If I view the profile of a friend of a friend on facebook can they actually see it?

[Gina P]

Hi!
If I was looking at the facebook profile of a friend of a friend,
1. Can they actually see my name as looking at their profile?
2. I tried to add this person as a friend (I do not know the person) and it says "request did not go through because supposedly you do not know the person"?
I am hoping that if I meet them they will not know who I am as not to have any embaressments.

[KitKat :]]

1 - Nope, They wont know you're viewing their profile. :]
2 - When you get a friend request, You can mark a person as not knowing them..

[forever :]]

don't worry, it is not possible for anyone to know who has viewed their profile.. facebook say they will never give out that kind of information. a lot of apps and certain websites will claim to be able to tell you but it's all fake and made up so don't waste your time with it! and that friend request problem is them declining the invitation.

[Joey]

Despite what you hear from many applications, you can’t tell who views your profile. It's a violation of the terms of use on Facebook. I suppose that there may be an application, but using them will likely cause Facebook to delete your account without warning since you are violating the privacy rights of other people.

These profile viewing applications are not run or owned by the Facebook Company. These “fake” applications don’t work either and some may even contain viruses too! What’s worse is that it may even be owned by creepy people or hackers/stalkers that’ll take all of your Facebook data and use them for their own purpose (which probably isn’t good).

The Facebook help center also says that they “do not provide applications or groups with the technical means to allow people to track profile views or see statistics on how often a particular piece of content has been viewed and by whom. Applications you use may ask for permission to access content from your News Feed and Wall. Granting this permission does not allow applications to see who has viewed your profile. It simply allows applications to see which friends have interacted with posts, such as which friends liked or engaged with a particular wall post.” In other words, most of the applications don’t really know who has view your profile.

The good thing about this though is that you can look around other people’s profiles without getting discovered or caught. So yeah, you can go ahead and snoop around at your crush and you won’t get caught!

Hope this helps!!