd that everytime I post to my profile or someone comments on one of my updates or pics crush comes up all over my page. Is it possible he has me listed as receiving status updates from me? Wishful thinking I know…but it’s friday night and I;m laid up in bed with nothing else to do!

• Here is what I have noticed about the “stalker” list after watching it all week. The girl I talked about in a previous post, is still at #1 (blah). But again I think she may have been looking at my pictures because her son is in some of them. #2 is still myself (I don’t get it??). And #3 is my crush. His number went down from -19. to -13. I have NOT looked at his profile at all. Now I did hear him telling someone that he lost his computer at home a week ago with a virus, and he was complaining about having to get it fixed. So my thinking is, a person’s # may go down if they haven’t been on FB, which would make sense (thus, he hasn’t been able to view my profile, lol, so that put the other girl on top).

  Another thing bothering me is my ex-husband has shot up to #4. I rarely look at his profile, but he likes my things and comments here and there. I think he is mad at me (something over the kids) so he has stopped replying to me at all. So why did he jump way up the list? (he was about 15th down). Is he looking at my profile a lot? It could be because he may be viewing pics I posted of the kids. hmmmm. And this happened without me looking at him at all.

  So again, I think this list DEFINITELY is MUTUAL views, for sure. Not just who you have viewed.

• Latest observation: I was out a few nights ago and I ran into former flirt buddy’s (well…he’s still trying to flirt) girlfriend (and I think she knows it). I haven’t seen her in a while and our FB interaction has been limited to a couple of status/picture likes in the last 6 months. Today she is coming up repeatedly in Friend’s Photos. They’re rotating between about 3 people. She’s not coming up on any other lists, and I have not looked at her page or clicked on any of her links in at least 6 months. I think she often uses smartphone to check FB.

• Actually I think it is totally random. When I tried it again, it gave me a different list of people. :( I think it is just mixing up the people who basically are in your PYMK3 and MO5. It just so happened that the first time I tried, my crush was #1. oh well….something else to constantly look at. lol

• It should be there. I already have a separate list of friends, and I have it. It is on the home page on the left under “favorites” for me. It is titled “Lists”. I am using Firefox, not sure if that makes a difference. I know this is new because it wasn’t there this am (that I noticed). So maybe try and close out and go back in using firefox?

• I don’t have that! Is it because I already have another group of people called “friends II”?

• Have you all noticed on the home page, there is something new to the left titled “close friends” and “family”. When I click on “family” it suggests people who I already have listed as my family members. When I click “close friends”, guess who was listed first?? Yep, my crush. Now why is that? Why would fb think that he is my #1 pick for a close friend???

• i met this dude i like in my skool
  and 2-3 days later, he started showing up in my search bar even tho i never viewed his profile
  weird… im in love<3

• Not random! I refreshed over 10 times. The same list of 10 people came up!

• ‘The stalker list’

  The person who I mentioned before who I have no clue who this person is. I had never searched her previous, yet this person started showing in my search bar list under two letters. The second letter referring to the person’s surname is now also showing at the top of the search list under that letter. So both letters inevitably are showing this person top of the list under both those letters.

  The search list I do not trust however, I searched an ex and this person showed up through two letters and is now ranked about 28th on that Stalker List. To test, I searched dozens of people on Facebook with the same letter as her name and later the search list showed evidence of people I searched, so that ex of mine no longer on the search list.

  What I find interesting however, the person I spoke about who remains first on both letters, this person used to be fourth on my stalker list when I first applied that to my browser to test it, now the person is number 1 on the Stalker list. This person I mention is not on my list, is friends with one of my friends on my list and I had never seen this person’s profile before, not that I know of. So why did this person remain on my search bar list? Recently after I noticed that, I started viewing the person’s profile occasionally, (well the person is attractive and I do love the look of whoever it is.)

  That person went from fourth to first on that Stalker list. I have also noticed on a daily basis now, this person is occasionally showing up on my ‘People You May Know’ list. I don’t know if you have noticed, but that list in recent weeks has been showing pretty frequent. That said person who is first on my stalker list and search bar lists shows frequently each night in the ‘People You May Know’ at the right hand side.

  What could this mean? Are Facebook hinting to us that the said person showing up on my ‘People You May Know’ list are those you are stalking, anything mutual, or you stalking?

  Well the person who was first on my Stalker list who is on my friends list and one of my best friends as well who was second at the time, I have interacted with them a lot more than I have viewed that persons profile. How did that person become number one on my stalker list?

  I also know another person who is on my friends list and I know this person has a fake profile, that fake profile pops up on the odd occasion under the ‘People You May Know’ and a lot further down stalker list, you can see it’s listed. I also have another friend that I know has a secondary profile for the so called pet, that shows up a lot from time to time under the ‘People You May Know’, difference is, that pet has friends of mine already.

  My suggestion is to carefully keep an eye on your

  – Search Bar List
  – People You May Know
  – Stalker list

  It’s too coincidental that the person I spoke about before who I had no clue to who the person was, was showing a lot under the letter in my search bar and is now number one on my stalker list and for some odd reason, frequently each night pops up on my ‘People You May Know’.

• Something fishy about this stalker list. The numbers change without me having logged on facebook. How can that happen if the list only shows who im stalking??

• Also forgot to mention that someone I have ‘unfriended’ who is a good friend of ex &ex’s new lady love is on the list…way toward the top. She is above people I have interaction with everyday and people I have recently been on their page. I do find it ineresting that my ex’s new girlfriend would like to know what is going on in my life (in case I would post something about the ex & I being together) so naturally she would want her best friend to find out. I do have my wall available to friends of friends right now. I am going to change it to just friends and see if she drops off.

  The unfriended friend also comes up 1st or 2nd on the search bar, depending upon which initial I put in.

  And the girl from work who I’m not sure which one of us blocked the other is still in the top 5, and I haven’t looked at her pages since she returned from an overseas vacation two months ago.

  I also noticed that someone I had friend requested five or so months ago now is comming up 1st or 2nd when I letter search on the search bar, and he’s kind of in the top half of my list.

  I don’t get how these things are possible when *I* have had zero interaction with these people via facebook for such a long time.

• @Kava: Unfortunately, we can only take such stories as anecdotal evidence. Ideally, we would replicate your circumstances multiple times to say for sure we’ve identified a trend in the algorithm. But, it isn’t realistic / feasible to have multiple people mimic the same circumstances that might bring about a jump in one person’s stalker list / rating the way you have concluded.

  Do I think yours and a few other stories are pretty daming? Yeah. But, you know what would be ironic? If your Mr. Crush was unwittingly one of the people posting here, saying how they’re going to avoid visiting a certain someone’s profile, which hypothetically would be you in this case. If dozens and dozens are posting here saying such things, how many do you reckon are lurking about doing the same? I’m only saying, we can’t know for certain.

  The only thing we can say for sure? We have a ton of anecdotal evidence. Damn conspiracy theories.

• The Search option has been disabled in the sense that it no longer shows the names of people with the first letter you enter.

• Ok, so I had to give up somewhere in the middle of this string because it’s sooo long!!! Very interesting, though. Regarding the top friends list on the left, though. I don’t think it is necessarily your stalkers or who you stalk. When I was logged on under my primary account, I wrote down the ten names appearing on the left. By some accounts above, that is who is stalking or viewing my page. When I went to my secondary account, I checked my primary page and the exact same names appeared. And by some accounts above, that is who my primary account is stalking/viewing. Unless the complete list is reciprocal (did I spell that right?), it can’t be both — my secondary account indicates my primary account is viewing the same people that my primary account indicates is viewing them. It’s probably a more complex algorithm that decides the names on the left, which takes into account page views but not purely — which is why FB can say they won’t give you away like that. They’re hinting, not telling. :)

• @Guy could you send us the link? Please tell me this isn’t another scam…

• @Robin & @Sunshine: Just to be clear, nothing is ‘installed’ when you click the link. The link simply reads an algorithm hidden within Facebook that ranks who you (supposedly) “stalk” the most.

• @robin – was referring to THE LIST – guy provided a link and the code you can install to see who you view the most in rank order. We’re just trying to figure out if it is soley our views or if it is some mutual affinity.

• My stalker list is very heavily weighted toward people whose profiles I clicked and then viewed their pictures. There are many people high on my list who aren’t my FB friends, but I went to their page and viewed their pictures from events because they are friends or family of friends and family.

  The FB friends whose pictures I haven’t recently viewed but have regular commenting back and forth are further down.

  My FB friend profile page clicks without recent comments (6 months) or picture views are further down still.

• My friend rating list seems to have some of the same people listed again and again as I scroll down. Does that make any sense?

  There is also a long list of names that appear at the bottom with 0’s beside their names. There is also a girl on my list whose name I have never heard of, who got a 9.7 I searched her and she is not a mutual friend of anyone on my list – have no idea who she is. Also my two crushes are at the top. One I check his profile regularly and we have exchanged messages – he is 147. The second I am much more discreet about and haven’t viewed anything on his in weeks – he is 60 – he keeps his fb wall, photo albums and friends list closed (to me at least) so there is nothing to see. I rarely interact with him and yet his numbers seem to get higher. Not only that, a number of his friends have appeared on my search bar – and since I have never seen his friends list, they have obviously been checking me out.

  • What is a ‘friend rating list?’ Where did you find that?

• Is there any algorithm concerning the pictures of my friends albums on the right side. I have the feeling, if they are on, I mean, they do nothing but they are there, I get shown their pictures. It’s like an attinding list. If they are not on, I do not get shown these pictures.

  Also, I think the algorithm is changing a lot the last time. Maybe you all are right.

• Based on my experience the only explanation of the ordering of the list is that it’s the last ten people who have visited your profile (in no particular order). The people listed on mine tend not to be the people I interact with the most, and are in fact in many cases people who I have not interacted with in any way (including liking etc), though I can see a reason for these people visiting my profile (e.g. recently ‘hung out’ at an event).
  I carried out an ‘experiment’, I logged on to a friends account (with their permission of course!) and visited my profile, when I logged back onto my account the friend was among the list, they had not been on before.

• ok, weird. I sent a pm to the crush. ONLY a pm. Did NOT look at his profile or pics or anything. I just went to our recent pm several weeks ago and hit send. NOW, he is back to #1 on my list. By a landslide, and the other girl I talked about before? She is back to about #10. Why? Why did she jump to the top? I can see him jumping back up because I pme’d him (thus kind of viewing his page, even though I didn’t). So why did that one friend hold that #1 spot all day, and he was #4?????? Is it b/c I sent a pm? Or could he be online and saw my pm and clicked on it, thus creating yet another “connection” between us? This is all far too annoying. lol

  @alice, I am glad you saw some who you had no idea who they were. Keep looking and check again tomorrow. All really strange I think. And frustrating. :/

• although, on second thought, maybe some of the tagged photos of said mutual friend i viewed were originally uploaded by the unknown person?

• @cher: you’re right, i went to take a look at my list, and there are people i have never even heard of before appearing relatively high there, certainly higher than people whose profile i HAVE viewed. naturally i checked out their profiles after that, and found that we do have a mutual friend — and my relationship with that mutual friend would have given them reason to look at my profile.

• Ok, I’ve been trying to figure this out since the beginning of the year. Here are my recent findings….

  Tonight I posted something really funny, so I told 4 people to go look at my profile to see this pic. Shortly after ALL 4 of them showed up in my LSB10. I NEVER go to their profiles and I know they were on my page b/c all 4 texted me about my post.

  Also, I started randomly stalking 2 people who I know would never come to my page. About 2-3 weeks later they both started showing up in my MO5. FB may be changing it up….but right now it seems like those on your profile page in your friends list are the ones who have been on your page recently. MO5, I’m still not sure of…obviously some of it is who you are looking at.

  • Hey, this is very interesting, would be great for you test that javascript link to test if these 4 people are now ranking very high on your list. If they do, then that would be strong evidence that Facebook is using two-way interaction to rank who they think is important to you.

    http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/secret-facebook-stalking-list/

• Its the people who look on your page the most… I asked facebook itself.. and it says:
  FACEBOOK FACT:
  The people who appear on your friends list on your profile are the people who have viewed your profile the most in the last 24-48 hrs.. get it right guys.

• now a friend i have very, and i mean very little contact with is in my PYMK3! and she moved up the stalker list! I went through this girls album when i friended her, that was it and i may have been on a mutual friends thread with her a few months back. I found it odd that crush was von my lsb10 for about an hour this evening, then poof! gone but still on mo’s and PYMK, PYMK3 & deactivate account.

  I have created a separate list called FRIENDS II. I put some random friends and family in there and a few regular LSB friends who are regularsincluding crush, for a list of about 111. This list is right under the regular friends list and shows 3 people. Interestingly enough crush, work girl, and almost ALL the LBS10 rotate on that list ALSO! Every once in a while a ‘random’ will pop up, whoopie! Algorithm my ass…

• @Guy: This is someone I really don’t have any interaction with at all. I don’t think I have ever clicked on anything of hers, because she doesn’t really post much. I have liked some of her posts, and she has liked some of mine, but not recently. And she has never posted any pics or videos that I would have clicked on. I can say almost 100% that she looked at the pics I posted recently, because her son was in some of them, so she had reason to view them. But she was way down the list just a few days ago, and today she is #1. I can say she is on my MO5 and PYMK, but never in the LSB10.

  Here’s another thing…..have any of you ever really looked at any of the names in your list? I started to randomly look up some of the names of those appearing who I have no idea who they are. And they were all mutual friends of my friends, but they aren’t my “friend”. Found one today who I have NEVER looked at, nor do I have any idea who she even is. Well, when I checked, she is a friend of my crush. So could she have viewed my profile after maybe seeing me on his friends’ list??? Hmmmmmmmm. Again, no clue who some of these people are. So I THINK that people appearing on this list could be those who have looked at your profile after seeing you on their “friends” profile, even if you aren’t their friend.

  I also forgot to mention. To test this stalker theory, I started to stalk the heck out of an uncle’s profile. I know he looks at my stuff, and likes and comments, but he is rarely on my LSB10, and at the time I started my “stalking” he was at about a -5. maybe the 20th person down that list. Well, I stalked him alot one day, and the next day, he did shoot up near the top of my list. He went from a -5 to a -14 (and at the time, my crush was at -19, right at the top). This is why I think it goes both ways with that list.

  @Kava, I know what you mean. I have said so many times in this thread that my crush just shows up way too much all over the place, when I hardly look at his stuff, and we rarely interact. I interact more with so many other people who show all over about 1/2 as much as he does. So my conclusion is, it has to be mutual views.

  One more thing I wanted to mention. I have started to notice that those who remain pretty constant on my side chat bar (not signed in), and this does change daily, but the majority of them, I have had pm’s with – even if only one time, and even if it was 6 months ago. I wonder if FB doesn’t also take that into their algorithm (or whatever it is) when deciding WHO to show you the most.

• @Kava: It took me about three weeks of intense stalking to get a random person who barely knows I exist to show up on my PYMK3, but as of yesterday she finally appeared on that list.

  @Cher: Have you interacted with her in any way? Say she posts a YouTube song, or a picture. Do you click any of these without going into her profile first? If there are seven comments, do you click the “see more comments” option to view the entire thread? Or if there are multiple people who clicked the like button on one of his/her posts, do you click that to see who did so?

  If not, then there very well may be who-is-stalking-you factors that Facebook aren’t being very up front about. I just want to definitely rule out your interacting with his profile in any possible way, because those are examples some people forget to take into consideration.

• @cher: I agree with you 110%! there is a girl on my list whom I work with that I don’t know if she blocked me or I accidently blocked her (it is very awkward at work to say the least, neither one of us wants to say “hey, did you block me”!), anyway…she is always in the top 5 of my stalker list, why is that?

  Also, I have not visited my crushes profile since last Saturday/Sunday early morn, at which time I stalked the hell out of tagged photos he was in!(found out an old flame is divorced and back in the picture :( boohoo) but yet today his ‘friends’ are everywhere on my profile in PYMK. Now there are other people I have looked at verociously within the last week so why aren’t THEIR ‘friends’ showing up everywhere? Plus there are six or seven other people I have PM’d with within the last week, yet not a one of them (besides my sister) has any ‘friends’ showing up on PYMK.

• OK….well crush dropped from the top spot on the list, to #4. :( But what is strange is, a friend of mine flew up to #1, even ahead of myself and others who have been at the top previously (well they were all after crush). I don’t think he has been on FB, so that could be why?? But the girl who shot to #1 is a casual friend who I talk to once in awhile. She likes my posts – that is about all the communication we have on FB.

  Now let me say I NEVER have looked at her profile (well actually once when I had to pm her). Now recently I posted some pics that she may have been interested in, so I am sure she looked at the pics. Could that be what made her shoot up from the middle somewhere to #1?? That list is NOT who you are stalking, because I repeat, I do NOT look at her profile.

  Guy, I am thinking this list is mutual page viewing. Because there are names on there that I have searched for (like some of them are people I don’t even know who have the same name as someone I was searching for) – so yes, it probably does show who YOU view. But after studying this list since you first posted it, I can say for certain that it also MUST include those who are looking at YOU.

  Anyway, I am sad crush has dropped to #4. :(

• haven’t been on facebook for 3 hours. my crush has now gone from 17 to 24. does that mean he was checking me out? my jealous coworker is still number two, i’m number3 and of course my sister is number 4 (waaayyyy up from middle of stalker list)but she was on my page and posted on my wall…sooooo….what does it all mean? who the hell knows!

• @Kava: I’m sure it’s just the script being as precise as possible and nothing more. Of course, your guess is as good as mine at this point.

  @MMM: Here you go.
  (http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/secret-facebook-stalking-list/)

• “Guy” please post the link again! I don’t know what you guys are talking about! butI like to try it! I recently came to the conclusion that none of the LSB10, Mo5 and search bar mean anything anymore, they used to, but not now!
  Like in the search bar, my best friend comes the first (which is undesrtandble), one of friends comes the 2nd (I’m SURE she doesn’t click my page and I don’t click her page either)and my ex rotate between the 3rd, 4th and 5th!!!, and myself (I have the same initial as them), sometimes I’m the 2nd and sometimes the last! what the heck does that mean?

• @ Guy: On the points list I noticed something strange. All my numbers are one or two number (preceded by a – sign)then a decimal point, then six numbers. HOWEVER…some of the people have NINE numbers. Some have 102, some have 104, 204, 902, 404, 502 and some others, also, a couple of the people have 7 numbers. Now what I find interesting about this is it doesn’t seem to be any associated group, and those extra numbers change sporatically.

  Do YOU have any idea what these numbers corralate too?

• Kava, you and I seem to be in similar situations. My crush is still in all the same places, but not as much as before. But he did tell me that he hasn’t been on FB lately and I am not sure if I believe that? Have you tried that drop down list yet that “Guy” posted above? He is still at the top of that list for me. Now that list says it is whose profile you stalk. But I don’t really ever look at his profile. Just a few times.

  Guy if you come back, maybe you can answer a question for me. I looked at my crush’s mother’s profile ONCE. I was on his page, and saw her picture, and just wanted to see what she looked like. Now her name is appearing about halfway down my list (that one with the decimal numbers). Why if I only looked at her profile once and only for a minute. I am certainly not “stalking” her. Could it be he has looked at my profile through hers? I never searched for her name, so it just doesn’t make much sense.

  I really wish we could all figure this out already.

• @Kava, as for the Mo5, what about those people who were online recently , and you’re just on their “news feed”,and not necessarily they open your page!(P.S, I DO hope that your idea about Mo5 be right!!!!) but this “news feed” could be a theory too!!

• I wish I knew for sure if ANY of the MO5/10, LSB, PYMK, Deactivate Your Account, Friend Tag, Search bar…ANY of it was an indicator that THAT person was viewing your profile.

  I had mentioned earlier that I blew any chance with crush-boy. I have been staying away from his profile and keeping it on the DL when I happen to bump into him.

  For two days he was NOT on my LSB, only occasionally on my MO5/10, but heavily in PYMK (when I go on ‘HOME’ page and then hit ‘photos’ on left, or a couple other apps)and PYMK3.

  Then last night when I got home from work…there he was! OH, the joy! But wait, I could be wrong…perhaps he didn’t visit my profile, perhaps he isn’t stalking me, perhaps FB really CAN read my mind!!!

  What to make of this? I mean I am currently stalking someone who I have had NO contact with since friending her a couple of months ago…now she’s showing up in my news feed AND on my chat list? Mutual interaction…yeah, since she must be looking at ME.

  Yesterday (when crush was nowhere to be found on my profile) I noticed my sister showing up in LSB and MO5/10 in BOTH mouse overs (pic & name), plus some of her pictures were comming up on other pages. I pm’d her if she was online right now, she responded…on my WALL that she was…clearly she does visit my profile often (as we live several states away and I know she misses lii’ sister :)). So I do beleive that the MO’s have something to do with the people being online and recently or currently viewing your profile.

• I agree with ‘Lulz’. I think it is a random pick that is saved and changes every other or 2 days! the trend is been like this for the past 2-3 weeks! (it was different 3 weeks ago!!)Facebook managers are definitly reading these! that’s why the minute they feel that “the trick is spoiled” they change the algorithm. Now, you can’t tell your possible stalkers from LSB10, but I believe that 1 month ago you could tell! at least you could make an educated guess about it!

• We need a FB genius hacker to give us a final verdict about all these permutations. Hacker, hacker, where art thou?

• On my list, it has a weird mixture of people I chat with an people I never check on, but they are on there constantly for about 1-2 weeks in different orders and then they change, but some people remain on there. Very weird. Oh well, I guess it’s a random pick that is saved and changed up every week or two. No real secret to it.

• I asked one of my acquaintance (who had been on my LSB10 list consistently for the past one week) whether she had by any chance viewed my FB profile in the past 1-2 weeks? And she replied saying that not once has she ever opened my FB profile since the day she added me to her friend’s list (which is almost 2 months ago). So I do not think the list has anything to do with who is stalking you :-(

• @anonymus, yea, now write on his wall,(just one time, not more)and he shows up on your sidebar everytime he comes to your page and feels like he’s very ninja ;) :P !, …………but after writting my theory , I’m not so sure about it myself anymore!(still confusing) ok, that’s it! I give up!..ex appears in my LSB10 and chatbar all the time, simply because he’s always on facebook!…even if he’s stalking me and that’s the reason why he’s in every corner of my page, doesn’t benefit me unless he talks!..I’m so relieved now! :)..I give up thinking and analysing facebook!…bye bye everyone..after reading all these, I think I’m gonna miss you guys!:P

• @YES I THINK YOU ARE COMPLETELY RIGHT. My crush has written on my wall but I haven’t written on his, but I show up in his LSB10 but he’s never been in mine :0 ! Makes so much sense..

• This can’t be correct, i have found my friend whom has passed on there multiple times.

• I had some time on my hands this weekend, so I have been studying this more closely. I am thinking the LSB10 are those who have recently been online. Reason I say this is, I noticed that those who recently posted something or changed their profile pic (even someone who NEVER comes on FB) suddenly show on the LSB10. When I reviewed who was there today, I checked all of their profiles, and each of them (except for maybe 2) had just posted something or made some change to their profile, or liked something. They are “mostly” all people who I have had “some” interaction with recently, even in the past few months.

  My crush is still in all the same places, except he is no longer the person who comes up last when I maximize the chat bar (he has ALWAYS been the only one or one of 2 who comes up when I do this). Also he is not as consistent on my MO5, but still there. This could be because he went out of town this weekend, and maybe hasn’t been online. All so confusing, still.

  What is intriguing to me now is that new link that “Guy” posted where you get the list of friends with the numbers (decimals). He is ALWAYS #1 on my list, but the other people on the list change every time I click on it. Like I have said before, I rarely look at his profile, but I did look at it this weekend (for various reasons), but not for long.

  Also, that NFL player I mentioned has become a regular on my MO5, and he keeps moving up on that friend list…..why is that if I haven’t looked at his profile. (well I did once because I wanted to see how many friends we have in common, and we only have 5 in common. I have so many other friends who I have many more friends in common than that, and they aren’t appearing on that list at all). This is still all such a mystery. And so frustrating.

• Right here is something interesting….

  A guy who I’ve chatted to maybe twice, no more than 3 times, the last being over a month ago has suddenly appeared on my chat. He come online last night whilst I was on. I suspect this could be proof that he viewed my profile last night. Why? because he has been on line in the last month when I have been online, but I recently changed my pic and I know he would view it for various reasons and suddenly he is on my chat list??? I didn’t view his profile. He now also comes up top of the search bar with his surname inital, I know for a fact he didn’t yesterday… Recently I thought well convinced myself the search bar was based on who I had viewed. Now again I am not so sure.

  My crush is still constantly on my MO5/10, search bar and he is also now a permanent fixture on my chat too. I have never had any fb interaction except the add with my crush.

• Well the LB10 can hold true for MOST people on my list. However, currently there are two people (regulars) who I have had absolutly NO contact with other than friending them. I even did a “friendship” search and nothing.
  mo5/10 has one partilar person who keeps showing and the only thing I did was friend him & look at his wedding photos about four months ago, I did just recently friend his mother so my guess is he looked at my profile.

  I went through a phase last week where I was a bit “obsessed” with my crush and stalked the hell out of his page, pictures, wall posts, convos with friends in common (yeah, it was pretty john hinkleyish,I stopped when I realized WHAT I was doing was mentally unhealthy!), now I’m on his LB10, where I was not before. I did something stupid (IRL)and now I think our friendship is done(boohoo)I think I’ll be staying away from his FB for a while. We’ll have to wait and see if he shows at all on mine. He’s still on chat and PYMK3,and tagged photos of him come up. I wonder how long it will be before he stops showing up at all. Makes me sad.

• I think I have discovered the mystery
  First of all, as everyone knows, the algorithm keeps changing with regards to LSB10!(I don’t want to talk about the way it changes!)
  BUT, only to understand who is possibly stalking you, you HAVE to write on his/her wall!! even if it is only one time, and even if you wrote on his wall 6 months ago, is enough!..since then, everytime he views you, BINGO!! he appears on your LSB10 (in 48 hrs maybe!)!!..but, if you haven’t written on his wall at all, everytime he stalks you, he doesn’t appear on your LSB10 and he feels like a ninja stalker!!! (TRUST ME!!!),
  and you can test this hypothesis if you like!(no commenting or liking!just write on the wall!) as for MO5, still very very mysterious! you can’t count on that, I think it’s more about the people who were recently online and you had some kind of interactions with them in the past 2 months!(maybe you are on their news feed or something like that!..it’s GOT TO DO something with being online)
  search bar is also another good tool to understand who possibly clicked on you very recently!

  Proof: the last time I wrote on my best friend’s wall was mid-july. she’s not active in facebook and she doesn’t view my profile>>>she doesn’t appear in my sidebar that often…
  on the other hand, Ex: I wrote on his wall in early june>>>he appears at least 4 times a week (everytime 24 hours)
  There is also another hypothesis which is kinda pesimistic; if you stopped public interaction with someone (i.e Ex)a couple of months ago, facebook keeps showing him on your sidebar to torture you and make you contact him again!hehehehe, but we are smart enough not to do that right?:),
  Please comment on my idea and test it if you like.
  My first idea specifically works for those who are very confused why Ex stills appear on the sidebar while all kinds of interactions stopped very long time ago!!!so, if you have a crush and you have never written on his wall, he won’t show on your LSB10, even if he’s stalking you alot! (try it, try it, try it :P) …
  P.S I agree about this happy bday crap, if you don’t care about someone that much, don’t say happy bday on her wall! esp, if you are generally not interacting with very many people in facebook!

• I totally agree with ‘hey’above. the people i said happy birthday to months ago still appear in my LSB10! some are even in my chat list. I guess this is because I interact with very few people so those are the last I’ve interacted with. I think it’s also to do with them ‘liking’ or commenting back on your happy birthday comment!

  What I’m really curious about is why there are two mouseovers, one over your own picture then another on your own name. It is always the same bunch of people just rotating but different in each mouseover. What I have noticed recently is sometime my crush appears in both mouseovers at the same time! The same as my ex sometimes too…. Obviously I would want this to mean that my crush has just viewed my profile haha but who knows.

• PleaseeeeeeeEEEEEE someone answer me!I have put strict limitations to myself regarding viewing some guy’s profile, such that I just view his profile every 40 days or something. no tagged photos, no public interaction, no commenting on eachother’s status (we used to just abit!and that only little bit stopped a couple of months ago). yet he appears in my LSB10 every other day or every 2days or something, he’s also in my chatbar all the time. so, I want to know if me viewing his profile every 40-50 days, make him pop up in my LSB 10 this much?! I don’t care if he stalks me or not (ok, makes me happy!)but for now, i just like to know if his showing up in my LSB10 is “my fault” or not?! if it is, then I should elongate my visits even more! (becuase it’s just kinda embarressing for me if people think I stalk him!), so, is this my fault or his?! or its not related to profile views at all!!!..omg!I’m going crazy now!someone answers me for God’s sake

• it’s so irritiating..the one that I like to appear in my LSB10, only appears every 2 or 3 days, but those stupid ppl that I just wrote “happy birthday ” on their wall a month ago keep showing up every day!so, if you don’t want someone to show up on your LSB10 don’t say happy birthday to them!they’re gonna stick on your sidebar forever!!!!!

• @Anonymous [QUOTE=Anonymous]

  By any chance has that friend of yours ever “liked” or commented on any of your albums/photos/wallposts? No matter how long ago it is??

  Nope, he’s never “liked” anything I posted, no interactions at all…

  Some more observations:

  The LSB10 will rotate partially based on photos you’re tagged in together. My boss and I were tagged in a pic together and I couldn’t understand why he kept coming up on this list since he never logs into fb. Now I see the trend.

  Also, people seem to come up on the “random” grid in the Friends display based on “likes.” The more I “liked” someone’s statuses, photos, etc., the higher they ranked in the grid.

• For me the top 10 friends are usually people who are on facebook all the time and are always the ones in the “chat” list on the right hand side of the page (whether they are active mode or inactive).

• it can’t be interactions my bf has been at bootcamp for two months, so no computer, yet the same people keep showing up on his friends list including his ex.

• My crush shows up in my chat side bar thing when I minimize out although we’ve only had like 2 public interactions and they were months ago. I’ve barely looked at his profile in the past 2 months. Does this mean he’s looking at mine or?

• It is quite the mystery. I also have the same group of people appearing. Some of these are people I have interacted with, visited their wall and I am sure they have visited mine as well. But others show up whilst I have never ever talked to ’em on Facebook. I never look at their page, and I can’t see them checking mine.

  What bugs me is that my ex is very often in or even on top of the list even though I have not interacted with her for about three months. Also I have deleted all our former interactions, all of my posts to her wall, all of her posts to my wall, all private messages and all the photos we were tagged in. And I have completely stopped visiting her page for a while now. I have even blocked her from my news feed. So why is she still popping up all the time? You can’t help but thinking she’s checking up on you…

• @Anonymous [QUOTE=Anonymous]I also experimented by visiting a friend’s (who I know prob never visits my page). I refreshed about 10 x’s and I began appearing in his LSB10. I disappeared the next day.[/QUOTE]

  By any chance has that friend of yours ever “liked” or commented on any of your albums/photos/wallposts? No matter how long ago it is??

• Has anyone checked profile analysis application on facebook? It gives out names who may be checking on your profile. My best guess is that it only shows people who have just logged in.
  The stalker algorythm shows data 48 hours past.

• For me, I know some profiles I never visit show up in my chat list because I exchanged some PMs with them.

• I also think LSB10/Chat List is partially who’s looking at you.

  My best friend’s husband constantly shows up on both lists even though I have never (not even once) viewed his profile. I see them all the time & I only really look at people who I don’t see very often.

  When I’m at their house, sometimes he leaves his fb open & my friend will look at profiles from his account, so I’m pretty sure this is the reason he shows up, so it has to be partially who’s looking at you.

  Don’t know if it’s just wishful thinking, but I also deleted my crush from fb to try to forget about him since he lives far away. I heard from a mutual friend he’s upset about it & now all of a sudden one of his best friends is coming up on my chat list (when I minimize the screen he’s always in the top 5, along with my close friends and family members). Could he be logging in from his friend’s account?

  I also experimented by visiting a friend’s (who I know prob never visits my page). I refereshed about 10 x’s and I began appearing in his LSB10. I disappeared the next day.

• @Sarah, I have to agree. LSB10 are people who you visit and have had interaction with (of any kind: private and/or public). MO5/MO10, PYMK3, and “Suggest tags in pictures of you to friends” is definitely more about who visits you.

  @Guy, I don’t mean to make your contribution sound trite, but I seriously fail to see the significance of the above link. I KNOW who I stalk! LOL! What we need is a similar tool that provides a list of people who stalk us. Don’t you think? ;)

• Okay I’ve been reading everyone’s comments but I find the whole thing strange…because I’ve been stalking my crush almost on an alternative basis and yet I do not appear on his LSB10 but he appears on mine. although almost everyone on my list are people whose pics and comments I’ve “liked”, even if it was a very long time ago (yes, even my crush’s, but the strange thing is that that was almost two months ago!) even if I do not check their profiles or walls. Their wall posts and updated albums appear on my News feed so I just directly “like” without ever visiting their profiles. Although my crush consistently appears on my LSB10, I do not appear on his. So I do think that the LSB10 has to do with no only who YOU stalk/visit but also has to do with whose pics, wall posts and comments YOU have “liked”, even if it was a very long time ago.

• Okay I’ve been reading everyone’s comments but I find the whole thing strange…because I’ve been stalking my crush almost on an alternative basis and yet I do not appear on his LSB10 but he appears on mine. although almost everyone on my list are people whose pics and comments I’ve “liked”, even if it was a very long time ago (yes, even my crush’s, but the strange thing is that that was almost two months ago!) even if I do not check their profiles or walls. Their wall posts and updated albums appear on my News feed so I just directly “like” without ever visiting their profiles. Although my crush consistently appears on my LSB10, I do not appear on his. So I do think that the LSB10 has to do with no only who YOU stalk/visit but also has to do with whose pics, wall posts and comments YOU have “liked”, even if it was a very long time ago.

• @Ela: You do not need to have tagged photos with other users for them to show up in the “People Who Will Miss You” list, this much I know for sure. Have you ever like button’d anything on Anna’s page, left a comment, or posted to her wall (and vice-versa)? I think you’re in a unique position with such a long-standing fake profile to draw information from.

  Regarding your Ryan account, try clicking the like button on one of your old photos and leaving a comment on your real profile. When I ran a similar test to yours, my fake-stalker didn’t start showing up on any of my lists until the fake-profile interacted with my real-profile a few times. Perhaps Facebook changed up their algorithm, but it would be interesting to see if your results change with a tweak or two.

  @Cher: To explain the number system, a higher (negative) number measures the amount of interaction on YOUR part with the person listed. This means chatting, messages, profile views, like buttons, album views, searches, etc. According to a verified Facebook engineer, the numbers are a measurement of who you are interacting with. As I’ve said, there are a lot of skeptics with this explanation, myself included.

  It would help to know the numbers everyone else is seeing. For me the list goes from 157 (someone I purposefully stalked to see if they would show up – they did), to 59 (someone I interact with quite a bit, but do not stalk), to two high 40’s. Everyone else on my list is below 15. I can’t say conclusively if it’s measuring my one-way traffic or if it’s also considering mutual ‘stalking’.

• my friend made a facebook 2 weeks ago and i know she clicks on my profile
  now shes showing only on my PYMK3

• hmm ok so it looks like the list updates once every evening. my crush dropped down in ranking (from #2 to #7) and way down in decimal number today… somewhat of a relief. It was horrifying to see him at #2 of the ppl I supposedly stalk when i’ve worked so hard to refrain from looking at any of his stuff over the last year and a half. Mostly everyone’s decimals went down slightly from yesterday which is expected i guess becuz i haven’t clicked on anyone’s profile in the last 24 hrs. Anna’s went up slightly from 3.6 to 3.9…
  I’m wondering if there is a delay to this list however. Like if the data is from your activity several days ago or if it’s from your activity in the last 24hrs or if it IS data about the amount of recent mutual activity between you and the other person? becuz some of the ppl who jumped up don’t make sense to me based solely on my activity in the last 24hrs …but i can’t be positive that i didn’t look at their profiles say three days ago and maybe that’s why their decimal# jumped way up, or if it’s bcuz they looked at my profile, or if it’s bcuz we’ve both looked recently checked each other out. I’ll do more tests over the next week with my three fake profiles to see if I can manipulate these numbers.

• if u go to game requests, the people displayed in the who plays it r in the same order as the list
  o,o

• the list could be mutual stalking

• ooops, I meant my crush is still #1 on my first post, not #41. lol

• And one more thing…….I am “friends” with a NFL player in my area. (HOT guy). He is appearing 10th on the list, and he was there yesterday as well. I have only looked at his profile once when he accepted my request (I didnt search for him….I saw him on my wall when another friend became friends with him, so I clicked on add as friend. Could HE have looked at my profile??

  Also, I looked at that list again. The top 10-15 are those who I KNOW look at my profile and pics and usually comment. The only one I don’t know about is the crush. And again, I look at other profiles WAYYYYYYY more than I look at his. hmmmmmm.

• Interesting ela! I am thinking the list is mutual stalking, however, when I checked again today, my crush is still #41, although his # decimal thing went down (I don’t get what those numbers mean). He is no longer on my side chat list, but is appearing everywhere else.
  @guy: My crush (who is #1 on that list, and if I look at the decimal #, he is WAY higher than even #2.) I hardly EVER look at his profile. EVER. I refrain from doing it because I am nervous. Also, we have NO mutual friends, and we are not tagged in any pics, and never have any public interaction. We have only shared several pm’s. What do you make of that?

  Now for those of you checking that list, do you see yourself on the list? I am #2 today. What does that mean? I know I check my own profile constantly (refreshing). So does crush view me more than I view myself?? OMG…….this is all driving me crazy!

• LOL forget it, I ran it in firefox and worked perfectly! And I dragged the image instead of the text.
  Found it very interesting I would say I stalk more my crush, he’s number 6. i’ll analyze this list and post my findings soon!!

• I need help with the stalkee list posted above. I did everything it says and i can’t get it to work, i click on it and nothing!! I’ve tested it with safari and chrome, on mac and pc. How did you got it to work??!!

• i do want to clarify though, i’m certain these lists will not reveal stalkers who you who you have only few mutual friends with. I made another fake profile called Ryan about three months ago and I onesidedly stalk myself using it as much as i stalk myself using Anna. However, i have not been able to get Ryan to show up anywhere on any of the lists no matter how hard I try. The only difference between Ryan and Anna is that Ryan only has one friend (me) whereas Anna and I have 37 mutual friends. So you should note that there definitely could be ppl excessively stalking you who never appear on any of these lists.

• oh if I minimize the chat screen, I get 37 ppl coming up instead of my standard 21. Anna is on that list of 37 so it definitely seems like she’s a permanent in that chatlist pool. This confirms that I have at least one person who onesidedly stalks me in that pool and that the chatlist/ other lists do/did have the capability of showing stalkers. One-sided page viewing is definitely a factor in these algorithms.

• @GUY- On my gridlist Anna after 20 refreshes always comes up between rows 35-40 (or about 210-240 people down). I have 575 friends and I don’t recall ever seeing her anywhere near the top in the past either. My grid appears to be pretty randomly organized given that there are ppl in my LSB10 ect wayy down at the bottom of the grid. The first 2 rows seem less random bcuz everyone there has appeared in my LSB10 at one time or another. but beyond that, it seems pretty random.

  Anna does not appear in my “who will miss you” thing because I’m not tagged in any photos with her.

  However, up until about a month ago, anna used to be a regular permanent fixture on “suggest photos of..” (not anymore)… MO10(not anymore).. MFYHP4 (gone)… previous status updates/ friends photo albums (not anymore)… never on LSB10…. never at top of research bar… I can’t recall her being on PYMK3..

  I can’t think of what else there is. but as far as our interaction goes, we’ve been fb friends for almost 2 yrs, never publicly interacted, have 37 mutual friends, no tagged photos, and I virtually never look at Anna’s prof using my real one, Anna looks through my real prof/ albums/ friends several times a day (I started using Anna to stalk myself almost two years ago.) and finally, Anna and my real prof have a few (maybe 5) pm’s back and forth from a few months ago but that was after she began showing up everywhere. Currently, it seems like she’s just showing up on the offline chatlist and actually, after I posted those comments yesterday, my chatlist shifted around a bit and she disappeared but i think it refreshes using the same pool of 30 ppl or so daily so I’m feel confident she’ll be back later today.

  In summary, in my observations, a month ago, at least some of the ppl on MFYHP, MO10, suggest photos of me to friends, previous statuses/ friends photo albums and the chatlist were likely ppl who onesidedly stalk your prof without them commenting or liking anything and without you viewing theirs. I’m not sure about now though bcuz Anna has recently disappeared from being permanent off a lot of those lists but she’s definitely on my chatlist fairly regularly at the moment.

  I stand by my theory that many ppl on the current lists are probably those who you share the greatest degree of mutual stalking with overtime, even if you do not stalk them now.

• @Ela, I’m curious. Check your friends list using the “grid” view. Where does Anna appear on there on average after ten refreshes? Also, go to the “deactivate account” screen that shows you the five people who will miss you if you leave Facebook: refresh that a bunch of times and measure how times Anna shows up there as well. I’m curious how Anna measures up on both of those.

• @Ela: the stalker algorithm is not limited to page views alone. It’s a formula weighted towards ANY recent interaction on your part (album viewing, profile clicking, wall posting, etc) but it also takes into account your all time “stalking”.

  @Cher: Two things. (1) I can’t remember if it said so in the article or somewhere in the comment section, but mutual friends are given some consideration in the score. (2) To remove the graphic you simply need to refresh the page and it will disappear.

  And for the record, one of the Facebook engineers did confirm that the script is legitimate (and that it is who YOU stalk) on one of the websites in the comment section. I want to say CNET but I can’t say for sure. Whether or not you / we believe him is another story.

• ok, last post from me you guys! I’m so so sorry! But I took a screen shot of the first 30 ppl on my stalkee list, then left and went to the gym for about 2 hours and came back and checked the list again. The list and the numbers changed slightly for some ppl and quite drastically for others in just the two hours that I was away!! some of my friends got slightly higher numbers in the two hour period and moved up the list. many of these were friends whose profiles i have not checked today but they were ppl who were online in the last 2 hrs and were waiting for my response on a group message, so they would have reason to check my page. Also, before i left, i went on my best friend’s page who is ranked #1 on my list and went through several of her albums and refreshed her profile about 20 times but her decimal number didn’t move at all. Yet one girl shot from not even being in the top 30 to being #12 in 2 hours and i swear that i did not check her profile today at all!…. however, i also checked my real prof a lot with my fake profile today and the decimal number for my fake prof didn’t change at all so i’m not sure what to make of these changing rankings and changing decimal numbers? There’s got to be something changing the numbers around right? What do you guys think?

• I also want to add that my fake prof Anna was permanent in my MFYHP4 when that was working as well as MO5, and previous statuses. However, within the last few weeks, she dropped out of MO5, PYMK3 was never in the friends sidebar and she’s always at the very bottom of the research bar if she’s there at all. I still use anna to stalk my real prof several times a day however… like i said if that stalkee list is correct, my real profile stalks anna 3.6 times for every 105.9 times that she stalks me … which seems quite accurate since i’m the one controlling both profiles…
  haha I’m so confused. but i’m certain there is/was definitely some degree of one-sidedness in most of these lists at one point or another. None of this is too helpful because it’s almost impossible to pinpoint who stalks you and who you stalk or mutually stalk? It’s possible, after seeing my crush #2 on that list, that maybe i did stalk my crush more than i thought i did back when we first became fb friends (a year and a half ago around the same time that i became fb friends w Anna). However, i’ve been giving my crush the cold shoulder for the last 4 months of summer vacay ignoring his texts and such. I just got back to school a week ago, and in the last week he’s been almost begging me (in person and thru text) to hang out with him and why haven’t i called him, yada yada. I know it sounds childish but he confuses me. I can’t be sure if he does this to all the girls he knows and can’t figure out if he care less or more than he pretends like he does. at the very least I would not be surprised if his hurt ego and my recent continual rejection/ disinterest has lead him to check up on my profile. I honestly feel like a lot of the list is mutual to some degree but I can’t know for sure though and of course it’s possible it’s all just wishful thinking.
  The only thing I know for sure right now is that there are definitely some ppl like Anna who are one-sidedly stalking you on these lists. It’s just frustrating not being able to pinpoint who and exactly which way the interaction is going or if it’s mutual. and of course it’s frustrating that my crush appears everywhere that anna appears but yet apparently, he’s #2 on my stalkee list and she’s #80 (despite only looking at his prof at most once a week while i’ve looked at other ppl’s several times a day for the last four years and they’re below him) …. I don’t get it =(

• Well, former flirtbuddy is a habitual deactivator and activator. He has recently been deactivated, so clearly I could not look at his profile and had resisted looking at his profile when he was still activated – less that one click a month. When I was on my profile yesterday, there he was activated and in the LSB10. I’m sure he was looking at my page because the friend he uses to post through referenced a bunch of my posts later. Now he is deactivated again.

• WOW guys.. that link to the list that guy posted is REALLY interesting. At first, i was somewhat saddened becuz it looks like this list is more or less true and i was horrified to see that my crush was #2 on my ppl I stalk the most list right under my best friend. (I haven’t looked at his prof much in the last year in a half so i expected that he’d be way further down on my stalkee list. maybe i looked to much in the beggining?)

  However, then I started comparing my stalkee list to the 21 ppl permanently on my chat list and realized that there are definitely some ppl there who are WAYYY down on my stalkee list. I think I have concrete evidence that some of the ppl on the chat list are definitely ppl who view your profile.

  I say this becuz i have four diffent facebook profiles that i run solely for the purpose of figuring this out. One is a fake profile named “Anna” of myself that i have about 40 friends on and i use it to check my real profile excessively. I almost never check my fake profile with my real profile and this is confirmed by the fact that my new stalkee list puts ann at #80 of the ppl who i view the most. So why is “Anna” permanently one of the 21 ppl my chat list? The only reason cold be because i stalk myself excessively w that profile. Now I logged onto Anna’s profile and checked her own stalkee list which confirmed that i stalk my real profile excessively given that my real prof was at the #1 slot and number next to my real profiles name was 105.8 (indicating that Anna stalks me way too much becuz everyone else on Anna’s list was below 5.2 haha)… So i logged back onto my real profile, found Anna at #80 of ppl i stalk, and found the number next to Anna’s name was 3.6 confirming that my real profile almost never looks at anna’a page. Doing the math, anna stalks my page almost THIRTY times more than I stalk anna’s page!!!! The ONLY reason for Anna to show up permanently on my chat list is becuz she stalks my page excessively becuz anna and I have virtually no other interaction, no likes, no comments and given the numbers on both stalkee lists, it’s clear that the page viewing is one-sided.

  I also want to add that there are multiple other ppl far down on my stalkee list who appear in my Chat21 including a #93 who i never look at but i’m almost certain she checks up on me a lot becuz sadly she’s not a very social person and i’ve been one of her only friends for the last 10 years.

  Also, out of the top 20 of ppl who i supposedly stalk the most, TEN do not appear on my Chat21 list so if the stalkee list truely is legitimate, than the chat list is definitely not all ppl you stalk the most. I’m leaning towards those you one-sidedly view the most, those who one-sidedly view you the most, and those who you have the most mutual views with?

  I’m going to do a lot more tests with this new tool at my disposal becuz i’m actually not convinced that the new stalkee list is completely one-sidedly who i’ve viewed/ interacted with the most. a big part of me thinks that maybe it is organized by recent or mutual views because like i said, i’ve put severe limitations on how often i look at my crush’s profile in the last year and a half, but i did look the other day for the first time in about two weeks but i honestly don’t believe he could be #2 based on my interaction alone… even when we first bcame facebook friends, i was paranoid that he’d somehow be able to tell if i looked at his profile so i didn’t allow myself to look at it to a stalkerish degree. There are definitely ppl i’ve look at infinitely more often than him. I’m leaning towards the number of mutual views over time or recently. Also, one of my aunts is high up on my stalkee list (#10). I never look at her prof cuz there’s never anything interesting to see (my college friends are obviously way more interesting to stalk) however, she commented on one of my photos about 3 days ago and i looked at her profile and one of her albums briefly. this is why i think maybe this new list is recent mutual views or album viewing?

  Check it out guys, let me know if your theories coincide with mine! But the one thing that i am 100% certain of based off of my fake prof Anna is that the chat21 definitely consists of ppl who one-sidedly view your profile.

  sry for the huge post!

  • i clicked on this strangers profile a few weeks ago, and he didnt show up on the list when i ctrl+F
    O.O

• @ Guy: I got the list and it confirmed what I already suspected; my crushes were #2 and #3. I’m dating #2 and have had minimal recent contact on facebook (or in real life) with #3. Both show up on MO5, PYMK3, tag suggestions, and chat. The one I’m dating shows up on LSB10 a few days a week, the other rarely, if ever, appears there. I think its obvious; Facebook wants to keep us online, so it shows us exactly who it has calculated we want to see. Sure, random people who click on our profile because we were suggested as a person they may know show up as well, but my guess is that everyone’s “crush” keeps appearing everywhere on their page because of their own actions – not mutual stalking. I imagine if we saw many of the people who were really stalking us, we’d probably be creeped out and log on to the website less often.

• @ guy: I tried that link, and got the list. That is really strange. It brought up everyone who ever appears in my search bar when I type any certain letter. What I found odd was, my crush came up #1 with the highest number by far next to his name. Now they say that this is who YOU are looking for, but it doesn’t make sense, because a lot of the people on my list I have NEVER searched for, nor do I view their profiles. I even came up on the list about 10 people down. I haven’t searched or stalked myself, unless viewing my own profile puts me up there??

  I am wondering if that list is who is looking at you the most. That would make the most sense to me after seeing who is on that list. Now some people came up who are not even my “friends” on FB. But they are people I looked for previously. Very interesting. But I couldn’t get it off my screen, so I had to delete the app.

• @ guy: I tried that link, and got the list. That is really strange. It brought up everyone who ever appears in my search bar when I type any certain letter. What I found odd was, my crush came up #1 with the highest number by far next to his name. Now they say that this is who YOU are looking for, but it doesn’t make sense, because a lot of the people on my list I have NEVER searched for, nor do I view their profiles. I even came up on the list about 10 people down. I haven’t searched or stalked myself, unless viewing my own profile puts me up there??

  I am wondering if that list is who is looking at you the most. That would make the most sense to me after seeing who is on that list. Now some people came up who are not even my “friends” on FB. But they are people I looked for previously. Very interesting. But I couldn’t get it off my screen, so I had to delete the app.

• Bee: did you visit your ex profile regularly?

  I’m still figuring out if it has to do with people visiting your profile or the other way round… there’s a guy who crushes me and i’m always on his list. and i start to think that the list actually shows who YOU visit most. does that make sense?

• okay so my bestfriened and i interact on facebook alot and have had activities going on for months on fb but she barely pops up on my fb list when i go to my profile. and i dont think she stalks me either but how come my ex ALWAYS pops up everytime i refresh the page? does that mean he stalks me?

• I almost read the whole thread becoz i want to find out the answer so much!

  My crush keeps popping up on my list no matter how many times I refresh the page! I start to believe that he has a crush on me at the same time???! COZ I DID THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENT <3

  I tried stalking a friend who doesn’t like me (so I am sure he won’t view my profile). then after a period of time I appeared on HIS list! Facebook defy shows the people who view your profile the most in that column! that’s my conclusion (and WHAT I HOPE!) XD

• @quinn

  her death was very sudden&unexpected so i doubt she had given it out before

  also i thought of that too but i don’t think its possible that someone is logging in her fb and looking at mine over and over

  that would be really creepy if true heh

• I agree with this completely. after 10 refreshes, ZERO new faces. Just the same people in a different order. most of them I do not talk to frequently, but often like or comment on my status’. I do not have a problem with any of these people viewing my things, and quite frankly I found it very interesting figuring this out. The people may vary slightly from day to day but are ultimately consistant. Very interesting. I am glad I am not the only crazy person who had wondered about this lol

• i stalk the crap outta her page because i miss her and she obviously isnt viewing mine…

  are you sure? Think about it. She can’t log in. But it’s possible someone can. If she knew before she died that her days were numbered, she likely gave her login to someone she trusts.

  I’m sorry to hear about your friend.

• I haven’t seen this posted, but I just ran a script featured on Mashable that exposes who YOU are stalking. There are quite a few skeptics in the comment section who claim to have no contact with some of the people on the list. Maybe one of you can help make sense of this. (http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/secret-facebook-stalking-list/)

• I agree with the others Smudge. Those who are on my MO5 DO look at my pictures and my profile….the majority of them, I know for a fact. Those who I DON’T know, well I am guessing they look at my stuff, but don’t say anything (including the crush). I don’t look at any of the profiles EVER of those who are on my MO5. Maybe 1 or 2 of them once or twice, but I hardly view others’ profiles anyway.

  I am mostly interested in zooming in on your page and seeing who is left when you click on the chat button. EVERY SINGLE LAST TIME, it is my crush and one other person who I KNOW looks at my pictures all the time. She is always the first one to comment on my pics within minutes of me posting them. So I have to conclude that my crush looks at my pics all the time, but just stays quiet about it.

• @ John… RE: MO5… I have to agree with you.
  I also think it has to do with that person’s specific activities… Meaning – while they may not be on FB all the time, when they are, they come check you out. I’ve fished some of my friends over the phone for some info over the last 3 weeks. As well as using my best friend (who I live with) as a gauge…
  And MO5’ing our names with each other is interesting as well… We have approximately 100 mutual friends… The 20 who show up between us pretty much do have a reason to check our pages…

  MFYHP is still missing for me.

  The “Friends Using Application” thing is interesting… I’ve noticed it will change once in a while in order of pictures depending on how often someone’s been on my page – when they’ve been on… Maybe, ranking them in order of stalkee… They are the same as my MO5, and while I’m close friends with most, some of them I never – or hardly go to their pages…

• @Smudge: It is not one way traffic. You can check this very easily. Start to visit regularly a friend’s profile, posts, pictures etc which is not on your MO5 list and see if he will appear in MO5 list after a period of time.

• I have made an experiment. I asked a friend to click everyday on my profile, posts, pictures, etc. He was not on my MO5 list. After three or four weeks he appeared in my MO5 list. That’s why I think that MO5 list shows the top 20 friends that visit your profile the most.

• can someone please tell me about the fb chat list?why is some ppl showing up while they are not online.does it mean they are online and not logged on chat ?

• It’s one way traffic folks… it’s who we look at the most, and not the other way around. Sorry to disappoint all you analytic s.

  • Sorry but that’s completely wrong. I’ve been looking at someones page everyday for a few weeks now and they haven’t shown up at all

• I think the facebook people are bullshitting. Because the person I interact with the most (facebook messaging, visiting her page, constantly writing on each others walls) is my best friend and she has NEVER showed up on my top

• How about PREVIOUS STATUS’ and SUGGESTED PHOTOS?

  Those always same to be the EXACT same group of 4-5 people for me……..

• “According to their statement – it is organised according to who you have had the most public interaction with in the past month and a half. “

  BULLSHIT. Like you, I also notice the EXACT same 20 people showing up in rotation and while most of them i interact with, there are several i DO NOT interact with. Nor do we share much in common (we may share 1 mutual friend or even 0. We don’t like the same things etc)

  Here is something else interesting..

  So there is one guy who keeps showing up in my hovercard. I don’t want to take this to high school but i have a huge crush on him. We don’t interact mainly because he doesn’t like to post anything on facebook. So i thought “what’s the likelihood that he’s looking at my page a lot?” So i did the reverse experiment. I started looking at HIS page a lot. I mean A LOT. I made a point of clicking on it two or three times a day. And suddenly he was ALWAYS on my hovercard. Which strongly suggests they’re tracking MY clicks in relation to my own card. I stopped doing this and went back to ignoring him and he went back to showing up on the hovercard about as much as he did before.

  Now consider this too. He always shows up on my hover card at certain times of the day. The same times of day he’s most likely to be home and online.

  I sound like a huge stalker right now but that wasn’t why i did this. I wanted to honestly know why on earth these certain people are showing up over and over again (and not only over and over again but at certain times of day) when i have NOTHING, facebook-wise, to do with them.

  Anyway.. i’m glad i’m not the only one who’s noticed this. And if facebook took the time to tell you personally that this is unequivocally NOT HAPPENING then chances are, it is.

  My question is why. Is facebook some kind of giant sandbox for click-monitoring? How many other sites are doing this?

  The reason i mention that i have a crush on the man who keeps showing up is because it is also important to consider that, because i like him so much, it may just be a scenario of “give a guy a hammer and all he can see are nails” and it’s equally possible that i’m seeing what i want to see. But i’ve done the math (literally.) it doesn’t make sense otherwise.

• That cant be true the thing about most recently public whatever. because some of the people on there I havent talked to EVER. AT ALL and they’re there.

  • it changed last week
    =[

• here is just something random I noticed. Before I post something on my status I check the MO5/10. Then after I post status & refresh page, this one guy always shows up on the MO5/10 in both places (the picture MO and the name MO). If I don’t check FB for a while, and then come back, he’s usually gone. If I post something new, bingo…there he is again! Could it be that they have me listed on their “receive status updates from” under the mobile section? Meaning I am one of the people they choose to receive my status updates from? I was thinking about this and quickly removed myself from wanting to see crush’s status, just in case! lol

• I think Mumbly joe is on the right tracks about 15 posts back, there are 2 or 3 different LB10 algorithms which are cycling every 1-2 weeks maybe. Thats why half the people here are going crazy.

  Also I believe that your stalker will only show up on their own LB10 if they are viewing your profile. As for them showing up on yours, it will be through you viewing them. I definatley think theres something more to the LB10 than just ‘random’ because your last interaction might of been months ago but your crush still shows up.

  I cant figure out the M05 though as that does seem to be more random. Nothing to do with profile views or interactions in my opinion

• my friend died back in april and shes on my lsb10 and mo5

  i stalk the crap outta her page because i miss her and she obviously isnt viewing mine…

• i was refreshing my PYMK3 and my crush showed up 7 times in a row
  O_O

• @iksaf: lol, *I* did the same EXACT thing! Picked one random person on my list and literally STALED/CREEPED on their page/pictures/infor for a week, maybe two weeks…and I got nothing. No LB10, PYMK3, chat, MO5/10. Buuutttt..I am now on THEIR LB10!

  What’s up with that?

  • I haven’t even been on their LSB10! I’m going to continue just to see what happens.. hahah

    • i think formula changed

• WEIRD, my crush is on my sidebar now too. I swear, facebook stalks my life! Also, I’ve been “stalking” someone to see if they’d show up in my LSB10 or MO5 and they haven’t. It’s been a few weeks. Convinced that MO5 is who looks at your profile and LSB10 is who you have had some interaction with (even small)

• Maybe at one point facebook did figure in profile views. But I don’t think that’s the case now. I know for a fact that more than half the people listed in my top ten haven’t logged on/looked at my profile in 6 months or more. I think a lot of it now it just wishful thinking on your parts.

• you know what else….I looked closely at the “new”/”old” chat sidebar again. Of those that are showing there, only 1 is available to chat. The others are those who I KNOW have looked at my pictures, even if it was 3 months ago or a week ago. So does that mean crush is looking at my pictures?? :)

• @ ot: I don’t view any of the profiles of those who are consistently on my list, so that cannot be true. I may have clicked on something they wrote or a pic they posted once or twice, but never regularly view anyone’s profile (esp my crush). So it is not whose profile you are viewing. In fact, there are a couple profiles I do go to (to pm them, as they are close friends or family members) and they don’t show up on my MO5, PYMK3, LSB10, ect.

  My crush is back on the sidebar as well. WTH?? I know he was on FB today, but he doesn’t list himself as available to chat. I am “friends” with a semi-celebrity. I had pm’ed her awhile ago (and of course she didn’t reply). But today she posted quite a few things on her wall (she rarely ever posts). Well, today she is showing on my chat bar, and she is not available to chat. Hmmmm. Could they show up there when they have recently been on FB?

  Blahblah, I viewed my own profile from my brother’s and my friend’s account. The people on LSB10 were the exact same people I always see. But others don’t see who WE see when we look at MO5, chat bar or PYMK3, or the search bar.

• come on! you see the people whose profile you’re looking most. People that you stalk are at the same time the ones that you wish to be stalked by. And you all say that these 15(or some of them) people are stalkers of you. Now stop refreshing your profile and think about how many times you look profiles of these 15 people per day.

• I had the same 10 people arranged differently every single time I refreshed. Three of which were and ex boyfriend and his two brothers, who I haven’t seen or spoken to in a year! They live in Ireland, and I am in Boston, there is no way it has to do with social interactions.

• Congrats !!! I really had to smile. Question, is there a group of us on FB? I would like to join!!!

• I don’t get it.
  The people I have more interaction with, and that visit my profile the most are not in this ‘random’ list, because they’re listed as my family.
  And then, in this random list are people that I know personally, but I doubt they check my profile.

  I checked some of their lists, and I’m in one of these girls’ list, and I’ve never checked her profile. All I’ve done is send her an inbox text. Now that’s creepy.

  And then I checked this boy’s list, and I wasn’t there, even though I go to his profile EVERY DAY.
  After finding out I wasn’t there I relaxed a bit.

  But then I thought that maybe we see a list of people, and our friends see a completely different list…

  Finally, there’s this list on the right hand side, the one that came with the new chat. And I can’t understand this one either.
  Now, out of 15 people, all my closest friends, listed as my family, are there, but this random girl in the ‘random’ list is there, and the boy I stalk too.

  I don’t know if you can understand what I’ve said…

  • ikr i visit this guys profile a lot but i never show up

• I don’t know why a lot of you haven’t realised this yet, but the algorhythm’s are changing fairly regularily now to keep people guessing.

  As far as I can tell, there may be more, I think there are:

  >The mixture of half of the people you view the most and half the people who view you.

  >The cycle through your top interactions over the last 6 months (so perhaps 30 people).

  >A list of people who are viewing your profile most often with just 1 or 2 randoms thrown in.

  These are all for the LS10 people.

  I’m pretty sure that it changed to the cycle through about 30 people, so you see these people at least once every three days at the start of August as was noted above by comments and my own observations.

  And I’m pretty sure it changed yesterday to something else, although I haven’t figured out what yet.

• my crush back on my chat bar too. wth!?! this is so weird. I’m convinced FaceBk can read our minds bcuz how can it know who we are all crushing on and put them back on the chat bar at the exact same time? This is driving me crazy! I haven’t looked at this guy’s profile in weeks and for the last 4-5 days, he slipped down to #3 on my search bar but today he popped back up to the top without me having any interaction with him what so ever… my best friend has the same first initial as him and i’ve definitely looked at her profile infinitely more (at least daily), interact with her infinitely more privately/ publicly, we’re tagged in photos together, have a million mutual friends.. ect ect yet she’s always below him on my search bar?? My crush and I have ZERO fb interaction except for a few private messages every so often, the last one was over four months ago. Normally, we text and when we’re at school together during the semester, I get a text from him every few weeks consistently to hang out. Ive been on summer break for the last four months so I havn’t gotten a txt from him in about a month in a half (I completely ignored that last text in an attempt to deflate his ego)…but i go back up to school in 3 days and i’m sure he knows this, so i’m interested to see how long it will take him to text me once he knows that i’m back. If I get a text from him this weekend, i’m gonna assume that he has probably been waiting for me to come back, meaning that i have liekly been on his mind recently, meaning that he likely has been checking out my profile. and if I hang out w him again, i’m going to discreetly figure out a way to determine once and for all if he’s been checking up on my profile regularly becuz these hints that FB is dropping by plastering him in EVERY corner are driving me completely CRAZY! Either fb is reading my mind or he is checking my page becuz I set severe limitations for myself over a year and a half ago on how often I would let myself check his page so I’m convinced that it can’t be my fault that he shows up everywhere. THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY =(

• @gegfwfw Congrats! Crush back on my chat bar too! YAY!!!

• This is all really really interesting, I’ve been reading this for a while now. I’m starting to think that the MO5 is linked to the number of photo views, rather than profile views. It COULD be mutual photo views, or one-way, or a mixture of both. Not sure. Just putting it out there. :)

• crush back on chat bar
  =D

• Facebook is full of it. Most of the people showing up on my sidebar are people I’ve had little to zero public, much less private interaction with. One of these girls is someone I’ve never even communicated with via Facebook at all. She has consistently shown up throughout the past 2 years though with sometimes a month of not showing. Some of the people I’m certain have viewed my profile or read my comments, but most far from having the most interaction.

  I am also now curious about the 5 that show up when you hover over your own profile pic on your wall – and the other 5 that show up when you hover over your smaller profile pic when you’ve commented back to someone on your page. These are definitely people I’ve interacted with most, though there are still a few “missing”. I wish they could just let us know what this means.

• New Privacy settings coming up guys
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/facebooks-new-privacy-settings_n_934413.html?1314133269#s337268&title=Tag_People_Youre

• I have never had any FB interaction with my crush. Literally the add and that was it. He is always, always on my MO5/10, yet he claims he never goes on FB. I have resisted looking at his profile since I last posted at the begining of Aug, yet still he remains on MO5/10. If he isnt, he is back by one refresh. My chat bar,he is constantly on there. Even though he is never online. The rest of my chat bar are full of people whom I do interact with, as are my LHS friends on profile. He never appears here.

• @anonymous: your theory about the search bar is very interesting!so, you say those that WE search for in the search bar tend to disappear a lot, but those who search for us alot tend to stick there in the search bar forever!I definitly noticed this pattern that when you search the names with some specific initials, the list that comes up is almost always the same!but I’m really not sure about the direction of the views (we visit them or they visit us!)..there is this girl I searched for lasy year!im pretty sure I have not searched for her recently, but she comes up under that specific initial!this means that she viewd me too? (she is not in my friend list).there are the brothers and sisters of “this guy” that come up too, I have to admit I viewd their limited profile a long time ago, not recently, they also not in my friend list!I highly doubt that they have visited me!. I just think that fb has a very good memory in remebering who you were curious about in the past!I don’t know, very mysterious, very confusing!

• anonymousJ: your theory doesn’t work out right. Lets say I have 210 friends. Out of that 210 there are 7 or 8 I interact with on a regular basis(pm/chat/photo view, ect) both ways (they to me, and me to them). Then there are 20 or so who I intereact with maybe on occasion(likes, events, wall posts, ect). That will leave me 182 friends who are just ‘friends’ in name only. Meaning I fb’d them and that was the END of our FB relationship. I have a lot of work colleagues (maybe 100) and college classroom aqauintances(maybe 50) and some family memebers(20+)and the other random people from highschool, previous jobs, neighbors, ect(10 or so).

  So why is it out of 182 people left of NO COMMUNICATION on fb the SAME 10 so people ALWAYS are showing up EVERYWHERE on my FB page?? And this has been for MONTHS and MONTHS now. If fb was truly random wouldn’t it pool from not just the people I interact with or sometimes interact with but ALL the 182 people left on my friends list??

  Now here is something interesting. My sister who NEVER goes on fb, ever, ever has been showing up on my MO5/10. I had tagged her in a couple of photos and sent her a game request recently. She had told me she was looking a my photo albums on fb a few days ago…hmmm, now she is a regular on MO5/10 while I NEVER go on her page since friending her almost 2 1/2 years ago!

• I think many of you want to believe that it is your old crush or that long lost friend but it is just really a list of people that happen to be on your friends list that you once had a fair bit of contact with but the contact is dwindling in comparison or you have never made contact with but happen to be in your friends list – FB wants to encourage you to make contact as that is what keeps it going so they are giving you a nudge or reminder. For example, the person who said they visited a friend’s page regularly but didn’t appear at the top of their list, this is because you have made contact now – go back in a few months and you will see yourself on the left side (but only if there isn’t someone else whose been away longer than you! – Like an ex or something!)

• Every single last time I check the 1st and last initial of my crush, he is ALWAYS at the top of the list. I have noticed that the rest of those who come up are usually the same ones, but they are always in a different order. And this goes for both initials. No matter what, HE is always at the top. Seriously, how can that be????

  This is driving me crazy. But when I check initials of friends who I KNOW viewed my page, they do come up on the top. So this MUST mean he looks at my profile/pictures, right? That is the only conclusion I can come up with as far as the search feature.

  Now I have noticed that if I look for someone using search, they do appear on that list for a little while, but then they drop off. I looked for someone with the same last initial as the crush, and he kept coming up for about a week, but AFTER the crush. HE still remained right on top.

  I wonder sometimes if FB doesn’t somehow figure out who we have a crush on, and do this on purpose so we keep checking and clicking all over the site. Don’t they make more by clicks or something??

• What I find most interesting is that a while back I mentioned I post YouTube videos and is connected to my Facebook. A girl added me to Facebook as she came across me on YouTube. Ever since then, I have noticed this one random friend of hers, someone I never see her talk to. In her photographs, some of them this girl on my list is in. Therefore she’s in the same class as this person I’m guessing or school.

  Anyway, she keeps appearing in the search bar under a specific letter, in fact two specific letters. I was interested as to why this random girl keeps showing up under these two letters. To make it clear, I had never viewed her profile ever, haven’t a clue as to who she is, never viewed her profile before all this and no interaction obviously. Ask yourself this question, do Facebook show you recommendations in your search bar list? No! because it was designed to show you mostly who you’ve either interacted with or who you’ve no doubt viewed.

  Sometimes when you view peoples pages, they show up under the search bar list at the top under specific letters. Like I had two celebrities from a television series show there, but that’s because I viewed both those celebrities pages on Facebook. They eventually disappeared though, fairly quickly. I have mentioned previously that a friend on my list, his friend constantly shows up under two specific letters and is always there. This was someone I had NEVER viewed or interacted with. She’s there constantly, in fact mostly listed as number 1 under a specific letter.

  The people who show under my MO5, even my Left friends side bar on my profile, those are people who seem common to show under this search bar list as well. So there’s definite evidence there that the search bar list is people who you partially view, but those you view, they tend to disappear a lot. The girl I was talking about, who is a friend of that girl that added me from YouTube on Facebook, that random girl showing up, I had been frequently visiting her page interested to who she was. After viewing her page several times, I noticed she started to change her privacy of her photo’s, I also caught a glimpse of something new that showed under her photo’s, a Facebook stalker top list picture, you know the kind I’m talking about.

  The whole thing seems very suspicious to me, that has to be someone who is definitely viewing my profile, what else could that be. These two girls that show under the four specific letters, I had no previous profile views with them or interaction, both of them switched their privacy on Photo’s slightly so that I could only see 8 photo’s of them. The other one, she changes her picture a lot, this doesn’t mean a thing though. I just find it rather strange, because there’s not a chance they are people I’ve interacted with.

  I suggest if you want to know anything, you look through the search bar list. Ask yourself why that random girl that keeps showing up under two specific letters, ask yourself why none of her other friends are placed there. It’s too obvious.

• I feel like it’s possible also that if we stalk someone’s page a lot but don’t have public interaction with them, they will also show up on our friends list. Like…uh there’s one person who is showing up on my 10 friends who I don’t think I’ve had any contact with in ages, if it all, but I check their fb page fairly frequently. I kindddd of doubt they stalk my page much, but I guess it’s possible. However, it seems more likely that it’s showing a person I often creep on. :P The other people on my 10 friends all seem to correlate to people who go on my page and such, but I have also looked on their pages a lot.

• @2018: that def cannot be right because there are two DEAD people in my first 15 on ‘friends in block view’.

  I will say there is sometype of algo to the block view, perhaps like a 1 then skip 2, viewer/poster, 3 then skip 2, viewer/poster, 1 then skip 2, viewer/poster.

  I will say I think in the mo5/10 if they show up in BOTH, they are/were on you’re page.

  crush always, always pm’s me. But the few times he actually posted ON MY WALL, he was on MO 5/10 simultaniously.

• If I go on ‘friends’ and use then the option showing them on blog not the alphabetic order the you can realize something. First, it’s divided in two sections. In my case I have 40 friends, in 15 and 25. The 15 are the first. Then the breach and the other 25 are shown.

  The first 15 come up in the order how they visit my profil. How can I say that. I had some time to check that. If I do something: these people wrote, liked or were there. I know because we where connected by other networks too, like Skype where we spoke. So I could follow if they visit my profil.

  Concerning the other 25 people it’s nearly the same system. But these are people who I do not often interact with me. The order of them shows me who has been the last on my site. That person is No. 16 if you count further after the first 15.

  It sounds crazy but it definitively is working in that way. Maybe I can say that because of my less friends. And the system works different by more than 100 freinds. But for my case, I can say it’s true. Also, it’s not stalking, paranoia or something like that. It’s only my interest in the system. Try to find out by your friend list. It’s fun.

  One last thing. The person who is ‘on’ right now is shown as the first person in your left friends list. So refresh and try all … :)

  • if u refresh the order changes
    explain

  • i do agree with your 2nd theory
    i 4got 2 share with this blog ;p

• It’s been 3 days that my ex has disappeard from that friend’s list side bar! :(.does that mean that he’s stalking me less now?he’s stil on my MO5, although this Mo5 changes everytime I refresh the page. he’s on the chat bar as well although I never appear online on chat.
  P.S, I don’t have the habit of stalking, not for him not for anyone else!
  anyone, any idea??

• It’s been 3 days that my Ex has disappeared from “friend’s list sidebar” :(does that mean that he’s stalking my profile less now?..(still on Mo5, although this Mo5 changes everytime I refresh the page..)and still on the chat bar as well (although I never appear online!!!!!).
  P.S, I don’t have the habit of stalking ppl’s profile! so these lists (chat bar, sidebar, MO5) can’t be ME stalking them!!!anyone any idea???

• instead of games page go to game REQUESTS
  see anything? ;P

• @ kava: yes, I have noticed that the apps screen has changed, and it IS annoying (you hear that FB?? lol) You can take yourself out of that so your name doesn’t show, but it is pointless. I already know which friends use which apps, because they post the stuff all the time! So why do I need to know who used what app, and how long ago??

  Something odd happened to me today. I kept refreshing my screen, trying to get the PYMK3 link to come up. (and it wouldn’t….it only kept bringing up events). The few times it DID come up, it would show me 2 people who “you may know”. When I clicked on “mutual friends” guess who was the only friend we had in common?? My crush. This happened 4 times that I tried it. FOUR! So why not show me some friends of my 300+ other friends? Why just him? hmmmmmmmm.

• Anybody else have on their home page their ‘games’ and ‘apps’ page change? When I used to go to ‘apps’ (even if just to get the MFBYHP, now disabled,to pop up)I would have about 6 people listed at the bottem along with the apps were using. Now it shows a bunch of apps along with horizontal list (like the MO5/10) amd says “these friends have used such-and-such app”. I don’t like this new format at all. Although crush does show as #1 on the few apps he uses, it sucks! My ‘game’ page acessed from the home page also appears like this, hate it!

  Still getting the same 3 or 4 people in ‘tagged photos’ tho, especially when I KNOW a lot more of my friends have been tagged and even the one’s that I tag myself are not showing on the right side ‘tagged photo’.

  I really think FB is monitoring this site…hmmmm

  • game page is still the same for me
    im using chrome 172% zoom

• My crush disappeared from my chat sidebar as well. :( It was so fun enlarging the screen and only seeing him there every single time I tried it. Also, my deceased aunt and my brother disappeared as well. And I know neither of them are on fb (my aunt for obvious reasons) and I know my brother and my crush are both not available to chat. They have been replaced with the same old randoms that are in the LSB10. This irritates me. I also no longer have the MFBYHP5 at the top either.

  He is still on my MO5 and PYMK3 though. But I also know he hasn’t been on FB much lately, if at all.

  Now I spent a lot of time on this. I wrote down ALL of the names that come up ALWAYS on the MO5, and those who come up on the PYMK3. There were 20 names who consistently came up on MO5 and 12 names who came up on PYMK3. I can say that out of those 12 people, there are about 10 of them who I KNOW look at my stuff because they either comment or say something to me in person about my pictures or whatever. So I can only assume that since crush is in PYMK3, that he too visits my page often.

  Only thing is, I think he may have a g/f now, and that is why he hasn’t been active on fb lately. :(

• since all out crushes disappeared from our chat we can conclude he/she stalks us, right? =D

• @Foxy, my crush disappeared from my chat window a few days ago too. He was there for about two weeks like you said. However, he is still first on the research bar and on PYMK3 and M05. but he is there a little less frequently and hasn’t been online much in the last week becuz he’s a football player and I know they’ve been really busy practicing recently becuz the first game is soon. Also, I haven’t updated my wall in about 2 weeks so it’s possible that if he was checking it b4, he is checking less frequently now becuz it prob looks like i haven’t been online in 2 weeks. I should also add that over the past 3-4 months, i’ve only checked his page a few times and we have virtually no fb interaction (just occasional texts, the last one about a month ago i ignored haha) so i wonder if he’s disappearing bcuz i’m checking him less or he’s checking me less. he still never disappears from PYMK3 or MO5 or research bar though and he’s been on my MO5 for as long as i can remember.
  Also about 2 weeks ago, a friend from my university who I know he is aquatinted with posted a messg on my wall and the very nxt day, they became fb friends. They only have a few mutual friends making me think that he was possibly checking up on my profile and friend requested her while he was there. but I am wondering why he disappeared from chat.

• @Geg, my guy was online last night when he knew I would be. Funny thing is I had to use the chat presence link to find out because my new Chat side bar wasn’t listing him at all (either online or off!) :(

• @Geg, Is your Mr. Crush still showing in PYMK3 or MO5? My Mr. Crush is on both of mine. If yours is still on either of those two places you are still in the running. :)

  Has anyone else here experienc a change in their chat window lately? Wondering why Geg and I have ‘lost’ our crushes from our respective Chat windows. :(

  • ya hes still on PYMK3 or MO5
    he doesnt log in as much as b4

  • ya hes still on PYMK3 and MO5
    he doesnt log in as much as b4

• I totally noticed that… so i looked it up on yahoo answers and it said that it was who you click on the most often. but on closer inspection i relized that was bullshit. because like you said theres alot more people i fb creep on more often than the ones on the list. i dont have a problem with being able to see who likes to be on my profile. i think its kinda funny and not really a big deal… and i dont have an issue with being on someone else’s list either. thats basicly what facebook is.. EVERYONE creeps on EVERYONE. if you dont want everyone to know your shit, Dont put it on your profile. On my list i have 3 of my best friends but i dont really communicate with them over fb, this guy i have a crush on:), 2 old friends i havent talked to in MONTHS. 1 random chick ive only talked to like once in my life… O.o, and my sisters boyfriend. HAHHAHHA

• i’m wondering also if there’s some sort of conversion rate, in the likes of google ads -eg. a ratio between (the number of times you clicked on a link from someone) / (all the links that appear on your page from that person).

  i’m still not so sure about mutual profile views, and that would explain why certain names, even though they don’t appear that often,

• @Kiwi: Ok then, you were referring to the People You May Know or PYMK3. Yes, I agree with you. So far it seems to be a constant number of friends. It rotates between 10 to 15 people for me and I have over 1200 FB friends! Needless to say, Mr. Crush shows up there. He also shows up on the MO5 with great regularity.

  The thing that’s now driving me bonkers is the new Chat Window. As you may have noticed it picks random people (whether online or idle). It seems the list of people on that new Chat window is pretty consistent with the LSB10 (or the ten friends on the left side bar). Mr. Crush doesn’t appear there for me anymore as we hardly ever have any public interactions on FB. For about two weeks he showed up on my new Chat window! However, just yesterday he disappeared from the new Chat window :(

  Mr. Crush continues to show up on my MO5 and PYMK3. Does that mean he is checking my profile and updates? I’m not sure. Regardless, I just want to know where this is all going to end up. If he doesn’t follow through soon, I’m going to be sorely disappointed.

  @MF, are you sure you and I aren’t twins separated at birth? Your story is almost identical to mine. We should get together and write a book about our experiences. ;)

  • mr crush disappeared from my chat windows also =[

• @Person. the MO5 goes both way!! exactly 50-50..those who have been visiting your profile very recently and those YOU visited very recently.the thing that is driving us nuts is the mystery behing this “friends sidebar”!! no one has really been able to discover how it works!is there really any relation between this sidebar and your stalkers???

• Okay, I posted some stuff a while back. Man, this thread has really taken off! Anyway, I’ve been checking back and doing some reading and am now just going to give a little piece of new information I picked up. I have a new crush! A much more realistic crush, and I’m pretty sure they are interested back. This is a person I just started working with a few months ago.

  Anyway, one boozy night I decided to go ahead and friend them on facebook and he accepted pretty much right away. I had already checked his limited profile out a few times before we became friends. Some pictures and stuff that were available for viewing. I don’t really remember if I looked at his page that night he accepted my request, but I know he looked at my page because the next day at work he was asking me about something I had posted a couple of weeks before. So, he had definitely been doing a little browsing on my page.

  Okay, the very same day his picture shows up regularly in my MO5. Still does after about a week or so. I was surprised it took less than 24 hours for his picture to appear there and at this point we have had no public interaction whatsoever. We also don’t have many mutual friends. Point is, the MO5, at least in some cases has nothing to do with public interaction but everything to do with who has been checking out your page/whose page you’ve been checking out. Still hard to say which direction that goes, but there you have it.

• *the absolute number of ‘mutual’ friends. (not ‘personal’)

• @foxy vixen > when you open the page, you will only find 2 or 3 names in that column which you can mark, in order to browse potential mutual friends. in my case if i keep refreshing that page a couple of times, only 9 different names will appear total.

  i’m very curious about that selection, which apparently has very little to do with the absolute number of personal friends.

  imho, it must be a mix of mutual profile page views/public comments/attended events/mutual likes. i don’t see any other reason why those names would appear.

  • For me, it’s the people who I interact with the most. The people who post on my wall/I post on their wall/comments on posts/tagged in pictures with

    • thing is, in my case, among those 9 people (which all appear in the MO5), i never had neither ‘public interaction’ with 2 of them (that surprisingly also never pop up in the friend sidebar), neither ‘private interaction’ (pm, chat, etc) apart from mutual attended events and common likes. so it’s either view-based or interest-based.

• u r dead ryt…. its nt even 15 its d sam 10 people who are showing up again n again even after I refreshed for like 10 or so times.

• @BH: the thing you see in you own profile page (in terms of sidebar) is different from what other ppl see!! so, you don’t see yourself in your friends sidebars (those whom you stalk the most)but they probably see you in their sidebar quite frequently!

• @Kiwi, Confused. When I go to the “find friends” browser, I don’t see a list of 10 people on a left column. All I see is the list of “people you may know” underneath the FB settings of “choosing to communicate with friends.”

• yo new feature, url: find-friends/ browser/

  keep on refreshing the page. the mutual friend suggestions in the left column make a total list of 10 people.

  this one list is wow.

• I’ve been following this for awhile. I think the M05 is when you visit someone’s profile page, no matter how long you stay on the page. I have a dummy fb account, and if I go and visit someone’s profile page through that, they will show up immediately on the M05 on my real account, probably because of IP numbers? I’ve tested this on a few people that I know have not been on fb for awhile and on people that are, and it’s always the same.

• Not sure about this. I VERY frequently visit one of my friends page and I don’t show on her list of friends. When I say VERY, I’m talking stalker-like…

• Not sure about this. I VERY frequently visit one of my friends page and I don’t show on her list of friends. When I say VERY, I’m talking stalker-like…

  • u dont stalk that person enuf

• @Mpmp: He is still stalking you day and night. No doubt. He is simply crazy about you and can’t control it.

• I think it’s the combination of the public interactions and those who used to stalk your profile and you used to do the same for their profile at some point, even if that is long time a go!! as it is obvious, we all have this “EX” appearing in our friend’s sidebar and we don’t know if he is still stalking us or he just appears because we had some interactions with eachother at some point in the past !!!…I broke up 2 years ago…the last time I wrote on his wall was 3months ago and the last time I stalked his profile was almost a month ago!..and all the commenting and stuff stopped 5 months ago..yet, he is appearing in my sidebar almost every other day!!..I’m positive that he used to stalk me up untill March (5 months ago),..but I REALLY like to know if he is still stalking me or not!!! someone answers me please!!!

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• I’ve been visiting this page for sometime now to try and work out whether there’s anyway of knowing who actually looks at my profile the most. The one person I really want to know is my ex. He’s been on my MO5 for weeks now and appears on my LSB10 now and again (which I think is due to when he’s logged on and online). I don’t ever visit his profile page so it can’t be me viewing his page the most. The only other reason for this is maybe it’s due to the limited ‘public interaction’ we’ve had. I’ve not liked any of his statuses for a long time and don’t comment either. But I have clicked into the comments to read them on the news feed page. He’s made comments on my statuses sporadically. So can he be the one visiting my profile page the most hence he’s in my MO5 all the time??

• This doesnt happen to me. My 10 friends that randomly show up are people I havnt talked to in about a month or so, or I don’t know them. I havnt even been on their pages either. Most of them I have classes with so I just talk to them that way. Now if I go on someones page I wont see myself on theirs, I dont know what itll be like for them.

• I have been wondering about this and thought I would search to find out why. It is interesting the people that come up on my list and also scary that some are up there all the time. I actually tested this to see what happens. I have very little interaction with anyone on FB as far as visiting pages, commenting, liking, etc. So my list has to be mostly compiled with those that interact with me or view my page. I proved this theory after watching the trends. My list was the same for a day after continuous refreshing and then I posted some new pics. The list changed and I notices that those that made comments and were actually online on a physical computer, not their phone, showed up in my list. One particular person that mostly shows up first has to be because I visit his page the most of anyone on FB and we message each other a lot, so I do interact with him more. However, another group of people keep showing up and I am never on their pages and hardly ever have anything to say to them, especially not in no month and a half. So, they have to be frequent visitors of my page.

• I have been wondering about this and thought I would search to find out why. It is interesting the people that come up on my list and also scary that some are up there all the time. I actually tested this to see what happens. I have very little interaction with anyone on FB as far as visiting pages, commenting, liking, etc. So my list has to be mostly compiled with those that interact with me or view my page. I proved this theory after watching the trends. My list was the same for a day after continuous refreshing and then I posted some new pics. The list changed and I notices that those that made comments and were actually online on a physical computer, not their phone, showed up in my list. One particular person that mostly shows up first has to be because I visit his page the most of anyone on FB and we message each other a lot, so I do interact with him more. However, another group of people keep showing up and I am never on their pages and hardly ever have anything to say to them, especially not in no month and a half. So, they have to be frequent visitors of my page.

• facebook is def readin this
  idk if u read my method b4 but b4 u used to hover over ur friends pic and click x mutual friends then people u may know
  there was a list there
  now its deleted

• I’m doing an experiment right now to figure out once and for all about MO5. My crush was in my MO5 but disappeared. He was away for a week though, but I also stopped viewing his profile. So I didn’t know if it was because I stopped viewing his or he stopped viewing mine. For a few days I’ve been going on someones profile who I know but don’t talk to on facebook ever and I’m going to see if they show up in my MO5.. it’s the only way to figure it out. I know the person wouldn’t be viewing my profile.

• Found something new to try. Edit Profile>Friends and Family. Look down where the “friend” list is located, it shows 3 profile pictures. If you keep refreshing you will notice it’s the same 7-10 people. Crush shows up on this list, but he’s only on LB10 and MO5-10 sporatically. Odd

  • For me the 3 pics is the same old crap as LSB10, etc.

    Lately I’m getting the annoying meaningless truly random lists more often than the usual most-interaction group. So now I know: I dislike both versions of LSB10. Is it time to walk away from Facebook? I’m tired of seeing my crush’s exes on his page, I’m tired of seeing my exes on my page, I’m tired of seeing randoms I don’t give a crap about on my page, I’m even sick of seeing my friends’ faces. LOL.

• not that it really matters but when suggesting friends to some1, u get recommended suggestions
  i think those people clicked on his/her profile

• @kava ikr? (this is anonymous from above) my crush has been on the list for like ever now. since i started liking him i think which is odd. but that might also be because we started being pretty good friends at around that same time. idk if it’s who is viewing your profile or whose profile your viewing bc i view his a ton. but if it was whose profile your viewing, that would be completely against privacy rights on fb’s part.

• I agree with Anymous above about family members. I thought because they post from my computer therefore same IP adress.

  Also, crush comes and goes from list. Usually right before I get a post or a pm from crush…there’s the picture. oh, I do so hope he’s stalking me!

• totally agree with the fact that the people who show up are the people who most view your profile. i also have another idea. if you had previously listed someone as your family member but then you take it off, they go straight down to the list. so my ten people:

  1. best friend
  2. someone previously listed as sister
  3. someone previously listed as sister
  4. ex boyfriend’s ex girlfriend who i never interact with
  5. a girl who liked the guy i used to like who i never interact with
  6. a guy who i like who i think likes me
  7. another guy who possibly likes me
  8. a guy who i actually do interact with often, ex. comments, status likes, etc.
  9. a girl who is very jealous of me
  10. a childhood best friend who is now just an acquaintance.

• Anyone elses MO5 and LSB10 change? Still can’t decide if M05 is who you look at or who looks at yours

• It chooses based upon interactions. An interaction is defined as anything from commenting, liking something, or even looking at their profile. So yes, even if they haven’t interacted with them for a month and a half they will show up assuming they look at your profile enough.

• I pasted something like this a few weeks ago… But here it is again for those who missed it… (RE: LSB10)

  (My curiosity is only with the M05/M010, PYMK3, Friend’s Photo’s, and my newly remove MFYHP5.)

  http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=116320945119338
  Expand all
  Profile » Which friends appear in the left column of my profile?
  Which friends appear in the left column of my profile?
  The left column of your profile may display different types of people in your life:

  We highlight your friend list.
  By default, a changing selection of friends always appears under the “Friends” heading in the left column of your profile. The selection includes many friends who you publicly interact with the most. Examples of public interactions include Wall posts, comments and mutually attended events — Facebook will never show friends based on whose profiles you choose to view or who you interact with over messages and chat.

  You can choose custom friends to highlight.
  In addition to your general list of friends, you can choose to feature specific friends (e.g., best friends, roommates or coworkers) or groups to which you belong. Learn how to do this here.

  Your family and relationship partner appear here, too.
  If you choose to add family members or a relationship to your profile, those people will also be featured in the left column.

• My WYHJOP13 shows my crush. Im sure he likes me and only banned me by mistanke.

• Where did my MFBYHP go? I can’t seem to activate the top bar no matter what I try!

• my mo5 shows people that i view now

• I noticed my crush has stopped posting for about 2 weeks but sometimes I see him appearing in my lsb10 and top in mo5. I did not chat, pm with him or like his comments for quite sometimes although I view his profile a lot but doesn’t stay there long. I don’t appear in his lsb10 as I believe there is certain time to remain there before it will be captured.
  On the search bar, I use it to search other people outside my friend’s circle, but when I enter his first initial, his name appears first!!. I even enter his middle and last name and he appears on top although there are other friends with the same initial. His activity like been to a certain place keeps appearing on my right side on my profile although I refresh a few times.
  Iis he viewing my profile a lot in this case?

• I noticed my crush has stopped posting for about 2 weeks but sometimes I see him appearing in my lsb10 and top in mo5. I did not chat, pm with him or like his comments for quite sometimes although I view his profile a lot but doesn’t stay there long. I don’t appear in his lsb10 as I believe there is certain time to remain there before it will be captured.
  On the search bar, I use it to search other people outside my friend’s circle, but when I enter his first initial, his name appears first!!. I even enter his middle and last name and he appears on top although there are other friends with the same initial. His activity like been to a certain place keeps appearing on my right side on my profile although I refresh a few times.
  Iis he viewing my profile a lot in this case?

• I’ve been somewhat following this article. However,what is and where can I find PYMK 3 and MFBYHP

• Adek…sorry to say but FB will never block anyone automatically. You could view someones page 1000 times a day and FB would love it. If you can’t see her wall, she blocked you. I doubt she knows you were looking, but that’s the only explanation. Sorry!

• Hi guys,I am quite new to FB and have a question for you. I was watching profile of my ex quite a lot during last week. I was able to see all photos, wall etc. And now I can not see her wall anymore. I have never had any FB interactions(no likes,tags,comments..) with her and I don´t use chat. But she´s in my friendslist and I can still see all her photos. I doubt she found out that I was viewing her profile and blocked the wall for me. Is there a possibility that FB blocked that somehow automatically. Any ideas? thx

  • she blocked every1 from her wall

• PYMK3 is gone. Completely random now.

• it’s me again, lol. Just noticed that my MFYHP5 has changed. The first 4 are those who were there before, but they are in a different order. (mind you, HE is still #1) – now there is someone new on there who is a regular on my MO5. hmmmmmm. Maybe I need to go to bed before I rip every hair out of my head. lol

• @Snoop: awe ain’t u sweet*. I do come here 4 u, u creepin on ME???

  Anywhoo, load up your FB page on every browser you have downloaded(chrome, opera, firefox, ie, safari)do you see that some of the LB10 are different in differnt browsers? How can this be if it’s MY FB page then the page should technically stay the same, right?

  • weird

  • nvm just refresh and all the browsers will have same LB10

• very interesting guys. I just checked my ZCF again, and there were 2 new people there. One is who is ALWAYS commenting on my stuff, and another who I rarely talk to ever on FB, but we have pm’ed once. She does not show as open for chat right now, so I have no idea why she would suddenly show up. I must note she has never appeared in my MO5 or my LSB10 or anywhere else. Could she have recently viewed my page, and that is now why she is on the ZCF list?? Now she is someone who rarely posts anything ever, but I did see she posted something earlier. So could it be she visited my page, and that is why she is there? Oh and of course, that man I cannot stop thinking about (crush) was there as well. :) There might be something to that ZCF thing.

  I also wanted to tell you all something I noticed last week. I logged in through my brother’s profile (he was here, and he said it was ok….I didn’t tell him WHY. lol) I helped him set up his page, so I already know his email and password. Anyway, I looked at my profile from his, and my LSB10 looked exactly like it does as I see it. Same group of the same people. But remember, we cannot see what other people see when they look at their own MO5, PYMK3, MFYHP5, ect… Just because he was NOT on the LSB10 when I looked at my profile through his, doesn’t mean I am not on his MO5, ect..does that make sense? I have noticed that the MO5 ect includes some of those who are on my LSB10, but not all. Which leads me to believe again that the LSB10 are those who you have the most interactions with. The MO5 ect is completely different.

  I have a question for you guys. I have only interacted on FB through pm’s with my crush. Sometimes, I go back and read those pm’s over and over. Could THAT be causing him to appear all over the place on my page? I don’t go to his profile, and we never have any public interactions. Yet he is #1 when it comes to any of the other things (MO5, PYMK3, MFYHP, ect). Could my clicks on the pm’s (clicking on his name in the pm’s only) be causing fb to “think” I am that in to him? grrrr, this is driving me crazy.

  One more thing….he admitted to me the other day that he DOES have a thing for me. So that could mean something, right?

• @foreign girl, @cher – I haven’t chatted for months. Three out of four Zoom chat friends (ZCFs) today are different from yesterday’s ZCFs. Crush was there both days. For 2 female friends from yesterday: I haven’t been on their pages and I haven’t had interaction with in a while: couple weeks for one, couple of months for another. In the meantime I have interacted with other friends and went to their pages. But me and a guy friend (the 3 of us have in common) have commented on one another’s stuff this week, so maybe a reason to look at my page?? Today’s other 3 ZCFs: public interaction with 2 in the last 24 hours and I was on one of their pages. Last one: woman who has personal and professional reasons to be creeping my page regularly and often hints that she understands my cryptic posts in a way only possible by creeping my page (usually correctly!) She’d have reason to creep today…

  Chatbar seems to be changing far more frequently than LSB10 now!

  Another observation: I always stay offline and have to go online to get zoom to work. When I go online it adds a few people to the list who are online. I noticed when you zoom to 6 or 8, it includes some of these online but not on the default chat list and still includes people from the full list who are not online…a couple are people I’ve only made one comment to in the last year. One is a relative and one is a friend that former flirtbuddy is using to “speak” to me.

• Doesn’t appear to have anything to do with profile views, I spent quite a bit of time trying to get people to show up in my profile or get myself to showup in theirs, doesn’t appear to be based on profile viewing at all… However what it does seem to have to do with is events that you both are invited to, because some of the people in my top list I NEVER check their profile and never speak to them, never comment on the same messages, etc. but we’re invited to a lot of the same events, and that’s the only thing that seems to be related.

• I am starting to get a crush on Kava. I think she’s only here because of me.

• I realized that xH is on my chat list. Don’t know if that was because I accidentally clicked on his profile or he’s been snooping mine.

  I did notice that when I zoomed in (on firefox) that if I zoom as far as i can, there are three people that are left on the list. All three are on my MFBYHP list…one being my crush! YAYHOO!

  Noticed when I go to apps, friends photos show up, and when I click ‘show more’ it goes down to 1 tagged photo, and of course….it’s of my crush….why does FB toy with me?!?

• I can tell you that I don’t ever chat with anyone on facebook – ever. So I don’t think your chat sidebar has anything to do with who you chat with. My list pretty much are those who regularly appear on my LSB10 or MO5. I found that just because they appear over there, it doesn’t mean they are on to chat. I guess it means they have themselves set as available to chat. But you would think they would only show us those who are actually available in real time. At least that is how it used to be.

  Like I said before, my brother, deceased aunt and the crush are over there, and they never were before. Which I find odd. I know my brother has his account set up to NOT be available for chat, and I KNOW he didn’t change it (I asked him again, and he hasn’t been on), so why is he suddenly appearing over there?? Along with the other 2 who also have never been available? (and I’m sure no one changed my aunt’s account; at least I don’t think so).

  And YAY! My MO5 is back to normal! They must have been making some kind of changes this week – that is my guess.

• I can tell you that some of the people in my offline chat I don’t chat with, and there are others that I chat with more – a lot more, and recently that aren’t there. Yet the Crush is there and we haven’t had communication since early June.
  I’m not sure what to make of the zoom in thing yet… He is there when I zoom in closer and closer, but not the last 4 to 2 people.

• some of my offline chat contacts are people i have never chatted or private messaged before. I have had public interaction with all of them though.

• Yeah, my MO5 is back to normal. LOL

  I’m interested in the chat thing, the little photos that appear at your left, the order is weird. In my case it’s difficult to say if it is people that I creep of if it is people that creeps me instead. But I’m more inclined in believing they are my stalkers. What do you think?

  And the zoom thing for me is people I chat a lot. Also the offline contacts that appear on chat sidebar are people that I chat with, or pm. Think about this and please reply with your observations.

• HAHA. that’s HILARIOUS! MO5 regulars and “suggest photos to others” people are back at this moment.

  Are they seriously reading this forum?

• This just in!!! My MO5 regulars are back!

• @Anonymous, can’t use your method if the person hides his/her friends list. :(

• Ok so i don’t know if you know this,but today i found out that if you go on someone else’s profile and you click on their friends list there is a box 3×3 like in your own profile.And when you click on it you can type whatever letter and it shows 7 people like on your own profile.My crush is at the top when i write his letter.And when i go on his profile i’m at the top of his list.I tried it with other people and it’s different.

• omg anonymous! I just tried that….I zoomed in about 5 times (hit Control ++) the chat bar disappears, but you can still see the chat button at the bottom right (I am unavailable, so I don’t know how it looks if you are available). Only 2 people came up. My crush, and a really close friend who always looks at my pictures and always comments on everything I do. Hmmmmmmm…… Crush never comments on ANYTHING. ???? You could be right about those being the #1 stalkers!! :)

• if u zoom in and out, the sidebar changes
  if u zoom in like 300%, i think those remaining r the real stalkers

• My crush is still over on that chat sidebar, and I know full well he wasn’t before. Same with my aunt who died. That is just the strangest thing.

  And get this…..when I logged in today, and clicked on home, a status update that my crush had posted 7 hours ago appeared at the very top of my news feed. There were other updates (from those who were in my MO5 and some from LSB10) but they were written more recently. Even the last comment in his post was written several hours ago. So why on earth would his update come up first?? (This is before I clicked on most recent). Why does FB pick and choose whose updates to show you first when you log on, before you click on all updates, or most recent?

  This is so frustrating, and yet so fascinating at the same time. lol And yes I agree that FB might be reading this blog/forum.

• Ok so i don’t know if you know this,but today i found out that if you go on someone else’s profile and you click on their friends list there is a box 3×3 like in your own profile.And when you click on it you can type whatever letter and it shows 7 people like on your own profile.My crush is at the top when i write his letter.And when i go on his profile i’m at the top of his list.I tried it with other people and it’s different.

• Okay, here’s a pretty big confirmation that LSB10 shows people who have recently looked at your profile.

  About three months ago I went to this friend of mine for advice who I haven’t talked to in a few years. A month later we were at a wedding together and I snapped a pic of us and posted it on her FB. Haven’t talked to her since then, so about two months. For the last two days, she has showed up on my LSB10 for the first time ever. I thought this was interesting, because didn’t think she would be looking at my profile.

  Well…this morning I got a text from her saying that I’ve been in her thoughts a lot lately and she hopes everything is going well for me. BAM! Obviously she has to have checked out my profile during that time. That is definitive proof that the LSB10 shows people who have just looked at your profile, or that FB can now read minds (God help us)

• Ok, check this out.

  Go to your privacy settings. Customise my settings -> preview my profile -> preview how your profile appears to other people. Click every letter under the alphabet. My guy shows up first when I use both his intials, despite me interacting with others today and the last couple of days with the same first or surname inital. Every other letters shows those I’ve interacted with recently as the first suggestion. So why are his initals different. This is after I have cleared my history and cache…

  Now this is getting almost obsessive to me…lol

  • thats your views
    lol

    • I’m not sure it is. I havent viewed his profile for days. I have viewed and interacted with other people with the same initial as his since I last viewed his profile. He still shows up first.

• lol… Random info… On the occasional right side – “Friends’ Photos” suggestions… Wouldn’t you know it? A picture that I once clicked “like” while we were talking months ago and then “unlike” (because I’m a 27 year old child.) when we stopped talking, shows up! No other comments on that pic, except for the fact that he tagged himself. lol… I hate you FB.

  Oh and he shows up in my offine chat bar even though we haven’t chatted in months and there are others I speak to recently/interact with more often… Yeah I know you stalk my page Mister. =P

• Further to my post yesterday, the same friend appeared on my chat bar for the first time ever as offline. I closed the bar and re-opened and he has now disappeared. I still have no MFYHP bar. I would like to see it again, just so I can see if it features those who were on my MO5 loads…

  I think there must have been something in it the MO5 because like I said I have never interacted with this guy at all over FB, we email or text instead. He added me months ago and he has only posted one update since that and claims he is never online. Yes I do look at his profile, but I interact and look at others far more than I do his.

• Anonymous…it’s because the people who have tagged you have different privacy settings for their albums. Not everyone can see all the pics you’ve been tagged in. So if someone sets the privacy for that album to “Friends of Friends”, then all of your friends will see those pics. But if someone has the album privacy setting to “Friends Only”…only their friends will see those, which means only your mutual friends will see those on your wall. So that changes your “preview my profile” depending on who you are using to view it.

• have u noticed that the “photos of me” is different for your friends even if they have access to the same albums? I wonder why i have one guy friend who consistently has the oddest set of pix of me showing when I do “preview my profile” for this person.

• wait how do you figure out the mo5 again??

• yeah, somebody at fb is definitely peeping over this thread. the feature i was mentionning yesterday has already been replaced for a ‘people u may know’ feature. (sigh)

• Cher: Yes, my chat sidebar changed too, and now it looks like the old MO20 (only the chat sidebar has 13 names…!)

  And mi good ol crush is back in place!

• Yes MO5 changed for me too. f*ck.. completely random. and now chat list has crush even though he is never offline. (last fb contact i had with him was a month ago)

• I wanted to note one other thing. That chat sidebar. I turned it on (I am NOT available and my crush has never been available either, even this one time that I knew he was on fb because he posted a status update). Well today, the regulars that have been there are still there, but there are 3 new people showing up who have NEVER been there. My brother (who is never on FB and was in my MO5), my crush who has never been there, and my deceased relative who has never been there. All 3 of them have consistently been on my MO5, PYMK3, and MFYHP, but NEVER have they appeared on that chat bar. So how is that?

• The MO5/10 has changed completely for me too. :( TOTALLY random people who I NEVER interact with AT ALL. Some I have only accepted their friend request and that was it. Man, that sucks.

  But my MFYHP is still there, and it is still the same 5 people with crush still at #1 spot! :) I notice the LSB10 is still the same group of people; that hasn’t changed. And the search bar still brings up crush as #1 when I type first and last initial. I want to mention again that I NEVER look at his profile. Maybe once or twice. There was one time recently when I was reading a pm from him and FB kept showing me his pictures on the right, and there was one of him with no shirt on, so I could not help myself…..I HAD to look! lol Other than that, we have NO other interaction. Just about 10 pm’s over the last 6 months.

  kiwi: Good find! I clicked on the first initial of his first and last name, and then clicked on see more. Well, it was showing friends’ status updates like you said on the right side, so I just kept clicking see more. And guess whose updates kept coming up over and over? The crush! Now that could be because he comes up first in the search bar, but I don’t know…. I had about 4 other friends’ updates come up mixed in with his, but the most that it showed me was his.

  So then I tried a different letter, and it changed. It now was showing me friends’ pictures. So I kept clicking see more, and it started to only show me ONE friend’s pics, no matter what letter I typed in. She is one of my MO5 and I know she views my stuff. But the crush is no longer coming up even under his own initial no matter how many times I refresh!!

  This is depressing that they changed it….But at least all of us here know the truth!! :)

• hey yo

  has anyone noticed this: when you look for someone (by typing a random letter in the searchbar), there are suggested pictures of your friends on the right side. oddly enough, when you click ‘show more’, the same close friends of yours keep appearing.

  my 2$ guess: same group of people as the MO5/20…

• They definately changed the MO5 list today. For weeks/MONTHS its been displaying the same people over and over, now it really is completely random. Before it was showing 4 ppl I interact with often. Pls one that I never have spoken to, poked, messaged or wrote on his wall. I do look at his profile a lot, and even though he says he is never on FB I suspect he looks at mine a lot too. I know this guy is into me, just as much as I am him. Maybe I am just hoping… lol. He was also on my MFBYHP list of 5 every day,but that bar seems to have completely disappeared too today.

• i completely agree… over the last few months i’ve had a few different people who i was seeing for a while and my friends list on the side of my page always seemed to have whichever guy i was seeing at the time on my friends list even tho i didnt react with them all that much over facebook so i figure they must’ve been lookin at my page.. facebook knows too much about my life!!

• I made a fake profile, got + 500 “friends” with it and began to stalk my real profile systematically. From my real profile I generally avoided visiting the fake profile. This had the following effect:

  FB began to suggest the fake profile to become frineds with my real friends.

  The fake profile started to appear in MO5 of my real profile – not vice versa.

  The fake profile came up on top in the “Hide this from these people” drop down on my real profile.

  Highligts from the fake profile’s pictures and shouts were to some extent promoted on top right corner of my real profile.

  Conclusion: MO5 was definately showing stalkers – shame that is gone now. The “Hide this from these people” is still a good way to determine who is stalking you.

• A few days ago I posted some old funny pictures of the kids us kids when we were growing up in the neighborhood. I was talking to my sis yesterday and asked her if she saw them, as I had tagged her along with several other FB friends I grew up with. She NEVER goes on FB (can’t get the whole concept of it, in fact my br-in-law made her FB page for her!). She had not at that time seen to pictures on FB. Just now as I was doing MO5…there she was! I called and she confirmed that she had just looked at the pictures about ten minutes ago! Holy crap batman! There’s your proof.

• @gdfhd – MFYHP doesn’t show up for me anymore as well.

  @z – My Find Friends – Mutual Friends are the same 10 people they were since I found out about that method of checking. As mentioned before – also comprised of a few of the people who are were on my M05… And 5 of those are the the people who were on my MFYHP when I had that option including zee Crush.
  Crush and I – only have 1 mutual friend in common and that was my best friend who has had no interaction with him publicly and only a few pms in April/May about me.

  My LSB10 are the people I’ve interacted with publicly since May I’d say…
  On the right side “Friends’ Photo Albums” the same people who were on my M05 – their albums still come up. Including zee crush.

  Again, my Crush and I have had no interaction since early June via 1 pm sent by me, and prior to that was mid May. I stopped visiting his page for weeks, nervous that maybe he would have figured this out as well – and because I became geographically undesirable, it hurt to check up on him…

• I’m honestly not sure what’s going on with it. Certain people show up in my list whos profiles I look at alot, and some that would plausibly look at mine, some that we interact a lot, and some just seem random. And also there are some that follow those principles but rarely ever show up. It’s hard to dismiss it as random, but at the same time there’s no obvious method as to how it’s selected.

• Have you tried the mouth-over function on the My Pictures page. Try it – see anything? My crush comes up many of the times. Especially when I close my eyes…

• I kind of hope they make the LSB10 random as well. It would just make life a little easier and make stalking a little more enjoyable.

• If the Mutual Friends section of the People You May Know page was based on the MO5, has it changed now too? I never looked into it much before, but mine is currently a total of 8 people. All of them have been on the LSB10 before.

  6 are good friends who I have a lot of interaction with and we share many mutual friends.

  1 is an acquaintance. Again, lots of mutual friends. No interaction on my part, a small amount on theirs. Tagged in pictures and albums together and attended some events. I view them a lot, unsure how often they might view me.

  1 is a friend I talk to a LOT over messages. Only 1 mutual friend (strange?). A fair amount of interaction. I sometimes view their profile.

  • PYMK3 didnt change

• my MFYHP5 used to work
  doesnt show anymore
  FML

• As of right now my MO5 is completely random… Always new people… Does not make sense.

  MFYHP – I had 5…
  1 My best friend who I live with. :)
  2 Crush <3 + :'(
  3 Best Guy Friend who I am sure is a creeper, and loves me but can’t man up.
  4 A guy who has a crush on me, but I’m not feeling it, and admits to looking at my page/pics.
  5 Another good female friend who I know creeps my page.

• theres still PYMK3

• Thank You Facebook! Since you felt the NEED TO completely change the algorightm, you’ve finally confirmed what many of us had suspected all along! MO5 and “suggest photo tag” in Privacy Settings WAS in fact showing us our top stalkers!!!

• My MO5 and “Suggest Photo Tag” lists are now completely random. No rhyme or rhythm to either at all. I suspect that because Facebook felt the need to completely randomize these two lists, this suggests that these were the two lists that legitimately showed the people who most often viewed your profile.

  My LSB10 and deactivate account “____ will miss you” lists are still the same as before, for the most part.

• ————UPDATE—————
  FB is reading this
  the suggest tags just got updated

  • suggest tags doesnt work anymore

• Hi all! This is my first time posting but I’ve definitely read every comment on here and have been watching this for the last few months. First, I just want to say that you guys are amazing with all your research! (haha)
  I don’t really have anything new to add except that my MFYHP definitely has 6 people. Is this the case for anyone else? Hm I wonder why it’s different numbers for different people.
  Also, I’d like to put my vote up for the idea that MO5 and the research bar is likely some degree of mutual viewing with a few exceptions. About half of the people on my MO5 are tagged in a lot of my pictures even though I do not look at their profiles very often. I’d call them average friends not my top friends. I suspect that if these people look through tagged pictures of themselves on their own profile often, fb would count it as viewing my profile since the pics are linked to my album even if technically they’re on their own page when they look through tagged photos.
  However, it’s the ppl that I have no interaction with that fascinate me. One regular on MO5 and research bar is my own fake profile that i made for myself two years ago. I made it so that I could add the fake prof to my “family censored” list. It was made purely to look at my real profile just to feel extra safe that everything I wanted to keep hidden from family would not show. (I’m a college student so there are a few albums and such that I’d rather my mother and aunts didn’t see haha). Anyway, I used to chck my real prof using the fake one almost obsessively before fb came out with the “view how this friend sees your profile” thing. I’ve never had any reason to view my fake profile using my real becuz there is nothing to see on the fake one, so all of the interaction is completely one-sided and purely based off of profile views (no liking, no commenting, nada). Yet this fake profile has had a permanent fixture in my MO5 and research bar since as long as I could remember making me think that it could def be possible that MO5 shows some of your top stalkers. The fake prof appears nowhere else on fb however, just those two places.
  Also, here’s another thing, my crush (add me to the crush list haha) shows up EVERYWHERE on fb except LSB10. (MO5, PYMK3, MFYHP6, first on research bar, suggested photo albums, previous statuses) and it annoys the hell out of me. Now let me clarify that I know that he’s definitely interested in me to some degree seeing that when I first met him in a class my first week of college, he was overly flirty and suggested daily that we needed to “hang out sometime”. Now this guy is a yr older than me, on the football team and overly conceited so in the beginning I would politely reject his invitations brushing him off as your typical college athlete womanizer. He persisted with me rejecting him for 3 months until somehow I managed to convince myself that he was a nice guy and that I was wrong to stereotype him just because he was an athlete. So of course I stupidly eventually gave in and decided to “hang out”. Looking back two yrs later however, it’s clear that his intentions were purely for the “fun” (and still are as he still does text me every 3 weeks or so without fail to see if I can “hang out” . I’ve ignored a few of his last texts though and I’m almost positive that it’s probably driving his Ego crazy. ) But anyway, I gave up on him about a year ago when I figured out his intentions, but not b4 I had the chance to develop feelings for him.. so you can imagine how ANNOYING it is to try to forget about someone and yet they’re EVERYWHERE you turn on fb. I’ve done everything that I can do over the last year to try to minimize his silent presence everywhere on my fb (minus deleting him). I blocked from my newsfeed, we have only 10 mutual friends, we have almost ZERO interaction on fb except for a few pm’s from november and me writing happy bday on his wall over a year and a half ago. I did view on his page and albums a bit when we first became fb friends 2 yrs ago but even back then, I was incredibly paranoid that he would somehow find out how much he really does cross my mind (he’s already too conceited) and so I limited myself to looking at his profile 3 or 4 times a week in the beginning (for the last year though, I’ve only let myself look once a week or so). So nothing extreme, there are def people that I look at infinitely more than him and no one shows up everywhere nearly as much as he does. It’s like fb is doing this to torture me on purpose :(… the one person out of my 600 friends that I try to avoid is the one person who shows up every time I click something.

  Also last night I was playing with the search bar. I’ve almost never had people who aren’t friends of mine show up there but last night there was a guy whose profile I’d never looked at before so i clicked on it to see if I knew him and surprise! Only one mutual friend and it was the football player. It was weird though because when I checked my research bar again 10 minutes later, the guy had disappeared from my list even though none of my other lists had changed. It’s like he popped on for a few minutes and then popped off…?

• As a side note, right when I was typing the comment, the top 10 were literally composed of my 7 best buddies, 2 girls with crushes, and 1 ex. After the comment, I refreshed and a totally different top 10 popped up: 7 good buddies, 1 girl with a crush (99% sure), 1 co-worker, and 1 family member.

• I think fb disabled the mo5 because I can’t figure out how to get that to work. I do believe the LSB10 does combine who you publicly interact with the most along with stalkers/views. Of the 10: 7 I interact with publicly on a daily basis (likes, comments, etc), 2 I’m pretty sure have crushes on me but I almost never publicly interact with in the last 1-2 months, and 1 is my ex which I NEVER publicly interact within the last 6 months (I also deleted ALL of my ex’s private messages about 2 months ago).

• @ Anonymous re: the MFBYHP: the only thing I can suggest is choosing a simple app, like astrology, for example. It will be on the side on your home page. You have to click on it, and THEN when you click home, the 5 (or 4) people will show up on top.

  I am VERY pleased to report that crush is STILL #1 on the list of 5. My list has not changed at all. But remember I said a deceased relative keeps appearing on my MO5? Well she is also #2 on my MFBYHP?? Could be because she had viewed my pictures before she died, so FB still remembers her. But crush is also #1 STILL when I type the letters in the search bar. And GET THIS! Let’s say his name starts with S. I have a ton of friends whose name starts with that letter, and usually 5 of them come up. But today, he came up first, and then NO ONE ELSE. Just some apps that I might have clicked on once or twice, but never use. Now isn’t that unusual?

  And he is still coming up consistently in the PYMK3. I am almost 100% convinced these people that constantly come up are those that view our profiles the most. :)

• if u zoom ur page in the chat list becomes smaller and smaller
  this girl that likes me if one of the people remaining
  try it

• IT IS NOT based on how much interaction you have with them or how many likes etc, it also NOT based on your relationship status, this is because the people i have listed down as brothers and cousins etc and im constantly on there profile and chatting with them have never shown up at the side bar, only, so it could be how much theve clicked on the profile, but i think my freinds would have clicked on me more then the random people that show up on the side of my facebook

• @Kava, right? I thought it curious that would be brought up. Personally I believe the PYMK3 is a BIG indicator. The same might be said for the MFBYHP4 or MFBYHP5.

  I’m hearing some people here mention their MFBYHP4 or MFBYHP5 is changing every day. Mine is static and I have over 1200 FB friends! Also, any ideas about the new Chat window? I’m not crazy about the new format as it doesn’t let me know who’s online but rather it automatically picks random friends. Thoughts?

  I’ve personally changed my strategy with my crush. I used to avoid his profile page like the plague (for months I didn’t peak!). Now I’m on a binge of consuming any information he, or any of his friends post: pictures, mobile uploads, clicking his links left and right. Why? Because I want to show up on his new Chat window option and the MFBYHP4 or MFBYHP5! ;)

• @foxy: I don’t see any differnce either

• @egegegewgegwegeg Nothing. Why?

  • maybe u and @foxy dont have crushes u didnt add
    but my crushes that didnt add me show up in the first few people

    • @etrtwe, what do you mean by “crushes you didn’t add?”

• @OMG: Just dropped her a few PM’s and exchanged a few comments on the chat with her – all of that months ago, and still she appears in my ads column more than anyone else.

  I must, however, admit that I have been stalking her pages rather heavily – but that goes 6-8 months back, and I stopped visiting her pages a couple of months ago.

• So do the MFBYHP people change everyday at 8pm along with the LSB10?

• Keep going man…I want this post for my project.

• This is really good advice for us..

• go mouse over sum1s name
  click “x” mutual friends
  people u may know category
  see anythin?

• What I’ve noticed about LSB10 is, those people who you interacted with eg: post on wall, wished Happy Birthday etc, they will stay on LSB10 for a few weeks, while those who you never interact with, appears on your LSB10 for a day or two and disappear right after that, are those who viewed your profile/pics. A friend who I never interacted with since Feb, never appear on LSB10 until a few days ago. The next day I got her sms, asking when can we meet up. This happened a few times, not just her.

• Sigh, I love reading all these comments! Its become one of my daily visited and constantly refreshing sites, and im not alone, so that’s got to mean something!

  I’ve decided that NOW the LSB10 doesn’t mean a thing, other than public interactions such as you’ve in the past wrote on their wall, or liked a picture. I think the LSB10 USED to be an indication of either who you looked at or who looked at your page, but now its just stuck on pure public interactions so I’ve stopped paying attention to it.

  The MO 10. had a mix of my crush, along with others who i’ve clicked on, and who have clicked on me – Im going to assume that its just showing, mutual clicks at one point or another.

  the people you might know 3 —> my crush was there
  out of allll the people in the world/my friends list :)

  the only interaction that we had was becoming friends – no posts or anything , but I know he likes me :) so its safe to say he looks at my page

  I’ve made up my mind, (since we’ll never have concret proof ….. )
  I think theres an element of who views your page that’s expressed in all of the above, “MO 5, PYMK3 … etc” but that its expressed in mutual views,
  That’s the beauty of it, you’ll only know they’ve looked, if you’ve looked, that way you can never certainly say that it was in fact because THEY looked. But if both of you view each other enough, they’ll show/pop up everywhere

  I wasn’t so sure if it was my clicking or his clicking, but after seeing the Make facebook your homepage one, Im certain!!!

  1. MY Crush (eek)
  2. Brother (he has without a doubt been looking at the family photos ive recently posted)
  3 . Cousin thats a kid (therefore im certain that im his most viewed person)
  4. My friend
  5. My Friend

  here’s the thing – those last two friends … they aren’t my CLOSEST friends in real life. As in they aren’t the friends that I’ve grown up with, or trust with all my secrets. What im trying to say is their my “friends” that I expect to be viewing my page.

  All 5 people are people that if I had to guess, I would have guess that they viewed my page the most (they may view others people pages more, but out of all the people to view my page they’d be the top) , and I don’t view their pages the most,they’re not the 5 people that I view that most or whos photos i view the most,

  Theres NO other explanation as to why my crush would have showed up there based on anything (we haven’t messaged each other, no posts no nothing) , Other than the fact that he views my page the most, thats the only way for facebook to know that we have a connection in real life

  For me the LSB10 and the MO5 are just to random now, but the PYMK3 and defiantly the MFYHP are really clear indications of who has been viewing your page (check, because before you know it Facebook will change it ;)

  theres no such thing as coincidences when it comes to Facebook and algorithms :)

• MindF: You make me laguh!!oll or llo or lol, whatever!!

• @Luffe the conqueror: Have you posted on her wall before? Even just the happy birthday wishes? Vice a versa? Or there was no public interaction between you guys? Does she also show up on LSB 10??

  I am in the same situatino as you right now. Share your foundings with me!

• Part of the algorithm includes who you communicate with associated applications, like Hotmail.
  Ie: person on your hotmail email account friend list
  is also on your friend list in FB
  but you email them through hotmail very frequently
  they will also often come up on your FB LHS friend list.

• Hm I’m quite confused about the “Make facebook your homepage” finding. I don’t have any apps because I’ve deleted all mine and don’t use them anymore. I’ve clicked home a billion times and nothing shows up. Suggestions?

  • use firefox browser

    • Tried that, still not working ):

• I’ve been following all the comments religiously. I didnt read everything yet, but I did start experimenting after couples of days. Based on what have been said in some of the comments above, I want to share my own story. I’ve been – as most of you lol – stalking someone obsessively. I have no idea if the person in question has been stalking me as well, or at least checking my profile. My crush is number one on search bar, in MO5 and sometimes on LSB10; not on the chat bar tho. We dont interact regularly or intensively, and lately those interactions have dropped to zero [no Likes, no comments, no tags]. This didnt stop crush to be always in MO5 and occasionally on LSB10. This person in question has been off facebook for 3 or 4 days, and has dropped completely from my LSB10; when today has made a comments on his own profile, been showed on my Top news. I wanted to check my LSB10 and guess what? He was on the LSB10! And still! On MO5 as well. Does this mean he has viewed my profile? I want to believe he did xD..

• @Kava: she does indeed show up among the “people you May know 3”. These, however, seem to be generated from the mouseover 20 list – which she is also a permanent member of. The others who show up with precious status updates and photo albums etc. are All people with whom I actually do interact on a regular basis.

• @Bill: I sure hope you’re right because as I said my crush is on that MFBYHP 4! I sent the one girl who was waiting for pics of her dead relative the pics, so we will see if she drops off that list as she won’t have a reason to visit my profile anymore.

  @ Luffe: I get the same impression. EVERY SINGLE TIME it is one of three people who’s photo albums show up on the right side, as either an album or tagged or status updates. I thought this was odd as why ONLY the three? Once in a while the office ‘spy’ will show up as tagged but that’s about it. If I were to venture a guess I would say you are being stalked…BIG TIME? Does she show up in the 3 when you click the ‘People You May Know’ on the right corner of the display? I know the 4 ontop do show up on that.

  I don’t care what FB says about their algorithms and such. If there is someone on those lists that you personally don’t have much interaction with then WTF? Why are they constantly on the lists? Interaction is interaction…it works BOTH ways.

  Or, FB has found a way to read our minds through the computer and knows who our crushes are and who we WANT to see on the lists, lol! Scarry =0

• I wonder what is shown on top of the right side “advertising field” when you click e.g. Edit Friends or when you are on the search results page?

  On mine four different categories come up randomly (apart from ads):

  1. Highlights from selected frinds’ photo albums
  2. Previous status updates from selected friends
  3. People you may know – based on mutual frinds with selected people from your existing freind list
  4. Photo where selected frinds are tagged

  There is this girl who keeps appearing here for me. Her friends keep being suggested as people I may know though she is the only mutual friend I have with them, and her previous status updates appear again and again even though she makes very few of them, and they generally dont receive that many “likes” or comments.

  I check her profile once in a while, but I certainly dont stalk her, and she is not that active in posting things, so I generally dont click her stuff more than the stuff of others.

  It’s been a couple of months since we last interacted (she liked a couple of my posts and I liked one of hers).

  What do you guys think – is she there because she is stalking me bigtime, or can there, according to your experience, be another reasonable explanation?

• I think you are spot on. i know for a fact that the people who show up in that friends box are creeping my page. i feel very confident about this

• @Foreigngirl: like stated above, if you go to your home page, click on one of your apps and let that page load, then click the HOME button, on the very top there should appear 4 (some people have 5) people with “Make Facebook Your Homepage” displayed. I’ve noticed this does not happen every time I do this, however, if you do it enough times it should appear.

  It has been stated that the people that appear at the top with “Make Facebook Your Homepage” are the people who view your profile the most. I tend to agre with this for two reasons: 1) There is a person who is waiting for me for post pictures of her deceased relative and 2) my crush is on that list =:) lol.

• Well, I’ve been following this blog for months now, and after making some experiments I have some conclusions that may help.
  I have this ex.boyfriend, we broke up like a year ago, we used to have a lot of interaction on facebook, likes, photos, events, pm, etc. When we broke up this interaction stopped, I never look at his profile, and Im pretty sure he never looks at mine. He´s all the time on facebook, but he never shows himself as online. He´s not on any of my lists. I started this experiment that consisted of me visiting his page a lot, stalking him a lot, looking at his pictures, his friends, you know (he is really handsome so it was no hard work at all LOL). Well like a week ago I started to show on his LSB10 everytime I visited his profile. He hasn’t appeared on any of my lists.

  The other thing, I have this very good friend that closed his facebook for over a year. She recently reopened it, I visited her page to post happy birthday and looked at some of her photos. This was like 2 months ago. I was viewing my photos 4 days and found this photo with her, I tagged her. She commented, end of the story. Yesterday she was on my LSB10, disappeared some time after, today she has been there like all day, and some of the time she’s on MO5. Doesn’t appear on any other list. So it can be two things: LSB10 has something to do with the people who you tagg on photos, or she creeped my profile after I tagged her. I can’t be sure of any, but I feel I have something going on.

  Also my crush appears on my LSB10 sometimes. I used to visit his profile but I haven’t in a while (I stalk him with my BFF account actually). I started realizing he appeared when he is online, but not every time he is online, just some of the time. We have 1 picture together and comments on the same post, no more interaction. So I’m guessing he appears there when he is visiting my page, in real time.

  This are what I have found, Tell me what you think of it.

  Another thing, I haven’t managed to find the Make Facebook Your Homepage thing, I was hoping you could help me with this!

  Hope it helped, sorry if it is too long

  • @Foreign Girl
    it disappeared

• Like Xander, I’ve noticed what appear to be default algorithms this week, too, in LSB10 and searchbar.

  LSB10: It seems that if someone with whom I’ve had enough public interaction with has viewed my page recently (within the last day or two), or I view their page/pictures, they show up in LSB10 for a day or two. Usually they just bump someone else out; the whole list doesn’t change. But if not, within a day or two, the list defaults to a mix from a fixed subset of long-term publicly interacted with friends. Every couple of days I get a new mix of these long-term interacters, always including a couple with limited interaction (they seem to be part of a default list), but rarely anyone with no interaction, except for the once every month or so when it is truly random.

  Searchbar: If someone is viewing your page, but you never/rarely view theirs, they will show up briefly — for no more than a day, if that — after they’ve viewed your page (note above: friend of a friend whose page I posted on). It seems the more recently someone viewed your page/you viewed theirs, the higher up they are. Mutual views/frequent interacters will stay near top. I’ve noticed these correspond with the new top bar people. But others on list will default to pages you’ve viewed/interacted with. For a less common letter, fourth down, I noticed someone — a friend of a friend — whose page I viewed a few times about six months ago – I doubt she would have viewed my page at all. But I’ve viewed/searched for no one else with a name beginning with that letter — or vise versa — so she stays on the list that comes up.

  Also, crush got bumped into the rarely changing chat bar, even though we’ve never chatted and our last pm was over a month ago. He is also on new top bar. All four new top bar are also on chat list. Two of the top bar: we frequently comment on one another’s posts; they’re probably my top commenters. The fourth: relatively frequent interaction over time but recently not as much as the other 3 and not any more than other friends. But she is also good friends with crush’s exGF, and her BF is friends with crush and his ex. Crush and I have liked each other’s posts and commented regularly recently, so that group may be checking out our pages to try to figure out if there’s something going on.

• no, it’s not right! there are people, that i have never spoken too in my life…

• This is incredible, I came to the exact same conclusion as the op given the exact same line of reasoning. Also astounding is that so many users have corresponding viewpoints to the matter. For this reason I have been tinkering with various experiments listed here. What I have found that of the primary two people I regularly view but rarely interact with will be found on my friends list, however I will not find my name on their list. In addition, several people I almost never view or interact with frequently appear on my friends list. One explanation for this is that rather than making several random selections each time a profile is viewed FB merely selects a “default random” to be placed in the friends list saving their servers the time of dealing with a randomizing algorithm for 10 friends each and every time a person’s page is viewed. I won’t pretend that I have any technical knowledge of this matter and this is all purely conjecture but I will continue to research this electrifying concept more thoroughly.

• One more thing about typing a letter in the search bar: I have 32 friends whose first name begins with T. Now, when I type t in the search bar, it only shows me 3 friends. On other letters it shows me more than that. The 3 that is shows me are those who are in my MO5 or LSB10 or those who I HAVE interacted with recently. So that search bar is pulling from something. Must be mutual views and searches; that is my only guess. Because when I look through my friends list, all of the others whose name starts with T are rarely on FB, or we have NO communication.

  • the new bar(5 people) changed this morning
    i think it changes daily
    my crushes still appear on it tho=]

• This new thing they put at the top – the thing qewgtwe is talking about – very interesting. It doesn’t pop up every time I refresh, but if you have any apps on the side (like astrology or status apps) click on one of those, and then when you click “home” at the top you will see a link to make facebook your home page. They show you 5 friends there. And guess WHO is first every single time I do this??? The crush! Now what is that about?? It shows the same 5 people every single time – never changes. For me it shows those who I KNOW have looked at my profile (the other 4 are good friends who I communicate with regularly so I know they go on my profile and look at my pics, ect). So MY guess is that since crush is #1 that he too looks at my profile. :)

  Anonymous I too have noticed a few people that pop up when I put their initial in the search bar, and it isn’t someone I talk to regularly, I don’t look at their profiles, and it may not even be a letter that is in their name!! There is one who has her city listed, and when I type the first letter of her city (which is not in her name at all) she comes up. That is very odd to me.

  If you type in every single letter of the alphabet, you will see who comes up for each letter. What is interesting is, the ones that come up first are those who are also in my LSB10, MO5, chat bar, ect. Why not show me all my other 100’s of friends?? I still don’t get it, but can happily say that crush comes up #1 when I use letters of his first and last name.

• There is a person with whom I have only two mutual friends. she is a “friend of a friend”.. but as soon as i put the letter of her first name, she is the the first person who pops up rather than all my own fb friends whose name start with that letter.
  This happens most of the time though and not always.
  i have had no contact with this person and i know the search bar orders the people according to whose profile I have viewed… does it also work the other way around?

• 5 people show up on Make Facebook Your Homepage
  Drag this image up to your home button to get faster access to friends with fewer clicks. →

• I’ve got a LOT of catching up to do on this thread! OY!

  Off Topic: Does anyone have a strong opinion about the new chat window?

• So I defriended “Kitty” a couple of days ago and she dropped off my MO 5/10 and my LB10. Buuuttt…when I went to ‘deactivate your account’ she showed as on of the people who would miss me! I also went to ‘friendship’ and typed in my name with everysingle person who shows up on MO5/10 or LB10 or Recently Interacted with.I DID have some contact with 80% of those people, even if it was just a Happy Birthday post, within the last month. The other 20% I have either has NO contact with or last contact was well over a year ago.

  An old BF of my started to show on MO5/10 about two days ago…yesterday He was on the LB10 for about 10 minutes. I logged out of FB for about six hours and when I logged back on he was NOT on LB10…however, he is now a regular on my “chat bar” to the right. I don’t logon chat but keep it up to see how it changes (and to make sure my ‘crush’ stays on there too, lol!). There are people on the Recently interacted list who drop of chat list yet stay on Recently Intereacted With list(my crush is on my chat list but not Recently Interacted with list)

  Crush also shows up occasionally on LB10, but is a regular on MO5/10 and PYMK3.

  My exH is also a regular on MO5/10 and PYMK3 and the deactivate/recommend tagging but has not appeared on LB10 or Chat list for a wile. Yesterday by accident I clicked on his profile (YIKES!), so it will be interesting to see if he shows up anywhere else.

• @Cher Try clicking on his friends list, browsing through his friends list, click on any interests he has under movies, etc. I did this on a fake profile to my real one and I did eventually get it to work. Took a couple days, though.

• Yeah, I think LSB10 hasn’t been updated in a while. Maybe there is some truth in facebook’s claim that that list is only updated every month and a half. There’s someone I stalk, and when I type the first initial of his name in the search bar, it’s his old profile picture along with his name that keeps coming up. It hasn’t been refreshed or updated yet, and he changed it over a month ago. He regularly shows up in my LSB10, but I think it’s because he used to look at my profile, but has no reason to anymore…

• I am now almost 100% confident that MO5/10 are those who view your profile. I had stated previously that last weekend a new friend had come up on my MO5 who had not been there before. She only comes on FB occasionally. Well, she appeared there last weekend just after I saw a post of hers on my feed, and since I had just posted pics, I assumed she had looked at them. She stayed on the MO5 for a few days, and now she is gone.

  Here is why I am almost 100%: I belong to this site – it is a forum. I am really close to a lot of the people on there, and a bunch of us are all friends on FB, but we never really communicate on FB because we always “chat” on the other site. Well, I haven’t been on that other site in awhile, because I have been too busy (and spending all my free time trying to figure this MO5 thing out! lol). Well one of them sent me a pm at FB telling me that another had posted a thread on our other site asking where I am and if I am ok. 3-4 of the other friends on that site that are on my FB all replied to her that I am on FB and post there alot.

  Well, wouldn’t you know that all 5 of them are now popping up in my MO5, and they have never been one of the MO5 before??? Which tells me that they are concerned about me, so they all checked out my FB profile to see if I was ok and when I last posted, what I was up to, ect. I haven’t replied back yet at that site, because I want to see how long they stay in my MO5. If they clicked on my profile, and saw I was alive, and don’t click on it again, they should drop off, no?

  Also, I still do see my dead relative on the MO5. I do agree now that FB remembers where they last visited and that is why they continue to appear there. Which explains why my brother is ALWAYS on my MO5, even though he is NEVER on FB, and I just found out my crush hasn’t been on FB in weeks, and now he is back. Well, he was on my MO5 those weeks he was gone CONSTANTLY. When he came back on he dropped off a little, but now he is back on there all the time. *smile*
  He is also still the first to appear in search bar for first and last initial, and he continues to appear as one of about 7 people on the people you may know 3 (PYMK3…lol)

  I have been trying something. I have been clicking on someone’s profile a LOT (and it has to be someone who comes on FB regularly). I have been waiting for them to appear in my LSB10 or MO5, and they have not. Sooooooooo, I am assuming at this point, that the MO5 is NOT who YOU view, but who is viewing you. (or those who are hardly ever on, and may have viewed you the last time they were on.)

• new method
  if u keep pressing C+W to close all tabs, and open a new browser with FB
  5 people show up on top of the screen
  Theyre the same if I keep doing it and theyre from my MO5 and suggest tags
  coincidence?

• IDK. One of the people who keeps on making my friend’s list has been dead for about three months now.

• My findings…

  My LS10 are the people I’ve interacted with mutually in the last few months publicly. This is something that has not changed for me at all. Remains the same. (Crush does not show up here since we do not have any interaction at all – public or private.)

  My “People You May Know” – “Mutual Friend” section has some of the same people consistent with my MO5/MO10. (Crush shows up here, even when I stopped looking at his profile for weeks.)

  My M05/M010 had a few changes in the last week – added 3 new people in its rotation and dropped 3. 1 of the additions, I rarely look at her profile. 1 of the drops I have NEVER interacted with publicly or privately…
  Stopped viewing my crush for weeks, only started recently occasionally clicking on his profile… Still shows up in my MO5/MO10 as he has always been.
  As of the weekend – Crush no longer shows up in my Best Friend’s MO5/MO10 as he was.

  Been stalking my regular profile with my alias… My alias does not show up anywhere – buuut… FB is now asking me to “suggest friends” to her occasionally in the “ad space” to the right. I have clicked on my Alias’s profile twice with my regular profile.

• @Stumped: I read a possible explanation from a guy who writers computer code. He said a possible explanation for a deceased relative showing up long after on LSB10 MO5 is because Facebook has their last (month and a half?) recorded activity stored in cache. So even though they haven’t been online in a while, the Facebook servers are turning up the activity they have on hand.

  I don’t know if that’s true or just another conspiracy theory.

• You are totally right- the leftside friends have changed. For the last few days, they change at 8pm (EST). The usual suspects are still showing, but there is no change at all throughout the day anymore, until the entire list changes at 8pm. Weird.

  I have been following this for a while, and I’m pretty stumped. The phone thing is not right, because I actually do have a few friends w/o smartphones who show up in my left bar and mouse-overs.

  I think the leftside bar has to be a combination of factors- def based on some sort of mutual interaction though, no matter how small. I have two people who show up often in my 10 friends, and I don’t talk to either on FB or off. But, we have a lot of mutual friends and we’re tagged in lots of pics together. I was thinking a little bit harder about this & realized that both of them are tagged in quite a few pics with JUST me- I wonder if that matters.

  One thing that always gets me is that often a person who has passed away or who I know doesn’t use FB ever/often shows up. Why? I am wondering now…. maybe FB picks a few people who have recently looked at your profile, a few whose profiles you have looked at, and every now and then throws in someone who you used to interact with a lot but haven’t lately??

  The Mouseover 5 seems, at least in my case, to be people who I’ve clicked on a lot lately…. but there’s really no way to know they haven’t been viewing me, too – they’re not random.

• Top friends or sidebar friends even, have changed in the last week, like I said. Read my previous comment folks.

• I dont find any special significance about the side bar people.They are just mutual interactions.Even some people with whom I interact just for games also show up.None of them are those that I visit.Also,I never show up in the side bars of people I visit.It has been like this for many months.But MO5 and the other ‘mutual friend’ thing I mentioned above is kind of mystery.Somehow I also doubt if the MO5 are those who come online,not necessarily they look at your profile.

• @bill: everyone of my Recently Interacted With uses a 3g/ipod/droid…hmmmm. Everyone but two people currently on my LB10 use phones too…hmmm…I guess FB only wants us to be friends with people who are ‘hip’ to new technology, lol.

  • well most of my friends have phones

• Almost all the people who show up in my friend box are friends who use their cell phones to go on Facebook. Has anybody else noticed this?

  • just u

• About a week ago an event that my crush was invited to showed up on my wall under friends events. I was curious because it was to a weddintg and I did not know any of the people EXCEPT my crush! Then after two days it was gone. I couldn’t find it anywhere. Where did it go?

  and the MO5 aslo has a MO5 over your picture? I didn’t know that until today. So, one MO5 for name and one MO5 for picture that shows up by your name?

  • mmm interesting at the MO5 part
    didnt know

  • MO5 is same ppl as suggest tags except only a few of em
    u guys should read my method using games/app thingy i posted^

• Arghhh arghhh arghhh! The friends sidebar has CHANGED! I guarantee you this, it changes at 1AM (Britain). Don’t believe me, check it for yourself. And it DEFINITELY has something to do with who’s viewing your profile because I have now appeared on this person who I’ve been stalking’s sidebar at 1AM. I’ve been stalking them for ages actually but I was in the sidebar the day before yesterday too. The sidebar seems to retain a few friends from the day before and update the rest. Three of the new friends to appear are people whose profiles I’ve viewed today. Three are friends who were in the sidebar yesterday (before 1AM) and I haven’t been viewing their profiles. The remaining four are friends who I haven’t viewed and who weren’t there yesterday…my top or randomly selected viewers of today I suppose. LOOK OUT FOR IT!

• ill share my methods(2) since I h8 leeching

  the first method is the games/app on the left side of the newsfeed
  if u click app it shows 8 people and if u click games, it shows 10 ppl, the first 8 r the same from apps
  thus, i believe that the people from left to right, top to bottom are ppl who view ur profile
  it refreshes like once a week

  my second method is typing a letter in the search bar, then clicking see more results
  then use common sense

• What about the people that hide the fact that they are online on FB. My FB is always ‘unavailable to chat’ and it appears as if I am NOT on FB when in fact I am. Almost ALL my FB friends are the same. It is also strange that TWO of the people on my LB10 are young people I work with. They are twenty and twenty two years younger than me, yet they are ALWAYS on my LB10, MO5, People You May Know 3, People who may miss you, and the rest of the lists. Also, one of the supervisors at work made a comment to someone in another department that he hadn’t been on FB for weeks…yet his face is a fixture in ALL my lists ‘except’ for the People You May Know 3. My two kids are also on all the lists except PYMK. I know for a fact that these people are always *logged on* to FB via droid/iphone/3g phone. They NEVER log off FB. The supervisor at work is best buds with the “big boss” and he is the only supervisor to *friend* the employees in our department (other sups have declined, used the ole’ ‘can’t mix business life with real life’ line), my guess is: while technically NOT *posting* on FB he IS monitoring what “OTHER PEOPLE” are doing and posting, KWIM? He has dropped off the LB10, MO5 and but remains on Recentlyl Interacted With list, when I I posted once on his wall in December 2010 and he has NEVER posted or liked anything of mine. Also, last week I picked a cousin I know is never on FB (she doesn’t even have a profile pic and only has two pictures posted of a snowstorm where she lives)and wrote a little note on her wall (which was virtually bare). Well a few days later I get a nice post back and voila! there she is on my Recently Interacted With list. Now I know she must’ve checked out my pictures and my wall. And like I said the people I ‘stalked’ as my experiment are also on the Recently Interacted With list (there are 4 of them that I viewed their pictures like crazy with)but some of the others I ‘stalked’ are not. My guess is I showed up on their LB10 and they in turn viewed MY page and that’s how they got on there. Just a hunch. Still doesn’t explain the People You May Know 3 though. grrrrr!

• Sometimes I’ll find that if I have a real-life conversation with somebody I don’t really interact with on facebook, they’ll show up on my friends list the next day or two! For me this is my most convincing “evidence” for the whole ‘people stalking you’ theory. Probably all coincidence, but I still like to entertain the stalker theory, especially when a girl I like appears in my list :-P

• I’m 110% certain MO5 is the people who check and the people who check you out.
  LSB are the ones who just recently look at your profile.
  MO5 are the people who are or were on LSB.

  I tested on two people I fancy. I never check their profiles except when I first added them. They appeared constantly at LSB at first then moved to MO5. Curious about this. I picked two people who I have no interest – one that never logs in and the other who has no interest in looking at mine profile. I keep refreshing their pages and a week later they show up. One of the two who I like has “liked” my photos, the other no interactions besides occasional pm.

  I kept a list of people who I comment the most, who comments me the most, pm, likes, and the timing of the likes/comments. Timing I think is important. Why would someone always comment/like so quickly. Also the time of my own posting.

  Recently I added some people. This guy first showed up LSB. We hung out couple of times. Now he moves to mo5. I don’t look at his profile. Actually I don’t look at anyone’s, besides testing, in fear that my friends have the same suspicion. So all 3 guys had the same pattern.

  People who keep saying MO5 doesn’t change, it does. Just keep visiting others you dont have a crush on and you’ll see it change. It’s all relative though. I believe it counts most hits on your end and your stalker end. Also, some of you only test a week without visiting crush page. It’s not enough. I think there’s a lag on these mo5. Just don’t look at their profiles completely for months then you’ll know 100% who is doing what.

  -My observation over the past 5 months. I even have a spreadsheet. I’m psychotic.

• Something I noticed about the “Mutual friends on people you may know page”. I noticed a friend popping up with regularity on the ‘mutual friends’ list, so I deleted her. This was yesterday, yet she still remains in rotation. This seems to indicate that the cache Facebook uses does not immediately refresh the mutual friends rotation. I don’t know if this information will help anyone.

• The lists keep multiplying and the algorithms changing! There’s
  1) LSB10
  2) MO5/MO20
  3) Non-alphabetical/grid-view of friends
  4) Recently interacted
  5) Sidebar people you may know
  6) Mutual friends on people you may know page
  7) Who will miss you if you leave FB
  8) New chat list
  9) Searchbar
  10) Sidebar friends photos

  The chat list doesn’t change at all. Only includes 3 people I’ve chatted with and doesn’t include person I’ve chatted most with. However I have either been tagged in pictures with or sent messages to all of them.

  Searchbar: I just commented on a friend’s post. I comment on his posts once every few months and we only have one mutual friend. I put a random letter into searchbar and someone who I’ve never heard of came up first. I clicked on her page, and she is a mutual friend of the person I just posted on. I assume she saw my comment and clicked on my page. My crush comes up first for both first and last names today but he’s sometimes lower in the lists. I have not clicked on his page for a few days. A good friend who just commented on a post comes up first for her first and last name. Who comes up changes pretty quickly. *Today*, I think the algorithm is weighted toward who is looking at your page.

  Who will miss you if you leave FB is all people I am tagged with in the photos of me on my profile page. But photo tags don’t have much to do with MO5. MO5 is a pretty realistic rotation of interactions, including mutual page checking out. Would seem that there has to be public interaction too – except for one permanent fixture: I’ve only looked at her pictures – and it’s been several months. It is very slow to change the regular 20. Generally ,you and someone’s really gotta bump up interaction to get on there.

  The recently interacted list has not changed in days despite changing interactions. It must include people who are looking at your page, because I haven’t had public interactions with the person at the top in at least a month. She also happens to be a BestF of my former flirtbuddy’s GF – so reason to stalk my page.

  Sidebar People you may know and Sidebar friends’ photos rotates between those I have the most friends in common with, crush, good friends who post a lot, and a professional colleague who is both concerned about my professional activities and concerned that I am a competitor for her on-again/off-again man (we got to know one another for a work project and many people were trying to set me up with him while they were “off-again”). I think she stalks my page regularly; I look at her pictures and notes a lot. We regularly like and comment on posts and photos.

  LSB10: Also accurate on interactions, but more people in rotation than MO5. Had to have public interaction in last year, but must be mutual page/photo checking-out. Weighted toward recent page clicking – either way. But it won’t show anyone only you’re looking at. Who is online at the moment and on your page seems to factor in.

  A couple of people who are sometimes on MO5 but not LSB10: we like the same kind of news stories and I think we click on one another’s posts frequently, comment every couple of months, but I don’t look at their pages and I doubt they look at mine.

  Note: I only have a few hundred “friends” and half of them rarely use FB.

• i don’t know :(
  as i said before i’m sure my crush is not checking me out regularly.(he has a life, lol) but we had some interaction before.. events we both attended, likes every now and then.. so facebook might think: “hey, this girl seems to be obsessed about this guy. he also shows SOME interest. lets get them together”
  he keeps reappearing in my LSB10 and he is always in MO5 the people you may know.. (but actually the last time ive seen him in my LSB10 was a few days ago.. maybe fb really changed the algorithm?)

  i cant say much about the other people in my MO5.. they are mostly classmates. we have mutual friends, recent interaction… not really helping.

  but i’m sure about my mum. i haven’t had any interaction with her since june 2010. and she never appears in my LSB10! –> she is my silent stalker.
  what else can it be?

  i do think MO5 is a mix of your stalkers, people you stalk and people you interact with over a period (a few months probably)

• Thanks, @crazykrush!

  ARGH!! Why can’t we work this out?! Lol MO5 is showing my crush, who apart from me *occasionally* checking his profile, we have next to zero interaction (one status like, one tagged photo). Of 900+ friends, he HAPPENS to show up? Along with a bunch of people I do interact with? I’d like to think he’s checking me out… but… I don’t want to get my hopes up.

  Which suggests it’s MY actions putting him there. But some of the others there I haven’t visited at all!

  So your mum’s thing suggests it is stalkers? That’s a good way of working it out.

• @Briar

  nope.. i only have profile pics of myself, uploaded straight from my hard drive.
  i had public contact with all of my MO5 in the past few months, so it kinda make sense to see them there.

  apart from my MUM! she is passive on facebook, the last post on her wall is from a year ago, she doesnt even have a profile pic. BUT i know for sure she is stalking me (i asked her to join facebook, because she is always worried abour me. she checks my fb so she knows im alive LOL)

  We have NO mutual interaction NO photos together –> that makes me think your stalkers can appear in your MO5
  (btw she is not listed as my family and we have different surnames)

• My 2 cents, having just read through a lot of this.

  Almost every person in my MO5 (after multiple refreshings) is someone I have either been tagged with in a profile pic I’ve used, or I’ve used one of their pics as my profile pic. It’s very consistent – certain people in my MO5 I have had no other contact with apart from these pictures!

  I think it’s a mix of this, and people you have contacted recently, postings and mutual interaction.

  Any thoughts? Could someone test this out with their own profile?

• @tintin: under people you may know: what would you say the time frame is on this? Checked your profile within the last 4, 10, 12 hours? Last day or so? I notice it is the SAME six people, yet there are people who comment alot to me IRL(in real life) that they were checking out my page, almost daily, yet, they NEVER appear (or as of yet) on the list of 3 on ‘people you may know’ page. Why do you think this is? Also, there is one guy I KNOW is creepin’ on me, he leaves texts(I wish I NEVER gave him my #)and voice mail about posts and pics I’m tagged in. He has NEVER EVER been on Top10, nor MO5 nor People Intereacted with. Why is this?

• My crush usually showed up on LSB10 and MOB5. Then she and I got together. She admitted stalking my profile. We’ve stopped publicly interacting on FB, but now that I am more apprised of her movements, I know that she disappears from LSB10 whenever she hasn’t been online in like half a day or so. (MOB5 not effected). How often I view her profile doesn’t change this.

• How odd that my ‘recently intereacted with’ list is also made up of ALMOST NEW people. People that I have been viewing profiles and pictures and also commented on their wall (Happy Bdays & likes). But “Kitty” is gone:( I guess she’s mad at me, lol. Anyway my crush is not on the list of interacted with, despite the fact that we have been pm each other at least once a day. Crush is, however, on my Top10 list! Yipee! But I did break down and check out his page late last night…no posts or pictures viewed, just poking around his page and checking out some of his friends.

  Also, if it is true that the people who are in the ‘people you may know’, like tintin said, then it’s pretty creepy that my bro-in-law is on there,ewwww. But it is nice to know that my exhusband is on there along with my Crush! and the few other suspected regulars.

• @ethereal and gel: This new list is So weird. And Yes, they liked my “happy birthday” post and commented on it. Some of them don’t even log in to facebook. I think new “recently interacted list” shows the people that “I” have visited- my own interest. Another thing. My crush has never showed up on LSB 10 but everywhere else, including MO5 and recently interacted list, etc etc. After so much self controlling and blocking him from my news feed, I managed to not visit him for 2 months! haha. To see where this FB mystery leads me to. He has shown consistenly on the MO5 and first one to show on my research bar. But, as of yesterday, Everything is changed. He’s not the first one to come up on my research bar and he no longer is on my Recently interacted list. He also does not come up on the grid view.

  So, After not visiting him for the longest time,

  He’s off of my – Recently interacted list, research bar, and grid view of my friend list.

  But, he’s still showing on MO5 and LSB 10 (Which never happened before)

  FB has definitely tweaked its algorithm.
  I thought I was getting clear on this one. But, as of yestrday…………….:(

• By the way, does the LSB10 appear the same for both the profile owners and for the visitors to the owner’s page (if the owner did not choose to hide the friend list)? Or does the LSB10 can appear differently for different visitors?

• OMG took me two days to read the thread and now im even more confused than before…

  anyway the reason i wanna solve this mistery is ofcourse my CRUSH. i added him on fb a few months ago, i know for a fact he checked my profile pics because he posted on my wall he likes them… but things got messy IRL as he is the most popular guy at my college. he is for sure a player and im one of those im-gonna-turn-the-player-into-my-boyfriend types…. *sigh* so im stalking him obsessively. :S

  now.. he keeps reappearing in my LSB10 and my MO5, as well as among the 3 friends in the people you may know section as Tintin suggested…and of course he is the first hit in the searchbar when typing his initial. he is not in my recently interacted list though. as i check his page regularly, i know that im also in his LSB10.. not always but i keep coming back every few days. he has like 1000 friends and most of the time his LSB10 consist of chicks i suspect he has something going on with.

  another funny thing is that there is a girl in my MO5 who i have almost no contact with, but she is bestfriends with the girl i know my crush has slept with. so maybe this girl also stalks him and me as well through her friends’ profile..

  although my crush comments on my status once in a blue moon (he even shared my link once) i cant believe that he is checking my page regularly.. also, i hardly ever initiate any public interaction between us, so im really just a stalker. :(

  as much as i wanna convince myself that he stalks me back i believe its my obsessive stalking that caused him appear everywhere. and its not funny at all :(

• @OMG Did those people respond to your birthday wall posts with a like or a comment? Because in my new Recently Interacted, there are people who I wrote on their wall for their birthday but they did not “like” the post or leave a comment, so the only mutual interaction that could have occurred was that they looked at my profile.

  It’s no longer clear to me whether “Recently Interacted” means mutual interactions (including profile viewing) or just our own activity.

• I noticed a change on a lot of the ‘recurring’ friends on each list. Should probably wait a week to see how it plays out. D*mn Facebook, they changed up the secret formula as we slowly closed down on it.

• I have been following the discussion for a while. I tried the method TinTin suggested and it’s been the same 10 people :) Last night the Recently Interacted list did change. Looks like this is not a random incident… I hope facebook is not looking at this page as us folks are almost close to the answer…

• I have been following the discussion for a while. Last night the Recently Interacted list did change. I hope facebook is not looking at this page as us folks are almost close to the answer… I tried the method TinTin suggested and it’s been the same 10 people :)

• @gel. Yes! These people on my LSB 10 and recently interacted list should have no interest in looking at my profile whatsoever. That’s why I found it funny. Because wishing them a happy birthday was like the “only” interaction we had in the past. These are VERY random. MO5 seems to be consist. I seriously started thinking that FB is reading our discussion. :(

• I noticed a change on a lot of the ‘recurring’ friends on each list. Should probably wait a week to see how it plays out. D*mn Facebook, they changed up the secret formula as we slowly closed down on it.

• My LBS10 went through some major changes overnight, there are a ton of truly seemingly random people there now, people who seriously should have zero interest in looking at my profile, I’m not even sure these people log on. The LBS10 of my crush also seems to have undergone a major change. Did this happen to you and to the LBS10 of your crush’s profile as well?

• Hmm. Last night, My research bar and “recently interacted with” list has been updated. (This doesn’t happen very often!)

  Well, I realized something funny.

  Everyone on the “recently interacted with” list consist of the people who I visited recently to say Happy Birthday. o_O

  I mean EVERYONE is the people that I have wrote on the wall in the past 2 months. Isn’t it interesting?

  Has anyone else noticed the change recently?

• Interesting discovery!!! :

  The experiment I did about 2 months ago (the one no-one gave a fvck about XP ): The person whose profile I’d been checking out for about 10 days, and my fake profile I’d been checking out my real profile with for the same amount of time – they both began to appear now in my MO5!! They have NEVER appeared in my MO5 before… This means it shows both the ppl you are checking out and also the ones who are checking YOU out ;) The reason I’m so happy about this is because my crush is also there, although during that period I didn’t checked out his profile, or clicked on anything he posted!! *happy dance*

  If sy else has already realized this, then srry, I didn’t read every single comment.. But hey, at least it means it really is true X3

• There may just be something to the mutual friends thing that tintin posted about. I was checking last night (a little too obsessively….bored much?? lol) and the SAME 10 people kept coming up. I can confirm that at least 7 of those people are those who I KNOW check out any pictures I post (and I post a lot) because they either comment, like, or tell me in person they loved my pics. Annnnnnd, my crush continues to show in the that group even though he has never commented on anything I do. hmmmmm….

  Now I checked this morning, and there is a new person showing up rather consistently. It is someone who I know is online this morning, because she posted an update. So perhaps she too looked at my profile and my pictures if she was going through her news feed. Very interesting…..

  @Anonymous, I noticed that the 10 people showing on the right hand side (the new “available to chat” feature) are only the ones who are in my MO5 and LSB10. They are there 24’7. Which I thought was odd, because I am sure they are not on FB 24/7. So I clicked on one of them, which made ME available, and THEN it showed me who was actually online. But at that point it showed other friends who were online, not just the same 10 who always appear there. So again, FB continues to only show me certain friends for whatever reason everywhere, and I have so many more friends who are far more active than those that FB continues to show in my MO5 and LSB10.

  Guys, try what tintin said….these are NOT people who I look at EVER. I may have looked at some of their pics or profiles once or twice, and a couple of them I have never looked at their profile. So I KNOW it MUST be those who are looking at me. (or at least I hope, since Mr. Crush continues to be there, even though we don’t interact at all publicly, and have only pm’ed a few times.)

• @ anonymous.Tis is how i got my cats profile to show on my top10. 1, I frinded “Kitty” on my FB. Had “Kitty” request ME as a friend. 2. Made it into a real account. Invited friends and neighbors and realtives to be on “Kitty’s page (my family & friends are all aware that I am weird like that!). Then I interacted with “kitty”. I posted on her page, left comments, poked her, had her reply to my posts and all other interactions. 3. Then I BLOCKED her from my FB page for about a week or so. 4. Then I UNBLOCKED her and re-requested friend her. She accepted and then “Kitty” started viewing the hell out of my page. Left no messages, no likes, nothing, just creepin around…looking at pictures and visiting friends on my list and creeping around on their pics.

  Less than a day after “Kitty” did all this she was on my RECENTLY INTERACTED list, my MO5 list and my TOP10! She is still on my MO5 and RECENTLY INTERACTED list but not my TOP10 (the last couple of times I checked).

  @cutecats: I will check it out. thanks

• At the moment I am just getting a bunch of random friends; I refreshed about 5 times with mainly different people each time, which is weird.

  I agree that the algorithm has something to do with profile views.

  Anyway, you can help us to figure out what the algorithm is at this link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CRQZ4LFKD

  Could be helpful.

• When you finish the survey there is a small link on the right hand side that takes you to the results.

  Also, if theres anything wrong with the survey or something could be changed please let me know :)

• @Anonymous: it has been said before that the LSB10 depends on mutual views. Is your fake account showing up in your MO5?

• I am interested in finding out if the LSB10 looks the same to you on your people as it does to people who visit your profile. Do people visiting your profile see the same people in the LSB10 that you do?

  Also, when I go to edit friends, what is this “recently interacted” list have to do with anything? Could these be the people that view your profile…and what about the gridview of friends? Is this grid in any particular order of people? Oh, and the chat box! All three thingys seem to show the same, basic group of people…hmmmmm….What do you all think? Have you noticed this?

  I am really interested in finding out the secret here, and I have a lot of extra time on my hands….I made a fake account at the library at school and started getting on my real account a few times a day with the fake account using the other internet connection…However, my fake account has never showed up on my LSB10, and I have spent plenty of time on my realy account using this fake one. So I think there is more to the story than the LSB10 simply being people who view you. Any ideas?

• As much as I’d like to think otherwise, I don’t think the “mutual friends” theory is correct….these are the people I stalk, and whose profiles I spend the most time on. These are not the people who stalk me…unfortunately. :(

• Tintin, how are you sure of that? I tried it, and I refreshed over and over. I kept getting the same 10 people, all of whom constantly show on my MO5, but not my LSB10. And not ALL of those who come up in the MO5 came up when I kept refreshing. My deceased relative was one who also kept coming up.

  Thank you anonymous for the explanation as to why my dead relative continues to come up in my MO5. That makes a lot of sense. I am sure she viewed my profile a lot just before she died because she had liked a bunch of pictures I had put up and she was tagged in some of them.

  my “crush” continues to show up on my MO5. and it is driving me crazy. I don’t think he has been on FB for awhile (at least he hasn’t posted anything) so maybe that is why he keeps coming up – if he viewed my profile last time was on. And he continues to be #1 in the search bar when I enter his first and last initial. ????? If it were done in alphabetical order, there are MANY that should come up before him.

  I have been watching this closely for months, and I notice that the MO5 is ALWAYS the same 15-20 people. It NEVER changes. I even put up a lot of pics, and had a lot of people comment and like, and they are not in the MO5. I just wish I knew how FB chose which 15-20 people to keep on the MO5. It NEVER changes.

• @Kava: Same thing happened to me too.Its just a glitch.Anyways,I am not saying all of them are your profile visitors.But most of the people who show on that list are those who visit you.It need not be every day.I beleive they visit every time they log on.I’m very sure of this.

• I also get 4-5 same people that I have heavily interacted with lately. I have also looked at the beta version of it and I get different people. One of the girl that I have defriended about 2 months ago frequently pop up.

  Hmmmm. :( I am even more confused.

• yeah, I did that. Same couple of people comming up. I’m guessing you’re going to tell me that these are people who are viewing my profile…or I have viewed or posted on in the last xx amount of days? There is one small glitch in that a ‘fake’ profile of a fake ‘friend’ I made about six months ago and ‘unfriended’ about three months ago also popped up! How do you explain THAT?

• Alright,I’ll disclose for those who are really dying to know the secret.But I’m sure its going to change for me after this.Anyways,here is what I’ve found.
  Go to the ‘people you may know’ section.There you’ll find some criteria to search your friends.In the ‘mutual friends’ criteria,they mention 3 people.You keep on refreshing it and tell me what you find.I’m waiting for your responses !!

  • Tintin… Both myself and my best friend looked at that section…
    For us, they are some of the same people who show up in our MO5…
    Of course for me they are mostly friends who come to my page – and I know they do – I see them frequently. And there is 1 who I know is interested in me. And my crush (who, as I’ve meantioned before, we no longer contact each other for the last 2 months).

    Oh and sidenote – my crush who was showing up in my best friend’s MO5 last week, isn’t showing up today…
    We’ve uploaded some new pics, so we’ll see if that changes. ;)

• That one and a half months thing is extremely UNTRUE. I have people in my FaceBook list that I have never talked to except for birthdays. Some people are people who if I’m friends with them, I haven’t talked to them for at least 2-3 months. Especially a certain group of 3 people because I only talked to one of them but that had to be several months ago. I have suspected it was who page-stalks you the most since they changed it.

• it means he’s diggin’ you lalala

• What does it mean if one of my friends keeps coming up on the LSB10 on the same day every week and stayed there for 2 days before disappearing? Haven’t interact with him for 2 months

• if you havent publicly interacted with more than 10-15 people (as far as facebook algorithms can tell) in the past month and a half…i would assume that the algorithm would just revert to holding on to interactions that were most recently picked up…
  if youre constantly worrying about who is scoping your profile and hoping theyre digging you…having not publicly interacted with more than 10-15 people in the past month and a half definitely seems feasible.

• if you havent publicly interacted with more than 10-15 people (as far as facebook algorithms can tell) in the past month and a half…i would assume that the algorithm would just revert to holding on to interactions that were most recently picked up…
  if youre constantly worrying about who is scoping your profile and hoping theyre digging you…having not publicly interacted with more than 10-15 people in the past month and a half definitely seems feasible.

• Found this from another site – It’s definition applies to my situation.

  “Quoting facebook here,
  By default, a changing selection of friends always appears under the “Friends” heading in the left column of your profile. The selection includes many friends who you publicly interact with the most. Examples of public interactions include Wall posts, comments and mutually attended events — Facebook will never show friends based on whose profiles you choose to view or who you interact with over messages and chat.
  Source(s):
  http://www.facebook.com/help/search/?q=profile+friends
  ^then click on ‘Which friends appear in the left column of my profile?'”

  But of course, I’m madly interested in the MO5/MO10…
  And I repeat, my crush shows up on my best friend’s MO5/M010 as well – yet she’s had 2 pm’s with him about me months ago. She does not view his profile – and won’t for the sake of our experiment.

• Wow, I’m such a sad human being. =/
  *insert emo moment here*

• @Trintin. could you please share that answer with me? please!! I really have to know this!! :(

• Hi
  I like a girl who has a bf (a jerk). I have already told her i like her coz i think she likes me too. But she said she just wants to be “friends”. What i think is that she still likes me, but i made a mistake of waitin 2 yrs b4 telling her, and she got tired of waitin and found another. We r still friends, tho its hard 4 me.

  Now for the point. I used to initially look at her and her bf’s profile obsessively. Both came into my MO5 and were first on my search bar. I then stopped looking altogether after a few months. What i know for sure is that he NEVER visits fb.
  After few months, NOW, both r still on MO5. So i am sure, MO5 is based on both. ( as ther r other ppl who i dont visit)
  But, since the beginning, she always comes on LSB10 whenever i post something. She stays for a day or two, then disappears. We have never interacted on fb, except being tagged in a photo together. The twist is, HE HAS TILL NOW NEVER COME ON MY LSB10.
  She still remains first on my search bar, tho he has now moved to second.

  So, that proves that LSB10 exclusively consists of who view your profile.

  P.S. – I don’t know how this drama in my life will end!
  One thing is for sure… “Can you be friends with someone you love, who knows you love them”
  Yes. You can. Its very very hard. But, you can.

• @tintin you have to tell me!! would you send me an email with the answer!! I have to know!!

• After weeks and weeks of research,I’ve found how to find who stalks you !! But I wont disclose it :P You know why :(

  • Oh Tintin, you know so well that you can’t post something like that and not tell. It’s just not fair.

• MO5 is the five people you see when you mouseover your name on your profile. Actually you see 20 friends if you refresh.

• what is “MO5”??

• I would also like to hear your comments on why I get events of friends (mostly the people I think creep on me)up on right corner. I am NOT invited to these events…so I don’t understand why they are popping up. Just yesterday ‘CRUSH’ and I had a few PM’s to each other (actually more like early early morning)and I posted and update via phone this morning. My guess is he was creepin on my page and that’s why his *event* (it’s a birthday party for a friend of his that I don’t know and is out of state). A while back I got one for a highschool reunion from four states over where my cousin lives and it’s his highschool! Yes, he’s a regular top 10 and I have NEVER had any interaction since last year with him. Suggestions, reasons, stalkers? creepers? Random? I think not.

• What I would like to KNOW (although I have a theory) is when I FB someone for the 1st time, I usually get under “people you may know” their friends pictures. I get this, you friended them now FB wants to see you checking out some of THEIR friends. What I DON’T get is the fact that interspersed with my newfound FB friends are a few *regulars* who seem to have “people you may know” for me. One is my ex husband, one is a girl I work with, one is the HS stalker-girl I just re-freinded and one is my crush (yeah!). NONE of these people, with the exception of the work friend who posts a TON of pictures, I have visited their pages.Anyone have any ideas on that?

  Also on my FRIEND II list: it has started…already my crush is showing up on there, along with two of the other TOP10 ‘regulars’, I’m beginning to have my doubts about that being random also. I mean, come on, now my 15 ‘recently interacted with’ and a few of the regulars are showing on BOTH freekin’ lists? HOW RANDOM IS THAT? Do it yourself folks, you’ll see what I mean.

  And yes “KITTY” is still on my ‘recently interacted with’ list’ :) (I think it’s coz she secretly gets on FB when I”m sleeping and pokes around my page, LOL!)

• I talked in a post a few weeks ago about how my ex’s new boyfriend shows up when I type in both his initials into the search bar, even though we’re not FB friends and I’ve only looked at his profile a few times, and that was several months ago.
  Well, before when he showed up, it was always at the bottom of the list. Now, when I type his first initial in, he is the first person to come up – even ahead of my best friend! When I type his last initial in he is third. I have absolutely not looked at his profile in months, I haven’t even typed his name into the search bar – nothing. First, why is he even showing up at all, and second, how did he jump up so high on that list??

• @ cher: I find that interesting too about my deceased friend. She was appearing on my MO5 but never my Top10. About a month ago (maybe a little longer) I ‘blocked’ her because 1. I didn’t like seeing my dead friend when I did the mouseover and 2. I was running my experiment on blocking the people who show up most on my Top10 who really shouldn’t be there(i.e. people who *I* don’t contact or look at via FB). Well, like I said the one’s who I ‘unblocked’ and ‘refriended'(the one’s who have accepted my freind re-requests) have shown up on my TOP10, some have not responded to my freind re-request.

  I will ‘unblock’ my dead friend. There is NO WAY she can re-friend me because, well, she’s no longer in the worldly realm. It will be interesting to see what happens there.

  Yes “Kitty’ is STILL there. However, “Kitty” hasn’t been on my Top10 for a few days. She still ‘lingers’ around the MO5 and is most definitly still on my RECENTLY INTEREACTED list! How interesting is THAT? From MY end the only interaction I had with “Kitty” was a post on her wall two months ago and I haven’t signed onto her account since the day she started showing up on my TOP10.

  Here is another experiment I did: I made a new list. Titled it FRIENDS II and put every single one of my friends on THAT list. Now, on the profile page you only get 3 pictures of whatever list YOU created. THOSE people on THAT list definitly ARE random because old aunts and second cousins and HS people are showing up on that list. Everytime I refresh the page my TOP10 stays the same but FRIENDS II changes. Hmmmm.

• Cher, computers and internet run off databases. A server should have it’s own database, like Facebook’s server will have a database. What I’m trying to say is, when your relative sadly passed away, it keeps record of that because that was their ‘LAST’ login. It is different to someone who stops viewing your profile, because they log in daily or so. Take my friend for example, he went on vacation for a week or two, in the search bar list, he was appearing first under both letters of his first and second name. For him to appear first, it must judge by the last login. When he came back, he did start appearing on my left friends bar.

  Things are judged by how frequent a user is on Facebook, their activity, therefore, when your relative passed away, the last record of their activity was viewing your profile a lot and because that was their last activity, the Facebook Servers database recognises your relatives last activity, understand?

  If however someone was viewing your profile a lot and then started to disappear from your MO5, this would indicate that in recent activity of their login’s recorded, they haven’t been viewing as such. Remember MySpace, where it would keep track of your last login and show details? Facebook will work on the same principle. So because your relatives last active time on Facebook was viewing your profile a lot, this perhaps may explain why the relative shows on your MO5 most, or that you really only had 20 maximum people viewing your profile.

  It is definitely nothing random, I am having one girl who is friends with someone who is active with myself, her friend of recent weeks has started showing up in the search list and she is there quite often. You know how girls minds work, they see their friend talking to some guy they don’t know, then curiosity kills the cat. Look at everyone here as an example, it’s evidently clear curiosity gets the better of people and without even questioning things, it is obvious it is profile views. What interests me about that search bar at the top however, whether being top is most recent views or most frequent. If you watch that list, you may find some who remain top for a while and then gradually fall down the list and then off the search list under the specific letter. That probably shows that within a few days of their activity, they have stopped viewing your profile. I recently had someone slowly drop off mine.

  I stated above I create YouTube videos and share them on my Facebook, the people showing up on the search list at the top, they tend to be people who watch my videos, that is how I know for sure it is not random people. Those specific people have admitted in the past to watching my videos and a number of them added me to Facebook from YouTube ;)

  • That explains a LOT, thank you!! *-*

• JV15: You may be right about that, because after refreshing multiple times, I noticed that only those I have interacted with are appearing on the MO5. But some of them I had barely ANY interaction with, but still had some. For instance, one guy appears on my MO5 ALL the time – I went to HS with him, and the ONLY thing I have EVER written to him was “happy birthday” on his b-day. Now, I have wished many ppl happy birthday, and they are not on my MO5 ever. So does this guy check out my page? Now, one of the ex-boyfriends who also always comes up, I have never had any interaction with at all other than to send a friend request. Also, he rarely ever writes anything on FB (his last post was in June) so I don’t know if he is ever even on FB. Makes you wonder….

  kava: That is REALLY interesting about your cat and how you looked at your own profile through the cat’s and now the cat is coming up on your MO5!!! See, that is why I believe the MO5 are those that view YOU the most. I notice that some that are constant on the MO5 appear in my LSB10 but not all. So what does that mean?? I HAVE interacted with all of those PUBLICLY at one time or another that are in my LSB10 constantly….even if it was only clicking “like” on their post. So…..since I have never PUBLICLY interacted with my crush, and he never appears in my LSB10 (that I have seen) and ONLY on my MO5, what could that mean?

  But there are SOOOO many other friends that I have only interacted with privately once or twice (just like my crush) and none of them have EVER appeared in my MO5. :/

  OK, this is what I think……ALL of our crushes are madly in love with us and creeping our profiles constantly, and we all just want the proof, so that is why we are here obsessively trying to figure all this crap out! LOL

  But the ONLY thing that bothers me is that my deceased relative continues to appear in my MO5. Could she be viewing my things from above and trying to let me know she is still around?

• I know it’s been said before, but it really seems likely that the top10 is determined by profile views, but only after you have had public contact in the past. When two people who have had public contact engage in any kind of private contact – profile views, personal messages, etc. – that’s enough to get placed on one another’s top 10

• I concur with Cher. But, here is an interesting thing that happened to me yesterday, two things actually.

  First, I have a FB page for my cat (corny I know!), the only friends she has is a couple of my family members. I have posted from my ‘regular’ FB account onto her wall a couple of times a few months ago. Yesterday I logged onto ‘Kitty’s account and viewed MY regular account and scanned through some people on my friends list (then scanned through some of THEIR friends lists also). This was two days ago. Yesterday ‘Kitty’ appeared on my top 10 list! Also on my MO5! ‘Kitty’ has stayed on there, on and off, for the last two days. Also ‘Kitty’ has appeared on my “recently intereacted” list when I go to my edit friends list. Coincidental? Me thinks NOT!

  Second: Two days ago I posted a funny status update. Right after I posted that my crush shows up on my Top10. Then, right after that I get a PM from him! Then he’s gone off the Top10, but stays on MO5. I waited a day and PM’d him back…He has stayed on my TOP10 for the last day.

  Something else to add. There is a guy at work I am friends with who I NEVER have ANY FB contact with (why would I? I see him everyday), HE is ALWAYS in my TOP10. Then at work a bunch of us got to talking about internet stalking and creepers and such. I made a comment about the funny status (it had to do with who I found to be ‘sexy’ – and projected back to the person who viewed the update). HE disappeared from my TOP10 immediatly after that. However, he has been ‘hitting’ on me since posting that update AND yesterday there he was back on my TOP10. Hmmmmmm…

• I concur with Cher. But, here is an interesting thing that happened to me yesterday, two things actually.

  First, I have a FB page for my cat (corny I know!), the only friends she has is a couple of my family members. I have posted from my ‘regular’ FB account onto her wall a couple of times a few months ago. Yesterday I logged onto ‘Kitty’s account and viewed MY regular account and scanned through some people on my friends list (then scanned through some of THEIR friends lists also). This was two days ago. Yesterday ‘Kitty’ appeared on my top 10 list! Also on my MO5! ‘Kitty’ has stayed on there, on and off, for the last two days. Also ‘Kitty’ has appeared on my “recently intereacted” list when I go to my edit friends list. Coincidental? Me thinks NOT!

  Second: Two days ago I posted a funny status update. Right after I posted that my crush shows up on my Top10. Then, right after that I get a PM from him! Then he’s gone off the Top10, but stays on MO5. I waited a day and PM’d him back…He has stayed on my TOP10 for the last day.

  Something else to add. There is a guy at work I am friends with who I NEVER have ANY FB contact with (why would I? I see him everyday), HE is ALWAYS in my TOP10. Then at work a bunch of us got to talking about internet stalking and creepers and such. I made a comment about the funny status (it had to do with who I found to be ‘sexy’ – and projected back to the person who viewed the update). HE disappeared from my TOP10 immediatly after that. However, he has been ‘hitting’ on me since posting that update AND yesterday there he was back on my TOP10. Hmmmmmm…

• What wouldn’t i give right now to join the mark zuckerberg’s team or the facebook company, so that i would have access to all their secrets! :-(

• i have no idea whether its true or not.
  out of the ten friends that appear on my list, only like 6 of them i have interacted a lot with.
  about three friends i have like NEVER publicly OR privately interacted with or maybe just once or twice.
  but, everytime i refresh the page, ITS ALWAYS THE SAME PEOPLE.

  im so confused. i think its true, but maybe it isnt?

• Well, I have still been watching, trying to figure this all out. A couple of things I have noticed…the MO5 MUST be people who view your profile or your pictures because I just posted a bunch of pictures of a family reunion, and I got a few comments. Those that commented are showing under the MO5. BUT…I saw a cousin today, and she said she looked at my pics last night, but she didn’t comment or like or anything. Well, she shows up on my MO5 constantly (along with my “crush” and my ex-boyfriends, who also never say a word or “like” anything I do).

  I don’t know if this is a recent change or not, but I have started to see a group of ppl on the right side that are available to chat. Now I am NOT available, so I would never appear on that sidebar. I notice the list rarely changes. What I HAVE noticed is, those that are appearing as available to chat, are also the same friends who CONSTANTLY appear under my LSB10. Is this a coincidence??

  Another thing….while I was busy adding all of my photos, I kept getting “friends albums to view” on the right hand side. Everytime I uploaded another group of pics, it changed, but I noticed it pretty much was the same group of people who are always either in my LSB10 or my MO5. What about the other 300 friends I have?? I did notice my crushs’ albums kept coming up, and I have only viewed his pics once or twice. It was like FB was enticing me to look at his profile, which I am trying NOT to do. Hmmmmm.

  Whenever I enter his first OR last initial in the search bar, he ALWAYS comes up first. We have the same first initial and he came up the other day BEFORE me when I typed in that initial. Now is that because I searched for him once? Or could he be secretly looking at my profile. This is all just so baffling.

  The one thing that puzzles me about the MO5 is, a relative who died 2 months ago keeps coming up. Now obviously she isn’t looking at my profile, but I sometimes click on hers to see if anyone has sent any comments or anything. All just so strange. And it’s driving me crazy, and I basically just want to know if this guy is viewing me a lot or not! The only contact we have EVER had on FB was a couple of pm’s, and that was months ago, so I have no idea why he continues to pop up on my MO5. ?????

• Okay, so my birthday was a couple days ago, and as expected I had a bunch of people post on my wall. These people ranged from those that I talk to all the time, to those who I haven’t talked to for years. I was really curious to what this would do to my Top 10. As it turns out, absolutely nothing. I think this shows that the top 10 isn’t determine by profile views ALONE. Or at least, one quick profile view and post probably isn’t enough for someone to jump right into the top 10. That’s about all I’ve surmised from that.

  Here’s something else I found out, however. For weeks now I’ve avoided going to my ex gf’s page, partly because I just don’t want to deal with that, but partly because I was interested in seeing what would happen with my top 10 if I stayed away. She is pretty much a regular on my top 10, even though we haven’t had any contact on FB for months, other than some photos we were both tagged in about two months ago. She’s not always in my top 10 though. It’s very common for a week or so to go by without her showing up. Then I’ll do something like change my profile pic, or post something interesting, and voila there she is. Usually she’d be gone in about a day again. This is without me ever looking at her profile.
  Last night I did look at it finally, a couple of times. Since then, she hasn’t left my top 10 at all. I’ll have to wait a little longer to make sure this is true, but it’s looking good. I think that we’ve had a lot of contact in the past, so that when one looks at the other’s profile, it’s enough to sort of “refresh” the relationship and get the person into the top 10. If there are mutual views, then it’s even more effective.

  Also, another person who regularly in my top 10 is my aunt who only has like 40 friends. I’ve hardly ever spoken to her on FB. She also lives in another state, and I know that she checks my profile somewhat often because when I see her she’ll remark about things I’ve posted. I’ve gone to her page a couple times, but not very much because there’s just not much to see. I think this is a case where we’ve had enough communication in the past to where profile views are enough to bump her up into my top 10.

• More information on TOP 10. There is a woman I work with who I FB friended when she joined the company 6 or so months ago. We maybe liked a couple of things or commented once or twice SIX OR 8 MONTHS AGO! When I first started noticing the NON random list I realized she was always on it. Well she broke her phone (she used it to access web) and didn’t have one for like 2 weeks. Her face dissappeared from my list. Fast foward to this past week, new phone for her and her face on my list! She came into work today and said “HI [secret nickname]”. I almost croaked. The ONLY way she could have known that name was by looking at something specific on my FB profile! So, she’s a creeper and THAT is why she is showing in my Top 10.

  Go to your friend list and hit “EDIT LIST”. Notice anyting weird about the PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW on that particular page? HMMM, me thinks those are friends of the last (or at least the last couple of people)people to access your profile. When my ex’s face is in the TOP 10, his friends always, always show up as PEOPLE I MAY KNOW, followed by the other creepers friends. Now I don’t mind these creepers per se, I just think it’s the way it is.

  My crushes’ picture showed on the list, and not 3 minutes later there was a PM from him comenting about a update I posted! THen of course it was replaced by one of the ‘regulars’. However crush does seem to pop up in MO5 alot.

  • All you people are just wishful thinking or paranoid

• I have a strong feeling that to an extent, the list does show the people who view your profile frequently. But then again, I could be saying this to convince myself that the boy I have strong feelings for views my profile a lot because he is in the list really often. I highly doubt the list shows the people you have ‘publicly interacted’ with in the past ‘month and a half’ because a lot of the users on the list are friends with whom I have had virtually no public interaction with – no liking of the same status, commenting on each others’/common friends’ photographs/wall-posts – nothing! The list also includes some people I chat a lot with on Facebook chat but that does not count as a public interaction so I don’t think the list would include them on that basis.

  One really strange thing about my list is that it almost ALWAYS shows 2-3 friends who are from the same ‘clique’ or who hang out a lot together/are really good friends. And it’s these friends out of the list who I have minimal Facebook interaction with – public or private. It’s this observation that strengthens my belief that the list does to an extent show people who view your profile a lot because quite often (especially with girls), girls of the same gang/group tend to stalk the same people, for various reasons.

  Another thing, I uploaded photos recently and the friends who commented on some of them appeared on the list right before commenting and stayed there for a while.

  The list could show people who view your profile a lot or people who have viewed your profile recently but definitely something along those lines.

• What you’ve said in your original article is definately true. Of my 15 or so friends that always pop up in my friends list on my profile, there are a few that I never publicly or privately interact with on facebook, we are not tagged in any of the same photos, we don’t message or write on walls etc, and I don’t look on their facebook pages. However I know they are frequently checking my facebook page because they always pop up in my friends list. There may well be other factors that are used to calculate who shows up in that list (e.g. public interaction, commenting on photos etc) but whether or not THEY look at YOUR page (and not the other way round) seems to be quite a big factor also. It’s weird that Facebook have not officially annouced or confirmed this… I’m absolutely certain it’s the case though. I do not get on with my bf’s family, I don’t check their fb pages ever, I don’t email them or look at their photos coz i have no interest to see what they are doing etc. However, if I put up a new album from a night out or holiday, they all start appearing in my friends list. The only explanation is that they are all having a good snoop at my page and my photos.

• What you’ve said in your original article is definately true. Of my 15 or so friends that always pop up in my friends list on my profile, there are a few that I never publicly or privately interact with on facebook, we are not tagged in any of the same photos, we don’t message or write on walls etc, and I don’t look on their facebook pages. However I know they are frequently checking my facebook page because they always pop up in my friends list. There may well be other factors that are used to calculate who shows up in that list (e.g. public interaction, commenting on photos etc) but whether or not THEY look at YOUR page (and not the other way round) seems to be quite a big factor also. It’s weird that Facebook have not officially annouced or confirmed this… I’m absolutely certain it’s the case though. I do not get on with my bf’s family, I don’t check their fb pages ever, I don’t email them or look at their photos coz i have no interest to see what they are doing etc. However, if I put up a new album from a night out or holiday, they all start appearing in my friends list. The only explanation is that they are all having a good snoop at my page and my photos.

• Okay, today is my birthday, which of course means I’m going to get a wide variety of people posting on my wall. Obviously, in order to post happy birthday on my wall they have to go to my profile.
  It should be interesting to see after today what all these different people posting on my wall does to my LSB10!

• Okay, this is a strange one: there was a girl I went to HS with. I friended her a while back(right AFTER FB changed early 2010), went thru her pics, maybe liked something or commented ONCE right after friending. She always came up on my 10list. So I blocked her. For two weeks it was nice to not see her on my list. Well I ‘refriended’ her not more than a 1/2 hour ago and guess what? Sure as cow crap, there she is, her big ole’ face plastered on my top 10! I’m sure it’ll stay there until I defriend her or die. WTF FB? It HAS to be views to MY profile (as I posted some new pics, new profile pic and a load of stat updates since blocking her). This is all good since my crush seems to pop up from time to time ;)

• i read through about half of your posts and observations and i came up with a pattern:

  1) at least 1 person on your LSB10 is the person you stalk.

  2) at least 1 person on your LSB10 is the person that stalks you.

  3) your “public interaction” is not only the likes, posts, and comments, but it also includes viewing.

  4) “viewing” not only consists of clicks, but also the time you stay on the page.

  i’ve been thinking, and i remembered how in the movie social network, mark said that facebook capitalizes on motives that are much like that of stalkers. it only makes sense that they would somehow try to make you click on people that you’re (secretly) interested in, or someone who you might possibly have a “connection”.

  what do you guys think?

• I’m glad I found this forum, I thought I was going crazy because my list rarely changes. I have blocked people who constantly stay on the top 10 so they fall off my radar (so to speak), and don’t ya know as soon as I ‘refreind’ them…there they are, right back on my top 10! It HAS to be people that look at YOUR profile. I specifically have picked random people on my list who are NOT on the rotating list and basically become their ‘stalker’. NOPE, nada, nothing…they don’t appear on my rotating list at all! Also, going to friend list (alpha list)and putting it in tile order-this seems to be people who view MY profile, as some of those people I haven’t had ANY interaction with at all but I’m pretty sure they look at at my profile and have me on their news feed. MO I think is people I HAVE had interaction with int he last couple of months. This is NOT a random list at all.

• I’m glad I found this forum, I thought I was going crazy because my list rarely changes. I have blocked people who constantly stay on the top 10 so they fall off my radar (so to speak), and don’t ya know as soon as I ‘refreind’ them…there they are, right back on my top 10! It HAS to be people that look at YOUR profile. I specifically have picked random people on my list who are NOT on the rotating list and basically become their ‘stalker’. NOPE, nada, nothing…they don’t appear on my rotating list at all! Also, going to friend list (alpha list)and putting it in tile order-this seems to be people who view MY profile, as some of those people I haven’t had ANY interaction with at all but I’m pretty sure they look at at my profile and have me on their news feed. MO I think is people I HAVE had interaction with in the last couple of months. This is NOT a random list at all.

• my side bar 10 list hasn’t changed in at least 2 months

  probably 2 people swapped out

• I have a friend that I am “off and on” with and he shows up in the LSB10 and MO5 on a regular basis. We have written on each others walls, had private messages and commented on pics. Sometimes we’ll have a quiet week or two with no interaction and he still shows up. Which made me think he was just checking out my wall. He is on vacation this week with no access to facebook and he hasn’t shown up once on either list. Weird huh.

• I have a friend that I am “off and on” with and he shows up in the LSB10 and MO5 on a regular basis. We have written on each others walls, had private messages and commented on pics. Sometimes we’ll have a quiet week or two with no interaction and he still shows up. Which made me think he was just checking out my wall. He is on vacation this week with no access to facebook and he hasn’t shown up once on either list. Weird huh.

• I have a friend that I am “off and on” with and he shows up in the LSB10 and MO5 on a regular basis. We have written on each others walls, had private messages and commented on pics. Sometimes we’ll have a quiet week or two with no interaction and he still shows up. He is on vacation this week with no access to facebook and he hasn’t shown up once on either list. Weird huh.

• What I have tested so far:

  Tested with two friends where I kept viewing their profiles for 4-5 days (I have never interacted with them on FB), each time about an hour or so. I appeared on their LSB10 after a few days later and I stayed in their list about 1-2 days before disappearing again.

• Has anyone else noticed a recurring select number of friends appearing under the “Mutual Friends” list of the “Find Friends” tab? If you click Find Friends and pay attention to the names appearing under the alternating ‘Mutual Friends’ list, you will notice that it is the same handful of people (less than ten).

  I’m curious, what significance do these people have for you? Are they people you interact with heavily or people you never think twice about? For me, I interact with all but three of the names that appear.

• After reading almost every single comment (twice), I thought I’d post what I found
  The friends list on the side consists of:

  1. People you have communicated with on Facebook recently and/or the most. So If they comment on a photo or write on your wall they will appear.

  2. The other part is made up of users who you yourself have viewed(the one’s you “stalk”). The rest are just random friends.

  I also found that there was a 2 day delay for a person that you “stalk” to appear on your page as one of the constant friends that appear again and again.
  (and by stalk i mean frequenting viewing their page &photos a lot)

  – If you go under privacy settings you can hide the friends list in the profile
  (starting to notice a lot of my friends hiding their friends lists lol)

  Hope that helped :)

• Haha I’ve been cracking up looking at some of these comments where someone’s crush keeps showing up on their profile no matter what!! xDD I am ALWAYS stalking mine =_____= and I never show up on his friends list. Whenever I type the first letter of his name,he automatically comes up. He comes up when I hover the mouse over my name a lot. But he is ALWAYS on my friends list. I’m getting REALLY paranoid. What if he sees that and makes an assumption…? D: I’m hoping it’s the other way around where the people that stalk you the most show up. There are a few people on my list that I haven’t talked to in awhile that do come up(all people that aren’t marked to have a relationship with me-family or something).
  1.An acquaintance(sp?)I don’t interact much with on fb,or anywhere other than school for that matter.
  2.Next,a good friend who’s status I commented on once,a month ago. She hasn’t posted anything on my page and vice versa.
  3.A girl who I’m good friends with,who’s statuses and pictures I like a lot.
  4.A guy friend who’s page I haven’t visited since school ended last month. Maybe even longer ago than that. We don’t interact on fb much at all.
  5.A girl who I’m really good friends with who I interact with a lot on fb.
  6.A girl I don’t interact with a lot on fb but we’re still good friends. I haven’t liked anything or commented on anything in around a month.
  7.My crush.WHO I STALK A LOT.O.O
  8.My former crush who I used to interact with a lot fb(and STALK her page),but I haven’t talked with her for a month on fb.
  9.A friend a contact a LOT on fb!!
  10.A friend I contact a bit on fb who’s statuses I like sometimes.
  So after looking at that,it seems as if the people who show up the most on the friends list,are the people you contact or have contacted a lot in a period of time,mixed in with people who you completely STALK or have stalked in the past xD,and then there’s maybe one random? It could go either way though(where the people that show up visit your page a lot). Because the people that showed up on my list are all people I’m friendly with. I don’t know. >.<

• I’ve been trying to figure out the search bar for a while and this is my thinking.. Basically everyone on the search bar is someone who you’ve tried searching for or clicked on. Also, it’s mutual friends. For the ones with no mutual friends, I’m still not sure about that. It could be based on your location or maybe profile views. What I still don’t understand is how facebook randomizes who shows up on the search list. Most of the time its the same people but it switches it up a lot and i’m not sure why.

• Thanks Anonymous much appreciated. Generally I wouldn’t care but I had some serious issues with another guy online and I had found a link between the main problem & the other person I had mentioned in my 1st post on here..it wasn’t much of a link but it was something odd (the 2 are on each other’s myspaces sites) there’s also a few other odd occurances that happened which struck me strange with this person..very long story I’ll spare lol As far as I’ve researched there are no mutual friends of mine linked to this guy, my Facebook is partially open to the public so I’d like to think of it as coincidence but who knows at this point…but then again I really don’t believe in coincidences anyway lol Thank you very much again:)

• Right about MO5 that should be called MO20! I don’t know why he’s called that way, I guess I’m using de popular terms ;)

• The mouseover should really be called MO20, since it is clearly based on a list of 20 people, distributed evenly to the MO view of five each time you refresh the page.

  Moreover I have the feeling that the amount of time your friends spend on fb counts more than anything else when these various lists (the mouseover and the search list in privacy settings) are generated.

• I’ve been looking at this for a while and this is my conclusion. Friends on the left (LSB10) are the person you interact with and of course your stalkers show up there sometimes. BUT, the thing is, they won’t show up there if you didn’t interact on fb publically together at least once. Because of that, the people you see on the left are rarely people you don’t care about at all, except for some random (1 of 10). In a way, it’s brilliant because both of you showed, in the past or actually, interest for each other by a public interaction. This interest being mutual and public, Facebook figure out that it’s ok to show this person on your page (there’s no privacy issues there since both of you participate publically in this relation). The frequency of time you see this person on your LSB10 is, I think, based (in part) by the profile visit/online statue etc.. but you must at least have a public interaction with this person . (Except for the random)

  On the other hand, MO5 and RESEARCH BAR (mostly the research bar in the privacy setting) are much more revealing because you see sometimes people you don’t visit or interact with at all, people who don’t seem to fit (for my situation often ex’s I really don’t follow on fb or guys I’m not interested in but I know could have a little crush on me or at least be curious about me). So because of that, I think the MO5 (who is private actually) is a MIX of the people you see on the friend list on the left (LSB10) + people looking at your profile (stalkers). The friends you see on the MO5 (the one you DON’T EVER interact with – stalkers) have good chance to be people you don’t really care about since you don’t interact with them, and so it’s no big deal, it’s just funny to know it.

  BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOU CRUSH SHOW UP ON THE MO5 or RESEARCH BAR?

  Let’s assume that since you have a crush on this person, big chance you viewed his profile and search them.

  IF YOU SEE HIM THERE and INTERACT PUBLICALLY on Facebook (comments, liked) impossible to know more about it because you already have a public “relation” together, the only thing Facebook his telling you is that this interest his mutual, no surprise since both of you already know that. You probably see this person on the friend list on the left sometimes (LSB10). So saying he’s stalking you is wrong because he’s maybe there because of the mix LSB10+ stalkers. = means nothing

  IF YOU SEE HIM THERE and NEVER INTERACT PUBLICALLY (just visit his profile) …Now it become more interesting because MO5 his telling you that profiles visits are mutual. But… you can’t say this person his a stalkers because you also probably did stalk him to, at least fb reveals you he’s curious enough about you to look at your page to, and so Facebook is not telling you this person is in love with you and stalking you obsessively, he’s just revealing you that your interest or curiosity for each other is mutual.

  So in conclusion, fb is actually saying the truth when saying “Facebook will never show friends based on whose profiles you choose to view or who you interact with over messages and chat”. To be on the list on the left (LSB10) real mutual interaction is the key (solo profile visit isn’t enough to be there) + some ramdom show up I don’t know why. The only place facebook could show friends based on whose profile you choose to view or interact over message and chat is the MO5 and the research bar since both are private. Does this fits for you guys? Looking at this since April…can’t figure out anything else.

• Two situations:
  I’ve been checking my lsb10 several times a day for a few weeks now, and I’ve noticed something. My ex girlfriend is a somewhat regular. For awhile I had been checking, and she didn’t show up, no matter how much I refreshed. For days she wouldn’t be there. Then, I changed my profile pic and the next day – Bam! she’s there. Then, about a week went by where she was completely absent again. Then, yesterday morning I changed my profile pic again, and later that day she was back. This seems way to coincidental to just be random. The most plausible conclusion would be that whenever she sees that I changed my pic, she clicks on it to look at it, which takes her to my profile.

  Other instance is with this guy who keeps showing up on my lsb10. He’s a friend from high school that I haven’t actually talked to since high school. Not in person, and definitely not on facebook. Yet, he keeps showing up on my list of 10, and then on the home page where it shows all my online friends, he’s always near the top. He’s even above people I talk to regularly. Is this just a glitch, because he’s really not someone that I would expect to ever look at my profile?

• Interesting you mention this Anonnn because the person that showed up under one of the letters in first at the top happened to be someone I had never seen before or ever checked their profile. Along those lines however, you could partially be correct, because something changes slightly sometimes when you do view peoples profiles. Although as someone mentioned before, I think there might be a slight delay, like a day’s delay that might give off the impression it’s a profile view.

  It is very difficult to tell. Some people showing up however, I never check their profiles what so ever, so something is rather odd about that and some of those that do show up under the letters that I never check their profile, sometimes show up on my Mouse-Over 5 or even the friends list. Just like fb has rightly mentioned, these people show up, they consistently appear yet no clue as to who they maybe.

  Also to mention, I have noticed sometimes the sidebar 10 list change to a friend and noticed that this person commented on my photo’s immediately after, a very strong indication that it was profile views.

• ^^^^^^^^^^^
  i forgot to add that of my 2 ex’s on facebook (neither of which had “in a relationship with _____” linked only one of them shows up and the other doesn’t show up anywhere.

  the ones profile that shows up in my mo5 and side bar i haven’t looked at her profile in about 3 months yet she shows up constantly on my sidebar/mo5. perhaps she is creeping me? her best friend (old coworker of mine) also shows up my sidebar/mo5. but i still interact with him occasionally.

  the other one i dated years ago before i even had a fb i haven’t been on her page in i can’t remember how long and don’t have any kind of interaction with her. and she does NOT show up in my mo5 or side bar.

  i’m more interested in who gets put up on top of your friends list when sorted by pictures. i definitely have a mix of people i’ve creeped on and those who possibly could be creeping and those i’ve interacted with recently… but it changes WAY more often than lsb10/mo5

• so i stopped looking at peoples profiles months ago aside from a few

  i now have people that i used to interact with all the time but never (at all) anymore interact on my left side bar 10 and mo5

  i do look at a few certain people’s profiles. I have noticed that their is a mix of those i view and ones i USED to interact with all the time but never do anymore in my side bar as well as mo5.

  honestly i think its just overall interaction. some of it is probably fb trying to get you to reconnect with people you used to interact with and some of it is who you view/creepers. also, i noticed people i didn’t really interact with but creeped on a couple months back are showing in my side bar.

  my mo5 is just what shows up when i sort friends by pictures rather than names and same as when i go to delete my profile the same people there show up. all these people i have interacted with at some point or creeped on in the past.

• What I find interesting is how Facebook changes the people who appear in your search bar. Within 15 mins a few or more people could be taken off the list and new ones may appear but theres always some who constantly stay on the list and I sometimes don’t know who they are so it can’t be personal interaction that keeps them on it.

• This indeed is very intriguing. 95 percent of the time I have the same 10 people showing on my friends side bar, some of which I never view their profiles/never interact with. Also what makes it stranger is that I comment on pictures/post walls posts on my best friend’s wall daily and they do vice versa..yet this friend never appears on my friends side bar. Which leads me to the conclusion that this side bar shows the people who view your profile the most. And as for the search bar I am pretty sure if you type a random letter, for example ‘a’ that the person who comes up first is someone whose profile you have viewed alot. Facebook is just trying to be subtle about it..

• Yes fb that is very strange, but after seeing my friends, friends showing inside the search bar, who I have never clicked on or viewed, that didn’t just happen for nothing. My friend has like WAY OVER 600 friends lol why is the one friend of his showing up in the search bar who I had no clue who that person was? But hey, I’m not complaining because this person looks :)

  Some people however have shown up in the search bar list who I have clicked on, sometimes it is not always the case though, I seen someone mention that it could be ‘mutual clicks’ like when you click on them, you might appear on theirs and they click on you. I would mess around with a secondary profile and view your own profile and just see what you come up with. My normal profile has never seen my secondary profile, so it would be interesting if I constantly viewed my own ‘main profile’ with this secondary profile. If anything shows up from that, you KNOW it is a definite profile view lol

  Kerry, if your profile shows the same 10 people all the time, they either view your profile to an extreme or that you have a very small profile friends list count. I mean my friends list isn’t exactly massive but it’s big enough to suggest there SHOULD be more people showing in this list, they never show. Only a certain group of people do and they sometimes show up on this list replaced by someone different. A number of these people showing up on that friends list, I know for a certain fact are subscribers to my YouTube channel and my videos as I say, show on my Facebook Profile. I met someone from another web site, the person added me up on Facebook as requested and there on my search bar shows evidence of her friends showing up on certain search letters.

  Leilani, when it comes to creating business, all business’s use tactics behind the scenes that you know nothing about. Take for example for business to make a profit they will buy from else where for less and sell it for more than what people think, that is how they make profit. It would be called ‘scamming’ it is like those electrical stores that would have sold PC’s for over a thousand yet, do they tell the people they could get their own PC made up for 500 less? No, that person working there is going to gain commission for his sales. In other words, Facebook more or less is a business and if they released information to the public that those are profile views, you will begin to see others become suspicious and Facebook may fear facing a reduction in numbers falling from their site because if they could lie about that, they could lie about people’s privacy. They won’t tell you a thing. Facebook is just a business like any other.

  Besides it is not like them becoming profile views are people that can see your private profile. And I have just found yet another person show up under one of the letters who is a friend of someone on my list :)

• Hi all. I have not posted here in about a month (almost to the day!) and I just want to share my findings.

  Forgive me if these things I talk about have been recently mentioned, but I’ve only skimmed what’s been said. (That alone took an hour and I’ll read it later lol ;)

  Anyways, I have not looked at my crush’s profile in over 10 weeks now. No comments, likes, nothing- he’s blocked from my news feed. He has also NOT contacted me during this time, on FB. About two weeks after my last post here, my crush came off my MO5 and LSB10. So I thought, a ha! our mutual interactions have expired and he’s gone! lol

  Tonight, I check my profile, he’s on my MO5 and my LSB10! Along with all the regulars. So, I go to “Edit Friends” to see my “recently interacted friends” and sure as sh!t, he’s on there too!

  There has been nothing, I tell ya! For AT LEAST 10 weeks! Thus, I believe this is my proof that he is watching me.

  I think viewing a profile is considered to be an interaction and I’m thinking perhaps the “recently interacted” with list is made up of your most recent visitors or maybe people who visit you the most. My list hardly changes at all.

  Two other things: His photos are no longer suggested to me to view (something I’m thrilled with) and they used to be EVEN when he’s blocked from my news feed. So IDK about how FB chooses those now.

  And if someone could help me fine the “Suggest Photos to Others” I would be ever so grateful! I can’t find it in the privacy settings…

• I keep having the same person show up in my search bar the somewhat uncomfortable thing about it is I’ve never searched for this person, we have no mutual friends that I have seen,this guy consistantly shows up at around slot 2 or 3 on the list amongst friends of mine whom I actually speak with on a regular, even more weird part about it is it comes & goes from day to day, sign in to sign in, or even week to week depending but theyalways end up in the same position…I don’t feel it is merely random at this point. What gives? I couldn’t find any information as to why on facebook. As I’ve said I’ve never recieved a friend request or even spoken at all with this person. Could it be they are always looking at my facebook which is pretty private except for my default pic & bio 411? Thanks u guy I look forward to hearing if anyone has had more luck in finding out than I have:)

• I keep having the same person show up in my search bar the somewhat uncomfortable thing about it is I’ve never searched for this person, we have no mutual friends that I have seen,this guy consistantly shows up at around slot 2 or 3 on the list amongst friends of mine whom I actually speak with on a regular, even more weird part about it is it comes & goes from day to day, sign in to sign in, or even week to week depending…I don’t feel it is merely random at this point. What gives? I couldn’t find any information as to why on facebook. As I’ve said I’ve never recieved a friend request or spoken at all with this person. Could it be they are always looking at my facebook which is pretty private except for my default pic & bio 411? Thanks u guy I look forward to hearing if anyone has had more luck in finding out than I have:)

• Mine is always the same 10 people. Not 15. 10. It’s just rearranged each time. 3 of which are my ex boyfriends…This makes me slightly happy:)

• Thanks for the reply anonymous. I’ve also been seeing people that I’ve searched for a long time ago. I searched for someone about 2 months ago, clicked on their profile a couple of times, and never saw them again on my search bar. I suddenly see the person now on my search bar. It seems like a coincidence. It seems like if you search for someone a lot it will automatically show their name first but I haven’t searched for that person in a long time and they suddenly show up so I thought it was just kind of weird.

• I don’t think it does ‘fb’. Because some people popping up on my side bar friends list indicating they’ve no doubt just shown up on my profile are bottom of that list. Although some of them that go down the list tend to disappear for a spell, depends. :)

• Oh I thought I would just inform you that the search bar at the top, it is most definitely page views. I have a friend from another country, commented on his photo, his own friends on his list have definitely clicked and viewed my profile and have appeared under the certain letters. Another way I can tell, I recently added someone to Facebook who I met from another site, I have noticed this person’s mutual friends all of a sudden appearing in this list. If they were recommendations, they would just show up at the right side of the page under recommendations of who you might know.

  It is easy enough to tell that from having commented on friends photo that persons friends have noticed this and viewed my profile, without question, because this foreign friend that I commented on, this friend says I’m popular (spoken about by his friends). So having seen a few of them now show up under search bar list, it is not about recommendations, I haven’t viewed their profiles, but they definitely have shown up under certain letters. Again, same applies to that other person I added, I noticed her friends were showing up on some of the letters.

  Let’s say you add someone who has 4,000 friends and like 3 out of 4,000 of his or her friends show up under those specific letters, you know it and I know it, it doesn’t just randomly recommend you 3 people from that list to show up. If it was to be a recommendation, it would be shown on the normal page under those you might know.

  So not only can you score off that it is not random, you can also score off that they show as recommendations ‘OR’ those you have viewed. Let’s face it! I see new people show up there every so often, even ones I have no clue who they are. Most of them are on my list, others most certainly not.

  Let me just say, I said something on that comment section of my friends photo, this photo had a lot of attention due to a certain personal issue. I made my comment and clearly as I can see, without viewing his friends profiles, they have without question, viewed my profile as they are coincidently showing up under one of the letters. Those I say who stay ‘CONSISTENTLY’ under those letters, are those perhaps who visit more frequently perhaps. I could be wrong, but there is definitely something about it.

  • Do you know if the order of your friends in your search bar matters? Say I type the letter A and you have 4 friends listed. Is the person on the top the person that has viewed my profile more than someone underneath them or does it not matter?

• AUTHOR OF THIS PLEASE READ I BELIEVE I HAVE THE CONCLUSION:

  After thoroughly studying the matter, I have concluded that the same people are NOT always on that side of my page. Instead, they are all there at certain intervals. At another interval in time, different people were there, even though one or more were from the previous list. Be indevitably, they were people who I did not interact with at all. I have accepted the fact that they are people who have viewed my profile. But they aren’t the same people from before? Therefore I have come upon this conlusion:

  They are people who viewed your profile, not the most, but the most RECENTLY at one given interval of some re-occuring system.

  That is my Answer

  I hope you agree when looking at the facts. Check my theory out for yourself.

  • Yes!

  • Great! That’s so tru!

  • Quoux, I agree with you, but I think it only applies to people you have publicly interacted with in the past, stalkers will not show up on the sidebar.

    • I agree with your theory, however to some of your replies from others, do you think it’s possible FB uses the term ‘interact’ in such a broad sense that just the mere ‘freinding’ of someone is an “interaction” of itself? I’m telling you, I have a neighbor who I friended, looked at few of her vacation photos but never commented on, yet she is ALWAYS on my 10 list! And I do mean ALWAYS. SHe is one of the regulars that never, ever leaves the list and I freinded her and looked at those pictures maybe 6-8 months ago. And there are ‘regulars’ whom I haven’t checked, talked to ,IM’d, PM’d, commented on, liked anything. It was like, ‘okay I friended you’ end of relationship…yet they too (there are 4 or 5) that never disappear. THere’s something to THEM viewing YOU, I’m almost certain of that.

• what i’ve noticed now is this guy who i know had a crush on me and who viewed my profile a lot, deleted his account since he’s looking for a job. I haven’t been on his profile weeks before that, but now when i type in my best friend’s name who has the same letter as him, he comes up first in the search box! How is that possible if he doesn’t have an account?

• It can go either way, I mean someone mentioned about those who appear in your search bar under a certain letter, perhaps maybe people who you have viewed. The thing is however, I will tell you right now, I have a friend on my list from another country, he deactivated his account for a spell and has came back on. The person who is showing up on my search bar list is mutual friends with him. I do not recall ever seeing this person. Also this person seems to mostly remain at the top of this certain letter, sometimes will end up going down into third without me viewing the profile and again shoots back up to the top. I have also seen this person change their profile picture a few times.

  The person changing their profile picture indicates they are active. Every so often if you type through all letters and check, you will see this list changes quite frequently, sometimes in different order and other times others from your list showing up.

  It is most certainly not random, if it was random, you would see many different people showing up in the search bar lists, although I think the purpose of the search bar list is supposed to be kind of like a computer’s cache. When you search web sites, those web pages are stored in cache so the browser doesn’t have to download that page again. The search will store a number of those people.

  There could be several reasons for these certain people showing up. Think about it though, why would someone you have no clue who they are show up on that list above a load of other people who you have no doubt been on their page that have that same letter.

  Remember, if everything was so random, why doesn’t the list of people change more frequently? Although to note, one person I viewed has started showing up under one of the letters, so it really could be a mix of things. I find it interesting however, when someone mentioned about mutual views, who is to say who is right or wrong?

• OMG: so I was going through all the letters of the alphabet in the search bar, and what I was seeing is that when I type in a letter and people come up that I don’t know, it’s almost always people that I’ve searched for, or whose profile I looked at before. Even if it was only once. For instance, I met someone once but only got their first name, so I went on FB and clicked on a bunch of profiles with the same name until I eventually found the right person. Some of those wrong profiles still show up on certain letters. Obviously they haven’t been looking at my profile.

  I think either it has to do with profile views, or it basically takes into account your entire history of talking to people. This might apply to the LSB10 list, as well. When I type in both my ex’s first and last initial, she is ALWAYS the first name to come up, it never wavers. I haven’t interacted with her on FB for months now, and haven’t looked at her profile at all for a few weeks. Either it’s the momentum of all our old interaction that still makes her name show up first, or it’s profile views.

  Another thing with that guy from my other post – the guy my ex is seeing who shows up randomly. His first name starts with T, so when I typed in T he came up fourth on the list. Funny thing is, my best friend’s name also starts with T, and he was only seventh on the list. The two of us don’t interact a ton on FB, but definitely more than the vast majority of my friends, so what the heck is up with that??

• @PBnJ and JV 15: I have experienced the EXACT same thing. I stalked the girl with the same initial as my crush about 2 weeks. and then the order everywhere has been finally flipped. But, after 2-3 days, He was the first one AGAIN. It just tells me there were further clicking of my profile pages done by HIM. Because, I have been away from his profile page for this matter. The research bar really fascinates me. o_O it’s very sensitive too! I observed the frequent changes within each letter.

  Hey, JV15.. I have been thinking about this stranger coming up on my research bar as 2nd and 3rd person after checking out this certain people’s page BRIEFLY in the past. After such a long observation and my own experiment, I think it’s showing those people “all of sudden” because there has been a mutual click between us? I mean, I have clicked on maybe like 2 seconds on this person who is not my friend about 3 months ago. and BOOM! it’s showing consistenly all of sudden. Her name has been faithfully coming up on my research bar as second person when i type in certain letter for over a month.

  What do you guys think? :(

• I have a friend that died April 10th (and it is July 6th) who is always on that list. So it doesn’t really make sence that its the people who have been viewing your page.

• I’ve been noticing something really weird. When I type a letter up in the search bar, and you get a list of people pop up instantly, there are some really interesting people coming up. For instance, I typed in an “r”, once. Usually, the people who come up are people whose first or last name start with r, but this time the fifth person on the list was someone who doesn’t have an r in their name at all! It is a guy who I went to college with, and someone I could see creeping on my profile.
  Also, I typed an “a”, and the last person on the list that pops up is someone who I’m not FB friends with, and neither his first nor last name starts with a. Also, he’s the guy my ex started dating after we broke up. Now, I went to his profile a couple times, but that was months ago. Why would he be showing up in my searches?

• I’ve been following this page for awhile.

  I do believe that MO5 is the people who visited your profile the most overtime. Why? Well, there are some people on my facebook who would ask me certain status/pictures I posted. Yes, it goes through news feed, but here’s what’s different. I have a problem where I would post and immediately delete it because I felt it was an inappropriate post. One day, someone once asked me a post that I deleted within 5 seconds. After that post, I actually hid my wall. Let’s say this person has no gender, it. This person then told me, several times that it kept looking for my wall in search of that particular post. Ah ha! And this person does show up on MO5.

  LSB10 I, too, agree it is the last person who visited you with some amount of interaction. Back to ‘it’. ‘It’ started to appear on LSB when I added as friends, but I noticed ‘it’ moved to MO5.

  I also agree that the “this is how your page looks like” list are the people who looked at the most. I tested so many times, even with ‘it’. I kept typing ‘its’ first/last letters, ‘its name would always appear first. So I decided to go to another friend’s page with the same initial for a week, and kept refreshing at least 20x a day. Soon my friend showed up as the first one. BUT once I stopped doing that, this person became second, and ‘it’ became first again.

  I don’t do people I never met adds. But the people who shows up consistently are the ones who I talk to. My friends and I don’t hang out too often, nor do we talk too often. But those are the ones who I meet about twice a month.

  I also want to add that there are a couple of people I like and they do show up on MO5. Strange huh. But I also noticed that some of these people I sent PMs to. So this MO5 is definitely a combination of PM, and page hits. I don’t share any photos with them, nor do I have public interactions with them. I have text messages, emails with them. I highly doubt facebook checks my text messages. If they do, wow, talk about privacy issues they’re trying to follow.

  btw, I hate FB’s news feed where it automatically posts photos sometimes. I thought the whole point was about privacy?!

• For Me Its ALWAYS The Same 10. It Rarely Changes, And When It Does, Its Only Like One Person That Changes.
  Some People On There I Havn’t “Publically Interacted” With, Ever. Or Possibly Like A Few Years Ago.
  When I Refresh The Page, It Just Shuffles The Order, Never Actually Changes It.

• I’ll keep you updated about the “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends” – That option is not available to me. I’m in Canada if that makes a difference…

• @Foxy @Anonymous The list of ten friends who show up in the Suggest Photos of Me to Friends page are the same people who showed up in my MO5. I’ve refreshed it loads but there’s no exception – all the same friends.

• @Anonymous, you are quite welcome.

• Interesting info Foxy, really interesting info. What I find most interesting with this theory after analysing myself the ‘Suggest photos of me to friends’ section under my Privacy settings, is that I have a LOT of friends on my list, yet only a select number no matter how many times of refreshing, seem to show up. I would say about 20 people show up.

  A number of them I have been friends with for several years over the internet, another number are those I knew from school, then another number are close friends. Let me remind people though, I do not go to most of their profiles. I sometimes interact with a few of them through their status messages.

  Is it who I have interacted with, because those are people I have of course interacted with in the recent past. Although, I would not go to the extremes. It’d be interesting to see what other people say. I am willing to bet someone will show up on this list of pictures who you may barely if ever comment on.

  You could score off random, because that is definitely not random. I will say that, there are a few I have been in contact with in recent past who do not show on that list of pictures. I think you may just be right on that Foxy, thank you for that info.

• As far as I can tell, the people chosen to show up around your account and profile come from two places: 1) the top names in your search bar and 2) your official “Recently Interacted” list (when you hit the “Edit Friends” button.) And then, in terms of frequency of appearance, I think it is related to how much they use Facebook. Finally, Facebook is very slow to change out your Recently Interacted and search bar in any significant manner depending on how active you are on Facebook, so a one-time interaction can make a very long-lasting impact on your friends lists and friend rows, etc, etc.

  As far as the “unexplainable” people, you have to consider the possibility that maybe you did click somebody’s profile many months ago, even if it was for like one second. That happens to me all the time. Someone else also suggested that commenting in the same update/link/photo with someone on a third profile might also be considered a mutual interaction, that is also a possibility.

  Personally, it’s fun to mess around with Facebook and all, but when it comes down to it, if your crush does actually like you, they will let you know in no uncertain terms and you wouldn’t need to be doing all this crazy Facebook guessing :)

• @Anonymous, for me the biggest indicator of who views my pictures, but not necessarily everything I post, is the place in Privacy Settings where you can enable “suggest photos of me to friends.” Go there and you’ll see 10 friends that pop up. Refresh that and you’ll also see a pattern.

• Oh it is most definitely something to do with profile views, purely because I have analysed this for a long while now. If you are someone like myself who views barely anyone’s profile, and I don’t do this for a test or restrain myself, I just happen to be one of those that doesn’t view profiles that often. In other words, when you talk about who you have a crush on, doesn’t show up, he may actually really like you, but doesn’t view your profile much. That could be for several reasons. First reason he probably thinks you are too far away, second reason being he might think you are too good for him.

  Anyway, to get to the point, I barely view these peoples pages. A good few of them happen to be close friends I know in person. I am a member of Youtube, I update videos all the time and they are posted to my profile. You are bound to find this action will gain interest. I find that out of a large number of friends that I have on my list, a select number show frequently every day. I also analysed the friends section, the button that shows not the alphabetical list, but the one in rows. It shows again, a pattern. These people that reach the top have been the same people for a good few months that I have analysed, it doesn’t take you long to either.

  The people that show up, some may surprise me, but a few have been crushes. A good few of them do show up on the friends bar at the side and the MO5. If you analyse between that friends list and your normal sidebar friends list, you’ll see that even if you do have a big friends list, it barely changes. Create discussions, create notes, create videos and post them to Facebook, carefully study your friends list. You will notice that your friends list sometimes changes up a little. I will give you a better explanation. If you have 20 people that show on your sidebar friends list and say 10 of those don’t show as often, carefully watch them show as you make actions.

  I think Facebook cycles your list to who views the profile, but the people on it before and most often showing up, are those who view your profile more frequently. So let’s say you view someones profile 10 times a day and you have only recently just started doing that, give it a month and test to see if that makes any difference.

  It is suspicious though and sorry to let you down, but someone I know of does frequent my profile or had frequented my profile often to watch my videos, I will only say those little details, I was informed by another person that this person keeps up to date with my videos and was told to keep it up. Yet this person does not show on my list. Maybe this person avoids my profile (not out of badness) and views my channel, rather than the profile. The person also liked one of my status comments, so something does smell fishy with that.

  Someone talked about the relation between their search bar and their friends list on the side. Someone I have no clue who they are is showing and was showing second under this letter. I viewed this person’s profile a few times and then the person appeared first. But when I viewed the profile, I noticed within a day, this person was changing the profile picture, which could mean anything for all we know.

  Someone also mentioned the top 2 of each letter, I don’t think so, I have a close friend who is bound to watch my videos or channel and he showed bottom of certain letter. Although it is quite interesting what MSP mentions about how this list changes as the cycle to the top. The person that I do not know however is a mutual friend of one of my friends and if you think about it, that is not going to be some recommendation for you to add, not when this friend of yours no doubt has tons of friends on his list, it isn’t just going to randomly pick out one person from his list and this person is going to constantly stick there under that search list. That is without question got to be someone who is sniffing around your profile.

  The 3 rows on your friends list (under the link, not alphabetical) showing you a list of your friends, the first three rows, refresh that 50 times over. The first two rows stay very identical, the 3rd row switches slightly more but I reckon the 3rd row is the people who frequent your profile every ‘so often’ and the ones showing in the top two, are people viewing your profile ‘a lot’.

  I never view these peoples profiles, highly unlikely do I view them, long before I was even checking out one of my crushes, this person was showing not only top of that list, but MO5 occasionally, however never the sidebar list. There is definitely a mixture there and a few of them I barely if ever talk to. Take it from me, just because people don’t talk to you often, does not mean to say they do not like you. I barely view the profile of several crushes, I guess because I know they are viewing my profile :D

  Another thing to try out. Go to your account settings and where you would deactivate your account, you will see several pictures show up, refresh that page constantly and you will see a pattern of people who will apparently ‘miss you’ check to see if those are the same people showing top of the lists.

• For the last few months, I have firmly believed that I had regular FB stalkers, that is, the friends showing in my sidebar on my profile. I haven’t counted or anything, but there are around 4 or 5 people who show up in the list most days, if not, everyday. Then, there are about 4 or 5 who show up less frequently, rotating with other friends who show up around the same amount of times. A couple of people show up even less frequently and again, they rotate with other friends who show up around the same amount of times, but it’s been the same people generally nonetheless. Around three months ago, there were a few people showing up regularly who never show up now. Now, around 6 friends in the list are people I interact with or friends who I believe would be viewing my profile, although I hardly publicly interact with them. Around 3 or 4 friends in the list are people who’s profiles I don’t view nor interact with. Yet they’re in the list frequently. So I thought that the list consisted of friends who I interact with publicly and friends who are stalking me.

  However, there’s a crush of mine who I’ve publicly interacted with a couple of times recently (more so than some of the regular friends in my sidebar list) and he NEVER shows up on the list. I did find, however, after viewing his page a bunch of times over a day or two, I turned up in his sidebar. But if I don’t check his profile for a few days, I vanish. This confused me slightly.

  What’s confused me more and made me doubt the ‘friends who view my profile’ theory is that I’ve been obsessively viewing another crush’s profile over the last week, including looking through albums and I NEVER appear in his friends sidebar. I looked at his profile before that too, but not as much as I do now. He has never appeared in my sidebar either. This baffles me because I look at his profile around ten times a day. He’s also commented on my statuses around two times this week. He also commented on a a status of mine just under a month ago. We’ve private mailed each other quite a lot too. I noticed that his friends sidebar often displays a few people who’s profiles I reckon he views and perhaps vice versa.

  And another thing. When I type his initial into the search bar right after viewing his profile, he’s around the top, either first result or between that and third result. If I type his initial in having not viewed his profile for a couple of hours, he’s moved down to around 4th or 5th and is replaced by people who I haven’t looked at or interacted with that day. Usually, he ranks as third in the dropdown list, even though he is definitely the profile I view most frequently.

  One more thing, the MO5 friends. I refreshed it 50 times and the crush showed up the most, so I thought it might be people I stalk. But there is one girl who I view a lot and she didn’t show up once. Three people who I don’t interact with nor view showed up. The rest of the friends were people who I interact with quite a lot or who I’m tagged in photos with.

  It’s so confusing!

• I don’t think it works as you’re saying (might have changed).

  You can get somebody to appear on this list by visiting THEIR profile.

  In other words, you can find out who you’re stalking, but they might have no clue that you’re doing it.

  Not particularly useful.

• I totally agree!!!

• I completely agree. I actually figured this out several months ago. I always noticed that the people showing up were no longer as random as before. But I started hanging out with an entirely new group of friends a few months ago, and suddenly, I noticed that only they are showing up on my profile, as well as a guy I have been talking to for the past few months. He is still checking out my profile, and the people who are always trying to keep me in check, they always appear in the list no matter what. Also, people that I KNOW have a crush on me appear from time to time, people with whom Im friends with but never interact with that is. Also, I rarely look at other peoples facebook profiles except for a few people who I check their frequently – I seem to be appearing on their lists too while not on lists of random people I never check in on.

  So, I mentioned my theory to a few people – my roommate thought it was bullshit, because her boyfriend was always appearing on mine and I mentioned it… but although he never comments on anything I post, he does mention things i do and say on facebook in conversation sometimes, so its not a coincidence that he is appearing on my page ha!!

  So the other day, my roommate, her boyfriend and a mutual friend were at dinner and the friend was talking about how he really liked this other guy but wasnt sure if the guy was straight or gay, etc. He mentioned the facebook thing, stating that the guy always appears in his friends area, and my roommate was hearing that theory for the second time, and of course I asked him if thats what he thought about friend area and he basically said word for word what i had told my roommate about how its very strange how people are selected for the area. He said he even looked it up online and LOTS of people have created sites like this one claiming these same claims.

  My theory is facebook wants to provide this service for its members who are smart enough to figure it out. So not everyone is going to understand this or figure it out. As long as they dont admit to it, its not a privacy issue, its just a conspiracy theory, but for us smart people, we get it. And for people it doesnt work for, well they are boring people who doesnt get checked out lol – or possible facebook does make it random for a few people so they can say its not that way for everyone …. OR facebook counts someone checking out your profile as a form of interaction over the past month and a half.

  Thats what I think ;)

• Max- If that person only shows up once a week or so and around the same time, that’s probably around the time that they are checking out your profile.

  With my experiment I’ve been doing with 12 friends, I’ve noticed that they don’t put the “recently online and looking at your profile” friends at the very top of your sidebar very often. I wonder if that’s on purpose. The side bar of friends tends to be a mixture of random people you havent connected with in a while and people who have looked at your profile in the last 24 hours/people you’ve had frequent public contact with. The ones that appear and disappear with each refresh seem to be the ones online at that moment checking out your profile or a status update/pictures you posted. If they keep popping up in your sidebar with each refresh AND in your M05, then it is more likely that they have looked at your profile recently, or even at that very moment.

  Trust me, I’ve been running these tests with 12 friends for weeks. I may not know the exacts, but I can say without a doubt that FB DOES have people who recently viewed your profile on your top friend list. Not all of them are, some of them never change out for whatever reason and DO seem to be random, but I can almost guarantee that the ones that change out are the people who view your profile regularly. I have so much proof it’s not even funny.

  Obviously if this was to be made public, people would change their behavior and FB would never be the same. I like knowing this information for myself, but I wouldnt want everyone else on my list knowing this. My only suggestion to the people who were curious/smart enough to come across this page: please keep it to yourself and use it to YOUR advantage. There’s a lot to be learned from FB’s secret algorithms but let’s not scream it from the rooftops.

• does anyboy know how the people on the friendlist ( the first 3 horizontal rows and not the list in alphabetical order) are determined? Who are the people at the top? They are always the same (about 12-18). I don’t interact with all of them.

• explain why someone only pops up on my friends page only on the weekends?

• @OMG Research bar clearly shows what I have been visiting myself – and not much else. “Hide from” is very different – what I vist myself has some influence, but other factors (like who is watching my crap) seem to count more…

• @Ursus Johansen : I agree with you. But, research bar and “hide from” is closely related!! Have you noticed that? Reserach bar is a little bit slower in updating the order and everything. But, They are definitely related to each other. It changes the order for me frequenlty, and make me wonder WHAT determines that. So, you didn’t click on or visited your own fake profile while conducting an experiment?

  “Hide From” list is very interesting indeed. Since it brings up the people that I have never interacted since high school. haha.

• The far most interesting and dynamic indicator for who is looking at my fb crap is the “hide from” menu under the status update function.

  When I type a letter in the “hide from” field an interesting list of names is dropping down. These names are different from the ones on the mouseover20 list (still there are overlaps), and the ranking and the actual names are changing from day to day- while the mouseover list is definately not.

  I have made myself a “virtual fb profile” (just in order to see how many friends this non existing “person” could get – right now “he” has around 500!). With this profile I have systematically stalked my real profile for some weeks. After around one week this profile began to appear on the “hide from” lists under “his” initials. “He” does not appear on my mouseover list LBS10 or elsewhere…

  However the “hide from” list also seems to be constructed upon other data than just who is visiting you. Some mutuality seems to be a factor too. It wasn’t before I payed the virtual profile some visits that the virtual prodile began to appear on my “hide from” list.

  I wonder if it could also be a factor that you read the same shouts. I have one fb friend who is posting a lot of funny stuff, and I normally read it all. Many of the fb friends we have in common seem to crawl up on top of my “hide from” lists even thoug I rarely or never interact with them.

• @Milly and Foxy: I have definitely visited each profile on my MO5 within the past few months, or have clicked on their links in my newsfeed.

  Maybe mine is unusual.

  Are you sure you haven’t visited their profile or clicked on their links (in the last 3 months, maybe more)?

• It is such a bad user experience that we cannot control who is in our LBS10. Like when there is someone that pops up on there that you don’t want to be reminded of 10x a day. I have already blocked one classmate that the LBS10 kept showing me that I have zero contact with and don’t like and am about ready to block another. I hate being forced to see the same faces all the time, it makes me feel like these people won’t leave me alone. Facebook is getting lamer every day. No wonder so many people are using it less and less.

• @Milly & Thomas: I agree with Milly. MO5 is both.

• Thomas: I must remain on my position for the MO5. Some people there I never visit… I still believe it’s a mixt of their visit and mines when I do visit them. If someone show up there without me visiting their profil ever…. he must be looking to my profile enough to show up their… If not, a lot of people make no sense on my M05 regarding your observation.

• I found this thread on a google search because I was curious about the “LSB10”.

  I can’t say with confidence who the LSB10 are, however I have interacted with all of them, although 2 or 3 of them were only in a tiny way (eg, “Congrats!” on a new job and I liked the post) back in April.

  However the MO5 are definitely the people whose profiles I view. They are not the people who are viewing my profile. In addition it seems that these are people whose profiles I was viewing months ago (April).

  When I was travelling in April, I used facebook a lot. When I was bored sometimes I looked at the profiles of a few very attractive girls from my friends list, all completely unknown to each other – 6 girls to be precise.

  All six girls are in my MO5. Maybe you could say that possibly one pretty girl was secretly looking at my profile (hey, I’m a great guy), maybe you could say, possibly two pretty girls were checking out my profile…, possibly even three – but six out of six?!?

  No. The MO5 is who I am looking at, even though some of the profiles in the rotation, I looked at only a few times, months ago.

  I wish it were the other way around :-)

• Someone at Facebook is definitely taking note of these observations. For example, ever since there was a mention of the names that come up in the Suggest Photos to Friends section of your privacy settings, the order of the list and who showed up has been more randomized, instead of remaining constant like it used to.

  To me, FB is balancing out showing profiles that might interest you based on both public/non-public interactions with ones that are pulled more randomly based on social “clusters,” such as where you work, went to school, friends of people you interact with most, etc. That’s why you have people you’re sure has never looked at your profile along with those who might be. They’ll keep us guessing unless an outright opt-in ability to see who viewed our profile is introduced.

• I think its the people who go on your profile the most, on my profile out of the 10 people 7 of them are my really close friends, 1 of them is the person who i like and he knows i like him.. and the last 3 just seem random?

• I’ve done a LOT of experimenting. I’ve been conducting an “experiment” with about 12 different profiles with friends. What I’ve noticed so far is this:

  The friends you see on your sidebar and the friends your FRIENDS see on your profile are the same… if both you and an outside party were to refresh your profile about 5-10 times, it’d be the same group of people rotating through. So what you see is basically what they see, it is not personalized per person (except for maybe the exact order). For example, if a friend who had a mutual friend with you visited your page, and that mutual friend just so happened to be in rotation on your sidebar, they might show up near the top for them rather than for someone who was not a mutual friend of that person. Not 100% sure, but it seems to be the case.

  Also, FB DEFINITELY does flash people on your list who are online and viewing your profile, and yes, this is in real time. Not all of them on your top friends are viewing your profile at once, there is a mixture of who they show, but a friend who hadn’t viewed me in about 5 days viewed me this morning. Once he let me know, I started refreshing my friends list and within 3 minutes, he started popping up near the top. He’d disappear sometimes, but then pop up again with more frequency. He had not shown up there for over a week. And then the MINUTE that he views my profile, there he is.

  I will post more “findings” as I come across them.

• No no no no. It’s who YOU stalk on the friends list. If I were stalking Bob, he’d pop up on my friend’s list. SO people can see if they’re on your friends list and they can see if you’re stalking them or who YOU stalk so they know who YOU fancy. So I have to check my friends list to make sure my crush doesn’t pop up and I have to make sure he doesn’t know i stalk him. It’s interesting for me to see who other stalk, but i dont want others knowing who i stalk. It is a privacy issue. Thanks.

• Done a little TEST and i’ve come with 2 things
  1.facebook is reading my mind(not probably)
  2.it shows some people that viewed ur profile and some random ones.
  my test was like this: there are 2 girls that appear regularly on the friends box and coincidentally i like them, it’s was like facebook was reading my mind and it knew i have a crush on them…so i didn’t visit their profile or interacted with them on facebook 3 days in a row..and they still kept appearing among others that reappeared, the forth day i viewed 2 or 3 times one of the girls profiles that i like and another profile that also reappeared that day but with whom i didn’t interacted for months, at the beginning i wasn’t in their friends box, but after an hour or so i appeared there and i refreshed it 5 times each and i was still there.
  and another thing, noticed that family members don’t appear in the 10 person friend box

• One of the people that always comes up on mine is my friend’s boyfriend. She’s not a close friend so I haven’t talked to him much at all. He wouldn’t even have a reason to look at my profile you know? However, I know my friend has me tagged in an album with him, so maybe it has something to do with that.

• @Tintin, I would stop sharing when it’s random, or when it’s changed drastically. Obv. FB is reading our comments in here, and I dare say they might even be able to pinpoint who we are based on our comments. Would an IP address help them located our FB accounts? IDK, but I know this. Don’t give them any more info. regarding who you might be. ;)

  One question: If you have separated FB friends in groups of people. Would LSB10, MO5, & “suggest photos of me to friends” in the Privacy Settings be showing you these people more often? I find that to be the case for me. There are a few notable exceptions. Namely, my crush and a couple of others. Thoughts?

• LOL……….Now its showing people who have absolutely no relation with me.All 10 on mouse over.NOW ITS RANDOM.

• the people who come up in my friends list are both a mixture of people i talk to and those who i would perhaps liek to talk to. I have heard of the rumour that the friends shown are those who have recently been on my profile, but i have tested it out on quite a few occasions and it has shown that it isn’t like this – i have asked some people on my friends list if they have recently been on my profile and they all said no. so maybe it is just random but it definelty isn’t wasn’t facebook siad about the people being those who i have had interaction with in th past 1.5 months because i have never been on some of the peoples profiles!!!???????

• I definitely noticed that research bar and MO5 is closely related to each other.

  Whoever comes up the first or second place on the research bar also appears on my mouse over. As Milly have mentioned above, some of those I don’t research or view, comes up on my MO5. This doesnt make sense. It makes me to think that research bar is also related to who views me back??

  Because, the order of reserach bar frequently changes for me.

  I have been obsessing with the research bar, not the MO5 lately. It’s so interesting how it pulls up certain people for me with one single letter.

  Anyway, I still can’t stop thinking that MO5 also contains the people who I have viewed in the past. :(

  I am still in shock. I am afraind to clink on anybody at all!

• @ Gel: Good analyse. They only thing I still don’t understand… someone is on my MO5 and first in my search bar but I don’t ever search or view him? Of course it’s my ex.. I like your theorie but for this particular person I just can’t understand..

• Oh my Gosh. I have a crush for already 2 years but I don’t view his profile much. But he always appear on my list (and sometimes on top) regularly. Does that mean he’s checking my profile? OMY I hope so LOL.

• For me the MO5 consists of sidebar friends and the people who show up first in my search bar. And the top names that show up in the search bar are based on frequency of hits over time and my recent profile views/searches. The recent views are ranked in importance by how much time I spent looking at those profiles. So a quick glance doesn’t land someone in my search bar for more than a week but looking at someone’s album will. Given all of that, I simply assume now that my ex who I dated for two years and broke up with last year will probably be in my MO5 forever, whether or not he visits at my profile anymore.

  When I uploaded pics from a special occasion, people who I never communicate with on Facebook but liked/commented on the special photos did not show up in my MO5.

  If you’re wondering if someone in your MO5 looked at your profile or not, I would see if they show up in the top 1-2 names in your search bar when you type in their first initial. If they do, then I would assume that the MO5 is just mirroring your search bar results, and not telling you that he or she looked at your profile.

• @Tintin, I hope you are right and it’s instantaneous. If MO5 is showing me people who have viewed my page/photos/updates with “empty clicks,” I’ll be over the moon. However, after reading OMG’s last two posts I’m wondering if MO5 is also showing me the people who I used to view (i.e., my crush). As I said before, my crush continues to show up in MO5 on a regular basis (even though I stopped looking at his page, clicking on his updates, and/or viewing his pictures). However, my other MO5 people are closed friends, family members, and co-workers who I have viewed and/or continue to look at on a regular basis. Wish I knew the right answer! Sigh!

• I would like for Facebook to NOT get rid of this.

• Okay, As someone have mentioned above, this is very pathetic.

  feeling emotionally swayed by such a thing. :(

• woahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

  I have never doubted that MO5 solely consist of the people who are creeping on my page the most with “empty clicks”.

  About 2 weeks ago, I was doing a little experiment with the research bar. So, I chose the guy that I NEVER have interacted before ever since we became friends in 2008 and who is least likely to check on me.

  I clikced on his profile page everyday for about 3 days, looking through his pictures and wall posts. Immediately, his name has bumped up to the first one to appear when I search for his initial of first/last name.

  But, today, after about 2 weeks, He is showing up on my MO5. o_O……

  I am in awe right now. So, Mo 5 is not only the people who check on me but the other way around?

  Ever since I have found this article, I never doubted that MO5 is my top followers. But, I am not so sure anymore………..

  This really doesnt make sense for me right now.

  HOW CAN HE BE ON MY MO5? HE NEVER EVER logs in to fb!

• @poncherello who says “if [Friendster] had the technology 8 years ago then surely FB does as well.”

  This is not a question of whether FB has “the technology” or not. Speaking from the experience of having programmed a database driven website from the ground up, I can tell you and everyone else reading this, with absolute certainty, that if FB wants to they can make that list show exactly who looks at your profile within any time-frame they want.

  They could easily make it show a real-time list of who is currently viewing your profile (just like they are easily able to show a real-time list of who’s online in the chat feature), or any combination of “currently viewing” to “viewed at some time in the past.” They could also mix in any other combination of factors into their algorithm, such as “people you have messaged exactly three times in the last 7 days,” “people whose wall post you clicked ‘like” on 249 days ago” etc etc etc, you get the picture.

  Just to be whimsical and cryptic, they could have a number of “preset” algorithms that differ slightly or completely, and they could institute any one of them at will, and change which one they’re using on a moment’s notice.

  I’m not saying that they ARE doing any of those things, but what brought me to this page was the theory that the list of 10 friends on the left of my profile includes people who have done nothing else but view my profile sometime in the last 24hrs. I’ve been watching that list with curiosity for months and have pretty much come to that conclusion. There are cute girls I like that show up on that list regularly, whose profiles I have purposefully AVOIDED clicking on just to test my theory, but that I suspect may be checking me out fairly often. Sure enough, with no action on my part, meaning no messages, wall posts, “likes”, “pokes,” or anything, they continue to be in “rotation” on that list.

  Conversely, out of my 700 friends there are people that I have never seen on that list. In fact, the list seems to very limited to just a handful of people, so it is obviously not “random.”

  Think about it: “who has viewed your profile” is probably the single most requested feature on myspace and facebook that they haven’t outright given us. Clearly they’re not offering up that feature because as much as people want it, a significant percentage of people would complain about it for privacy reasons, and for many it would be a dealbreaker causing them to cancel their account. That’s not in facebook’s best interests, so what they do instead is scatter little hints of it on your profile just to keep people guessing. In some ways that’s more fun, isn’t it?

  What we should all be concerned about is how much data about who we interact with, and what we post both publicly and privately, facebook is storing in a database, what they plan to do with that data, and who they plan to share it with. Mark Zuckerberg undoubtedly has very sophisticated data visualization tools at his disposal, allowing him to view in great detail a huge web of connections. I assure you that if any of us were given a chance to see a visual representation of the data he and others in the company are able to see, our minds would be blown. In fact, we might just quit facebook then and there.

• @Foxy: Its instantaneous.Be sure.And one more thing I feel(its not just guessing,its an observation)- the people they show definitely are those who click on your profile the max no of times.for eg, i uploaded some pics,I’m sure many people view it.But it must be just some casual clicks on the previews that show on the feed.But those who take time in viewing ur albums may be shown on ur MO5.So in your case,if your crush still shows up that means he is always on ur profile.

• I wonder if FB ppl could actually find out my IP address and then use it to find who am I on FB. Cauz since I posted my first comment here, things on my FB changed a little bit; and after I posted type “^” into friend search comment, the friend/mouseover concern on my FB has gradually developed from patterned to random.

  One thing I’m pretty firm about was my friend list and mouseover mean nothing really anymore… because there are one person who has been constantly checking my FB (posts & albums) on a daily basis (I do sometimes check his album as well, since we all love photography) has failed to show neither on the left side 10-friend list nor my mouseover-20. Even when I click my friend tab, in the grid format, this person has never shown up at the first page.

  That’s my conclusion over a few-month long period following this thread.

  Peace out!

• @Intrigued, Yup! LSB10 is definitely populated by people who YOU view. If they’ve had any sort of interaction with you in the past, then they’ll show up there even faster! These are considered “mutual interactions” by FB. I figured that out a long time ago. The MO5 & “suggest photos of me to friends” in the Privacy Setting is the one that had me guessing for a while. I’m convinced it is populated by people who view my photos and/or visit my profile (including my Crush). Now the biggest question is this: How long ago? Are these the people who just recently visited my FB profile? Or are these the last who did? Again, the big factor is WHEN?

  @Tintin, I stopped visiting my crush’s page/photos/newsfeed a couple of months ago. He continues to show up on my MO5 with great regularity. He no longer shows on my LSB10 but that’s because I don’t visit him. We’ve mostly exchanges PMs, been on FB chat, and had a couple of mutual “Likes” a long time ago. Again, the question is how long does FB store this info? Is he showing up in my MO5 because he’s viewing my pics? Or is he showing up there because he did a few months ago? Call me simple, but I like all the cards on the table. I really hate guessing games. It may be fun for a while, but that wears off quickly for me. I wish I knew with certainty that he stalks me even now. And NO it wouldn’t make him look any less appealing to me in the least! On the contrary, I would be thrilled!

  @Geographically Undesirable, you and I are in a similar situation. My Crush lives about 2.5 hours away from each other. It doesn’t soun like a lot, but trust me with traffic through two major metropolitan areas, it is! Sigh!

• After doing tests on my mother’s profile, I have come to an interesting conclusion. If you search someone’s name in the search bar they will show up in the LS10 consistently.

  I discovered this by looking at some profiles over and over again through the newsfeed, looking at others through the newsfeed on my mothers profile, and staying on one page over and over again, and one for over an hour at once. And then, with one profile I searched for it once, and another one I searched multiple times.

  Now my mother’s LS10 is still showing 9 different people every time I switch it, and the only one who is showing up every single time is the one I searched in the search box more than once.

  (Note: my mother hasn’t logged on to facebook since January and has no recent interactions with anybody. I assume if there is no sort of interaction that the people on the LS10 stay entirely random.)

• After doing tests on my mother’s profile, I have come to an interesting conclusion. If you search someone’s name in the search bar they will show up in the LS10 consistently.

  I discovered this by looking at some profiles over and over again through the newsfeed, looking at others through the newsfeed on my mothers profile, and staying on one page over and over again. And then, with one profile I searched for it once, and another one I searched multiple times.

  Now my mother’s LS10 is still showing 9 different people every time I switch it, and the only one who is showing up every single time is the one I searched in the search box more than once.

  (Note: my mother hasn’t logged on to facebook since January and has no recent interactions with anybody. I assume if there is no sort of interaction that the people on the LS10 stay entirely random.)

• Remember Friendster?? It was huge for a while years ago and also displayed who recently checked out your profile- if they had the technology 8 years ago then surely FB does as well. But FRIENDSTER went away I bet, becuase you COULD see who just checked you out…….this is why the FB peeps wont admit to this

• Alright… Like a few of you, I’ve been following this blog for weeks as something in my gut prompted me to find out what the deal is with the MO5.

  Like most of you, my LSB10 is comprised of people I have recently had interactions with, mostly mutual – but at least some form of interaction. Occasionally it will throw in someone that I might have had interaction with in the past, almost like a reminder to speak with them. Let’s note that I am frequently… Um, always on FB as I’m able to communicate with friends while at my mind-numbing job.

  Now for my M05… Like some of you… There are a few people constantly showing up who surprise me. Some in good ways, 2 who are rather surprising and 1 in a pretty great way, and 1 in a sad way.

  I know my some of my M05 friends often look at my profile/wall/links/pics and not post anything. How do I know? Well they text me about it, and are my close friends, some of whom admit that they “stalk” my profile.

  Two of the people who show up I hardly have any interaction with. 1 is an old friend from high school, who I’m sure is intrigued with my “semi-fabulous life”, while I once in a blue moon click a “like” on her thing, we rarely interact. The other surprising person is a family member with whom I’m not close with, have added and have NEVER had any interaction, not a pm, not a comment, not a like. I used to look at her page because admittedly, I was fascinated by the much older man with not so young kids she was dating… Not sure why she would check out my page if my MO5 is any indication of that. Possibly because she also thinks I lead a semi-fabulous life? lol.
  I do post occasional funny things, good songs, or thought provoking information though…

  Here’s where it gets really interesting, and prompted me to look this MO5 thing up:
  1 of the guys who shows up, is recently single I think, but him and I went on a few dates years ago, maybe like 2003-ish? It didn’t work out for us then, but I know he’s always found me attractive… Well about 2 months ago he wished me Happy Birthday, and we had about 10pms total back and forth before we started texting. He was away for 6 weeks, and is now back, but just before he left we tried to meet up and it didn’t work out… Suddenly I’ve noticed him in my M05 constantly. He got back this week and we were texting heavily back and forth on Monday, wouldn’t you know it? He’s eager to – and planning on – seeing me after all these years?… It’s a good thing, he is super intelligent and pretty sexy to boot.
  Now for the sad, and who seems to be a permanent M05 fixture… As per my name, you may have guessed, it’s a crush that didn’t work out. We started up a whirlwind romance when he was in my town for about a week and his intention then, was to situate himself in my town. We kept in touch frequently when he left for 2 months until he came back again for a few days… Essentially, he then retracted his feelings for me stating that he only likes me as a friend, but I figure it’s more because we don’t live anywhere near each other. That was 5 weeks ago. I stopped visiting his page for a week, blocked him from showing up in my news feed for the last 2 weeks, and the only interaction we’ve had in 5 weeks was 1pm that I sent him 2 weeks ago stating that I might be in his area in a few weeks. (Instead of him seeing my FB status, I rather tell him, because I’m not rude.) However, he constantly shows up in my M05. Interestingly enough my Best Friend has him on her list, hasn’t been to his page in months, had one brief chat with him 2 months ago, and yet he shows up on her M05 constantly as well. I do occasionally use her wall like my personal playground and post stuff. *sigh* Just his picture alone in the hover makes my heart skip a beat. I’m a grown woman… But I feel… Pathetic. Could it really be that he glances at my profile? (Note that he doesn’t allow posts on his wall, and has NEVER interacted with me or my Best Friend publicly.)

  I’ve tested my theory out, went to some new additions and liked a bunch of things, and went through their pictures and comment, and no – they aren’t in my MO5. Neither are some people who I know are always on, and always comment on my things…
  On Friday I liked someone’s photo and commented and she came to my page and commented on my post… Within an hr she began to show up in my M05 and LSB10 (because there was a mutual and public interaction… I think while she was there, she might have clicked on other things on my profile as well?…
  My suspicion is that your MO5 has to do with the amount of “empty clicks” one gives your page (and *maybe* you give back to them… (Empty clicks = browsing/viewing/strolling/stalking, but not posting/commenting/liking.)

  I’ve decided to post my suspicion/finding because I want some of you to know that you’re not the only one… And it’s comforting to know that neither am I. While I’m kind of excited about 1 of my guys on my M05… I’m puzzled and still very much in like with the one whom I suppose, I’m geographically undesirable to.

• i just refreshed my fb page 6 times and each time, it was the same 10 people. the only difference was the order in which they appeared.

• @Foxy: I uploaded some pics and different people started showing up on my MO5.Different from my recent interactions.At the same time, no feedback from them on the photos.So I called them and confirmed casually if they checked my new photos.And they did :)I never visit their profiles.Thats how I did.

  Coming to your question,actually I dont think so.Because,if there is an option to hide profile visits everyone will do so.For eg,in orkut it works that way.Suppose I hide my profile visits,then I can visit anyone invisible.But if I make myself invisible,I will not be able to find who visits me.So what you are thinking is you want to let him know that you are visiting him everyday without actually saying it,it may not work out if he is invisibly visiting you.generally it works like that.FB on the other hand is doing it much more smartly.Look at all of us…people are coming out with so many ideas.Its a brain storn=ming session now.

• @Tintin, Btw: How did you find out? I had long suspected this, and more recently conducted various experiments using my fake profile and my real one. That’s how I confirmed it. How did you?

• @Tintin, they probably will. However, don’t you wish there was a legitimate option added on FB where you could see who’s viewing your Profile? FB should make this an official option in the Privacy Settings. We should have control of letting others know that we ARE looking at them and vice versa. If my crush wants to hide that he is looking at me, he could opt out of it through his Privacy Settings. Otherwise, he can let me know he IS looking via FB (if FB would gave us the option of knowing). What is wrong with us knowing when someone is looking at us? In real life WE KNOW!!! Why can’t it be the same in virtual life?

• Ok here goes, The people who show up on your MO5 and ‘suggest photos of me’ are those friends who recently viewed your photos.Very much sure of this.LSB10 is a combination of everything.So its hard to say.But I beleive FB will change the setting now like it always does :)

• I’m intrigued about this whole facebook thing. I’ve been following this post and I have a few things to add.

  First off, I was thinking about why a dead friend of mine showed up on my LSB10. I remembered I’d searched his name in the search bar not too long ago. This got me to thinking,a bunch of my friends who show up on my LSB10 are people who I’ve searched in the search bar at least once or twice, and there aren’t that many people I’ve searched for.

  Another thing I did as a test tonight was going on my mom’s facebook and seeing if I would be able to influence my LSB10 on my page through her profile by only looking at my page through hers. Although I believe there must be at least some kind of mutual interaction I had planned to look at her page through mine to test if that is enough to influence the LSB10. Interestingly, I discovered something different. I discovered her LSB10 changes all the time, while mine has seemed to stay the same all the time. I must mention that she almost never uses facebook while I am on it often.

  Another thing I wondered is if anyone is on your lSB10 at the same time as you are on theirs…

  Alright, I am going to do some more tests.. Ill be back.

• @ Cher: Same for me, on my MO5 I have this ex I dated many years ago. No interaction at all on facebook, AT ALL. Maybe two visits on is profile a LONG time ago (2 years) to see pictures of him, nothing else. Other ex’s or guys I believe likes me show up on my MO5 + family looking on me… some people I interact with but…. still can figure out why HE is ALWAYS in the MO5 and why my ex’s show up there. LSB10 = clearly mutual interactions and so he’s not in my LSB10, EVER. I have people I interact + visit profil a lot that never show up on the MO5. Weirdo is, I know he could still feel something for me just in the way it ended for us. He’s actually the reason why I found this blog, I was so wondering why I was seeing him in the MO5 all the time. No reason at all to be there since I just never visit him/interact.. I do believe MO5 is showing people visiting your profile and I think it also track the visit you do on your side since it could be way to obvious. If you visited this person it’s hard to know. But, the only thing I can figure out for my situation… he’s maybe visiting my profile enough to have a place(%) in the MO5. I just don’t know, it’s so the same for all of us.. can’t just be a stupid random. And I mean, even if it’s not a crush thing…we all in a way stay curious about people we loved.

• @ Cher: Same for me, on my MO5 I have this ex I dated many years ago. No interaction at all on facebook, AT ALL. Maybe two visits on is profile a LONG time ago (2 years) to see pictures of him, nothing else. Other ex’s or guys I believe likes me show up on my MO5 + family looking on me… some people I interact with but…. still can figure out why HE is ALWAYS in the MO5 and why my ex’s show up there. LSB10 = clearly mutual interactions and so he’s not in my LSB10, EVER. I have people I interact + visit profil a lot that never show up on the MO5. Weirdo is, I know he could still feel something for me just in the way it ended for us. He’s actually the reason why I found this blog, I was so wondering why I was seeing him in the MO5 all the time. No reason at all to be there since I just never visit him/interact.. I do believe MO5 is showing people visiting your profile and I think it also track the visit you do on your side since it could be way to obvious. If you visited this person it’s hard to know. But, the only thing I can figure out for my situation… he’s maybe visiting my profile enough to have a place(%) in the MO5. I just don’t know, it’s so the same for all of us.. can’t just be a stupid random. And I mean, even if it’s not a crush thing…we all in a way stay curious about people we loved.

• I have been following this blog for weeks now, with great interest, and I have read the comments many times, trying to figure this out myself, as it is driving me crazy. I would just like to add some of my observations.

  Like most of you, my LSB10 rarely changes – it shows the same 15-20 people no matter how many times I refresh or log out and back on. I believe the LSB10 are the people you are generally interacting with consistently (liking/commenting on posts, profile views, ect…you on theirs, and them on yours. I can look at the 10 and the majority of them I have had some kind of interaction with over the past week or two. The others I have not had any interaction with, but I am tagged in photos with them.

  It is the MO5 that has interested me very much as well as some of you. The 10-20 that show up every time are NOT people I have interacted with regularly. In fact, 3 of them are ex-boyfriends who I have only pm’ed once or twice, and that was awhile ago. I don’t look at their profiles (maybe once or twice when we first became friends, but that’s it); I don’t comment on their posts (in fact, two of them never post ANYTHING, so I was starting to wonder if they even use FB much). I wondered if pm’ing had something to do with the MO5, but it can’t be, because I pm lots of other people who NEVER show up there. Also showing up is my brother, who NEVER uses FB; I think he last logged in back in 2/11. I imagine he shows up in my MO5 because I have him listed as a family member?? The other one that shows up 9 times out of 10 is the guy I have a major crush on. And I “think” he feels the same about me, but it is really complicated. So that is what brought me to this blog. I NEED to know if he is looking at my profile. And I am starting to think he must be if he keeps appearing in the top 5. Now, he used to appear from time to time on my LSB10, but I stopped looking at his profile completely (got nervous) so maybe that is why. The ONLY thing we have shared on FB is 2-3 pm’s. No comments, likes, ect… nothing but the pm’s.

  Recently we had a huge event in my family, and I had posted a lot of pictures for my family to see. Many of my family members who commented on my pics are now appearing in my MO5, which tells me that perhaps the MO5 are those who are viewing your profile and looking at your pics???

  Another thing…..when I am in my photo album, guess who comes up on the right to view their albums?? My crush, and some others, but the crush comes up the most. Why? I have only glanced at his pictures a couple of times, and that was awhile ago.

  Also, when I do the search bar thing mentioned above, he comes up first each time whether I use his first or last initial, even though there are others who should be coming up before him in that list. ODD…Also, when I put his last initial, he comes up first, then 3 girls with the same letter as their first initial come up, and those are 3 people who I know have looked at my profile, because we talked about my pictures.

  So I will continue to follow this blog and the comments. I have learned a lot from you all, and this is all very interesting, confusing, and maddening at the same time! lol

• I noticed that to. My crush (it’s pretty complicated) was stuck on my LSB10 for the last 2 day and is on my MO5 all the time. I used to sms with him and view is profile but I stoped lately, it’s just going nowhere. Next thing I know, he sms me last night. I like to belive he’s on my LSB10 and MO5 because he’s looking at my profile, at the same time, I wish facebook was not reminding me of him all the time for me to forget that guy!I’ll just go and click on evevy other people profile and pictures until he get off my page.

• You are right on. I noticed it too, which is why I started googling to find out more. I would communicate with someone over gmail and then they would start showing up in my 10 list without me clicking on them or having any fb communication with them. Then it would die off for a while and pretty much everytime we communicate in some other form than facebook, they show up again. Facebook is using an algorithm that includes several things… and funny that they aren’t telling us.

• You are right on. I noticed it too, which is why I started googling to find out more. I would communicate with someone over skype and then they would start showing up in my 10 list without me clicking on them or having any fb communication with them. Then it would die off for a while and pretty much everytime we communicate in some other form than facebook, they show up again. Facebook is using an algorithm that includes several things… and funny that they aren’t telling us.

• @Alyssa.My MO has also changed.
  @Foxy.Just give me a week or 2 to observe.I will be back

• @Tintin, please report back with your ultimate test results as soon as possible!

• The same thing happened to me too! The first time i posted on here om LSB10 was changed. However my MO% stayed the same.

• I’m going to do an ultimate test.But I wont say what it is.Because of this spooky thing which is going around here.But once I find out I will disclose the result.

• My ex still shows up in LSB 10, MO5 and the suggest photos to friends. Now like i said earlier i know he has stalked my pics in the past but is he still stalking me? I am curious as to how recent these are. Is he still on there because we talked in the past or does it take a week? a day? i haven’t gone on his profile in the longest time so i’m wondering how long it takes facebook to realize this.

• He’s not showing up on your LSB10 because YOU aren’t visiting his page or clicking on his status updates. If YOU do, he will start showing up there again! LSB10 is more about “mutual interactions.” If it’s one sided the person won’t show up there. Do the following: go to the Privacy Settings. Click “Customize Settings” and go to “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends.” Click on “Edit Settings.” See who shows up. Do an experiment. Click “Okay” ten times. Count how many times out of the ten he shows up. I believe the people who show up there are the ones viewing your pictures most often.

• @MF,I’ve tried this earlier.Then he started to show up more frequently on LSB10 and M05.What I felt was FB is deliberately trying to persuade me to look at his profile :) Lately,all the people who show on my LSB10 are my recently interacted ones(mutually) But MO5 is what confuses me.This fellow is always on my MO5.

• @Foxy,I observe the same.But cant be so sure as I check their profile quite frequently myself.Its hard to say.Wish they made this more transparent.

• @OMG….hey,I didnt know about that Suggest photo to others?? That makes me so happy :)

• Hi! :) It’s been a while since I posted here. haha..

  great inputs, everyone!

  Okay.. here is the thing. I have not clicked on any of the posts or the pictures that my crush has been updating for about a month now. (It was hard to resist the temptation. lol so I blocked him from my news feed.)

  Well, He’s been showing up on my mouseover 5 consistently.. never going away…. I would probably be sad if he goes away. haha.

  So, I posted earlier that if i search for his initial of first name and last name in the search bar, he’s the very first one to show up. I did a little experiment. I chose the second person on my search bar and stalked her fb page for about a week. I clicked on EVERY SINGLE one of her pictures posted and looked at allllllll the wall posts she posted. I even read her notes and everything. and BOOM! She was the first one to show up on my friend search bar. I know she doesn’t log in to fb that much. So it was only “me” stalking her fb page. So I was like “yeah, I think search bar is definitely sensitive to who I VIEW. not the other way around.” But, after about 3 days, the order has been flipped again. He is the first one to show again and I never clicked on his name or statuses. NONE. NEVER!

  He has “liked” my profile picture yesterday… like right after I updated it. it makes me to think he visits me regularly and frequently….o_O

  and he also shows up on the privacy setting, “suggest the photos to others”.

  I am never tagged in any of his photos. we ve never facebook chat, we’ve never attended the same event and we only have 2 mutual friends.

  haha.

  anyway, I think 10 people popping up on “suggest photos to others” are the people who look at my albums most often….

  and friend search bar is sensitive to who I search for and who looks at my page in reverse. (well, at least the order.. I don’t know)

  what do you think?

• Hmmm… yes, Trasdental, there might be something to that. Right now, as my LSB10 looks right this second: 8 of the 10 are friends who definitely comment & like my stuff more than I do theirs– but whom I do occasionally look at, comment or like– and whom for various reasons I’d assume are checking out my page on at least a somewhat regular basis. So those 8 fit your theory perfectly. 1 of the 10 is a guy whom I actually have almost no interaction with either way, public or private, him or me, but whom I have a lot of common interests and mutual friends with (and whom I *would* interact with more if he didn’t have a GF!!!)– this guy and I *have* exchanged mutual public interactions, but only like one or two each in years. Still, he’s a VERY regular fixture on my LSB10, if not the *most* regular lately. Finally, the last 1 of the 10 is a guy *only I* have interacted publicly with (he’s not liked or commented on anything I’ve posted) but with whom I had a semi-long running private message exchange with about a month ago. I have not looked at his page since I added him a few months ago.

  And on my MO5 right now I’ve got: one guy whom we’ve shared *only one* mutual public interaction but whom I worked with on something and he was totally staring at my rump the whole time so I figure he’s perving; three professional women contacts whose pages *I* check very regularly for professional reasons (and they maybe check mine too?) and one guy who never interacts with me publicly (and vice-versa) but we’ve exchanged a brief pm exchange about 6 wks ago and we text a lot– he is also a professional contact but might be perving, too, who knows?

  So…..relating back to your theory, Trasdental, it raises a good question about who’s showing up where based on ratios of *their* interactions with you vs. *your* interactions with them… And perhaps private messages are perceived as more significant than public ones and so if you’ve had any pm’s with someone it could bump them way up on the list. (However, this still doesn’t apply to that one outlier on my LSB10 that I’ve had no pm’s with but who nonetheless is almost always there.)

  Finally, one more point I’ve observed about the LSB10: almost all of the people on there at any given moment are people whom I very much like and have very similar interests with. I tend to notice that these “preferred” folks pop up more when I have posted something that would definitely relate to those mutual interests we share. Whereas the MO5 is usually made up of people who don’t necessarily share many or hardly any of my interests or views but who for various other reasons are probably checking me out a lot. So, since the MO5 is a slightly more “hidden” showing of friends and the LSB10 is more “public”, it could be that the variable of mutual interests is more of a deciding factor there. Kind of like another thing in your profile that describes you. As if FB is saying: “THESE friends are the ones who reflect most on who this person is and what this person is all about.”

• @Trasdental, you may be onto something there! ;)

• I have an idea, I think that the list on the left side relates to the friends who frequently visited your profile in the recent time, leave comments or like things, and with whom you haven’t had a too frequent interaction. These are people who are interested in your attention. On the other hand, the 5-person list on Mouseover5 may display people who score high as being your most frequent visitors over a given time but with whom you don’t have a too frequent interaction through FB. Those are your putative stalkers. I actually found old flirts in the left list and…my mother on Mouseover5!

• after reading all of the comments i’ve decided to pay more attention to my profile. I have two male friends who sometimes appear on the left bar, but not nearly as much as others. I posted a status early in the morning when hardly anyone was online. Both of them liked my status. Sure enough i went to my wall and both of them were on the 10.

  However now i’m wondering more about the MO5 which i’ve never even noticed before this article. While the 10 friends seem to be a mixture of stalking to me, the mouse over seems to be people who would be more interested in me.

  One is my ex who when we were together always talked about going through my pictures and specific ones he noticed. He has another girlfriend but still sends me invites and likes my wall. I rarely go on his profile. Now i don’t know if he shows up because of all the interaction we’ve had when we were together or if he’s been viewing me recently.

• So I experimented with my fake FB & real profiles as follows:

  1. Using my fake profile I sent my real profile a friend request.
  2. The friendship was accepted ;)
  3. Using my fake profile I started “Liking” some of my real profile pictures (no comments), just views of my real profile albums and some “Likes.”
  4. I went back to my fake wall and Voila! my real profile pic appeared on the LeftSideBar10 (LSB10) immediately!
  5. I refreshed the page 10 times and my real self appeared 9 times out of the ten on the LSB10.
  6. On MouseOver5 my real profile picture only showed up once out of the ten times I refreshed.

  Mind you, my fake profile only has 28 friends so far, so I think this changes the dynamics quite a bit. My real profile has over 1100 friends. Soooooo what does this all mean? I belive my theory was corrent! The LSB10 shows pictures of friends YOU visit most!

  The MO5 is still the big enigma. My next experiment is to start stalking my fake profile using my real profile, but not clicking or liking anything on my fake profile. I will then examine the MO5 using my fake profile. Will my real profile pic show up there? We’ll see…

• After leaving it for a little while I can now see more people, that I have no interaction with, appear in my friends list. Looking now, I can see 5 new people who weren’t appearing last time I looked. I’ve not had any interaction with these 5 people at all. I’ve probably viewed only 2 of these profiles too…

  Really curious as to how Facebook goes about getting the first 10 – 20 people to display, but I’ve absolutely no idea right now …

• I’m going to throw another monkey wrench in the mix here. It has to do with whether or not a person hides his/her friends list.

  So I have a professional friend with whom I’ve been engaged in a Poke War for months now. We are tagged in photos together, but I haven’t been to his profile in several months. I have no interest in him as anything other than a friend, but I know an interest in me. Now he used to show up on my LeftSideBar10 (LSB10) regularly, but after he changed his settings to hide his friends list, he no longer shows up on my LSB10 list. HOWEVER, he regularly shows up on my MouseOver5 (MO5). I know why this guy hid his friends list (professional reasons). We share a lot of these connections too.

  Now my crush (different guy) has also hidden his friends list (again professional reasons). As I said, I USED to go to his page on a regular basis, but I no longer do that. He used to show up on my LSB10 when I was visiting his profile regularly. Since I’ve stopped visiting his profile, he no longer shows up on my LSB10, BUT he continues to show up on my MO5. This makes me think that if a person hides his/her friends on FB, they may only show up on the LSB10 IF YOU view their profile too.

  Thoughts?

• Totally agree with you! I have a couple of people who’s profile I never check but I am pretty sure I know the reasons behind why they keep checking me out.

  My guess is that although it really is about the level of interaction, their algorithm does not notice that the interaction is one sided!

  Thanks for getting this out there!

• sooo this guy in my class i think liked me and when i got home he was on my friend list i think he clicked on my profile and then it showed up in friends listtt i had no intaction with him and never talk to him

• I don’t know if this still interests you, but I did an experiment with the Friends list (not the left side 10, the one that appears when you click on “Friends”). I started to check out this guy’s profile, who I know hardly ever logs in to FB. I clicked on his profile every day, and checked out the few pics he had. Within 5 days he jumped to the 1st place when I typed the first letter of his first name in the search field, and to th 4th place when I started to type his last name. Simultaneously, when I started to stalk him with my profile, I started to stalk myself with my fake profile. I clicked on my real profile every day as well, and some stuff i posted, but my fake profile never moved on my list, it kept its steady 3rd place, altho previously I rarely clicked to see my real profile with it.
  Interesting thing is that after finishing the experiment that lasted about a week, the guy I stalked kept his top places for a week, then returned to the back of the row, while my fake profile still hasn’t moved anywhere. Next thing I’m gonna try is mutually stalking myself, to see if it changes anything :D

  Anyhow, I’m pretty sure there are more than 1 algorithms (possibly who you click on, who clicks on you, has the most mutual friends with u, has many friends you might also know, etc.) to determine this, the left 10, and the mouseover5 as well, and they are either used all at once, or in some kind of a rotation. That’s why we don’t seem to find a perfect solution.
  For a good while my left10 seemed to be the result of the “these are 10 ppl who almost never look at you” algorithm. It didn’t really change for loooong months, and I almost thought it picked out about 20 ppl for itself when the last bigger FB changes took place, and it won’t ever change. But after I first wrote here, a completely new set of people appeared, so maybe they are really watching us O___o Yesterday & today it seemed it was finally beginning to show the people I interacted with the most, but now that I tried someone’s suggestion to use FB beta and went back to the original again, the left10 is again back to a crappy set of people, 3 out of 10 i really-really dislike… These algorithms annoy the hell out of me sometimes :P

• All 3 of my exes always appear on that list whenever I refresh it. I haven’t talked to them for more than 6 months on Facebook. lol

• Anna:

  I do totally agree with your interpretation. Actually, I came to this article while trying to research about this “intuition” I had about this issue on FB. One fact that makes it so clear to me is to put an “interest” variable on the equation. I’m a photographer and I’ve added a lot of people related to the media. Must of those out of my country seemed to be more eager to comment or “like” when I publish a pic, so I can actually verify their faces and names appearing at the friend box. But there are a lot of other people related to photography -strangely, mostly from my country- which are not actually commenting often but that appear on the box after I publish a pic -and, otherwise, don’t appear at all-. And, if I apply the same pattern with other “interests”, the result is quite the same. What confuses me quite oftenly is the fact that, in one particular case, the person appearing on my friends box is actually a recently dead person (I’m not jumping to paranormal conclusions but makes me think, perhaps, this “interests variable” may be applied in several other ways as part of the algorythm, not only to reflect our contacts “reacting” to our publications).

  Kind regards.

• Pie: about the friend on the left side. On mine, 6/10 friends also show up on my mouseover list of 20 person. 4/10 looks random or people I talked to a long time ago. Whatever the friends showing on the left, 6 always seem to come from my mouseover list. I think it’s the reason why the list on the left is showing often the same people. BUT, since my ex is always on my mouseover list(and I have very good reason to believe he’s still curious about me)I was wondering why fb never EVER placed him on that left list… I think it’s because I never go on is page…I visited is page only once (2 years ago) when we became friend on fb. I think the list on the left have 6 peoples comming from the mouseover but 6 people YOU also visit or interact with sometimes (mutual). My crush, that I visited often before is: on my mouseover (all the time) + on my list on the left (sometimes). We don’t talk on fb together, the only interaction I have with him on fb… visiting is profile and reading is comments. Since I know he realy like me to, big chances he visit me and so I see him on the left list.. simple theory

• As the people who are ‘stalking you’ have been given permission by you to view your wall, profile etc. why do you have a problem with it.

• i totally agree with the whole stalking thing. i mean the guy who has a crush on me is ALWAYS on the list as is my closest friend who i know always goes on my wall and comments on stuff and there is also a girl who i had a massive fight with there too. creepy…. i like it though, its interesting to know who ‘stalks’ you lool

• About the 10 friends on the left side. I think it may be a mix of things, but I think I’ve made a discovery. lol Unless facebook is somehow reading my mind, then it must show some people who have recently viewed your page. (not necessarily stalking)

  I hung out with someone one day, and the next day they showed up on my friends list. A couple days later I hung out with a different person and then the next day they too showed up on my friends list! I never viewed either of their pages in about 2 months. So the only thing I can guess is perhaps they looked at my page sometime after we hung out? Either that or facebook knows who I hang out with O.O ;)

• Hey guys.. i need some ans on this..

  Try clicking on the 10 friends on the left side of ur profile.. do u appear on their profile (left side) too?

  For me, i dun appear on theirs… regardless how many times i viewed on them (i tried spamming views on their profiles/afk on their profile page) Weird o.o?

• Wow so many people have posted since I was last on here! Some interesting comments :) I’ve just noticed that mouseover thing on the profile picture too! Not sure if it necessarily means anything though. My brother always appears in my mouseovers and he never ever comes on facebook, I’ve asked him and he said he hasn’t been on for months and his last activity shows October 2010 HAHA. I never go on his profile anyway.Maybe facebook just assumes I’d be interested in viewing his profile?

  I’ve been doing some ‘experimenting’ or ‘stalking’ recently. I have a fake profile which is friends with me (lol sounds so weird saying that) and I use it to go on peoples profile, and I went on my crushes profile and I was in his 10 friends at the side! We have never had any public interaction, just a tagged photo of over 2 months ago and a private message. Every couple of days he appears on mine then it changes back to a bunch of other people who I HAVE had recent public interaction with. I don’t really interact with many people on facebook so I can understand why he might still be appearing in my list quite often but I have no reason to be appearing on his because he interacts with A LOT of people regularly and has double the amount of friends I have. I also know that he’s not interested in me, I suspect he knows I’m interested in him so probably thinks I’m stalking him! Yes so I went on his profile regularly until a couple of weeks ago (went on once this week ooopsy :) now i just access it through the fake profile). There is also a girl and a guy who always appear in my list who I fell out with over a year ago so have had no interaction with, I suspect they are stalking me.

• After reading every single goddamn posts.. and trying out experiments using my profile..

  I wanna say.. every name tt appears.. regardless its on the left side on ur profile page or mouseover of ur name in (except for the searchbar.. i noticed the names tt pops when i typed any alphabets were things i frequently checked out on) ARE HAVING MUTUAL INTERACTIONS (events/pics/viewing of profiles/liking of comments at newsfeed)………

  BUT if u havent checked on him/her for a long time.. (try and really recall.. sometimes u might click him/her to read a post and then click back to home/profile) and she/he still appears on the left side of the friendlist.. means he/she probably happened to check on ur profile not too long ago (not necessarily mean stalking)

  SO if ur crush appears on ur friendlist… it might not necessarily mean he/she also stalks u.. BUT DEFINITELY THEY HAD CLICKED ON UR PROFILE NOT TOO LONG AGO TO BE THERE.. (Assuming u are constantly viewing his/her profile)

• the beta version doens’t work anymore when watching your own profile. fb-gods have red this:D

• @Tintin, Wow!!! I just noticed that too! Mouseover5 will have to be renamed to Mouseover10. The 5 that show up when hovering over your name and the other five that show up when hovering over you Profile pic! Any ideas about these ten??? For me they aren’t necessarily the same as the LeftSideBar10.

• Ive been curious about this for a while too… On one hand it would be kinda cool to know who’s stalking me but at the same time I don’t want facebook showing other people who I’m stalking :/
  I’ve found that from the 10 friends under my friends list I’ve only interacted with about 3 of them in the past month and the people I interact with most (like send 5 inboxes a day to) don’t even show up! A few of them are people on whose pages I’ve never even been on since accepting them and don’t interact with at all… There is this one person who’s page I visit a LOT and I’m curious to know if its because I visit his page so much or he visits mine…
  Maybe facebook just takes a combination of people you publicly interact with a lot, people you stalk and people that stalk you?

• @FOXY, I know what you mean.It has happened to me too.

  I dont know how many of you noticed this – Earlier it was 5 friends that showed up when you hover your name.Now there is 5 when you hover your name and another 5 when you hover your profile pic.So total 10 but some are common.Now what does this mean ?

• There is a girl that i talk to quite a lot on chat that only occasionally comes up in the boxes however there are 3 girls that regularly pop up when i haven’t interacted with them at all. However i do notice that after a night of being with certain people when i look the next day or so they will be in there even though I haven’t interacted with them since the night.

• Definitely, the person who you’re stalking will appear constantly on your friend list. What finally convinced me was the fact that this girl called my friend a stalker on his wall and he was like ‘ah, yeah.’ Then when I checked, the same girl pops up on his friend list no matter how many times I refreshed. Same thing happens with my friend list.

• It’s the people who visit/make contact with your profile/you the most. I know this, because I was never on a friend’s friends list, but he was on mine. THen when another friend fraped me, and plastered wall posts and statuses about him, and to him, I was suddenly on his friends. However, agreed. There are some people who I’d least expect be visiting my profile. But if they’re in your relatives section, or a different friends group, they wont turn up

• It’s the people who visit/make contact with your profile/you the most. I know this, because I was never on a friend’s friends list, but he was on mine. THen when another friend fraped me, and plastered wall posts and statuses about him, and to him, I was suddenly on his friends. However, agreed. There are some people who I’d least expect be visiting my profile. But if they’re in your relatives section, or a different friends group, they wont turn up

• I too believe it to be people who have viewed your profile recently, or something like that.. I’ve 1 or 2 people I’ve not spoke to in AGES, some however I have probably spoken to here and there in the past 2 months.

  The algorithm for it could be anything. Who knows – Maybe it selects random people when you login, and keeps them for the entire duration you’re on Facebook. Though our experiences differ it’s hard to tell what’s what.

• @commentario: jup, I notice a difference in lists. All the people on my betalist are people who are active on facebook.

• This is a real useless crap feature of Facebook.
  They should just show the way it used to be, COMPLETELY random. I have also ways the same 15 people showed up there

• @commentario: friend list looks the same for me? in beta and normal facebook!

  @Jamie: Same here. I have blocked about 15 ish people from the news feed, just becuase I was either annoyed by their frequent status updates or I hate them for some reason. 1 boy and 1 girl i have blocked last winter keeps showing up on my mouseover list. During this time of blocking, I have never chekd out their facebook profile page or clicked on their statuses or the pictrue updates. Because I can’t see it in my news feed anyway!!

  This makes me to believe that mouseover5 IS the people Who is stalking me. But, One other possibility is that maybe fb stores the memory of me clicking their pages last year??? Before the christmas season, I think I was close them so I frequently checekd their pages.

  ANDDD I have blocked my crush from the news feed about 2 weeks ago. (haha) So, we will see if he dissapears from my mouseover 5

  anyway, It’s all still vague.

  OH! and I figured out the search bar is sensitive to who I VIEW not the other way around. :) That for sure…

• hey yall!

  maybe someone could check this out for me..put instead of typing http://www.facebook.com try http://www.beta.facebook.com….do you see a difference in your friend list?!! ;) i normally use beta in the address coz i read somewhere that it hows all posts (you know sometimes some dont show up for one reason or another) anyway i just noticed that the lists are different and i reckon it means something..it’l probably change now if the facebook gods are watching!! ;)

• Well, I refreshed 15 times and the same people showed up just in different orders and I rarely interact with some of them on there and I honestly don’t care if they look at my profile. I talk to some of these people in person a lot or sometimes, but it also doesn’t surprise me that they even look at my profile either-not to have a big head or anything- but it really doesn’t

• Well, I refreshed 15 times and the same people showed up just in different orders and I rarely interact with some of them on there and I honestly don’t care if they look at my profile. I talk to some of these people in person a lot or sometimes, but it also doesn’t surprise me that they even look at my profile either-not to have a big head or anything- but it really doesn’t

• Well, I refreshed 15 times and the same people showed up just in different orders and I rarely interact with some of them on there and I honestly don’t care if they look at my profile. I talk to some of these people in person a lot or sometimes, but it also doesn’t surprise me that they even look at my profile either-not to have a big head or anything- but it really doesn’t

• In an effort to end my love-life debilitating 3-yr crush, I have, for the past 6 weeks, blocked my crush’s posts from my news feed. I have not looked at his profile during this time either. However, in the last 6 weeks, he has PM’d me. I didn’t respond via FB. (Does FB know this? haha)

  Anyways, He was always in my Top Friends list as well as my mouseover 5. Now, he is infrequently in the list on the left and still in the mouseover 5. (Along with 19 other people who mean a lot to me, they’re not random)

  The reason I’m sharing this is I have probably 15ish friends that I have blocked from my news feed for some reason or another. NONE of those people show up in these lists! And honestly, I don’t have any reason to take a peak at their profiles and the same is true about mine.

  A mutual friend of my crush checked his profile the other day (I didn’t ask her to lol) and she said I showed up in his mouseover 5 and his Friends list on the left.

  Huh? So idk what that means when I don’t have anything to do with him on FB…

• I am quite certain that the 10 friends on the left hand bar are the people who you interact with most (being ‘like’, PM, photo comments etc etc). The only question is what is the time span that facebook install the interactions records.

  The mouse over 5 is far more interesting and here’s what I like to share:
  My mouse over 5 list has been the same 20 people for May. This week however, it has changed slightly by-
  1) One guy who I added as friend in March is gone
  2) One girl of whom I checked her wedding photo in March is gone
  3) A girl who I added as friend in May is now on the list
  4) A girl who I deliberately did the ‘facebook experiment’ in May is now also on the list

  In terms of the ‘experiment’ I did, I picked a girl who I never had any interactions before, and I know for sure she won’t be looking at my profile and just started clicking through her photos in May. I also viewed her posts, by clicking the ‘view older post’ several times. Note however that I didn’t leave any comments or ‘liked’ anything. She is now also the first name to appear under the friend name search thing if I typed her first letter.

  I did the same experiment with a guy using the same criteria in May too, but he is not the top name to come up when I search his first letter- and he’s not in my June 5 list!

  Based on the above, I think the mouse over 5 list consists of the people who YOU viewed most/recently added in the past TWO months. Now the reason you might still see your ‘stalkee’on the list is either because you haven’t stopped viewing his/her profiles long enough and/or you haven’t got another person with the same first letter to beat the level of stalking you have done in the past :D.

  So here is my next mission: I will start viewing the profile of the girl who shares the same first letter as my stalkee to the extent that she’ll be the first name to appear and see if she will appear in my July/August list. This girl also happens to be someone I know for sure that she won’t be looking at my profile. If she does eventually come up in the mouse over 5 list, then I think it is safe to conclude it is showing the people who YOU have viewed most.

  p.s. in terms of the 20 names change, I think it correspond to when was the last time they were online (only the first time though,after you refresh it won’t be the case).

• You’re spot on. The reason I came across this article is because I googled this myself. I think Facebook does not want to have people up in arms over the whole privacy issue, and rightfully so, but I honestly don’t mind it & I was wanted to confirm mine, and clearly others’, suspicions about it. I first noticed it when a former friend of mine kept showing up, I had no contact with her at all for half a year, yet she kept popping up in the friends section. Not only that I also noticed it when some one I never talked to since adding him commented on a picture & he definitely showed up on my friends section when before he didn’t. In my personal opinion this is 120% true.

• Are we all grownups?(maybe some are teens/20somethings) Do you realize none of this mean much about relationships and none of this means much about how popular you are…its just internet fantasy/good for high school kids…and I am talking to myself here-most of all.
  Lets all get off facebook!!!!Even if you control facebook doesnt mean much about life…

• @Lisa, I do think the LeftSideBar10 do show the people YOU stalk and with whom you’ve had some FB “interaction.” I used to stalk my crush’s profile on a regular basis and he used to show up on my LeftSideBar10. When we first became FB friends, we made a couple of comments and “Liked” a couple of each other’s posts. However, we’ve mostly exchanged PMs and been on FB chat.

  More recently I’ve been ‘stalking’ a couple of other random profiles to see if these people will show up on the LeftSideBar10. Mind you these are people I rarely “interact” with. Nothing as of yet, but I’m confident they’ll appear there soon, especially if I start “Liking” their stuff.

  As far as my crush goes, he consistenly shows up on my Moseover5. Like I said before, I’ve stopped clicking on his status updates and I’ve stopped visiting his page altogether. He PMd me recently. I responded to his PM, but again I haven’t visited his profile. He still shows up on my Mouseover5.

• OK bare with me people. I think I’ve figured out the facebook “random” friends list. I checked that if you view your friend’s friend list on two different profiles, it will show two completely different lists even though no matter how many times you refresh it, it will still be the same people only in different spots on the list. I’ve concluded that this list is indicated by the friends YOU’VE stalked/communicated with from the account you’re logged on to. I’m almost 99.9% positive that this is true. Now as for the friends on your own list, I believe that it’s people who views your page often and also throw in one or two random people in to make the “random” friend list less suspicious :P

• @Tintin, I wouldn’t doubt it. Funny thing is once I was posting in here and when I went to my FB profile the LeftSideBar10 changed to completely RANDOM people who I never interact with (I have over 1100 FB friends). Once I refreshed, it went back to the list of my usual suspects, but it was interesting to note that somehow FB “new” I was here. BTW, if that sounds paranoid, go back up and read other posts. There is at least one other person who reported the exact same experience. Isn’t it interesting?

• Now what I understand is FB has a set of algorithms which they keep rotating time to time.I’m almost sure of this.Its obvious why they do it.I am beggining to supsect if they are going through this blog every day.lol

• Now what I understand is FB has a set of algorithms which they keep rotating time to time.I’m almost sure of this.Its obvious why they do it.I am beggining to supsect if they are going through this blog every day.lol

• Now what I understand is FB has a set of algorithms which they keep rotating time to time.I’m almost sure of this.Its obvious why they do it.I am beggining to supsect if they are going through this blog every day.lol

• Previous “Anonymous” comment is mine. I keep forgetting to put my name in the “Name” field.

• I think Mouseover5 are people that visit YOU and with whom you have exchanged PMs, chat, and exchanged mutual “Likes” on the Newsfeed (even if this is something that has happened infrequently). I believe the LefSideBar10 are people with whom you’ve done all the above and in addition, YOU visit them/THEY visit your profile. That’s my story and sticking to it! LOL! ;)

• I dont think that statement is completely true. My ex appears in mine, and we havent interacted on fb since well September 2010 (or around there). Also I have a friend whos often there and her profile is so private it has nothing on it that I couldnt interact with anything anyways.
  However it is probably a combination of people going to your profile, people who profiles you go to, people you often interact with, and probably people in your main network.

• sorry for the repeat, I had a bug here

• @ OMG: Hi! I don’t know if it’s the same for you but since saturday pm, I also see, in my research bar with first name letters, people I looked profile a long time ago (maybe 4 months). I’m not friend with them on fb, in fact I don’t know them. I only looked their profile a couple of time when I was curious about a guy I was flirting with. We stoped talking a couple weeks ago, I did. And so, I don’t understand why all of them appears now in my research bar (since saturday). I would’nt make a big deal about it but I see there: my crush sister, his ex (they are friends), a good friend of his ex and two good friend of him…all these people I see are related to him. It’s also unusual for me to see people I’m not friend with in that research bar. All of them appearing at the same time is weird. For two of them, I may visited 2 months ago but I visited many other profile?! In your expérience could they visited my profile or if not, what do you think?

  • @Milly I think it’s possibly a vicious thing. Based on what people have said here, and which I agree on, when someone who isn’t your friend on Facebook looks at your profile, Facebook then suggests them to you as “People you may know.” So the reverse is also true. If you look at a crush’s ex’s profile, then Facebook will suggest you as a friend to them, and if they click on your profile, then you have looked at each other’s and then god only knows how names show up in the search bar.

    My personal theory is that it is just people YOU have looked at, and Facebook has noticed people are not adding many new friends so they tweaked their algorithm to remind you about people you were curious about several months ago.

• @Foxy: haha. Thank you, Foxy!! :) I also am started thinking that mouseover 5 has more to do with who looks at my profile. I was doing a little research yesterday and listed alll the names appearing on my mouseover. It was 2o people in total. and they all had “good” or “possible” reasons to check on me and I haven’t visited them over a month. (After I became paranoid after reading this forum.)

  @Milly : woooahhh!! That’s exactly what happened to me!! I started seeing my crush’s best friend, and my crush’s ex on my friend research bar. I was being paranoid after observing this. I was like “would they see my name in the research bar too? o_O???!?!”

  I have no idea why fb chose these certain names on the research bar. I admit looking at their pages like 4-5 months ago, but it was just one time thing! I thought “maybe” there is a slightest chance of them looking me up in reverse????……

  and my crush’s name NEVER NEVER NEVER fails to appear on my friend search bar as the first person… :( It’s all confusing..

  • @OMG: Hi! I told a girl i had a crush on, that i like her. She rejected me because she had a bf. We are good friends now, though she still can’t face me in public even after 4 months. We get along pretty well when alone, or through calls,smses. The problem is, i think she liked me since the beginning (thats why i approached her)and STILL likes me, tho I can never be sure. And i think that she told her bf abt me liking her, bcoz he behaves strangely with me. How it hurts seeing them together everyday AND seeing her glancing at me when she’s alone!

    That said, even I made a list of all the people in my mouseover5. It came to 22 people (including my crush and her bf, Ha!)
    Now, out of these, 17 people are tagged in my album (including my crush) but BUT NOT her bf.
    From the rest 4, two are those with whom i interact on a daily basis.
    The remaining 2 are her BF (obviously) and her best friend. I had looked at profiles of both quite a lot some months, back. But interaction with them is absolutely zero. Also, her bf RARELY visits FB.

    So, at the end, I still think the mouseover5 people are those who you are tagged with/interact with/visit profile.

    Somebody please prove me I am wrong!

• @ OMG: I don’t know if it’s the same for you but since last saturday pm, I also see people I viewed profil a long time ago. They are not friend with me on fb. I can see there my crush sister’s, his ex (they are friend), a good friend of his ex, and two other friends of him… In the same day, all of them got on my research bar. I just can figure it out, did they visit me?.. and if not, why facebook choosed them in all the profile I visited in the past 4 months…? What do you think?

• Hi all,
  @Action Jackson & Foxy, I’m very curious about the privacy setting: suggest photos of me to friends, also. The top 2 people someone i have a crush on and my niece.. we are not in any photos together..so that’s a bit of a strange one methinks…
  anyone else have an idea about this one??

• @Foxy, In mine it’s people who have regularly appeared on the profile list and some from the mouseover5.

• @OMG! I’m sooooo happy for you! :)

  I’m beginning to think Mouseover5 has more to do with who looks you up. In addition if you’ve exchanged PMs, and have had the occassional chat, they will show up in Mouseover5. That’s the extent to “interactions” between my crush and I. He shows up in the Mouseover5 on a regular basis.

  @ Tintin, you are quite welcome!

  @Action Jackson, in that area I only have people that have photos I’m in. Every single person in there has had their photo taken with me and we’ve tagged each other, so we exist in each other’s albums. Without fail! In other words, we have photos together and we’re tagged together.

• @ Foxy : Thanks,I think you are right.

• @Foxy Yes.. even with greater frequency..O_O

• @Foxy. YES…. even with greater frequency. o_O

• @Foxy, I’m talking about the privacy setting: Suggest photos of me to friends.

• @OMG, is your crush still showing up on your Mouseover5?

• @Tintin, I noticed FB will show you photo albums of people you visit. If you’ve visited a particular person’s photo albums, they will throw their pictures in your face so you go back there again. Do an experiment. Visit someone’s photo albums 10 times. Then visit 5 other people’s photo albums 3 times. You’ll see the person who’s photo album YOU visited 10 times is the album that will show up on your profile with greater frequency. The algorithm KNOWS what you’ve been looking at. Of that I’m certain.

  @Action Jackson, are you talking about the privacy setting of how your profile wall looks to other people? Or are you talking about the privacy setting when you post an update and hide the update from particular people?

  • I don’t think that’s completely true. FB always shows my crush’s photos and I can honestly say I haven’t looked at any of his albums in the past 2 years. But FB knows. It knows I like him! lol We’ve had no public interaction in over 6 weeks but we have had “private” msgs. I think those are why the people that show up do. My other recommended albums are all from people who PM me a lot.

• I just checked the privacy settings things again, and it’s now available where I live. Very curious about it.

• Its probably both.. meaning seeing a chick you check out alot or like probably doesnt mean they’ve been looking at you.

• Can someone tell me about the photo albums that show up on our profile?I am mostly watching everyone’s photos.Not anyone in particular.There is always 1 or 2 people’s albums that comes as suggestion.How come ?

• okay… I am not really sure about the relation between mutual views and left side bar…. I have three of the girls that “HATE” me for some reason. and I hid all of their posts on the news feed so I can never see their statuses or pictures updated. Still, they never fail to appear on my left side bar. I think it’s not the “mutual” click. o_O. Weirdly, They never show up on my mouseover list either.

  Today, my mouseover list has been updated!(Finally, after about 3 months of unchanging list) haha. 5 new people started showing up on my mouseover list. really really random… I am not even really interested in them and I never creep on their pages.(sigh) This algorithm is ridiculously complicated!! I have cleaned out my message box about three days ago to observe if it affects the left side bar list and the mouseover list. let’s see what happens.

• I do hope it is true.
  Because when I do refresh my page, the same people come up. However, they’re not the people I interact most with.
  With about three of them, I chat to them every now and again, I like their pictures, they like my pictures etc.

  One of them is a person whose profile I tend to view a lot, he is on mine and I am on his. Other ones are ex best friends or people that never really leave wall posts, they like and comment a few times but that’s it.

  Then there are a couple of weird ones like my brothers best friend, and the same people always stay on my list.

  Also, I check it out on other peoples profiles. I guess who would visit their profile, and they are on their list.

  I hope it is true because the person I like is on my list, and that would literally make my life :)

• Previous post was from me to Truther.

• Then I wonder if, in your case, it has more to do with the fact you used to “interact” with your friend but since you have less than 200 friends FB still throws your friend’s face in there to remind you to go back to “interacting” with him/her. Of course FB doesn’t know of your friend’s passing. I also have a friend who passed away two years ago and she still gets traffic on her page (mostly around holidays and the anniversary of her passing). She never shows up on my Mouseover5 but then again, I have over 1100 FB friends. So FB doesn’t bother reminding me to “interact” with her because there are others with whom I’ve “interacted” more recntly they can included in the Mouseover5.

  I used to “interact” with my crush quite a bit, but I haven’t in a while (see above posts). I’m now wondering if the Mouseover5 are people FB wants to remind you of so you can go back to “interacting” with them again. Hmmmm….

• @OMG, I just recently conducted an experimental survey. Of those people I’m closest to on FB, I wanted to find out who has me on their LefSideBar10. I visited about 20 people with whom I’ve recently interacted. If I left them a comment on a status update, photo, or tagged them in a status update of mine, I show up on their LeftSideBar10 without fail. When I go to these people’s walls, I can see myself on their LeftSideBar10. Naturally some of those people also show up on my LeftSideBar10 because they respond to my comments on their photos, comment tags, etc. There is only one friend who doesn’t fit the bill. She was recently diagnosed with cancer and she hasn’t been on FB in a while. Although I’ve left her several encouraging notes on her wall, like so many of her friends have, she hasn’t responded to my comments, and yet she STILL shows up on my LeftSideBar10. Then I went to look at 5 pages that I visit frequently, but rarely, if EVER, comment, tag, or post in them. I don’t show up on any of these people’s LeftSideBar10. This leads me to believe the LeftSideBar10 is populated by those YOU “interact” with the most and who, more often than not, reciprocally interact with you too. However, if I had to guess one way or the other it’s mostly about YOUR interaction with them than then other way around. Whereas the Mouseover5 continues to remain a bit of a mystery to me.

• No I do not.

• One last question if you don’t mind. Do you still visit your friend’s page?

• I do exactly the same :)

  Let me know what happens after.If he shows up on your list after 24 hrs,my conclusion is you attract him deeply :)

• Hmm.. That’s very interesting about stop visiting his profile, sometimes i just can’t fight the urge. It’s hard, I think I’m obsessing over it, I have refreshed my page probably over 20 times lol! I would have to agree that I have noticed the search bar is strictly who you search for. But the friends list I know for a fact is some of the people that “stalk your page”.. I have had no interactions with this guy what so ever, not even private chats. So it can’t just be a coincidence, Right? I think it’s the best thing ever, I am highly entertained by this LOL. I will stop visiting his profile for about 2 weeks and see how things go, thanks for the advice!

• Hmm.. That’s very interesting about stop visiting his profile, sometimes i just can’t fight the urge. It’s hard, I think I’m obsessing over it, I have refreshed my page probably over 20 times lol! I would have to agree that I have noticed the search bar is strictly who you search for. But the friends list I know for a fact is some of the people that “stalk your page”.. I have had no interactions with this guy what so ever, not even private chats. So it can’t just be a coincidence, Right? I think it’s the best thing ever, I am highly entertained by this LOL. I will stop visiting his profile for about 2 weeks and see how things go, thanks for the advice!

• Hmm.. That’s very interesting about stop visiting his profile, sometimes i just can’t fight the urge. It’s hard, I think I’m obsessing over it, I have refreshed my page probably over 20 times lol! I would have to agree that I have noticed the search bar is strictly who you search for. But the friends list I know for a fact is some of the people that “stalk your page”.. I have had no interactions with this guy what so ever, not even private chats. So it can’t just be a coincidence, Right? I think it’s the best thing ever, I am highly entertained by this LOL. I will stop visiting his profile for about 2 weeks and see how things go, thanks for the advice!

• Not at all.I’m sure he must be checking yours.But what is everyone talking about the search bar.My understanding is search bars shows people that you are searching often.Does it have anything to do with people searching for us ? That doesnt make much sense.

  Btw, ‘Whatever’, I would like you to experiment on something.You stop visiting him for 2-3 days.I’m sure he will show up on your profile all the time.This has happened to me.

• What do you think it means when someone like a week ago was appearing on your page all the time, even on the mouseovers. You could type in his 1st letter of his name and last letter of his last name and it even showed on the search bar everytime. This guy was all over my facebook but like recently in the last 4 days he’s not on there anymore at all, it’s very rare he appears on the top 10 list, although he is still in the search bar and customize picture thing in the privacy settings. Does that mean he doesn’t view my profile anymore, because i still view his a lot.

• On the topic of the mouseover5, three out of the five I have only interacted with a couple of times, a lot less than other friends.

• @Foxy. About a year ago, and we hardly interacted. my total friends are 130. Hope my info helps in a way.

• @Truther, if you don’t mind me asking. How long ago did your friend pass away? Also, did you have a lot of FB interaction with him/her? And again, how long ago did it happen? Also, how many total FB friends do you have? I’m asking for two reasons: (1) to determine how long FB stores “interactions,” and (2) to determine if the number of friends is a determining factor as to who shows up in Mouseover5. Thanks in advance!

  @OMG FB IS a scary place to be sure!!!

• @Foxy: you know,I started thinking the same thing. I think the left side bar is the people that have “mutual profile clicks” with me. and the mouseover list is the people who check on me most often.

  my question is “how long does FB retain its memory?”

  My mouseover list has been stable for last 3 months. No change at all. It just seems to be rotating in the same group of people….

  I have been freaking out about the friend search bar.. I haven’t checkd my profile for last 10 days and I logged in today (to check my mouseover 5! haha) I started type in random letter on my friend search bar, and people that I have looked up like a 6-7 months ago are showing up as second or third person on my list….And I am not even friends with them… o_O This gave me goose bumps.. seriously, This is creeping me out! FB is really scary place…..

• Look, the “Mouseover5” as you call them are not profile views. There’s people on mine that will not be able to view my profile for reasons such as death.

• Foxy,I dont think thats a good idea.Because if there is an option like that, profile visits will stop.So its better to play the guessing game.Isn’t this fun ?

• The Mouseover5 is uncanny. I have been visiting a friend’s profile religiously and “interacting” with her to see if she shows up in the Mouseover5. Nope! She doesn’t! I’ve left messages, “Liked” her posts, “Liked” her pictures, etc. Nope! she doesn’t show up in the Mouseover5. Even more crazy. She’s not even showing up on the LeftSideBar10. But as I said earlier, she doesn’t check FB very often as she’s only got her account to check in on her adult kids. So my guess is this. Mouseover5 is people who visit your page. LeftSideBar10 are people who you visi/visit you and you “interact” with the most. Another intersting fact. I created a Friends List and included this one friend (the one I’m doing the experiment with by visiting her page and leaving comments, etc). Still she doesn’t show up on either Mouseover5 or LeftSideBar10. Only other possibility is that FB doesn’t recognize these “interactions” until they reach a certain number. FB if you are reading here. I want to crack that algorithm! LOL! Better yet, why don’t you provide people with the option of knowing who visits their page. If you don’t want to know, you can always turn it off! C’mon now! It’s in your best interest! People want to know! ;)

• I am convinced that the people shown in the box are the people that visit your profile the most..On my own profile it is the same 10 people everytime i click in, just in different orders..a few are totally random and i don’t interact publicly with most of them!
  1) my best friend..! i don’t visit her profile that often and we haven’t had public interaction with each other recently!however she is tagged in alot of my pics!
  2) my other best friend..! same as above!
  3) my cousin..we have written on each others walls a couple of times and we’re always private chatting
  4) a guy i am friends with..we’re tagged in a few photos and we always like each others comments, statuses etc
  5) my neighbour..totally random, we have never interacted publilcly and only private chatted a couple of times, she is tagged in photos though
  6) my ex-friend..fell out a few months ago, we don’t speak now and haven’t interacted on facebook in almost a year!
  7) #6’s best friend..have never interacted with her on facebook!
  8) a my best guy friend that i hooked up with recently but now things are complicated..:/
  9) another best friend..we’re always interacting on facebook
  10) the most random..#1’s ex-boyfriend, we’re both tagged in a few pictures but other than that have never interacted except for a few private chats (he isn’t online that often)

• I know it shows people who visit your profile for sure because there was one lady in my list who was seriously ill and admitted to hospital.Before her illness we used to have interactions.After many months,she started showing in hover list.Then I was wondering how come !! But in a few days she started being active on FB again,as she recovered.So 2 possibilities : – 1) She visited my profile
  2) Another possibility is FB stores all our previous interactions and its prompting us to be in touch again.

• Well, did anybody notice abt the “Mouseover5” that it not only shows the ppl on your name, but also the same ppl when you hover the cursor over names of common friends. The same handful are shown even if you have 100+ common friends. And those handful are the same ones.

• Well, did anybody notice abt the “Mouseover5” that it not only shows the ppl on your name, but also the same ppl when you hover the cursor over names of common friends. The same handful are shown even if you have 100+ common friends. And those handful are the same ones.

• Well, did anybody notice abt the “Mouseover5” that it not only shows the ppl on your name, but also the same ppl when you hover the cursor over names of common friends. The same handful are shown even if you have 100+ common friends. And those handful are the same ones.

• My ‘recently interacted friends’ list is empty. It emptied itself about 3 months ago, while I am still interacting with people on facebook. Before this list emptied I had also noticed a correlation between the left side bar en the ‘recently interacted with’.
  I might add that I have viewed about 3 profilepages in many weeks since I became aware of the fact that the left side bar shows who visits you.

  The missing ‘recently interacted with’-list might explain why my left side bar acts differently (see above).

• Very interesting thread.Apparently,everyone is curious to know who checks their profile.And this is only because there is someone in your friend’s list that interests you.I’ve been curious myself :P

  But frankly speaking,its hard to say because I think FB keeps changing their algorithms.Recently,I’ve noticed that the friend’s list that appears on your profile mostly comprises of your ‘recently interacted friends’ and ‘family’.Trust me,I have 2 accounts and my observations are based on both these accounts.If you want to see how the ‘featured friend’ are selected, Go to your Account-Edit Friends.You will find the ‘Recently Interacted Friends’ that facebook has listed by default.

  BUT,2 or 3 persons that doesnt come under this list also shows up.And I have noticed that they show up the moments when they come online.Also,I’ve reasons to believe they check my profile during that time(but no interactions)

  The friends showing up when you hover your name or pic(which is now different)are Recently interacted + family + friends that visit your profile + profiles you visit.

• @sunshiine, it depends who’s tagged you in the photo…if that person’s security settings dont allow friends of friends to see it will not show up..i may also depend if the viewer and tagger are friends too i believe!

• I am curious about this as well.

  On my list:

  -MY EX WHO DUMPED ME
  –We broke up a month ago.
  –I still check his profile daily (yeah, I’m still crushing on him…)
  –My name is off-and-on about appearing on his friends sidebar.
  –His name is WITHOUT FAIL always on my sidebar but we never publicized our relationship on Facebook.
  –On Facebook we’ve attended 1 event together, have about 12 mutual friends, FB chat has stored 1800 messages between us.
  –We had an ongoing poke war for many months.
  –His name appears first when I type either his first initial or last initial in the search bar.
  –He has half as many FB friends as I do.

  -GUY CRUSHING ON ME WHO I DON’T LIKE MORE THAN A FRIEND
  –I rarely view his profile, his name appears without fail on my friend list.
  –Very few messages back-and-forth between us.
  –No mutual friends.

  The rest of the list are people I don’t view that often but ostensibly could be viewing my profile due to my funny status updates. One of them has consistently liked my posts or commented on them, even though I rarely talk to him outside of FB.

  There are also a couple girls of whom I rarely look at their profiles, but must be looking at mine. We’re all friends and hang out regularly, but I just don’t really look at their profiles but yet they appear on my list; we haven’t even been to the same FB events together.

  My experiment is going to stop looking at my ex’s profile through my Facebook page starting today, have my best mutual friend check it. I’d like to see if my friend appears on the ex’s friend list and if my ex will eventually disappear from my list.

• nice

• @OMG, don’t feel bad! I used to do the same. Now you must arm yourself with a great deal of strength and stop clicking on his status updates. If you want to see what he posts use the method I described above. But whatever you do, DON’t click on his status updates! Don’t bother to check who “Likes” them, etc. I know, I know! It takes a LOT of self-discipline! If you think you can’t live without ‘seeing’ him for a while, here’s my suggestion. Go to his profile and download whichever photo of his you like the most. Then STOP “interacting” with him. That means NOT clicking on anything of his on the Newsfeed, nor going to his profile. If you need a ‘fix’ to see your crush, go to your downloaded photo, but don’t go to his profile and don’t click on anything he posts. I wonder how long FB stores our “interactions” with other people. Now THAT’s the biggest question I have. If we can solve that mystery then we’ll know what determines the people included in the Mouseover-Five! ;)

• @Sunshine, for me the order of photos that appear across the top when I check how the profile appears to others is the same. No matter who it is! As I’ve said before, I have over 1100 FB friends and I’ve checked twenty different people since I read your post here. It doesn’t matter who it is. Male, female, people who check in with me frequently, a couple of guys I know like me, my crush, etc. May be I should post a “sexy” photo to see if the order of pictures across the top changes! LOL!!!

• @Foxy : you go girl!! lol! That’s a great attitude right there!! haha.

  I am in shock right now. I’ve actually clicked on his statuses to check on the comments and to see who has liked his status. :(… total failure… That means I have been actually “interacting” with him!! and I purposedly didn’t visit his profile for the longest time. I thought the main page really didn’t matter!

  This is so sad….:(

• ok, I may have jumped the gun. I did a more complete survey and while the photos do change somewhat from person to person- I can’t say for sure how it is ordered. I will say, the sequence that appears is not the sequence of my photos as they appear in my profile photos.

• after obsessively checking if my crush is looking at me and reading this blog I have decided you can see it in the friends photo albums that appear on the side when you are looking at your photos – the frequency of certain people seems to increase when they have more recently checked you out or if they have been on line. also the mouseover box works to – possibly better. The mouseover box is always these 5 guys with whom I do or don’t have contact with and some female friends who I do have contact with, and some randoms. I have a very small ratio of guys on my friends list so I find this significant.
  The cool thing I just noticed is when you go into your account security and preview how your site appears to others, the photos along the top changes from person to person!!!!! I have one full body shot considered by many to be quite “sexy”. When I type in any guys name on the preview how it appears to them, that “sexy” photo shows up first to the left in everysingle one!!! and then some others after that which sequence also changes. When I type in other friends names – females – it is never the “sexy” photo that appears in that spot. For my neice for instance, the first two photos to appear are ones of my daughter and her or one she has taken of my daughter. Others, who probably never look it is random or the kids… Check it out!!!! super cool, not only can you tell who is looking, you can see what they are looking at – and what they find desirable about you!!

• after obsessively checking if my crush is looking at me and reading this blog I have decided you can see it in the friends photo albums that appear on the side when you are looking at your photos – the frequency of certain people seems to increase when they have more recently checked you out or if they have been on line. also the mouseover box works to – possibly better. The mouseover box is always these 5 guys with whom I do or don’t have contact with and some female friends who I do have contact with, and some randoms. I have a very small ratio of guys on my friends list so I find this significant.
  The cool thing I just noticed is when you go into your account security and preview how your site appears to others, the photos along the top changes from person to person!!!!! I have one full body shot considered by many to be quite “sexy”. When I type in any guys name on the preview how it appears to them, that “sexy” photo shows up first to the left in everysingle one!!! and then some others after that which sequence also changes. When I type in other friends names – females – it is never the “sexy” photo that appears in that spot. For my neice for instance, the first two photos to appear are ones of my daughter and her or one she has taken of my daughter. Others, who probably never look it is random or the kids… Check it out!!!! super cool, not only can you tell who is looking, you can see what they are looking at – and what they find desirable about you!!

• @Omg, I’m beginning to think that by clicking on anything they post FB considers it an “interaction.” Therefore, I don’t click pictures, watch videos, “Like,” or check to see who’s “Liked” my crush’s status updates anymore. I’m purposedly ignoring his status updates. If I want to read what he posts or see very clear details of the pictures he posts, I simply increase my screen’s magnification to 150%. LOL!!! I don’t want to “interact” with his updates for a while. I want to see how long it will be before he drops off from my Mouseover-Five. How long does FB stores my “interactions” with him? We’ve been on chat, PMd each other, and “Liked” each other’s status updates in the past. We’ve liked each other for a looooooong time, but it’s complicated. For one thing, we don’t live in the same state, so we are ‘geographical undesirable’ to one another. We aren’t far from each other (two hours away), but still I decided to stop contacting him altogether for a while. My attitude? Let’s see how badly he wants to be with me! LOL!!!

• One more question…. Is clicking on someone’s picture or post on “top news feed” considered as interactiOn?? I am afraid to even read the comments on someone’s status or click to see who has “liked” the statuses!!!!! Haha…What do you think??

• I’ve been visiting a particular friend’s profile everyday (not my crush), just to see if that friend will show up in the Mouseover-Five. It’s been at least three weeks. That friend has yet to show up on my Mouseover-Five, but I know she doesn’t use a mobile phone to access FB.

  In addition, I’m wondering about the following scenario: if you have compartmentalized your friends into sub-groups, are those the people who show up in the Mouseover Five? For example if you have your school/job friends vs. your social/family friends in two different groups. Who shows up? Does FB recognize you’ve placed people in a group and automatically add them to the Mouseover-Five list? I’m still curious about the algorithm and how it determines the Mouseover-Five.

• In my case, the mouseover shows completely random persons, different people every time (most of them have no reason to view my page). But I don’t know if the algorithm differs per country.

  The left side bar contains random people as well, mixed with persons who have recently viewed my page. This list changes daily.
  The funny thing is, if I log in and out often enough, a certain list appears that is totally different from my daily list. If I refresh multiple times or wait 10 minutes (don’t really know when), the list changes back to my daily list. I only get this alternate list when I have posted something that people would be interested in.
  My daily list also contains people that are not very active on facebook (the random part), but the “other” list contains ONLY people who have been online that day.

  I find this “other” list very interesting, because I think this list contains the people that stalk the most (or viewed my page that day).
  But still, it is all very vague…

• I think its whoever in your friends list logged in most recently. Via pc or mobile.

• mutual profile views

• @Anonymous asking about Ticker’s findings. For me the ten people who show up under the “Edit Settings” are people with whom I’ve tagged in pictures together. Every single one of them. Not a deviation from this rule at all. I’ve got two albums full of photos with these ten people. They are tagged in my pictures and I’m tagged in theirs. So I’m inclined to think FB wants to “suggest photos of me to friends” to those people because we’ve already shared pictures together.

  @Ash, I’ve got over 1100 friends on FB. Many of these people have a LOT more friends that I do, and yet I keep seeing friends and relatives who may have less than 100 FB friends. I don’t think there is a correlation there.

  @Jamie, I believe you’re on to something. The Mouseover-Five, as I like to call them, may indeed be people with whom you have, or have had, the most interaction (chat, “Likes,” comments, PM, etc). I do believe page views (either you looking at their page or they looking at yours), are also considered “interactions” by FB.

• @ash: not for me…my mother only as 16 friends and my ex 45…they always show up in the mouseover and I have many friends having way more friends on fb. This is so weird, and it’s just not possible all of us see ex and close people there… weird!

• hello
  really wanna hear people’s thoughts on ticker’s earlier comment on his/her privacy settings:

  “scanned through yer comment, some interesting viewpoints indeed..
  here’s something i came across when i was delving through my privacy settings today..

  so, i clicked on ‘account, privacy settings, customize settings’ then scrolled down to ‘things others share’ on the third line it says ‘suggest photos of me to friends..
  when photos look like me, suggest my name’ with ‘edit settings’ beside it.
  Hope yiz are with me so far!

  So when you click ‘edit settings’ it’s interesting the 10 names that come up, dont you think…similar to the names when you hover over your own profile pic/name but they never seem to change!

  let me know your thoughts please..i’m totally intrigued by all this!!”

  i’m intrigued too ticker!

• All I’d like to know is it people who are viewing your profile, or who’s profile you are viewing?! I just logged onto facebook, and two guys, one just a friend who’s profile I have not recently viewed, and with whom I have not interacted recently, and the latter being my ex, who’s profile i view a lot, both showed up in my friend default list. Because of this, I am believing that the friends displayed to you are your friends who’ve recently viewed your profile. What’re everyone else’s thoughts on this? Could I be right?

• All I’d like to know is it people who are viewing your profile, or who’s profile you are viewing?! I just logged onto facebook, and two guys, one just a friend who’s profile I have not recently viewed, and with whom I have not interacted recently, and the latter being my ex, who’s profile i view a lot, both showed up in my friend default list. Because of this, I am believing that the friends displayed to you are your friends who’ve recently viewed your profile. What’re everyone else’s thoughts on this? Could I be right?

• Ok peoples. Listen up!
  My wife (being the cynic she is) solved this debate in under a minute!!
  Facebook wants as many users as possible, as this generates advertising money for them!
  Do the 10 friends that show up on your profile have the most (or close to the most)friends on their Facebook?
  Yep, it’s all about generating more friends for everyone, which generates more dollars for Facebook via advertising!!

• omg my 3 x keep coming up and this girl that hates me and 6 other guys!!!

• In reading the new posts, I’ve become more interested in the “mouseover 5” (good name) and these are definitely people who I am close to- however not necessarily on FB. Unless, FB is figuring in private messages in chat or inbox- which is my only contact(recently) with my Aunt and crush. Two of these other people I haven’t much to do with on FB, however we have many mutual friends and I could see them having an interest in me since I live with their best friends. I’ve also noticed that my “Recently Interacted With” friends under Edit Friends aren’t all the same people as my mouseover 5. Some are on both. However, there’s about 4 people on the list who I’ve had no contact with so I’m assuming page views are considered interactions by FB. Interesting… ;)

• @OMG, thanks for the very kind and supportive words. We worked it out! ;)

  @Milli, Wow! You are quite the expert FB analyst! I’m rather impressed! Please don’t disappear from this forum. We need more insight from people like you! :)

• Oh and btw this 8 years guy I was talking about…he’s NEVER on my pictures list of friends on the left of my profile, EVER. This makes me believe that IF this list include SOME people who visit your profile, you must also visit there profile for them to appear there.

• @omg
  We ended the conflict, don’t try to talk about people like that if it’s obvious they will find out.

• @Foxy: I didn’t even understand why that person was being so rude on here…:( just ignore it.

  @Milli: Wow! you have a great point! I couldn’t agree more with you… I ended up spending MORE time on fb, just trying to figure this whole mystery out. After a while, I found myself being OBSESSED with the freind list, mouseover list and friend search bar. I think FB really does maintain long term memory of who I checked out the most in the past. It was getting creepy as I find out more about this whole fb algorithm.

  So, I think I need to stay away from my crush’s profile for a little longer in order to be more clear about this.

  I concluded that it indeed “is” the MIXTURE of people who visits me and who i visit. But, I still think most of these people appearing on mouseover use smartphone to check fb!! :o

• I’ve been checking this for a while and this is what I believe:

  The people on the mouseover is a group of 20 persons (if you refresh enough) not only 5. This list of 20 can change over time but not very much and is connect to the 10 friends albums you see sometimes on the right. I believe they are the 20 people checking my profile the most(ex’s, guys I know likes me + my mother and my sister checking on me, some good friends) BUT… some of them are also people I go see there profil sometimes or comments, so… it’s hard to say it’s a oneway thing, I think it’s a mix.

  The main reason why I believe a person MUST VISIT your profil to be on the mouseover list is this guy I dated 8 years ago.. you know this kind of love that ends because your leaving the city.. not leaving the guy..? and then life just goes on…Weird that he’s always there even if we NEVER EVER talked, not even once,(private..public…no pictures in common or whatever NOTHING). I went on is profile 2 times in the last 3 years to check is pictures and that all. No reason for him to be there (and he’s ALWAYS there since I started looking at the mouseover thing, he’s one of the people that never left my list). He also comes firt in all my list when I put the fist letter of is name… Weird also that my mother was off my mouseover list during a part of her vacation, I know she had no internet acces during her trip…

  I really believe the mouseover is where fb reveals IN PART who visit your profile the most..combine with the top visit/comments profil you do yourself. Why? Because FIRST: it’s private – only you can see the mouseover on your profil and SECOND – by mixing the people who visit you with some of the people you visit yourself, it’s impossible for you to be sure and THAT’S ALL THE POINT OF IT!!! Just like love in real life, the coolest part (and the worst at the same time I know) is all those questions driving us nuts.. not being sure. I guess facebook is just trying to help connecting people going nuts for each others. Good job on this one fb!!! I also believe the facebook algo must change once in a while for us to never figure out the paterns! Go job on this one to fb!.. the more I try to understand the more I don’t!

  If you are strong enough to stop visiting your crush profile for A WHILE (not even clic on is comments on the wall..Nothing at all).. I guess the mouseover can tell you if this person visit your profile after a while but fb look like he’s having a long memory of who YOU like, and so, you’ll always keep asking yourself… is he there because he visit me or because I SO visited is profile back then… So the more you keep asking yourself, the more you go on fb trying to understand and the more time you spend on fb…and of course, the more fb loves you $$$$$ Facebook-1 Me-0

  One thing is clear for me, visiting profil is a part of the facebook algo and is a form of “interaction”. Sure of this one.

• @Johnson, thanks for your contribution to our topic of interest. :)

• @Foxy
  To contribute to you, I don’t believe the mouse-overs are stalkers. I checked mine and there was people who could not possibly stalk me.

• @Johnson, there is no need to become confrontational. I was merely replying to the people who are more interested in the Mouseover-Five, which is why I originally didn’t respond to Sigma’s post. There are three of us who want to know more about the Mouseover-Five (OMG, Ava_x, and I). As I explained to Sigma, we are more curious about the significance and correlation of those who appear on the Mouseover-Five, than those who appear on the Left-Side-Ten-Bar. Does that make me selfish? You may think so, and you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. But remember that this is a forum to ask questions and make observations about FB workings, not to jump on each other’s throats when someone isn’t addressing a particular post. Personally I’ve read every post here and I can tell you there is a LOT of info. on the ten people who appear on the left side bar of any FB profile. The mystery remains with the five who appear when you Mouseover your profile name. Hope you can understand why I originally responded only to Ava_x and OMG. If not, not harm done. No hard feelings either. At least not on my part. :)

• @Ava_x: I’m not sure about the friends on the profile on mine I only ever privately interact with one of them, and I am not tagged in any photos with the friends or events, yet there are a lot of regular friends.

• @Foxy
  Well personally I haven’t seen anything on here about what Sigma noticed. From what I just read, it looks like you only care about one thing, and that’s: yourself.

• @Sigma, your information hasn’t been ignored. We know the Left-Side-Bar-Ten will always fit what you described in your post. However, Ava_x, OMG, and I are more interested in the Mouseover-Five. Our theory/hope/wish/desire above all else is that those five friends are people who stalk us on a regular basis. ;)

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• Well it’s good to know my information is going to good use and being ignored

• @Ava_x, I think your theory about the Left-Side-Bar-Ten is correct. Most of the people that appear there for me are those who I have been exchanging PMs with. But they also include people I chat with, leave comments for, tag in pics/comments, visit their walls on a regular basic, etc, etc, etc.

  I did an experiment recently. I started visiting a random person’s page (she’s an older friend who hardly ever goes on FB). I’ve been visiting her page every day for about two weeks now. I’ve posted on her wall and commented on her pics. She now appears on my Left-Side-Bar-Ten. However, she doesn’t show up on my Mouseover Five at all! As I said, I KNOW she doesn’t go to FB very often and when she does, it’s basically to check in on her adult children. This is what gives me hope about the theory that the Mouseover Five are in fact the people who stalk your wall. ;)

• @OMG, my crush used to appear on my left side bar, but doesn’t anymore, but I also stopped visiting his page. He hid his friends on FB (I know why), so when I used to visit his page I could only see his brother (our mutual friend) and parents listed on his left side bar. As I said, I stopped visiting his page for fear he could see me on the top of the left side bar list! LOL! Here’s my theory about the left side bar: it’s the people YOU visit/PM/chat/tag/”like” comments/pics/interact with the most.

  My other niece deactivated her account for about a month and she stopped appearing on my left side bar altogether. Yesterday I noticed she was back on my left side bar. I also know she visited my page yesterday as she posted something on my wall and made a comment in one of my pics. She now appears on my Mouseover Five too! This is what gives me hope because she hadn’t been there while she was on hiatus from FB. Btw, she is a Smartphone user and checks her FB with it on a regular basis. I don’t know if this means anything about the Mouseover Five or not, but it’s a factor at least in her case.

• @Random Person Looking to Confirm a Rumour: nice long name ;) I am pretty sure that the ten friends include people we interact with privately because most of the ones on mine i’ve never had public interaction with but have shared private messages with them…. it may also take into account any mutual events attended and photos that your tagged in with that person. That’s what i’ve found anyway. There are a few that appear and i’ve not spoken to in years so i think they are the potential stalkers.

• 9 of the 10 people on my page I never have public interactions with….Ever. What do we think? o_O

• OK, what Eeee said definitely makes sense… I tried it, and the people who were at the bottom of my list were really those who pretty surely won’t ever check out my profile, cause either they almost never use FB, or we never really liked each other (sum ppl from high school). But I’m going to test this thing with my other profile and tell you guys if I find out sg.
  As for the friends list, I’m sure the people there are neither the ppl you check out, nor those who check you out. Eg. there is this acquaintance of mine who’s 100% sure gay, has more than 700 friends and rarely comes to FB, so it is much more than unlikely that he checks out my profile – yet he *always* shows up on my list.
  Also, there is this boy (well.. my crush :$) whose profile I check out every day, and yet he’s never on my list, and I’m never on his either.
  But I really hope that mouseover thing is true and it really shows the people who check you out, cause my crush also keeps showing up there :$$$$ (Fingers crossed for everyone who’s in the same shoes! :)) Tho for me it keeps showing some people who I don’t think are checking me out, but who knows..? Sometimes I also click on people I otherwise don’t talk to, so it may be.

• @Foxy: I so wish that was the case ;)

  @OMG it’s definitely not just people who use smartphones or iphones to check their facebook, my brother appears on my mouseover and he NEVER comes online and even if he did he doesn’t have a smart phone lol. Meant to say, my crush also appears in my side bar and a couple of the potential stalkers in the mouseover appear from time to time and stay there unlike the 1 or 2 who change when i refresh the page. My friends down the side now seem to change everyday but it’s always the same ones for a whole day apart from the 2 randoms that change.

  Ahh this is driving me nuts x)

• @Foxy: your comment made me laugh! haha ;) I just checked my mouseover five right now and my crush is coming up as always… sigh… I don’t know whether to be excited or not. you know what i mean, right?

  Only difference between us is that my crush never appears on the left side list. This is why I would like to know if the iphone users only appear on the mouseover! I was convinced that iphone stalkers only appear on the mouseover since most of them appearing in my mouseover, in fact, uses iphone or smartphone to check their fb! But, after I read the article and the comments posted here, I was discouraged with my theory..:(… I just don’t know anymore.

  Foxy, As you said, I think we just have to wait for that “facebook god” to reveal the secret.. Fingers crossed!!!

• I noticed a correlation:
  A friend of mine didn’t come on for a while, and they were regulars on my profile, except for when they weren’t online for that week or so, when they came back online, they were back on the profile friends.

• @Ava_x, I hope your crush is there because he stalks your FB page! ;)

• I’ve found that the mouseover friends are a mix between people who have attended the same events, who have me in their photo album, who i’m tagged in the same pictures as and who have done the most interacting with me. It’s always the same 20 people who show up but only showing 5 at a time, different ones from the list of 20 same people when i refresh if you get what i mean but there are definitely a few on there that i have had no interaction with whatsoever and it’s likely that they are a little obsessed with me ;) sadly i think my crush only appears because we have attended the same event, are in a photo together and have shared private messages!

• @OMG, Oops!!! You can tell it’s way to early for me! The last two comments are from me. Definitely hoping the Mouseover Five are people who visit your FB page and not the other way around. Keeping fingers crossed for both of us! ;)

• It’s definitely not people you’ve recently interacted with because i haven’t talked to my ex in over a year and she’s been appearing on that list and i’ve been hearing that she’s been creeping on me recently

• @Foxy : I am so glad to find someone in my situation! Checking my mouseover list as soon as I log in to fb has become habitual. This mouseoverlist never seems to change! I really would like to know if it’s the list of people I “Stalk” or the people who stalk ME. Few of them are good freinds of mine that I check regularly. But, Few of them seems to be very random. I also have a girl who keeps showing up, who claims to hate me. We used to interact frequently over fb about a year ago, but it stopped last year. I consider as a possible stalker of mine since I think she has good reasons to check on me. And there is my crush, who i know for sure uses smartphone to check facebook. I barely check this person’s facebook page but I used to when we became friends about 6 months ago. Foxy.. As you mentioned, I would be thrilled to find out if these are the people who checks my fb page the most or the people I have stalked the most. What about you? do you check your crush’s page often? Since when did it start appearing? Is your mouseover list changing at all? I am very confused! and it’s driving me NUTS!! haha

  • @OMG, The Mouseover Five, as I like to call them, seem to cycle a bit for me. However, I have over 1100 FB friends. Overall it tends to be the exact same group of people. It is rather consistent. Who shows up: my sister, my niece, my best friends, the people I interact with the most, a couple of random people that I never interact with, then there is my crush. I used to visit his wall on a regular basis, but then I got paranoid after reading that I would be showing up on his Top Ten Friends List (left side bar). So I stopped checking his page since I don’t want him to think I’m a creepy stalker. Btw, he used to appear on my Top Ten Friends List regularly too. Now I only see what he posts on the Newsfeed. I know he uses his blackberry to check FB on a regular basis. If I refresh my page, 9 out of 10 times, he shows up on the list of my Mouseover Five. These days doing the Mouseover check is on my top FB ritual. We are in the exact same boat sister! Will the FB ‘gods’ bless us with some secret knowledge soon? I certainly hope so!

  • @Foxy, that last “Anonymous” comment was from me. I forgot to enter my Username.

• @OMG: We have the exact same scenario. Which is why I wanted to find out if the 5 people that show up, when doing the mouseover, were the people who we stalk or the people who stalk us. If only FB would let the cat out of the bag! I would be thrilled if those 5 mouseover friends are the people who view my profile the most. My crush keeps showing up there when I hover over my own name. I did the “Hide from these people” as Eeee suggested he he’s the first one to appear. FB should let us know who views our profile. This would make life so much simpler! Sigh!

• also on the suggested pages box on the homepage it’s always ‘(freind who i talk to a lot)’ and 41 others like this. ITS A CONSPIRACY.

• What the hell i put the letter a in the search box and my best friends name comes up even though it doesnt have an a in it? :/

• Noticed that people listed as family members/partners don’t appear on the list of 10 friends.

• Very strange! I get the exact same 10 every time! On mine I get my ex, a couple of girls from work and one of my best friends girlfriends as well as a couple of people I hardly ever speak to! :S

• Very strange! I get the exact same 10 every time! On mine I get my ex, a couple of girls from work and one of my best friends girlfriends as well as a couple of people I hardly ever speak to! :S

• HEY!
  I have been doing a few experiments with the search bar thing. I noticed that when i type in the first letter of someones name (surname or firstname) into the search for people part that it comes up with about 5 people and these 5 people (for me anyway) seem to be people’s profiles i have been on! it’s really scary cause 2 girls that i’m not even friends with appear second in the list when i type in a certain letter and it’s because i went on their profiles as they are friends with my crush! haha i’m such a stalker. So it seems to be a mixture of people who’s profile you have last been on and if there aren’t 5 people that you’ve viewed with that letter then facebook throws in a random friend with that letter. but what i’ve noticed is, when i type the same letter into my friends list search bar a whole bunch of people come up that would come first in alphabetical order or that i’ve even interacted with so i don’t really understand why the person facebook chooses comes up! Usually it’s NOT someone I have viewed or interacted with, for example some guy i have never interacted with came up when i typed in ‘K’ but there were people that should have come up before him alphabetically or in terms of interaction so MAYBE it IS people who have viewed your profile!

  I think people should seriously have a think about everyone who shows up, maybe you visited their profile a while ago or have interacted with them even if it wasn’t that recent, but if it’s someone who you have had no contact with EVER (not even mutual events) then it’s possible they have viewed your page (as long as there are other people with the same letter to start in either their surname or firstname).

  I hope this isn’t too confusing for people!

  Also thought i’d add that when i type in B my crush still comes up first even though B isn’t one of the first letters in his name! It’s a bit weird cause usually people only appear when the letter is the first letter or their surname or first name. I have however shared a couple of private messages with him, in a photo together and attended the same event but it’s still doesn’t happen with anyone else even if i have the same events, photo or messages with them so i don’t know whats going on there. I don’t even go on his profile that much maybe once a week.

  this is so long haha!

• I also noticed that if you tend to exchange private messages a lot with a certain person they will show up in your side bar. Like my mom and I never interact publicly on facebook but when I was away we would send each other private messages and her name would always appear on the side bar then when we stopped i never saw her on the side bar again…just a theory.

• I also noticed that if you tend to exchange private messages a lot with a certain person they will show up in your side bar. Like my mom and I never interact publicly on facebook but when I was away we would send each other private messages and her name would always appear on the side bar then when we stopped i never saw her on the side bar again…just a theory.

• That being said, I’m sure that after some time, people will go off the list and not reappear if the reasons they ended up in your list in the first place cease to be. I have a friend that passed away back in December and they would still come up on my list with decreasing regularity since that time. (Side note: Yes, it is very likely this person checked my profile regularly.) The last time I saw them appear was right around or just before the time I first started keeping a close eye and experimenting. So, about six weeks ago. Not sure if or when they might return.

• So, it’s been a while since I first took an interest in this and wrote on this website what I found. I’m not sure how all this works, but I will say that the order doesn’t seem very timely. It doesn’t really change up much, I guess is what I’m saying. The people on my list for the most part have stayed the same for over a month, but has recycled itself pretty consistently over that month, if that makes any sense.

  The list will stay about the same for a week or so with generally one person at a time dropping off and being replaced with someone else, then after around a month the same people will start moving back into rotation. Before it even happened I knew that the one person I was keeping an eye out for would be back on there soon based on the other people who had moved back onto the list. And they were, right on schedule.

  I friended this person around two months ago, it took close to a month for them to appear on my top friends list and this is now their second pass through it. So, I can’t say what will initially land anyone on your list, but it does seem like once they are in the rotation, they will stay in it for some time and that may not necessarily have much to do with activity that has happened recently. (Like say, since they first started showing up.) This has been my experience anyway. Keep your eyes on people for how long they stay on your list, who they tend to show up with, and how long it takes for pretty much that same set of people to cycle back in.

• Thanks for your post.

  I have the same 10 people showing up in my friends list, thats why im her, after 2 days of research, this is my final theory:

  5 out of the 10 are people which are almost the only ones that i interact with…so it’s can’t be a coincidence.

  The last 5…
  (2) of them are girls that, if you asked me: which of your 400 friends do you think likes you the most, i would point them.
  (1) of them is my sisters X…
  (1) is my little niece, and almost all of my familymebers from that side of the family connect to me through her account (because she is playing farmville 24/7) I never visit her profile.
  (1) is my former best friend, whoms profile i havnt visited for 2 years at least , beacuse im mad at him.

  I can see the same picture in some of my best friends “10 friends list”. X’s, their most connected friends etc.

  so its obvious that its a mix of who you interact with the most and people that click alot on your profile. I dont find this as a problem, its actually quite ok to have a little feeling with that.

  I also tested another thing, with another feature:
  Why is it always close realted peoples album pictures that shows up in the right corner?

  I tried to click on one of my old friends who i know never clicks on my profile…and after 1 day, he also began to show up as “friends albums” In this case, its who YOU are following, but its also only yourself that can see it.

  thx

• I just don’t know.

  A few of the people who show up when I mouse over my name are people I have a crush on lol but I don’t go on there pages really. There are people I interact with a 100 times more, and I visit their page,comment on their status etc and they never show up. I just think it’s odd, I have 100’s of people on my facebook and they choose those people to show?
  I’ve also tried to do a test, the last few days I’ve looked at the same persons page and photo’s everyday, they haven’t shown up when I mouse over my name yet so far.

• i believe it is true

• I did the same test as Eeee and…to me the list doesn`t appear in Alphabetical order and the people appearing there when i type any letter are indeed people who could follow my profile. Some i had no intereaction with and a couple of girls i do know have a crush on me.

  I’m not going to jump to any conclusions and say that those are in fact looking at my profile on a regular basis but i does make sense. Certainly more than the logic behind the TOP 10 friend list anyway.

  • FAILtron….really??

    I wonder if I need to try it again? It didn’t matter what letter I put in, an alphabetical list by first or last name appeared…. you got random people??? people that might stalk your page?

• eeeee…..

  I tried that….it just shows people in alphabetical order, no matter what I type in “hide from these people”

• I feel that people who pop up on my friend list are quite coincidental while many are random.

  Ive had instances where Ive been in a certain situation and I know that certain friends of mine would be checking on my profile. And when I check my profile, they are there. I have this friend who I use to check his profile but not anymore. Ive noticed that when I posta video i know hes interestedin, he pops up on the list.

  Even friends that I talk over the phone, ive noticed their face pops up on the list.

  While I think some people pop up randomly i know there are people who check my profile at certain times and it seems more than coincidental to see them. Again its hard to say when theres many on the list instead of 2 or three.

• Very very interesting. We can’t ALL be wrong, right? I found this article googling to try and work out what was happening too :) Noticed myself in those ten pics on the profile of someone I check out regularly but don’t often communicate with. That person has over 1000 friends, and it’s me and the same other few people that are regularly on that top ten, so I figured it can’t be a random draw. FB says we interract with them? I don’t think that can be true either. I have friends I chat/comment/wall post to regularly and they are not on my top ten. I do agree it’s some combination of things. I’d really like to know if someone is on my list because they’re checking me out too though!! I’m not worried it’s a privacy breach, I don’t think it’s creepy, if I don’t want someone checking out what I’m up to then I don’t have them on my friends list!

• Oh my goodness! This thing is driving me crazy!!
  My crush keeps on appearing on my mouseover list and I know he only uses the iphone to check his fb.
  I try to avoid checking on his profile much since I fear my name appearing on his list….(haha) The last time i checked his profile was like 3 months ago and he KEEPS on appearing on my mouseover list. No matter how many times I refresh!!!

  Also, He is the very first one appearing on my freind research bar when I type in a letter. Also, I tried what Eeee has suggested and he is the first one to appear!!(for first letter of his last name and his first name) o_O

  I truly am curious if he’s “STALKING” me or fb remembers that I “STALKED” him about 6 months ago?

  someone help me!

  • We have the exact same scenario. Which is why I wanted to find out if the 5 people that show up, when doing the mouseover, were the people who we stalk or the people who stalk us. If only FB would let the cat out of the bag! I would be thrilled if those 5 mouseover friends are the people who view my profile the most. My crush keeps showing up there when I hover over my own name. I did the “Hide from these people” as Eeee suggested he he’s the first one to appear. FB should let us know who views our profile. This would make life so much simpler! Sigh!

• Eeee, I definately think you’re on to something. That is interesting. The ones that I just visited myself seem gone from the list that drops down in “hide from these people”. And that makes it different from the list in the search window.

• EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!

  I found the same thing in the Privacy Settings of “Suggest photos of me to friends”! But check this out: When you want to hide a status update from certain people you push the little lock icon next to the “share” button you push to share your status (you edit on this lock button before you publish your status obviously.)

  Click the icon and scroll down to “Customize” and a FASCINATING THING HAPPENS. Make sure it’s set to be visible to “Friends Only” then start typing in any letter of the alphabet into “Hide from These People”

  Every list will be of people who follow you/ visit your profile the most!!!!!

  • eeeee,

    I’m not following you…..can you explain that again…???

• I’ve been checking this thread daily for about a week and agree with what a lot of you have said.

  The one thing I’ve noticed is that Facebook seems to be able to know who means the most to you.

  Isn’t it funny that pretty much everyone’s crush is on that list? Mine is, but the only interaction that we’ve had in the past 6 weeks is two PMs. I also attended the same FB event as him so I think those two factors weigh heavily on who FB chooses to throw in your face! I rarely check his profile (once in the past 6 weeks) and have him blocked from my news-feed, yet he shows up everywhere else! It’s quite annoying.

  I seem to have two groups of people who show up on the left of my profile: One that makes sense because we interact or they’d have a reason to check my profile; and one where they seem completely random- people I once knew.

  Anyways, I think PMs aren’t so private and have something to do with this list.. I just wish it was your stalkers. ;)

• Thanks for the help Ticket, I can see the 5 people now :)

  I’m in the U.K and the suggests Photo’s to friends feature isn’t available to me yet either.

• weird ava, i’m in the uk too…not sure what that’s about, sorry!
  could it have anything to do with any of your other settings possibly..
  maybe we’l find out more from other people..
  ps glad you could understand my post anyway, it seemed a little confusing!!

• weird ava, i’m in the uk too…not sure what that’s about, sorry! i wonder if it has anything to do with any of your other settings..maybe we’l find out more from other people..

• If you go onto your own page and where you have posted something it should have your name, hover over that link and a box should come up :)

  I checked out that ‘suggest photos to friends of me’ thing in my privacy settings and it says its not available to me! very annoying, i’m in the UK so maybe its only available to those in the U.S??

• hey, no worries i didnt get it at first either!
  go to your wall and see your profile pic that is to the left of anything you’ve posted..just hover over that..and hover over your name beside that too!
  does that make sense…?? let me know if it works!

• Sorry to sound thick but I’m not getting the hovering over your name thing. can anyone explain it to me? when i mouse over my name on my profile nothing comes up, am I doing something wrong?

• hey guys,

  scanned through yer comment, some interesting viewpoints indeed..
  here’s something i came across when i was delving through my privacy settings today..

  so, i clicked on ‘account, privacy settings, customize settings’ then scrolled down to ‘things others share’ on the third line it says ‘suggest photos of me to friends..
  when photos look like me, suggest my name’ with ‘edit settings’ beside it.
  Hope yiz are with me so far!

  So when you click ‘edit settings’ it’s interesting the 10 names that come up, dont you think…similar to the names when you hover over your own profile pic/name but they never seem to change!

  let me know your thoughts please..i’m totally intrigued by all this!!

  for the record i think the friend’s list on the left on our profiles are a mixture of everyone (people you look at, people who look at you & randomers!), i only think this because this is something that everyone can see, it’s not as private and i reckon the facebook gods do realise that we’d have questions and pick up on it too easily!
  thanks for your time in reading peeps!!! x

• Me again!
  I’ve noticed something weird about the photo albums thing too, it’s always either my crushes albums that come up, two of my best friend or girls that i’ve been tagged in photos with…

  Today weirdly enough my list of 10 friends on the left changed! Maybe facebook knows i was on here haha. one of them is ticketsoup, obviously i’ve never interacted with them but facebook obviously thinks we’re great friends!! 3 of the people from the list yesterday stayed the same and that was my ex who recently commented me, and two friends who had liked or commented on my status even though that was over a month ago. The others i don’t even know why they are appearing. It’ll probably go back to yesterdays 10 friends tomorrow lol.

  And i’ve noticed when i hover over my name it shows the exact same 21 friends every time just in different orders and obviously only 5 at a time. so that is probably people you’ve interacted with most even in a private way although 4 of them i haven’t spoken to in a very long time so maybe they are my stalkers! and i wouldn’t be surprised by that.

  Ahhh i wish we knew for sure ;) someone should do a proper experiment on all this!

• What about Photo Albums? I always seem to see the same peoples same with the liked pages.

• I have read almost this entire thread, and come up with a list of all the suggestions people have for the top friends.
  1. You view their profile the most
  2. They view your profile the most
  3. You have interacted with them before
  4. You have recently interacted with them
  5. They are online or have recently been online
  6. You have a lot of mutual friends with them
  7. You have never/hardly ever interacted with them, Facebook most likely wants you to talk to them more
  8. It is completely random
  9. They use PC/laptop while mouseovers use phones

  I personally think ‘2. They view your profile the most’ is the most plausible option. Although Facebook denies it. Let’s go over my list as an example (referring only to the past public interaction in the past 1&1/2 months, as this is what Facebook has claimed).

  1.(girl from my school) 1 status like an comment within the past 6 weeks
  I don’t visit her profile often
  2. (old friend) I have tagged her in 1 status (she liked it), she has posted on my wall once(we both commented on it) in the past 6 weeks.
  I don’t visit her profile often
  3. (Classmate, friend) No public interaction in the last 1 month and a half
  I visit her profile occasionally
  4.(Stepfather) No public interaction in the last 1 month and a half
  I hardly ever visit his profile
  5. (Girl from school) She posted on my wall once ( I commented)
  I occasionally visit her profile
  6. (Friend of friend) Posted on my wall once (I commented), I commented on a status once
  I occasionally visit her profile
  7. (Acquaintance) Posted on my wall once (I commented), I commented on one status
  I don’t visit her profile often
  8. (Friend) i commented on one status
  I don’t visit her profile often
  9. (Mutual friend) No interaction and i never visit her profile
  10. (my crush :P) posted on my wall once, I commented
  I visit his profile a lot

  So I guess you might think it’s real abstract random people but if you break it down you’ll probably see you have interacted with them in the past six weeks. and as above poster said, none of them are family or anything. It’s only some that kind of don’t make sense, so perhaps those are the ones that stalk me?? I don’t know, that’s my guess

• OK guys, I think I’ve got it.

  Have you noticed this: people who appear in your friends list on the left do not appear in any other ‘badges’ in your profile? (Eg: family, relationship tab)
  This may explain why some of the people you interact most with do not appear in your ‘Top 10’, especially if you are one of those people who adds all your friends as family members. These people may appear occasionally, but I have definitely noticed a trend here, it is a lot less likely.
  That explains why some of the people in your ‘Top 10’ seem somewhat random. These are probably the people who have most viewed your profile or interacted with you that you don’t have anywhere else on your page.
  I’m guessing Facebook does this to promote you clicking on more people etc.

  Also, for the mouseover (hovering over your name) it is the friends who’s pages you view the most. This alternates for me between about 3 combinations.
  But don’t worry, no-one else can see this, because when they hover over your name it comes up with the mutual friends who they stalk the most.

  Hope that helped :)

• Ava_x i’m pretty much in the EXACT same situation as you with only a few minor difference. I too have 10 Friends who are always the same and with the occasional random friend popping in (this rotate around 6-7 or so people. Som ppl never appear). Most of those ppl are either close to me or have a reason to look/or me looking) at my/their profile. I too am interacting with various peoples but yet they never show.

  The thing is that it used to change very often with many different people appearing. Now it’s been stuck at the “same 10 ppl + occasional random” for about a month. No idea what caused this. It is indeed odd

• Well i’ve just read every single post on here how sad!

  I noticed some people say they have 15 friends on their profile list but i only have 10 and 9/10 of those people are exactly the same people just in a different order no matter how many times i refresh, log out, clear cache, restart router etc. It’s just so weird. The people who ALWAYS appear on my list are:
  1.) my best friend (not much interaction, occasional ‘likes’ & photo comments),
  2.) my EX! (he has recently posted on my wall & i’ve spoken to him on chat but that was over a month ago, positive he views my page),
  3) my EX’s flatmate! (he commented on my EX’s recent comment on my wall and i have a private msg from him of over a month ago),
  4.) my best friends flatmate (she liked my status over a month ago and we were tagged in photos over 2 months ago),
  5.) a random guy friend who tagged me in photos over a month ago
  6.) my CRUSH (who i have only a private msg from & tagged in a photo with but that was all over a month ago, highly unlikely that he views my page :( lol)
  7.) another random guy friend (he commented on my status over a month ago)
  8.) a random female friend (she commented on one of my photos in the past week)
  9.) an old friend (haven’t spoken to him in over 3 years! have had no interaction whatsoever – he probably holds a grudge against me for this and very likely creeps)
  10.) The random friend who always changes is a mixture between 7 different friends i have no contact with whatsoever)

  It would be nice to think these were people that viewed my page (especially my crush lol) but i think from what i’ve mentioned about them its quite obvious that its because of ‘recent interaction’ even though it was a while ago, i don’t talk to people on there much, i have however commented many people with happy birthday, liked a few statuses so its weird that they don’t ever appear, I also have a fake friend i made myself and have had for a long time, got it to comment on my status a while ago, ‘liked’ quite a few things i post up, private messages yet this fake friend never shows up in the list. ODD i say.

• Well i’ve just read every single post on here how sad!

  I noticed some people say they have 15 friends on their profile list but i only have 10 and 9/10 of those people are exactly the same people just in a different order no matter how many times i refresh, log out, clear cache, restart router etc. It’s just so weird. The people who ALWAYS appear on my list are:
  1.) my best friend (not much interaction, occasional ‘likes’ & photo comments),
  2.) my EX! (he has recently posted on my wall & i’ve spoken to him on chat but that was over a month ago, positive he views my page),
  3) my EX’s flatmate! (he commented on my EX’s recent comment on my wall and i have a private msg from him of over a month ago),
  4.) my best friends flatmate (she liked my status over a month ago and we were tagged in photos over 2 months ago),
  5.) a random guy friend who tagged me in photos over a month ago
  6.) my CRUSH (who i have only a private msg from & tagged in a photo with but that was all over a month ago, highly unlikely that he views my page :( lol)
  7.) another random guy friend (he commented on my status over a month ago)
  8.) a random female friend (she commented on one of my photos in the past week)
  9.) an old friend (haven’t spoken to him in over 3 years! have had no interaction whatsoever – he probably holds a grudge against me for this and very likely creeps)
  10.) The random friend who always changes is a mixture between 7 different friends i have no contact with whatsoever)

  It would be nice to think these were people that viewed my page (especially my crush lol) but i think from what i’ve mentioned about them its quite obvious that its because of ‘recent interaction’ even though it was a while ago, i don’t talk to people on there much, i have however commented many people with happy birthday, liked a few statuses so its weird that they don’t ever appear, I also have a fake friend i made myself and have had for a long time, got it to comment on my status a while ago, ‘liked’ quite a few things i post up, private messages yet this fake friend never shows up in the list. ODD i say.

• I have wondered about this since those who pop up on my profile are always the same people. I think there might be several factors which decide who is on the list.

  Many of the people on my list are understandable since I do interact with them more than others.

  One of them is my ex-girlfriend from long ago whose profile I never visit, I also never interact with her on facebook, I even hid her from my news feed. I can imagine her viewing my profile though since I dumped her and she admitted to still liking me.

  Another one is someone who I have interacted with, but not often, and not recently.

  The last is my Sister-in-law’s sister, whom I have never interacted with on facebook. I just accepted a friend request from her after our siblings go married.

  I do not think that the list of people is decided by who views your profile only, but also the other way around. I tested my theory by repeatedly viewing the profile of a person whom I seldom interact with on facebook. I would go to their profile and refresh the page over and over again. They showed up on my profile list for a short while, but I was never on theirs. I imagine I have viewed their profile more than any stalker would view a person’s profile so it is odd that I haven’t showed up on it.

• Been doing a little experiment on this. My colleague at work and I became Facebook friends about a month ago so I’ve asked her never to check my profile, and we’ve never ‘publicly interacted’, although we have commented on the same third party post. Meanwhile, I’ve looked at her profile on a pretty much daily basis, and spent time looking through her photos (I’ve told her about this experiment by the way!). Now she sometimes coming up in the list of five friends when I hover above my name on my own profile, though not in the list of ten friends on the left. So it seems like the main list is not who you look at, tho the hover list might be…

  Also, I used to look at this guy’s profile regularly and he appeared on the list of ten friends on my profile ALL the time, often at the top, which freaked me out a bit! I stopped looking at his profile page about a month ago, and now he’s in my friends list less often, but when he is, its always at the same time of day, which I’m pretty sure is when he’s online. I basically know when he’s on his lunch break – bit creepy! We’re in a lot of the same photos etc. and have sent private messages recently and contributed to the same event, which could explain why he’s still coming up on my wall, but the time of day thing is interesting.

  It seems likely the friends that come up are determined by commenting on the same posts or appearing in the same photos etc, but part of me still thinks page views/mutual page views have something to do with it.

  All very mysterious!

• What I’d like to find out has to do with the five friends that show up when you hover over your own name (mouseover) on FB.

  1) Are these five the people who visit your profile, click on your newsfeed posts, view your pictures, PM you, interact with on chat, etc?

  2) Or are these five the people YOU check out most often?

  In other words, are these five the people who ‘stalk’ you? Or are they the people you ‘stalk?’

• theres a girl who keeps appearing in my list and she complaety hates me (or so she says…) we havent spoken in about 5 months and her name would deff not appear if it waz in alphabetical order and i cant think of any other reason shed be there so im guessing ur right!

• theres a girl who keeps appearing in my list and she complaety hates me (or so she says…) we havent spoken in about 5 months and her name would deff not appear if it waz in alphabetical order and i cant think of any other reason shed be there so im guessing ur right!

• My ex is on my list, and I don’t make ANY contact with him on facebook.

• would you say you check his profile more than your best friends? maybe they dont go online as much as him? I notice ppl that arent really in our modern technology world that are on facebook. they dont show up on anyones lists. 1 bad part about our situation, what if he sees that hes on your list when he goes to your profile that 1 time, during which you looked at his 100 times over 3 months. some people may come to the wrong conclusions. say teh answer someone!

• It’s weird but my crush is one of the people who keep showing up on the list.
  I check his page a lot and interact with him every once and a while, but I don’t show up in HIS main list. I doubt my crush checks my profile so I’m wondering why his name is showing up. (But I think he knows I like him).
  HOWEVER, that being said, none of my best friends (I look at their wall a lot and interact with them daily) have EVER shown up on my list, which puzzles me. I also don’t show up on their list either.
  I don’t believe what Facebook says about interaction in the past month and a half… I mean, six of the ten people on my list have never spoken to in more than three months, if not, ever. Which is scary.
  But I can’t deny it; it’s nice to see my crush show up on my list. XD

• It’s weird but my crush is one of the people who keep showing up on the list.
  I check his page a lot, haha. But I doubt he checks mine so I’m wondering why his name is showing up. However, that being said, none of my best friends (I look at their wall a lot ad interact with daily) have shown up on that list, which puzzles me.
  According to what Facebook says about interaction in the past month and a half…I don’t really believe it. Six of the people on that list I have never spoken to in more than three months, if not, ever. Which is scary.
  But I can’t deny it; it’s nice to see my crush show up on that list. XD

• I have really interesting reasonable ideas about the answer to this after reading the 2% of usable comments on here over time. to those people, you rock, I wish we could email each other and not let this bunch of idiots know the answers weve come to. how can we do that? I dont even want to reference the names of those good comments because I spent so much time finding them in the dumb people comments. I dont want to give out my email on here. This looks like the only useful site for the answer we all want, yet its on a comments section on a not well publicized site. other websites reguarding this have been blocked. Thats shady.

• has FB changed their algo yet again??? my friends list hasn’t changed in like almost 5 days! it used to change every other day and it would show a group of people that remained constant for about 2 days…..wtf facebook????

• Wow. All this makes me wish it were still random. It would be so much easier!

• Mannn wtf. Now all these bitches know tht im stalking them, like wallaa this is not right. nigga cant get laid now, makin me creepy n all tht. Fck your mother fb maker

• Well on my list there is someone i never talk to or interact with on facebook, but i’m pretty sure likes me and in one day no matter how many times I log out or go to other pages, when i go back to mine it’s always the same people.

• I don’t think this is true because there is someone who I interact with publicly on facebook, pretty much everyday, and they aren’t even on that list. There is also someone who I have not talked to in well over a month in a half on there. SOMETHING IS FISHY!

• I don’t think this is true because there is someone who I interact with publicly on facebook, pretty much everyday, and they aren’t even on that list. There is also someone who I have not talked to in well over a month in a half on there. SOMETHING IS FISHY!

• the people whom you contact the most are displayed here

• the people whom you contact the most are displayed here

• If this is true, i have a reason to believe i’m being stalked XD i refreshed the page several times, and the same person appeared everytime, even though i’ve commented maybe only once on a status of his, and i deffs never look at his profile.

• OMG, this explains everything!
  there’s this dude who has a crush on me … and then his name kept on showing up on my list of friends… 0 0

• Well I have something to add here, a boy in my hometown died 2 months ago but he still shows up in peoples lists? So I think it must be a mix of who u vist the most and who visits u

• I think your all wrong, Think of it this way, Facebook is a social networking site… You all say you don’t have contact with the people on your list, It is Facebook’s way of saying “Hey, Contact these people, you haven’t spoke in ages!”

  That makes more sense then a secret stalking list…

• I totally think it shows people who are looking at your profile. I have been analysing who comes up in the list and its definitly not just people I have interacted with.

• I agree, it isn’t about who’s checking out your profile either. I would scope out my crush’s page quite a bit and I would never show up on their friends list. I think clicking on each other’s pages could have some effect – say you are checking out each other’s pages a lot AND you happen to be tagged in pictures together, etc.

• Three months ago I met this girl. We had a great time, and I connected her on fb, but didn´t follow up. She wrote me on fb a couple of times, I answered but we didnt´ meet or anything. good tension there but no more contacts after that. Ever since, she keeps popping up in the friends albums´ box over and over, (upper right, not the ´friends list) – but we don´t interact at all.
  I started thinking she popped up bc she checked my profile often, I just got that feeling, so I searched ´how does fb select friends showing up?´ .. and came across this great blog! – great input everybody.
  Now I´m checking the actual Friends list on the left, and notice the people who pop up there are not at all people I interact with often. but who could easily be checking my profile. I have 450 contacts. The only outlier is a guy who had a bad accident a month ago and has been in the hospital ever since, in a coma. I know no one opens his account. Maybe all this is past stored info that´s why his profile still shows in my friends list. Anyway, great blog, and I´m positive about the ´Friend´s albums´thing, because of this girl. She hasnt´even uploaded new pics since I met her, so it´s not about ´Friends who show on your box bc they paste new pics every minute´

• Experiment Idea!

  1. Pick someone RANDOM from your friends list whose profile you never normally look at/come across in the news feed.

  2. Start looking through his/her profile a few times a day for a period of time. (a week/more?) See if your profile pops up this “elite” friends category.

• Dudee . It’s DEFF not people you;ve interacted w. in the past month . You kidding me . I hate a girl and shes ALWAYS there . And a guy iLove is always there. and his sister.

• So I’ve done the refreshing profile and made a note of the people who showed up… There were the exact same people! Then I logged out and logged in again… Guess what? The exact same people in a different order! So tomorrow, I’ll look again and if it happens again, then we know for sure :/ What happened to privacy?

• I checked my profile and refreshed it several times. Same 10 people over and over. 2 I have only ever talked to in real life. A couple I definitely haven’t talked to in the last month and a half. My best Friend. What’s missing? The people I DO have the most public interaction with (aside from my best friend, of course).

• Also, I appear on the list belonging to people I stalk the most on Facebook, even if we barely have any “public interaction” Funny, eh? :D

• yeah i get the same 10 people after a lot of refreshing, only in a different order, some of them i rarely interact with or view their profiles.

  WEiRD

• There is a small group who appear on my featured friends pretty much every time I go on my profile. Are they there because they stalk my profile a lot? Some of them I have literally never interacted with on facebook, not even by viewing their profile. So I cant think of another explanation.

  Would be nice to know. Peace

• I barely use the site, and only cause everyone else does. I don’t know why everyone else likes it so much. The people running the site are obviously the type that would sell their mother’s soul for the right price. Facebook sucks.

• i have also noticed the section where the friends photo album comes up when you are on home page, event page etc hit the button for show more, it rotates the 7 people who could be viewing your pictures or profile .

• When you view someone elses page, the 10 people on their list are they ones who are most relevant to YOU, or are the 10 people showing on their list, the ones they have the most contact with?

• “publicly interact with?” — my ex has had me blocked from his wall and photos for 2 months, and he still shows up on my top interactions every week or so. Haven’t spoken to him/exchanged comments/wall posts in all that time.

• Ok guys, i have tested the theory using my profile and a few friends’ profile that i know VERY WELL.

  In conclusion… This theory of using you friend list in you profie page seems vague at the moment

  BUT.. I found out something that has caught my intrest.
  As you view you friends (not in profile page) it just shows an endless list that shows you friends in alphabetical order (useless).
  Then there was 2 buttons beside the friend search bar:

  Boxes/Icons or List

  The default is the List button

  but when i tried the Icon/Boxes layout the first 2 layers of people shows a girl that has had a crush on me for the past year now.

  At the moment this is just a theory. I would like you guys to try this out and see if you are going in the same path as i am

• I’m a facebook fanatic and so when the application stating that I can check who viewed my profile came, i immediately checked it out only to find out it was a virus and would lead to me spamming..very frustrating!! I hope FB would be more cautious.

• i’ve been researching this same thing and am also convinced that facebook must draw on more than just “public interaction”. i have one friend that i have almost no public interaction with, our friendship page is essentially blank minus one comment i left on one of his statuses, there are also no pictures of us together. however, this friend and i talk on facebook chat ALL the time (note: this is NOT a public interaction). surprise, surprise, he almost always shows up as one of the 10 friends on my profile page. to me this is essentially proof that facebook tracks chats (and i assume messages as well) and factors it into the algorithm. it would not surprise me, then, if they also included profile views, though from the people who show up in my 10 friends i can’t really tell if it’s based on them viewing my profile or me viewing theirs.

• Here’s my situation, and it’s pretty interesting indeed! ):

  So, I dated this girl in highschool, I was crazy about her. We broke up, I lurked her facebook/myspace for a while and I was using my old email where I had her saved in my email list and on msn. On and off, for several years, we communicated through MSN, facebook, email, and I sometimes checked her profile and eventually blocked her because of a newer gf (now ex).

  Delete facebook.

  New email, new facebook, but same old MSN as a way to “start over” with my new current girlfriend.
  Suddenly, I see this ex on my new facebook “suggested friends” list.
  I have not let facebook use any information from any of my previous facebook or emails.
  I find out the same ex JUST RECENTLY made a new facebook after a month after deleting her previous one. So I visit her page maybe once every 2 weeks because she is always in the #1 slot in the “find friends” page.

  Why is she still in the #1 slot? The page shuffles daily but she ends up at #1 again at the end of the day even if I never click on her profile and I have only 10 mutual friends who don’t even communicate with her often?

  No contact with her, you can’t view anything on my profile except for some info, so no point in stalking my page.

  Why is this happening?

  PS. since she was my last best gf in the past years and strikingly beautiful it would only be natural to be curious about her.

  • BTW, forgot to mention. I haven’t been clicking on my ex’s profile for the past month or so to see if the #1 slot changes. To my surprise, it doesn’t. There she is, always at the #1 slot by the end of the day.

    FB has def got to be wrong about “public interactions” unless it is her looking up MY name.

• ok so the same EXACT 10 people show up every time on my friends list. I hope it is true that the people on your list are the people who “STALK” you becuz this girl that I “stalk” is always on my list, but when I look at her list i’m not on it. maybe its because I use the mobile site/app to view her profile?

• Interesting, and I agree. On a side though, if you dont want someone viewing your profile for whatever reason, just delete them. Easy.

• I have been watching this for some time and I’m sure it has an influence who looks at your profile.

  I have noticed people who I don’t really check their profile much but never the less would be interested in looking at mine, these friends seem to show up a lot.

  Its not that Im not interested in these people but I could imagine they would be more inclined to view what I’m doing.

  I think yeah its not 100 percent certain but there something there.

  I also know when certain people are likely to be online and I have even seen them appear when I have put a status or comment that may likely attract them to look in person..

• Doing some tests with a friend who also noticed this. I looked at his profile quite a bit every day for a week, managed to land myself on his profile. He then interacted with me, then the next day, he was on my profile. However, there are people who I have not interacted with for a ridiculously long time, and they have become averages on my profile friends.

• @ Concern: firstly, get some confidence girl! If you don’t trust either of them, you’re with the wrong guy…if that alone is making you paranoid, u need to work on yourself first. He’s with you, not with her…move on.

• my boyfriend’s ex is on his list every time I go on his page, and it has been for a few months. i go onto his page and interact with him a lot and am on there every so often. He is not on her list….any answers? this is seriously making me paranoid and I think Facebook needs to publicly justify EXACTLY the criteria used in this list selection. As a rather insecure young girl, I feel paranoid about why shes there, and its beginning to affect me. I think we have a right to know the whole truth, its obviously a concern to lots of people.

• Or even simpler: If you want to keep something in private, don’t post it on the internet!

• I don’t understand the argument that there is a “privacy issue” with the people viewing your profile. You have accepted the person’s friend request and therefore allowed them access to your profile and its contents, which is publically available to those you have, in fact, “friended.” If you have an issue with the privacy aspect, unfriend them or adjust privacy settings so that they are not privy to your information.

  • I don’t think its a problem that they look…for all the reasons you just stated. I think its actually a matter of knowing what the criteria is: when they show up on your list…..are they looking at you or is it due to looking at them?

• This is making my head spin. My ex girl shows up on my friends list. I do look at her page at least once a day…either online or on my iPhone. When I go to her page, there are times I’m her top friend on her list.

  Is it from me looking at her or is she looking at me? She is on my list at this very moment….did she look at my page today?

• My theory. It is mostly based on either who you are visiting (most likely) or who is visiting your profile with some randomness.

  The guy I visit the most comes up nearly 100% of the time. I’ve been avoiding it often in the last week and he still comes up. i rarely comment on his page. Also, he is the first person who shows up in my friends online section and his photo albums come up almost exclusively followed by the mutual friend who introduced us and his band’s page.
  He, ahem, has a girl friend whose page I’ve checked alot. She is not a friend of mine and I noticed not only does she always show up on his page now but her profile shows up at top billing when I do searches simply with two letters typed. Also noticed that when I visited his band’s page, 6 of the 10 people who came up were involved in the band in some large way, out of more than 1,000 of the band’s friends.

  Yes, if you go to a friend’s page alot, they start to show up…usually. A friend of mine, female whom I never visit her page was the first person I noticed always comes up. Been so for 2 months. I’ve sent her 1 email I think in 5 months. I doubt she visits my page and doesn’t comment. There’s the randomness.

  • Commenting just once or twice on a guy’s profile in the last three months and looking at their profile is all it takes to land someone on your friends list for the next three months.

• what about the people who show up on your news feed a lot? some friends show up more than others, and some friends I never see their news feeds. Do you think that has something to do with it to?

• what about the people who show up on your news feed a lot? some friends show up more than others, and some friends I never see their news feeds. Do you think that has something to do with it to?

• I’m deffinitely going to experiment with this. Time to start stalking a random. (;

• anyone have any clue about clicking on friends and sorting by grid?

  i see some of the same people on the top of the grid that i see in the hover over my name

• Yes, I agree its mixed…perhaps. Though put it this way, I spend most of my time on my own page cus many people comment on things, as I am quite active and my page always has a lot going on (its a party!!!) lol. Anyways, all the people in my friends list I barely intereact with and tehy seem to be the same people ALL the time and I know they creep me cus of things they say when I see them at uni or something (Oh i saw this album it was cool) etc. but we havent interacted in months…I think majority of it is who looks at ur profile THE MOST, I have about a thousand friends. All the people who are always on my list barely change at all and I know they like me in real life.

• I spend too much time on facebook. I think that’s the moral here.

• well I think you’re onto something. I only have about 300 friends and I noticed the same 15ish people showing up on my profile. About 5-8 people I regularly interact with on fb and I show up on their profile’s friend list as well. Now I really want to know about the others! Most the rest are family (cousins) that are not listed as family and that I don’t interact with much on facebook but do in real life. I know that they do stalk my profile even though I don’t theirs’. The really weird ones that I can’t explain do not have many friends (50-100). And then the rest – I believe they are visiting my profile. Those people that show up, if I wait 3 or 4 weeks will, sure enough, post on my wall for the first time, and they are people of the opposite sex that I talk with in person but not on facebook, or are people that I just met in person. I did a little experiment which was unsuccessful. I started clicking frequently on a friend’s profile that I know hasn’t logged into facebook for months. I wanted to see if I would show up on his profile’s friend list, or if he would show up on mine. Neither has happened. Facebook is just too smart I think and there are other factors. It’s scary how the friend’s list can predict the friends that will interact with me on facebook in the future even if they haven’t begun to.

  • I feel pretty confidant that your friends list does have to do in large part with who has been to your profile and spent some time there. Just not entirely; there are other factors such as public interaction, log on activity and probably putting people on there facebook hopes will generate more connections within the site, such as matching up with mutual friends or trying to drum up the friend count and time spent on fb for less active users. I think all of these things come into play. The people that show up on my profile are almost all people I’m certain visit my page often or ,at least, occasionally, along with a couple of randoms from time to time.

    I did a lot of tinkering around and I was able to land myself on the friends list of almost everyone (I chose people I interact with often and people I rarely do) whose page I pulled up and looked at a bunch of times. Sometimes it took a day or two to “kick in” and sometimes it happened more quickly. The length of time I stayed there varied from less than a day to several days.

    The ones whose page I never showed up on, and a few are people I commonly interact with on fb, all have somewhere between 700 and 1200 friends. Except for one person I didn’t show up on without a lot of friends, but it doesn’t seem they’ve logged on to facebook in a few weeks.

    Also, to note about one of those people with a ton of friends who has been on my list, but I have not shown up on theirs. That may be due to the fact that I have commented and posted on their profile, but they have never had any public interaction with mine whatsoever. The people on this person’s friends list, however, are only people I know this person has openly been interactive with on facebook. So, visiting someone’s page and commenting or whatever doesn’t seem to land you on their page unless they have also done that to you. But, it doesn’t work both ways. They might still show up as your friend given whatever other criteria facebook uses. So, facebook’s statement that it is based on public interaction seems at least partly true.

• I’m dealing with an ex girlfriend too. Suddenly, after a month of no contact, I saw her from afar on Sunday. She saw me. Now I’m on FB and she is suddenly showing up in my left side Friends list….but I’ve looked at her page too….and I’m in her Friends list as well….

  Hmmmmmmmmm

• @ wishful thinkers, u shudn’t let that deter you from using facebook as much as you’d like besides a majority of people dont even know about what we are talking about and dont even care!

  • @Cherry Aw, thanks, Cherry!

• I definitely can agree.. A couple of my best friends that I always interact with “publicly” are not on that friends list but other people I haven’t interacted with AT ALL both publicly or privately are on there. Kinda weird

• I would say that the people who show up from the hover are people that YOU have looked at, and it doesn’t matter what they use to connect to Facebook. For instance I have one guy who I know uses only his iPhone and checks out my profile regularly. He never shows up. Only certain attractive people I’ve been curious about and spent some time on their profile show up on the hover.

  Have you noticed how many people have made the same comment, “I’m not sure if it’s me looking at them or them looking at me.” Facebook knows who we are attracted to (who we hope is attracted to us) because of how much time we spend on their profiles. They show them back to us on the hover because they are trying to figure out what we are interested in, what better way to know than based on the amount of time you spend checking them out?

  The thing that sucks is that now I am never sure if I will show up on somebody’s wall just because I was browsing their profile; so I am avoiding certain profiles and using Facebook a whole lot less than I’d like to.

• I’ve noticed the same thing too! I think the friends on the left who keep reappearing are the people who you keep contact with on a daily or frequent basis mixed with people who are viewing your page.

  But I have been more interested in the 5 friends that appear over your name when you hover your mouse over your name on your wall. The same people show up usually in rotation but they are the SAME people. I have noticed that there are three people who keep showing up that I KNOW uses facebook on their phone all the time verses on a computer or laptop. I think that the friends who you interact with on the left are friends who use computers or laptops that you interact with as well as friends who view your profile and the 5 friends who hover over your name are the ones who use a smartphone solely.

  I just want to know if the 5 friends hovering over your name are the ones that look at your page because some of the people that show up sometimes are people I know could be attracted to me but I have never posted on their wall or they on mine….?

• I’ve noticed the same thing too! I think the friends on the left who keep reappearing are the people who you keep contact with on a daily or frequent basis mixed with people who are viewing your page.

  But I have been more interested in the 5 friends that appear over your name when you hover your mouse over your name on your wall. The same people show up usually in rotation but they are the SAME people. I have noticed that there are three people who keep showing up that I KNOW uses facebook on their phone all the time verses on a computer or laptop. I think that the friends who you interact with on the left are friends who use computers or laptops that you interact with as well as friends who view your profile and the 5 friends who hover over your name are the ones who use a smartphone solely.

  I just want to know if the 5 friends hovering over your name are the ones that look at your page because some of the people that show up sometimes are people I know could be attracted to me but I have never posted on their wall or they on mine….?

• I’ve noticed the same thing too! I think the friends on the left who keep reappearing are the people who you keep contact with on a daily or frequent basis mixed with people who are viewing your page.

  But I have been more interested in the 5 friends that appear over your name when you hover your mouse over your name on your wall. The same people show up usually in rotation but they are the SAME people. I have noticed that there are three people who keep showing up that I KNOW uses facebook on their phone all the time verses on a computer or laptop. I think that the friends who you interact with on the left are friends who use computers or laptops that you interact with as well as friends who view your profile and the 5 friends who hover over your name are the ones who use a smartphone solely.

  I just want to know if the 5 friends hovering over your name are the ones that look at your page because some of the people that show up sometimes are people I know could be attracted to me but I have never posted on their wall or they on mine….?

• I’ve noticed the same thing too! I think the friends on the left who keep reappearing are the people who you keep contact with on a daily or frequent basis mixed with people who are viewing your page.

  But I have been more interested in the 5 friends that appear over your name when you hover your mouse over your name on your wall. The same people show up usually in rotation but they are the SAME people. I have noticed that there are three people who keep showing up that I KNOW uses facebook on their phone all the time verses on a computer or laptop. I think that the friends who you interact with on the left are friends who use computers or laptops that you interact with as well as friends who view your profile and the 5 friends who hover over your name are the ones who use a smartphone solely.

  I just want to know if the 5 friends hovering over your name are the ones that look at your page because some of the people that show up sometimes are people I know could be attracted to me but I have never posted on their wall or they on mine….?

• I’ve noticed the same thing too! I think the friends on the left who keep reappearing are the people who you keep contact with on a daily or frequent basis mixed with people who are viewing your page.

  But I have been more interested in the 5 friends that appear over your name when you hover your mouse over your name on your wall. The same people show up usually in rotation but they are the SAME people. I have noticed that there are three people who keep showing up that I KNOW uses facebook on their phone all the time verses on a computer or laptop. I think that the friends who you interact with on the left are friends who use computers or laptops that you interact with as well as friends who view your profile and the 5 friends who hover over your name are the ones who use a smartphone solely.

  I just want to know if the 5 friends hovering over your name are the ones that look at your page because some of the people that show up sometimes are people I know could be attracted to me but I have never posted on their wall or they on mine….?

• I think there’s a rotation of ppl who are online looking and interacting with you mixed with random set. I always have the same guy appear on my list ever since he friend-ed me something like 6 mo ago, I’ve run into him outside of fb but rarely interact w him online. He’s permanently one of the top ten, wonder if it really who is going through your info or rather fb making you think you’re being stalked. Thou it does get annoying I see my ex pop up all the time and his albums pop up 9 out 10. Don’t know why that happens bc I have gone through all his photos and really don’t want to go through same album again and again. They should rlly rotate the right side bar.

• I agree, there probably is no getting to the bottom of it all, but it is very interesting. I’ve gotten caught up in the puzzle maybe more than the thoughts about my stalkee/stalker? Only thing, can’t rule out these hypotheses have been biased by some measure of wishful thinking, though.

  In any case, as someone pointed out earlier, the people who show up in the searchbar, friends list and thumbnails are the people who I care most about. I have plenty of random people or friends from work who I share a bunch of mutual friends with and we’ll occasionally interact on the site. But, work friends are not people that I personally feel much closeness or interest in. The ones for whom I actually do are the ones that tend to show up. This includes people who I may may not interact with often on facebook, how often they are visibly active on facebook, and not all of them are tagged in photos of me. Even still, those are the usually people that I think about the most. It is cool, but definitely a little creepy how facebook seems to know this.

• Hi All,

  There is no way it is the people that you most interact with – well not in full. The people who list on my profile are generally the people who interact the most with me ON MY PAGE.

  I have one friend and we always talk on their page – we tap at each other almost daily. Never shows on my page – I show on theirs.

  I do have some people who I never type on their page, they never type on mine, but they regularly show on my profile. I too have assumed they are viewing mine.

• This is what I think it is, People you have regular and fairly frequent public interaction with, they tend to come up periodically and often. Maby 2 random, they tend to stay for a bit but then you will notice it changes to others but they don’t stay on the list long. The rest are people who view your profile/mutual profile views. Never going to get to the bottom of it but I find it interesting, took me a while to notice the same person (who I have virtually no contact with) consistently on my list and yet some who I have a lot of interaction with don’t appear at all. I do view this persons profile, and I expect they would view mine too, but others I have viewed for testing purposes haven’t appeared at all other than on the mouseover and I know they have been online. Interestingly though the person that I think is viewing me, hardly appeared on my list at all last week (he was away) but this week he is back again consistently and I know he has been online. To be honest, don’t think it matters that much but I am intrigued by it, maybe because I want to think that they are viewing my profile and its not just me being a stalker :)

• Been trying my test cases for days now and no matter how hard I try I cannot get the 2 people who I know never view my profile to show up on my top friends box, this rules out the “it’s me viewing their profile” idea. I have got myself on theirs a few times though when I have visited their page, stands to reason that you would appear on their list if you viewed their profile, not the other way round. The majority of people who appear in my friend box are people who visit my page (post on my wall) and I do the same on theirs. Think it has to be mutual recent profile views (and when they have been online) otherwise ????

  • Yep, I think you are absolutely right. I think there has to be some, though probably very limited, profile interaction and the rest is about mutual page viewing. And again, I think who has logged in recently also influences the search bar and friends lists. It seems to be a trigger for the pattern.

  • Yep, I think you are absolutely right. I think there has to be some, though probably very limited, profile interaction and the rest is about mutual page viewing. And again, I think who has logged in recently also influences the search bar and friends lists. It seems to be a trigger for the pattern.

• When I open the “Find Friend” menu various search parameters are shown – among them “common friends”. Three of my current friends are always shown default, but when I refresh the page some ten times it seems apparent that these three are always selected from the same list of what appears to be my top ten friends.

  This top ten list is not shown elsewhere on my FB. It differs largely from the left column on my homepage (however the top ten friends are included there, but many other more inferior friends are too).

  The top ten list consists of people who tend to like and comment my posts – and I generally also read, like and comment on their posts.

  One friend, however, is special since she is not that active in posting things herself. So basically I do not have much interaction with her – I rarely stalk her pages, because I dont like to (she is a total hottie, and I told her so some months ago, but it turned out she is in a relationship). Nevertheless she remains constantly in my top ten (which doesnt seem to shift a lot over time).

  But here is the real story I wanted to share: When I click my own photos her friends are very often suggested as people I may know in the right top column – even though she is the only friend I have in common with them. There are lots of people that I share up to 25-30 friends with and that I haven chosen not to be FB friends with, and they are never suggested as people I may know, while her relatives and aquiantances from abroad, whith whom I only have one friend in common: her, are suggested all the time. And the pattern is very clear!

  I cannot come to any other conclusion than this must be because she is watching me and my posts more closely than anybody else.

  I have also noticed that the above mentioned pattern intensifies whenever she is or has just been online.

• This is really fantastic advice, thank you so much

• Okay, follow up. I did just manage to land myself on the profile friends list of one of those friends with a similar first letter name that I was checking against that particular person. She is a close friend and we communicate a lot on each other’s profiles and are tagged together often, but I wasn’t on her first friends until today when I pseudo stalked her for the purposes of this experiment. Now to see if I end up on the other’s list too.

  So, I now believe it does combine a mixture of some but probably limited mutual profile interaction, who looks at you, who you look at, how extensive the looking is and recent activity. I don’t even care that much about “person” that first drew me into this curiosity, now I’m just excited to find insight into how it works.

• Okay, I became interested in this a few days ago when I noticed a particular person showing up several times in my list. I wasn’t sure if possibly the reason why was because of my “stalking” or because I was being stalked back. I Googled it to see if I could figure out a reason why. This particular thread was helpful with thoughts and a base for my own discoveries, so I figure I’ll give some of my own observations back.

  For one, I have two lists of the same people that seem semi-stuck on my profile. These lists alternate with each other throughout the day. Now, the whole time the list with the one person kept appearing after many refreshes, that name kept coming up first in the search bar regardless of the fact I kept going to, browsing and refreshing the profiles of other closely related friends starting with the same letter in an attempt to make those names appear first in the search bar. They rarely did. During the time the person was showing up on my profile and first in my search bar, they were also far more likey to appear in the thumbnails when the cursor was over my name. Then, after a while, and a few logouts and purposefully not pulling up that particular profile, the list switched back to the alternate. A few hours later all of these things then switched back to favoring the experimental list. So, the search bar, thumbnails and tops friends are clearly related, but I’m not sure why. It could be an issue of who’s online, who on a particular list has checked your profile or it could just be a timed thing.

  Okay, I know this was way long, but I found these things interesting and wanted to pass it along.

• the list seems to break down into:
  1. a portion are ppl i never talk to or ppl who i know would never visit my profile, i guess fb wants me to interact with them.
  2. people i have recently interacted with
  3. (maybe) ppl who has recently viewed my profile

  it doesn’t just have to fit one criteria. i think the list is selected based on all 3 criteria above.

• oh and now they disappeared.. weird!

• ok, it’s true that when you hover over your name you see people you’ve viewed the most. I’ve tried an experiment for 2 weeks. I checked their profiles everyday and voilà: all of them 4 appeared today…

• You have thought about this far too much dude!!! really lol… I’d be more inclined to write an article about how it annoys me that I keep getting requests for Farmville and that its disturbing how people I know just have to get on and water their crops before they die!! cummon really!!

• I think that people that check your profile are definitely in your top 15 friends list. For an example.. there’s this girl that’s always on the top of my list even though we never interact, later I found out that she heard that her ex was hitting on me.. I know how girls are so I’m pretty sure that she was checking my page a lot and that’s the reason why she showed up in my top 15 friends list… Another example: there’s this guy I like.. we don’t have to much contact on facebook, but I do check his page a lot! haha.. all of the sudden I saw my own picture at the top of his friends list… busted!!! haha I’m convinced the list contains of the people who check your profile the most

• Thanks @Sigma! I wonder if this means that when we look at other people’s profiles, even though we don’t see ourselves on their list, they can see us!

• It does appear however that suggested friends is affected by merely looking at some one’s page.
  This is the problem with trying to find old friends who have postings that are so offensive and will never receive a request from me.They do however know that you have looked at their page.

• It does appear however that suggested friends is affected by merely looking at some one’s page.
  This is the problem with trying to find old friends who have postings that are so offensive and will never receive a request from me.They do however know that you have looked at their page.

• @Anonymous
  Yeah, when I first realised I was almost always seeing the same people, I told a friend about it and they looked at my profile and it was different.

• Has anyone looked at their own profile through a friend’s account? I heard that other people will see a different friends list on your profile than you see. They will see mostly mutual friends and stuff. Looking to get confirmation.

• Besides popping on the left column..
  at times the same fb friend’s “yr frnds profile” will also suddenly appear on the right column..

• Oh yea, and there are also many people who absolutely NEVER show up on my friends list, even if I go to their profile a dozen times. I’ve been curious how this works, so I’ve refreshed the list hundreds of times. I still see the same people no matter what my behavior is.

• I just signed up for facebook last week. I have had very little contact with the 50-60 ppl who I am friends with. A few ppl wrote something on my wall, I maybe left 2 comments on friends’ walls. Anyway, most of the 10-15 people who ALWAYS show up on my wall (hundreds of refreshes over 2 days) are people I have had absolutely ZERO contact with besides accepting their friend request. I haven’t gone to their profiles either.

  Something’s going on here, and it’s absolutely NOT what the facebook person told you.

• Clearing the cache did not change my friendslist at all, as someone mentioned above…

• There is definitely something gong on.I have looked at pages of old high school chums.Most are unacceptable as friends so I move on.The next day they show up on friend suggestions.

• There is definitely something gong on.I have looked at pages of old high school chums.Most are unacceptable as friends so I move on.The next day they show up on friend suggestions.

• I think the friends list on the left is people that you have interacted with, or those that have interacted with you, and the People you may know contains the stalkers…….

• Did a bit of research over the last few days, decided to choose 2 friends who I know personally but never interact with on fb and I know would not view my profile. I visited both friends regularly and viewed their albums and each time stayed on their pages for a while, one had a birthday so posted a comment on his wall. So far neither of them have come up in my friend box but I did notice that the mouseover had both of them in it, this tells me that at least some of the people who come up are people that you are viewing. I then noticed that a friend who I haven’t interacted with in some time came up, next thing there was a pm from her. She stayed on my box all that night and then not again for 2 days when she appeared again, I checked her profile and she had just been online. I think the friend box def has something to do with profile views but also when people who have recently visited your page come online too. I also checked this with friends who I do interact with frequently (mutual page views) and they also seem appear in my box when they are online. So far anyway my “test cases” have never showed up and I know both have been online, either it takes time for them to appear (a few weeks maybe) or it has nothing to do with who’s profile you view.

  • This is what I have found too, for the most part!

• Has anyone considered that the friends list might have different functions?

  For example:
  x+y+z = 15
  -X people you publicly interact with
  -Y people you’ve gone through their entire photo album at least once
  -Z people are completely random

  just a thought.

• It can’t possibly be the people with whom I interact the most as Facebook alleges, because I regularly and routinely send messages to a certain handful of 5-10 people, none of whom are currently there and very few of whom regularly show up in that box. Some of them are people I have contacted once in the last six months, and some are people who have contacted me or commented on something on my page frequently. It has to be a both-ways thing, and if so it could boil down to simply “who views your profile”.

• I have around 600 friends, most of the people I interact with regularly and recently appear in my box apart from maybe 2 I think may be random. However, I stalk my ex’s profile maybe twice a day (not for long) and he is a regular on my box, even though we haven’t communicated for a few weeks and that was via pm. He always comes up on my page all day on Sunday (and a few other days too), noticed it for quite a while, but not this week. I logged in earlier and he was there, but only once and when I refreshed my page he was gone and didn’t return. I know he is going away for a few days so wasn’t expecting him at all, but the only once thing is a bit suspect Don’t know if it’s me stalking him, him stalking me or a bit of both, there is something in it, sure the friend box is not random.

• As said earlier Facebook can be a dark dark place. Don’t take these things seriously. Don’t let it affect your perceptions of people in real-life.

• I want to say I’m 100% sure it’s based off the people looking at you. 7 of the 10 I have had pretty much no interaction with but they’re the ones I know look at my page all the time.

• I think this is the truth about the mouseover:
  those friends shown on mouseover are ppl u visited the most among all ur friends. It has nothing to do with anything else.

• Ok here’s what I noticed. The left side on your main facebook profile is not as sensitive to hits. The recently interacted list and little photo albums on the right seem to be sensitive. I know this because: I had a group of people blocked for the longest time and by accident I allowed them back in to see my posts. I noticed a person in particular from the list I thought was blocked, pop up in the recently interacted list and photo albums on the right. The person never showed up on the left side “profile friends”.

  I’m curious as to how the profile friends on the left are chosen…

• Yeah I’ve been trying that out myself and it is not random, the only thing is if I see some ladies appearing often on my 10 friend list after I have a few beers i end up sending them messages to get them out on a date and no response so far……..so i’m sorry now I started checking that out, but we live in hope

• Facebook admits that it’s the people who you interact with the most are the ones showing up on your page. Simply clicking on someone’s profile is viewed by the system as a form of interaction, I doubt Facebook has the capability of telling the difference between viewing a profile, sending a message, posting on the wall or chatting on IM, etc. It’s all the same to the system.

  The same 15 people keep showing up on my list, some of them I really haven’t talked to in 6 months, so these people MUST be clicking on my profile.

• ok, this is driving me crazyyyy can someone please give me an answer?

  the SAME PPL over again keep appearing on the right side for memorable status updates and photo albums.

  some of these ppl i’m very close with so i visit their profiles from time to time, and comment/like their posts.

  but there are some ppl’s that appear all the time that i almost never interact with? does this have anything to do with how many times they view my profile?

  and WHAT DETERMINES who shows up on the newsfeed? most of the time, ‘popular’ photos or status updates show up, but a lot of times, just a single post or comment by the SAME ppl keep appearing. again, these are ppl that i don’t really interact with on fb. any connection to their viewing my profile?

• i think that it is showing the people whos profile you have been on iv realized that some come up after they have wrote on my wall or have interacted with me but then i also realized that if i went onto somebodys profile iv not spoken to in a wile they would then come up onto my friend box ,, very confusing i think it is mixed of who you look at and who looks at you

• ok, this is driving me crazyyyy can someone please give me an answer?

  the SAME PPL over again keep appearing on the right side for memorable status updates and photo albums.

  some of these ppl i’m very close with so i visit their profiles from time to time, and comment/like their posts.

  but there are some ppl’s that appear all the time that i almost never interact with? does this have anything to do with how many times they view my profile?

  and WHAT DETERMINES who shows up on the newsfeed? most of the time, ‘popular’ photos or status updates show up, but a lot of times, just a single post or comment by the SAME ppl keep appearing. again, these are ppl that i don’t really interact with on fb. any connection to their viewing my profile?

• I have the answer!
  The majority of the people tha appear on my list are those that i interacted on their profile and have recently been on line(usually 12 hours earlier).
  Now some 3- 4 friends that constantly appear are those that at some point during the year i wrote on their wall (for example to say happy birthday) but they never replied and obviously don’t log in anymore so facebook is trying to remind you to contact them again and maybe make them become more active.

• I think it is the people who view you the most. I have an ex and I didn’t view his profile and all of a sudden he showed up on my friends list. I went to his page and sure as shit he has accessed his page within a couple of hours. So I have left it and again – he showed up in my friends profile and again he had accessed his page. This has happened again and again!

• I have a new theory, let me know what you think. Anybody who has a public setting that says “in a relationship with…” will never show up on anybody’s list. This is done intentionally by Facebook so that the SOs do not get crazy jealous.

  In a nutshell, only people who have their relationship status hidden or says Engaged or Married will show up on a friend’s list. This might explain why some patterns hold true for some people and not for others.

• What about the fact that if you do a public search on yourself, the 10 friends are different than those 10 appearing after you sign in within minutes of doing the public search? That doesn’t make sense to me. It seems like it should be consistent between public and private.

• And presumably a ‘public interaction’ is a two-way thing: if Person 1 is judged by Facebook to be publicly interacting enough with Person 2 to appear on their profile, then the opposite should be true as well. But this isn’t always the case, which suggests there is some sort of imbalance there – created by a disparity at how much these two interactors look at each other’s profiles.

• I wouldn’t mind betting that friends list on the left is largely based on those people you publicly interact with most frequently, as Facebook suggests. But as everyone on here has rightly pointed out, those extra characters are simply NOT random. They are almost always people very much in your current consciousness: you either see or think about them on a day-to-day basis, and vice versa. So while there is often little need to ‘publicly interact’ on Facebook – because that job is done in real life – their presence on your friends list reflects the fact that you are at least looking at their profile and vice versa with some regularity. I’d say there are also conspicuous additions from those you interact with privately interact with too.

  Clearly, Facebook stores away all sorts of data ‘somewhere else’; you can hardly navigate the site without it handily presenting you with photo albums of your ‘stalkee’ to check out, and whenever you use the search bar, no matter how many caches you’ve cleared, it always KNOWS who you’re looking for. Probably meant to be intuitive, but in actual fact it’s rather creepy indeed.

• Funny! I have been noticing for the past several months that people keep popping up under my friend list on my page that I no longer have contact with. I googled this question, and found this article. I think that you have hit the nail on the head! The people who pop up on my page are NOT random, they are NOT people whose pages I visit, and they are NOT people that I am in regular contact with…. they ARE in fact people who might have a reason to be creeping on my page, which is the very reason I decided to investigate. Let’s keep this to ourselves now, so that we will know who is creeping without commenting…

• Does anyone know if you can select a friend’s photo to not appear publicly as a friend (e.g., in a google search) or show up on your friends left sidebar? I thought I read that it could be done but not sure how.

• Anon, you’re totally right about the cache thing. It’s definitely related. I had a computer meltdown today that reset some stuff and now my sidebar peeps are all back to the “default!”

  I’m not sure what it means either, but some questions are how often does Facebook use the cache to fill the list and how often does it introduce new faces? My guess is that it makes adjustments every couple of days based on interaction and the rest of the time it’s based on your cache and who’s online now.

• ive noticed that when you hover your mouse over your name the 5 people that come up are usually people who use phones. if you keep refreshing its the same ones but they don’t always appear on the left bar. When they are abroad they will also appear in the 5 when you hover your mouse but when they are using a laptop or pc they will appear on the side bar. well thats what i’ve concluded.

• I totally agree. The people who show up on my list are definitely people who I creep, or know there is a good chance they are creeping me. 9 times out of 10 there is some connection that can be made. This is just from observation but it doesnt seem random enough to not be a coincidence…

• I have been doing a lot of trial-and-error experiments over the past two or three weeks in order to catch any patterns. I thought I should throw in a kink that I’ve just now experienced.

  The ten friends on my profile (the ones who show up on the left hand side of the profile page) changed suddenly this past Saturday (26 Mar 2011) and stayed that away until I emptied/deleted my entire internet cache. Afterwards, the ten people were the same as they had been before Saturday.

  I’m personally not sure yet what that means, but I do know this: whenever Facebook shows you those ten friends in the bottom-left of your profile, it saves which ones to show you in your internet cache. So, if you empty the cache, things probably ‘revert’ to whatever the ‘default’ setting is.

• What do you all make of the friends matrix? When you click on “Friends (601)” and then click on on the 3×3 tic tac toe icon next to the search by name box. Any ideas as to whether those people in the middle rows are folks checking out your profile?

• i stalk all the people on the list :)

• @Hmmm how weird I noticed the same thing, I hope someone who knows about computer programming or whatever it is would answer this.

• What about the search box?? Someone I know but have not added on FB keeps coming up everytime..even if I just type the letter D (which they’re name begins with, they will be 2nd or third on the list! What’s up with that?? I just typed every other letter of the alphabet in the search box and everyname that came up I recognised…odd.

• What about the search box?? Someone I know but have not added on FB keeps coming up everytime..even if I just type the letter D (which they’re name begins with, they will be 2nd or third on the list! What’s up with that??

• Hell yeah. This is so true. I checked on my profile and I thought the same thing too. I refreshed my profile again and over again and the same person showed up.

• Yeah, I tried that and it happened. There’s another thing I have been noticing. People who are not even in my friend list appear above my friends in facebook search box. And i have never even opened their profiles! (except now I had to out of curiosity) Does it use the same method? I mean can we see the people who check out our profiles but are not our friends or am I just being paranoid?

• Yeah, I tried that and it happened. There’s another thing I have been noticing. People who are not even in my friend list appear above my friends in facebook search box. And i have never even opened their profiles! (except now I had to out of curiosity) Does it use the same method? I mean can we see the people who check out our profiles but are not our friends or am I just being paranoid?

• I always see the same peoples photo albums as well and I haven’t even viewed theres. What do you mean 5 people show up when you go over your name?

• The number one person who I constantly check out is NEVER on my friendslist…

  • The same with me, Cherry- I am opening a profile frequently, but I never appear between the first 10 people on his his friends list…don´t know what the explanation is.

• for those who also wonder about the 5 ppl when you go over your name: those ppl also appear when you look at your own photos on the top right hand side (you ll find either links to their photo albums, past status updates etc)

  • Very, very interesting observation.

• Haha.. Hope you get that figured out anonymous, with the best guy friend thing. You’ll get it figured out! And yeah this isn’t a Facebook site anymore, this is DATING 101! lol

• The people who pages I go never show up in my friend list.I don’t know if it is who’s looking at my page but it’s strange that it’s always the same people.

• The no.1 person u check out the most will definitely get their ass up there on ur friends list whether or not they check u too, no doubt about that

• this is the anonymous who is paranoid about this girl who keeps apearing on my best guy friend’s friend list all the time. Yes, I have feelings for him and it really pissess me off everytime i see her name on his friend list. We don’t go a day without talking and i guess i got too attached to him. Just this girl.. asdjksak. Facebook, you are killing me.

  Thank you for all the advice you wonderful people :)♥

• Facebook is dark. Very dark.

• For me its who I stalk, I hardly do anything with fb except to check out this person, & (s)he is always on my page. not cool

• I wish I knew for certain if it is who views my profile. All i do know is I do not interact with the ones showing on friends. the ones I do interact with and view only very occasionally show in top 10 list.

• Hahaha this has turned from FACEBOOK FRIENDSLIST CHAT into DATING ADVICE 101 :)

• If your paranoid, something is wrong there, so my advice to you… See what’s really going on. But he is just your best guy friend right? So what are you worried about? If your feeling more for him, shouldn’t you be thinking about making a move, or even mentioning it to him? It’s obvious that you like him.. You know guys don’t always enjoy making the moves.

• anonymous, so you would rather be in ignorance and pretend that this girl isnt checking ur boyfriends page or vice versa? Turn a blind eye? Ignorance is bliss for u I guess. I like knowing the truth..

• I’ve been reading the entire discussion here and I don’t know which one is right. I mostly check my best guy friend’s fb and I swear every time I check his profile I ALWAYS see this girl on his friend list. It’s making me paranoid and I can’t help but to worry. Could she be stalking him or him stalking her? I wish facebook would make it random instead of all the “stalkers” appearing . not cool.

• I completely agree that according to what I have been noticing on my Facebook page every day, it is people checking me out. I have 541 friends, and the SAME folks I know that are most interested in me and my life ALWAYS appear on the left-sided friend column. They are definitely NOT people that I check out, but it makes quite sense as to why they would check me out (for various reasons, weather business or pleasure). Therefore, I am convinced that left column definitely shows people who are checking out my page–and most recently, too…not from a month and a half ago. Again, this is my own guesstimation, but I’m sure I am correct.

• Ok what i have picked up is that when you visit other peoples profiles the friends shown on they’re page is who’s page they’ve visited lately. i tested this theory on different occasions by viewing my profile on someone elses account and the people that showed up on mine where people i had viewed recently. i dont know… but it kinda suss.

• It’s rubbish, my ex-boss ALWAYS writes on my page, comments on my status etc. You just have to look down my page to see that nobody interacts with me as much as them, yet they are not on the list, whereas somebody who I may have wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ on their wall is!

• i noticed that when i go look at some my friends profiles I come up in their friends list. even to friends i dont interact with much on FB.
  I also notice when people start commenting or liking my posts out of no where they begin to appear on my friends list.
  neither of these happen 100% of the time but im sure the friends lists are built upon interaction other FB users somehow.

• We don’t want that? More than half of us are completely addicted but it’s too late now, we love it. Although I wish I could see who was looking at my profile most.

• lol you think you can petition facebook away? get a grip.

• The answer is simple….. do NOT use Facebook……..
  ignore it, delete it, petition, DEMAND for it to be closed down if that’s what it’ll take to stop them.

• I also think the “people you may know” window is stalker related. I created a fake profile ages ago to check my privacy settings (this was before fb introduced the privacy view feature) anyway.. I had no friends in my profile and i searched my proper profile and a couple of my close friends a few times. Then logged into my normal profile only to find my fake profile appearing to the right in friends you may know.
  After discussing this with a friend she mentioned how a random overseas hookup from 5 years ago, with no friends in common appeared in her friends you may know column.

• Love your comment, R.!!! lol

• Well, I think calling it an invasion of privacy is a little far-stretched. I mean, you’re basically on Facebook, and you decide what to put out publicly. I think it’s awesome to know who checks your profile. It’s especially important to know, because then you have a clear idea of who fancies you or not, and if the crush you like likes you back. Maybe for you married people, or for people who prefer to be single, or asexual people, it doesn’t matter, but for us still young and playing the singles game, it MATTERS. Thank you.

  • Amen to that!!

• @rumpsteak As I was saying above, it’s definitely going off of those things. For them to keep people interested so they can continue to make money, they will figure ways to keep us interested via having us interact with our favorite people. Why would they put random people up? It doesn’t make sense to me. In the marketing world, they will do anything and everything to make a little extra cash. Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and McDanold’s are perfect examples. They will do anything and everything for more money. So I think it makes perfect sense for them to abide by our privacy policy.. BUT that’s all just little lettering on a damn website. Do you actually trust there word? I don’t.. And quite frankly I could care less if people can see I’m viewing their page or vise versa. I mean…. We all made a facebook for a reason, right? But I think I’m going to try to do some math and see the probability of having the same people on there over and over, and seeing how random it actually is.

• My friendslist hasnt changed in days either

• I just refreshed my FB page 3 times and the same people remained in the friends box! Definitely something going on….

• I agree with everyone it’s def arranging your friends list according to profile views, whether they have or will change it i don’t know , but it’s seems to be a mix of what everyones saying, I always thought it may be the case but began to get worried it was in my mind. Thank folks for reassuring me I am not suffering from facebook psychosis.!x
  If you were to do a proper experiment, wouldn’t some simple maths prove it couldn’t be random? (by the way I know nothing of experiments , maths or programming, but I bet someone reading this prob does. As it stands it seems half the friends in the box seem to be people we might expect to check our profiles or interact with but half don’t……mmmmmmmm

• Well goodamnit if its so random, I cannot even see who views my profile..it makes me want to delete my account. I know many others who are saying their gonna do the same.

• Looks like its completely random now.

• i am so frustratedddddddddddd. ive been interacting and viewing all these different friends who ARE NOT on my friendslist and my friendslist hasnt changed in 3 days, its been the same people in teh rotation. SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN? I have had no interaction nor looked at their profiles and i have about 800 friends so tell me how its only been showing 11 or 12 in the box? CONSTANTLy, the same ones. I know other friends are looking at my profile cus they’ve been interacting with me. So why hasnt my friends box changed?

• FACEBOOOOOK!!!! BRING ^ search back!!! UGH!! They frustrate me.

• I think (and hope) it does show who has viewed your profile, or who views regularly. There’s this girl who I used to play in a band with years ago. I always got the impression she really liked me, but nothing ever happened. A few years later I added her on facebook, but have never interacted with her. I’ve only noticed recently that she pops up a lot in my friends list on the left.

  There’s definitely is a link between who you interact with the most and who shows up in those 10 friends. The people I interact with the most always show up (4-5 people). But there is no reason why this girl (who appeared to have a crush on me) should show up as much as she does. We never interact on FB, and I don’t snoop on her page.

• I think that this programe is good

• Steve: I don’t check anyone on my friendslists profiles, the one I do check often almost never shows up on my list…the rest I know at school and are close to me but its definitely not who I interact with or check AT ALL. I still beleive its who views you most.

• I have experienced this problem and it’s freaking me out! I am back with a girlfriend and have been for some time. We broke up early last year for a few months and I know she was seeing another guy. Whenever I click on her profile it is always the same friends and he is ALWAYS in there. However, I know for a fact that some of these friends she has zero contact with but could be people that frequently view her profile. Therefore I am hoping that it is the case he still checks out her profile a lot and not that they are actually still in contact….someone reassure me?! Anyone else experienced the same?

• Looks to me like Facebook tweaked their algorithm on Tuesday back to an older version or they have done some sort of reset on their logs of our interactions and got rid of the most recent data. They’ve definitely been doing something, since the ^ is again not working.

  Why I think they purged data or tweaked the algo is because I had 2 people that were stuck permanently on my list based on being tagged in the same photos and attending the same events, which is weighted more strongly by Facebook. We have pretty much no other interaction. They finally disappeared last month but now they have both reappeared at the same time starting just today and are always showing up again. GRRR!

• Keep watching this page Facebook! lol

• Here’s what I found: I experimented and
  ‘stalked’ one/two profiles everyday for a couple of weeks(I chose ones that I never look at and who would never stalk me) . After a month and a half they showed up as one of the random 5 mouseover friends and in my “^” list.
  I also created a fake profile on another computer and stalked myself. That profile showed up on the “^” list, not on the mouseover yet (only been a couple of weeks) or the side friends list. What do you think?

• ^ does not work anymore! If someone figures out another way…post please!

• ^ does not work anymore! If someone figures out another way…post please!

• What’s this “^”? I typed that and it doesn’t work?

• For all you non open minded people. Just because someone is in jail or deceased doesn’t really mean anything if they show up on your friends list. As I said above, you have to look at all the possible ways that I mentioned. It’s not going to have EVERYONE that you creep or that creep you. And yes its a MIXTURE of things that determine who’s on your page. Like I said Facebook needs to know who’s interested and really.. They did good with that too. I mean why not show someone who’s in jail or deceased? I guarantee it makes you click on there page. More money to Facebook, just for a view. How many people do you think monitor Facebook? A LOT. AND those people in JAIL can creep on your Facebook depending on where they are locked up, and they could of been creepers before they got locked up.

• @ Chrissy, you cannot say its “UNTRUE” completely because I know they do show up when people are creeping, friends I know that creep me tell me when they are and they always show up too when they are doing it, we never said it was the ONLY thing….it is probably a mixture.

• This is not true, because friends of mine that are actually have been incarnated in jail for months, have not been able to go on their facebook, but yet they still pop up in my random 10 friends… so this idea might seem logical but it is completely untrue

• Has anybody figured out the “^” means? Out of the top 3, 2 are currently on my list now but the top 1 hasn’t been on the list for a week now although I know they creep a lot. So why is it still showing them as the first if they haven’t been on my list in ages? Do u think this is overall?

• So accurate. I’ve been telling people this!

• @Cherry that makes sense.

• @ Axman, like I said, 2000 friends but only 230 of them can view things…the other dont see anything but an album or two. My friends list only rotates between 15 of the same people and it never changes, all of whom are close to me and I know creep me.

• @ Axman, no not really cus only 230 of them are able to view my full profile, the rest of them are on limited!

• @Cherry Don’t you think it’s possible that since you have 2000 friends. That it would alter your list a little bit more? I mean most people I know on average have like 500-800 friends. So when you have double that amount, don’t you think it’d effect your list?

  @y78990 I never knew of the ^ thing. I wonder what that means. lol.. I’m almost certain at least the top five look at my page a lot.

• @Curiouser: Yes he is and I realise the list has VERY LITTLE to do with who’se profile you visit as I rarely visit anybodies because I’m one of those people with like 2000 friends and so much is going on my own page, but I do visit 1 of the 10 regularly on the list and as many times as I stay on their profile or visit their page, they NEVER show up on my page unless they happen to be viewing mine as well and its because sometimes theyll show up on my page for 20 mins and suddenly dissappear never to be seen until days later. So I have come to the conclusion the list has VERY LITTLE to do with who you view or have regular contact with and more to do with who views your profile.

• So, when I type in the “^” it shows the top 4 people, I knnow for a fact they all stalk my page but the first one that is showing hasn’t been on for 2 days or something because I haven’t seen her on my list. Makes me think that the top 4 are overall top stalkers and the list is more “recent or current/active/online” stalkers. What do you think guys?

• So, when I type in the “^” it shows the top 4 people, I knnow for a fact they all stalk my page but the first one that is showing hasn’t been on for 2 days or something because I haven’t seen her on my list. Makes me think that the top 4 are overall top stalkers and the list is more “recent or current/active/online” stalkers. What do you think guys?

• @Cherry You mentioned you are not showing up on his list anymore cos you don’t stay on his profile for a long time, but is he showing up on your own profile’s list? Thanks in advance!

  @fblover thanks for your reply!

• The friends list may be people that you view but who definitely view you, I havent been on ANYBODIES profile accept my own for the past 4 days and it’s the same people all the time, the same 15 or 16 alternate in that ten, all of whom I know either have crushes on me or I know that creep my page.

• the trick is to not visit other peoples profiles for awhile and all your stalkers appear on the friends list and “^”…not sure about the name hovering, it seems people who are also stalking me.

• I’m still interested in how FB determines the five friends who appear when you hover over your own name. At least in my case, it appears completely unrelated to the friend list on the left side of my profile. Oh, and the top 10 friends listed when I type a “^” into the friends search bar are the same friends who consistently appear (in various combinations) when I hover over my name.

• I’m still interested in how FB determines the five friends who appear when you hover over your own name. At least in my case, it appears completely unrelated to the friend list on the left side of my profile. Oh, and the top 10 friends listed when I type a “^” into the friends search bar are the same friends who consistently appear (in various combinations) when I hover over my name.

• I started to go on others people’s profiles and refresh them a couple times. i went back to my profile and after a few refreshes, they were there. It HAS to be partially who YOU are stalking. Others possibly could be some that you had interaction with a long time ago, and facebook is trying to urge you to speak with them again, as with my Ex who keeps showing up, and this girl that keeps showing up.

• I think mututal views do, but I know that when I was looking at this persons page ALLLL the time and they NEVER showed up on my friends list EVER until they started creeping me again.

• How about we’re all just right? I mean I’m sure everyone with input has some kind of common sense to see that something is going on. Btw, I quit lookin at this girls profile for awhile and she quit showing up on my friends list. Then later on I see she was looking at my page, and next thing you know she’s back on my list. Mutual views will get someone up on that list.

• I am looking at an ex’s profile a lot and they show up on my list at least 50% of the time, probably when they are online. We hardly have any “public interaction” as our dating was in secret, and I am sure the stalking is not mutual though they may check my profile every once in a while. So I can’t help but think it’s also the people whose profiles we look at very often that also show up in our list.

• I think the list may be a mixture of the people who’s pages you visit and the people who visit yours. A friend of mine passed away last month and a few weeks back i wrote on her wall….now her name appears on my list all the time?

• I think it may be the people who check your page. There are people I interact with a lot more on FB and they never show up on my list.

• I think it may be the people who check your page. There are people I interact with a lot more on FB and they never show up on my list.

• Curiouser, it will all depend how often you are checking on it and how long you are staying on it for…for sure its not an entire day or a week. However it can last up to a week if you are stalking that much and that often.

• I would remain on this guys friendslist cus I was ALWAYS on his page, but now I check it a few times a day, quite regular but never remain on it very long and I havent showed up on his list. I think its people who remain on your page for an extended period of time.

• yes, I agree. The ones who remain on each persons friendslist are REGULAR stalkers, if they disappear its beceause they’ve not been creeping for awhile.

• @curiouser, I think this is where algorythm comes into place…I’ve seen my usual stalkers come on for 5 minutes on the friendslist, then suddenly disappear nomatter how many times I refresh the page they are never to be seen until days later and then realising that they’ve not been on facebook the whole time (cus they told me they were away). However, if you creep regularly, like a bunch of times in one day, it seems to remain on the whole day if you keep periodically checking up on the regular. Because one of my constant creepers has been on my friends list for 2 consecutive days, NEVER fails to appear and I may check their profile a few times in the day, but I dont stay on it too long and I havent showed up. I guess you will have to keep checking after certain lapses of time….I think its about 5 minutes, unless you keep checking periodically and for how long you remain on their profile?

• fblover, if i view the page of my creeper and i start showing up on their friends list, how long does that last, a day, a week?

• Okay, for all of you asking if the friends list is any you view often, its NOT. Often I am on my own page as my page is BUMPIN’ haha but the pages I do view often almost never show up on my friends list unless they are stalking my page. I have this album only limited to a certain group of people, when we all had a party and I posted the pics…since they all could see it, all of them filled up my entire friends list immediately as they were looking at it. I practically live on facebook and the friends list looks like the people who are viewing your profile the most, if they are currently on they will instantly appear but it only works that way if they are regular “creepers”, like if I view a page of a person that I often visit, I will always show up on their friendslist after I refresh it once or twice if I dont see myself the first time, although if you view a page you rarely visit, you wont show up on their friends list unless they often creep you too.

• Facebook are the new “GODS”…hahaha. The power they have over us. :)

• I like seeing who is looking at my profile, it makes me feel important :)

• I think they might of changed it up actually.. They are monitoring this site… Hilarious.. Who cares FB?!?!? lol

• You have exposed them in the biggest way and have hit the nail right on the head!!! What brought me to googling this matter is because I realized alot of what you said to be true as well…the same friends always showing up. And a certain “fond person” of mine is always there which lead me to suspect all of this even more. I was saying AMEN thru out your whole article. I don’t care what bogus response Facebook officials want to give…we common sense people call it for what it really is!

  • : ) I AGREE

• Okay… I think I got it figured out. It’s flipped flopped so it doesn’t invade your privacy, because you default your privacy with the people you accept as friends. But say I visit or comment to certain people, it will put the people I commonly look at, and what not. So if you want to check who’s been viewing you. Whomever is showing up on there list, are people that they communicate with most or whatever else on the damn site. But yeah, why get upset when your getting creeped? Makes ya feel important.. So I dunno why people complain either.

• As of yesterday, the ^ in the search bar feature no longer works. Good job Facebook.

• Their explaination doesnt make sense. There are people in there who I barely “pubically” interact with who have been glued to my wall for months now. Granted, in real life we are friends or have had a relationship… but they really shouldnt be appearing on my page if what FB says is true.

• I LOVE THIS FEATURE, I dont really care who can see me on their friendslist or know Im creeping, this is the life of facebook and we are supposed to creep. If you dont like people creeping you, then dont have a profile. Or put them on super limited.

• I LOVE THIS FEATURE, I dont really care who can see me on their friendslist or know Im creeping, this is the life of facebook and we are supposed to creep. If you dont like people creeping you, then dont have a profile. Or put them on super limited.

• FB disfunctioned the ^ key in its search… So someone from FB has been watching this post… If that’s the case… FB, would u kindly provide me an option to “hide my friend list to myself” so I dont c it every time I log onto my own page? Thanks!!!

• If that was the case… If it just calculates who you’ve last communicated with via Facebook, what’s the point in the My Top Fan application?? I recently had this app up and a girl I was into just dropped all contact with me after she saw it, so she doesn’t blow her cover, and to think she was telling me the My Top Fan’s isn’t accurate and I joked with her and go “Oh so your not my number one fan?” she responded with “I didn’t say that.” So after that, I was sold on the facebook no longer being private.. But onto what I think it’s based on, with who views your profile. After watching and researching how Facebook got famous. They are all words, they don’t care about our privacy, all they care about is making money. So of course they would send you a message and tell you that that’s not the case. So I am a firm believer that it randomizes who view’s your comments, pictures, likes, and anything to do with your profile and that other persons.. But I really think it uses a calculating system on how you two view one another’s profiles. It probably doesn’t make sense, but if I knew math like Mr. Einstein, I’d figure a way to explain it, but I don’t. lol.

• Yes. It corresponds with the rotating list of five friends who appear when I hover over my name. Facebook admits to using the algorithm PageRank to determine who or what one is searching for on the FB web site. I assume its a combination of the friend profiles you’ve viewed the most often and most recently?

• Wow, typing the ^ brought up a similar group to my most common top friends. It also included someone I just friended yesterday and someone I just commented on, but hadn’t interacted with much recently. And another person I hadn’t interacted with publicly but send a private message. wtf Facebook?

  I would like to know what’s happening because someone I have a crush on and stalk has started popping up in my list. What I can’t figure out is if he’s there because I click on him frequently or because he is stalking me as well! Another guy who shows up on mine constantly is most likely stalking me (but we also private message) and another guy I haven’t interacted with in a while is showing up there (public interaction, private messages OR me clicking on his stuff) so this makes me think it IS the people who are looking at your profile.

  But what if it’s just relating to who is online at that time? Online stalkers? Hmmm.

  I would be thrilled if the list is showing us who is looking at our stuff, but similarly, this means I am showing up in their top friends as well. Is mutual stalking a match made in heaven?

• Wow, typing the ^ brought up a similar group to my most common top friends. It also included someone I just friended yesterday and someone I just commented on, but hadn’t interacted with much recently. And another person I hadn’t interacted with publicly but send a private message. wtf Facebook?

  I would like to know what’s happening because someone I have a crush on and stalk has started popping up in my list. What I can’t figure out is if he’s there because I click on him frequently or because he is stalking me as well! Another guy who shows up on mine constantly is most likely stalking me (but we also private message) and another guy I haven’t interacted with in a while is showing up there (public interaction, private messages OR me clicking on his stuff) so this makes me think it IS the people who are looking at your profile.

  But what if it’s just relating to who is online at that time? Online stalkers? Hmmm.

  I would be thrilled if the list is showing us who is looking at our stuff, but similarly, this means I am showing up in their top friends as well. Is mutual stalking a match made in heaven?

• Hey guys, type ^ into the SEARCH BY NAME: TYPE A FRIEND’S NAME box. Does the drop down list mean anything to you?

• I am researching the same thing and I also have found out some interesting facts:
  1) I create a fake profile and interact with it as a real person (tagging myself pics, posting on my own wall, and commenting on my own status and responding to my own comments), I also use that fake account to check my real profile several times a day. And the result is that the fake account shows up amongst the top 10 friendlist, no matter how many times I refresh the page !
  2) There are 4 people who I set privacy not to let them see my albums, my wall, comments and my notes (but still keeping their accounts in my friendlist), amazingly they still show up quite frequently on the top 10 friendlist. I dont know why they still show up because all that can be seen on my page from their accounts is only my name and a profile pic (these 4 females are not my fans, I know that they dislike me and only come visit my profile for curiosity so I set these privacy functions)
  3) I use the fake account to check the top 10 friendlist of a guy I know that crushes on me. It is so surprising that my real account often shows up in his 10 top friendlist though I never use this real account to visit his page !
  Can anyone explain this plz?. Those interesing facts are based on real experiment, and I am keep on researching. I will dig up the whole cyber world to find out the truth if possible !

• I am researching the same thing and I also have found out some interesting facts:
  1) I create a fake profile and interact with it as a real person (tagging myself pics, posting on my own wall, and commenting on my own status and responding to my own comments), I also use that fake account to check my real profile several times a day. And the result is that the fake account shows up amongst the top 10 friendlist, no matter how many times I refresh the page !
  2) There are 4 people who I set privacy not to let them see my albums, my wall, comments and my notes (but still keeping their accounts in my friendlist), amazingly they still show up quite frequently on the top 10 friendlist. I dont know why they still show up because all that can be seen on my page from their accounts is only my name and a profile pic (these 4 females are not my fans, I know that they dislike me and only come visit my profile for curiosity so I set these privacy functions)
  3) I use the fake account to check the top 10 friendlist of a guy I know that crushes on me. It is so surprising that my real account often shows up in his 10 top friendlist though I never use this real account to visit his page !
  Can anyone explain this plz?. Those interesing facts are based on real experiment, and I am keep on researching. I will dig up the whole cyber world to find out the truth if possible !

• Should we petition Facebook to find out what that list order is all about?

• I think Facebook is lying.. but why? I’m sure it would stop some creepy stalking and let us know who cares enough to stop by our profile.

  I’ve been talking to a guy for the past 6months (Before the new thing come out.) and we do not talk publicly. We’ve only ever IM’d and maybe shared one or two messages, but as of the last two or so weeks he has been popping up on my friends list as well as the friends I talk to publicly.

  So heres the real question. We know its not random, we know its not based on PUBLIC interacting, so what exactly does it pop from?

  I say its who is looking at our page, in light of how mine and said guys relationship has took a turn for the… BETTER *wink wink* it makes perfect since he would be looking at my page more.

  EXPLAIN FACEBOOK!

• What about the people that show up when you mouse-over your own name? For example if you go to your wall and there is a post that says “Joey Boofangool” (your name) was tagged in Jane Doe’s album. When you mouse-over your name there is 5 friends that show up. For me it is usually a combo of about 10 diff people every time I look at it. I have noticed that the people that show up here is not necessarily connected to the 10 that show up on your featured friends. There is some people that constantly show up on the mouse-over, that never show up on the friends list…one of the people that constantly shows up on my mouse-over is a girl that I know is obsessed with me and my striking good looks…I’m just sayin!

• me too. I would love to figure out what’s happening!! I have this one guy who 9/10 times shows up FIRST on my friends list…. we don’t have any sort of fb interaction (just lots of common friends)! It drives me crazy….no matter how many times I refresh the page he is always there, which makes no sense!

• i can’t really figure it out. i wondered about the online status, but then there are a couple on my list who always pop up who i highly doubt would be on as frequently as they appear. i dunno…i think they should just put it back to entirely random.
  i wonder if when you view someone else’s profile, the ppl who you see in THEIR list are the ones who stalk that profile most or the other way around.
  interesting.

• Pretty sure its an algorithm combo of recently interacted, # of mutual friends, and most importantly people who are logged into FB at that point in time. For example, if there is someone who you share over 100 mutual friends with, and that person is constantly logged into FB, then they will always show up in your list!

• Pretty sure its an algorithm combo of recently interacted, # of mutual friends, and most importantly people who are logged into FB at that point in time. For example, if there is someone who you share over 100 mutual friends with, and that person is constantly logged into FB, then they will always show up in your list!

• someone who is not a friend commented on wall that i was checking his profile. what gives. no way for him to know this

• This is in response to “Anonymous” who said they created another Facebook account to test the theory that your top 15 are made up of the people who view your profile the most. He said he used this account to visit his “real” FB page a lot. But he never saw the “fake” profile show up on his 15 list. I don’t think that really proves anything because even though he set up a new account, he still shares the same IP address of his “real” FB account. I’m sure the engineers at Facebook are smart enough to use filters that would weed out situations like that. http://www.demonspencer.com

• I recently create another fb account and I’ve been viewing my main fb page quite often. My other account hasn’t yet showed up on the 10-friend box thing on my page. So is it really profile viewing tracker??? Not sure… lol

• It is undoubtedly based on who is looking at your profile. My list is almost all guys who I haven’t interacted with since we became friends years ago. I never look at their profiles, like their posts, comment on their page, send them emails, or communicate with them through private email. All are men I would assume might have a crush on me. There is no other explanation than they are looking at my profile. Interestingly, people I do interact with regularly do not show up at all, so clearly it only has to do with profile viewing.

• I think it’s based on who you have emailed the most, as if you allow FB access to your email account to get your list of contacts, it can probably tell who you have emailed the most – I am fairly sure it can detect this, because it can definitely detect what email accounts that account is forwarded to and link in any other profiles you have with those other email accounts. Which is again going beyond the privacy strictures that a normal person would presume they had stated! As FB often does, or does until somebody notices and complains!

• I’ve noticed this for a while, as in, over the past month or so. I’ve had about 20-25 people on the list and no others, and some of those 20-25 show up much more regularly than others. At any given time, about 4-5 people on the list are people I Facebook-interact with on a regular basis. The rest are people I’ve had minimal to no contact with (either in real life or on Facebook). Currently there’s even a dead guy showing up on my list. But he’s not one of the regulars I see showing up. So I can’t figure this one out.

• My take on this topic, here it goes. There’s a [recently interacted] list on the [edit friends] page. 95% of them have been rotating on my friend list on a daily basis. Among the 10 friends in the box, usually 60-70% is from [recently interacted] friend list, and the rest is from another group of some sort. Don’t know exactly. Mine one includes two dudes (I haven’t checked their pages for ages) who are interested in me, my ex (I checked his page once a while; There are a good amt of friends whom I also checked once a while have never come up on my 10 friend list) and some friends we sometime [like] each others’ posts/link/pix…
  I read FB’s statement again – “Facebook will never show friends based on whose profiles you choose to view or who you interact with over messages and chat.” which means FB will never show whoever you’re stalking. They didn’t say otherwise, did they? :p

• Of 10 people in my list, 5 I talk to all the time, 2 I haven’t spoken to in about 3 or 4 months, and 3 I have never had any contact with besides adding them.
  I also had a fight with this girl in school and right after that she started showing up on my list, even though I’ve never had any facebook contact with her and I’ve never checked her profile.

• Theres NO WAY this is people you have the most interaction with in recent months. Of the 6 in my list, 4 I have not spoken to, checked the profile of or had ANY interaction with for months and months. Once girl I didnt even realise I was still friends with on there! Can only lead to the conclusion that shes checking my profile.
  Seriously SERIOUSLY creepy.
  Time for a Facebook friends clean out I think.

• Theres NO WAY this is people you have the most interaction with in recent months. Of the 6 in my list, 4 I have not spoken to, checked the profile of or had ANY interaction with for months and months. Once girl I didnt even realise I was still friends with on there! Can only lead to the conclusion that shes checking my profile.
  Seriously SERIOUSLY creepy.
  Time for a Facebook friends clean out I think.

• I’ve come to the conclusion it is a mix of things, public interaction, mutual interest (you check each other etc.) and prolly those that stalk you. I suppose based on the above mentioned, it calculates a probability per friend what is the chance it shows them in your profile. This might not be the same for when you view your own profile (logged in) or someone else’s profile. There seems to be some pool of those frequently interacted with, odd ones and maybe stalkers or something.

  Still, the mouseover on your own name on your profile shows completely another list of people than the list on left hand side. I say this, because I have some people frequently popping up there (I have had private interaction with them but no public, and checked their profile often at some point) when I mouseover my name but not on the left hand side list. I did some counting earlier (very boring but I was curious) and the same people seemed to lead the scores each time. There were some odd ones, like my crush’s friends or an old colleague but mostly they were people I heavily interact with, possible stalkers or those I have stalked and one friend, I don’t check up on too much but I’ve posted him some links but not many and not frequently. What is interesting, is that have told him to check my page for a video or something several times, and he showed up a lot so I suspect that FB actually keeps some kind of record of how often you check someone’s page.

• I’m positive it’s partly based on whose clicking on your profile. I am anonymous up there who split with his girlfriend. ALL of her friends are showing up in my profile today, I guess as it’s Valentines day and they want to see what I am upto. Her friends are great but I have had NO contact with any of them since we split before Christmas, not liked any of their links, etc etc. Nada. So God knows what its doing.

• I seriously think it’s the people that stalk you.
  Because this guy I haven’t clicked on in MONTHS shows up in my friend’s box. It’s freaky.

• Several of those who often show up as the first person in my queue have never had any public interaction with me, and do not share any other personal contacts. I also have reason to suspect that the person is stalking my personal information. This seems to prove that FB’s statement was false.

• I don’t agree with what Facebook said because I’ve been talking to my friend for the past month and she’s not even on the friends list on my profile. I’m pretty sure it’s who recently viewed your profile.

• Apparently Facebook just did some changes with the friend list. When I click [friend], the alphabetic list is now the default instead of the previous ‘random’ picture list.

  And the exactly same 10 friends has been listed in the friend box on my profile page since yesterday no matter how many time I refresh my page; or log out and log in to fb. So annoying…

• I think (and at least hope) it’s based on who has viewed your profile. I’ve recently split with my ex, and have gone a little mad. Been off work the last week and have looked at her page constantly throughout the day. She does not appear in my friends during the day (when she would be at work and facebook is blocked) but DOES appear at night, presumably as shes looking at my profile.

• It has to be overall interaction… private, public, or “silent” (a mutual profile click). B/c there are ppl I have never interacted with on facebook, however know in real life showing up.

• I think it goes both ways and sort of mixed with who looks at your profile and who you interact with, it seems apparent to me that who you see on your own friends box is who visits your page often, not the other way around…cus there are many that ALWAYS show up on my page and I NEVER talk to them or view their profiles but they sometimes comment on photos and if they are doing that, then for sure they are obviously on ur profile. When I go to a friends page that I often look at I will also see myself in his box, I think majority of the friends in that box are who visits you.

• I think it goes both ways and sort of mixed with who looks at your profile and who you interact with, it seems apparent to me that who you see on your own friends box is who visits your page often, not the other way around…cus there are many that ALWAYS show up on my page and I NEVER talk to them or view their profiles but they sometimes comment on photos and if they are doing that, then for sure they are obviously on ur profile. When I go to a friends page that I often look at I will also see myself in his box, I think majority of the friends in that box are who visits you.

• Maybe it goes both ways. I received a message from one of my friends asking how I was & commenting on my profile pic. When I checked my page after getting the message, she began appearing in the top ten. She had to have viewed my profile to make the comment about my profile picture so pretty sure it’s who’s been checking yours recently.

• I’m going to bet that it’s based on friends whose profiles you view the most. I’ve spent the last couple of hours visiting my friends’ profiles and taking note of who appears in their top friends. I have found, NUMEROUS times, that people who they definitely stalk appear on their pages. These are people who wouldn’t give my friends the time of day, so I do not believe it’s based on who views your profile, but rather on whose profile you are viewing. If that’s the case, it makes me feel a little sick inside. Additionally, my ex, who I’ve had ZERO facebook contact with in almost a year, always always always appears on my page. I definitely visit his profile a lot but I highly doubt he visits mine. I also never show up on his, so this only further supports the idea that it’s based off of whose profile you view the most often. Either way, this is creeping me out and I don’t like it.

• One of my friend moved across the country. We randomly met up at a bar during winter break. We The NEXT DAY she was on my side list on facebook, no current messages/likes/pokes/pictures before or after. Unless facebook is watching you in public… (*o_o)

• Here’s an interesting one for you: I think this also applies to the “friends you may know” thing. Tonight I was clicking the x’s next to people’s names just to see if there was a friend that I hadn’t added and guess what? Two of my students from last term randomly showed up, yet we have no friends in common and I have never looked at either of their profiles. There is no way that is random!

• WOW! I was already thinking this because a guy who’s profile I have been avoiding looking at and haven’t interacted with publicly since early last fall kept showing up on my list… So I decided to try snooping on my ex’s profile, refreshing about 10 times, but I didn’t see myself show up, and now a half hour later, I checked again, and I am showing up on his list. Wierd.

• Another thing worth noting about the new profile is the drop-down list of results when you search for friends. The drop-down isn’t alphabetical and Facebook has stated this is based on “relevance” of who they think we’re looking for. Does this mean when I visit a friend’s site & go to their list of friends that the “top” results are people they’re searching for?

• It seems we have all been experiencing somewhat of the same situation. I too find that there is a few people who show up constantly on my profile, though, for me, it changes on a daily basis. Except for one person; my ex. Now this cannot be from “public interaction” for he has posted on my wall once and I have sent him only 2 messages. Other then that we have had no other contact via facebook. There are also some people I interact with quite often and they dont show up, as well as people I dont talk to that show up constantly. Now I decided to view my ex’s profile repeatedly, just to see if I’d show up in his friends list as well, strangely I did not show up.. Now here are my theories, either the obvious, that facebook does show you who clicks on your profile the most often. Or the new friends list has a multitude of features which cause the people to show up. I believe that their statement is somewhat true, maybe 5 of the 15 friends that show up are people you commonly interact with on facebook. But I also believe the rest are people that view your profile the most often.. and I cant help but think that one of them may be who you view often as well. This is all stemmed from what I have seen. One thing I know is there is definitely a correlation between the people who view your profile and who shows up on your friends list.

• Hmm very Interesting i picked up on this a long time ago, Told my friends about it but they didn’t want to believe me, Interesting thing is though, I told one of my friends who was a girl, she herself told me she was looking at my profile and next thing i knew she appeared on my profile several times after i refreshed the page, Same thing happened again when one of my friends told me he had been on his profile, I tried this with my friend, I went to his profile and about a hour later he came over to my house and logged into his facebook, surely enough i showed up on his page a couple of times, Maybe this is nothing but a coincidence, Maybe some friends who appear on your profile are friends whom you do have interactions with or post/comment/like things on your profile but what about the rest? Could it be likely that the rest who show up happen to be people who go to your page? It is possible after all, Besides that, I’ve noticed now that with some of the new people I’ve added on FB, They seemed to show up on my profile multiple times after refreshing, Could it be possible that they were under the assumption that “Facebook does not allow you or others to view who has been on your profile” so they went ahead and viewed my profile to see who i was? This could be a very likely possibility, Then again all this “People who appear on your profile” things could very well be nonsense, But if not, Then there’s definitely something happening here

• It is certainly not random because the same names keep showing up. It seems to me that it comes up with them based on who views your profile the most. But it could be random in the sense that it takes some from each category. Like some from who views your profile the most, some from who you comment on a lot and who comments on your stuff? It sure would be interesting to know.

• Could be true… but who knows?

  Haha my male friend that I recently had a fight with is constantly showing up on my friendslist. I also do visit his profile regularly :p But the thing is…there are other people that I view also regularly, but they never show up on my friendslist.
  Make a mock profile. Add yourself. Use another computer and log in using that profile and view your profile (your pictures and stuff) for some time. Then check if you will see this profile showing up on ur friends list in the next coming days.

  BUT this one thing..i think i would almost believe. You see when you view your profile pictures, you’ll see some of your friends album on the right hand side of the page. For about a month and a half, I’ve been seeing only two of male friends on there. I don’t see any other albums excepts theirs! One of them I visit once in a while..but the other one..is the one I had issues with before and I don’t visit his profile anymore. WHY? maybe they were the ones who viewed your profile picture albums a lot or they have viewed it for a couple of times.

• Well I’ve always been supersuperrrr suspicious about this. And the new Facebook Profile makes wayyy more sense. I completely agree with you. As for the Facebook spokesperson, of course they’re gonna come up with something like that. And I truly understand that because of the privacy rules.
  But here’s the thing: my top ten friends pretty much never changes. There are a few I contact with a lot but there are also a shit load of people I don’t have “public contact” with. Those are the people though who I would assume to visit my page a lot, my ex for example.
  But then: I’ve been uploading a lotttt of family pics these days en pretty much my whole family left a comment so if they visit my page, why are they not showing in the list?
  It’s definitely not random. And it’s definitely not based on “public contact” either. Oh and also when you click on the “friends” button right above the friends list I see the same people over and over again. There’s something up with that too.

• I did some counting yesterday and found something that is plain difficult to believe its random. First, the list on the left hand side is a pool of approximately 20 people, who are in a random order. This list is, I quess what Facebook now states people you interact publicly most, and for my observation its quite accurate, with some odd ones.

  What is more interesting, is the 5 people you see when you hover your mouse over your name, it shows 5 apparently (?) random people. I begun to wonder, as one guy showed up a lot. I refreshed 50-55 times, and the guy showed up 34 times! There were 3 people who showed up 15-20 times, and the rest 1-10 times (I have about 100 friends in Facebook). The 3 are my good friends, who might check my page, I check theirs occasionally but not necessarily even on the weekly basis. The guy, well, I used to check his page often earlier (over 6mths ago) but have tried to avoid it lately (to get over him!), might take a peek occasionally. I know, that earlier on he used to check my site too. So who’s stalking who? It doesnt seem very random to me. Didnt do any counting today but he seems to pop up regularly today too…

• Seems to take public interactions you’ve had (likes, comments, etc.) & combine it with who’s been viewing your profile.

  For example, I commented on a relative’s wall for her birthday a couple of months ago, then we met up a few nights ago. Coincidentally, her name began appearing in the “Top 10” list a day later. I hadn’t viewed her profile since wishing her a happy birthday so chances are, after getting together with me, she decided to view my profile.

  Also tested the theory out from the other side. I chose a friend who had liked or commented on a status of mine, then began viewing her profile. I refreshed the page a couple of times and voila, I began appearing in her list of ten people.

  The last example is tricky- I’ve been visiting my ex’s page quite frequently & liked maybe one of his posts. It’s driving me crazy because he keeps appearing on my list of 10 people & I can’t figure out whether he’s there because I’m viewing his page a lot or he’s viewing mine. Either way, it’s a breach of privacy. What makes it more confusing is the fact that there are other people’s pages I visit & comment on a lot & they’re not appearing in my list.

  What I don’t like about this new format is that there is absolutely no control over who appears in the list, as with the old facebook format. Even if you make your own list, the default list shows up as well.

  Has anyone else seen this trend?

• I too thought that the 15 people always showing up with the new profile were the ones who often checked my profile; however, though I often check one of these friends’ profile, I NEVER appear on his list of 15 friends. (I don’t know if he’s using the new profile though). Yet, HE shows up on my list all the time, along with the other 14 friends, whose profile, for some of them, I hardly ever check, let alone interact with them, comment on their walls, and so on.
  It’d be nice if it was actually people who viewed your profile often who appeared. Yet, doesn’t seem to be that simple since, as I said, I often check a particular profile but never appear on his top 15 list. (whereas he appears on mine).
  This is driving me nuts!

• I too thought that the 15 people always showing up with the new profile were the ones who often checked my profile; however, though I often check one of these friends’ profile, I NEVER appear on his list of 15 friends. (I don’t know if he’s using the new profile though). Yet, HE shows up on my list all the time, along with the other 14 friends, whose profile, for some of them, I hardly ever check, let alone interact with them, comment on their walls, and so on.
  It’d be nice if it was actually people who viewed your profile often who appeared. Yet, doesn’t seem to be that simple since, as I said, I often check a particular profile but never appear on his top 15 list. (whereas he appears on mine).
  This is driving me nuts!

• Yes. I believe you are on to something. I made a list of the 15 that keep appearing on my profile after refreshing repeatedly. Most are friends that I have a little to some, but not necessarily the most frequent, interaction with. But a couple are people I’ve had virtually no communication with on Facebook. It is conceivable that these two view my profile a lot (for different reasons) although I have hardly ever viewed theirs.

• I am sure public interaction includes liking or commenting on the same post. This is the trend that I have noticed.

• Facebook should reactive the “always show these friends” option. That way this serious problem will be solved.

• I am wondering, what if you go to the profile of a non-friend? Will you show up in the list? I would think not. Do you show up anywhere else on their site? This will seriously curtail my stalking!

• It definitely draws on public interactions more than a month old – and it must draw on private interactions as well, unless the other people who keep popping up were randomly picked from a pool of all my friends.

  There are definitely people I’ve interacted with on Facebook publicly in the past month who don’t come up, and those who I haven’t interacted with who do.

• That can’t be right, there are ppl in my list that I haven’t talked to via Facebook in a while. Unless Facebook stalks my gmail correspondences.

• @kate – interesting, someone else on twitter said exactly the same thing
  @renji – yes I’ve seen the listing friends feature, so i’m sure i could alter it if i wanted. But like most people I guess, I haven’t touched it so the default (which is what most people will have) is what i describe above, and there are definitely privacy issues around it.

• The list is created based on your relationship with other people. You can also customize the list with any users you want from here: http://www.facebook.com/editprofile.php?sk=relationships

• I don’t think it’s who visits you, my husband is never on Facebook and he’s always in that 10 selection since the new profiles came out. I assumed because he’s listed as my husband.

  • First of all if he’s listed as your husband, he shouldn’t be showing up on your top ten unless you only have 10 friends. I know because I am engaged, and I frequent my fiance’s profile, but I am never in her top 10 or 15. She’s not in mine either and I am sure she does the same.

    I tested it. it’s TRUE!!!! its totally based on people who view your profile more. but before you start worrying about stalkers, here is the best part. its based on the total amount of time they spend going through your photos, info etc. its time based. How I tested this you asked. I picked a random girl from my friend’s list. I rarely speak to this girl. but I decided to view her profile consistently for a few hours, I even left my computer on while I attended class and with matter of hours, I was showing up in her top 10.. try it.

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