How will I know who's looking into my Facebook account?

[Francis]

[Tanja]

you can't

[stalag17]

i suggest you register and click on to WHO'S VIEWING MY PROFILE..it works!:-)

[c0nfuted]

Sorry to burst Stalag17's bubble, but... according to Facebook the answer is a resounding "NO!"

In Facebook:

Click the "About" link at the bottom.

Click "Older posts" at the bottom until you can see a post from Facebook on March 15th that reads, and I quote:

"Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo: 1) They can’t, 2) We’re aggressively disabling those that claim they can, and 3) You can help stop them by learning to report these apps"

Especially note the phrase "... that CLAIM they can.."

Obviously, "Who is viewing your _anything_goes_here_" is NOT information Facebook allows application developers to retrieve to begin with. Not all claims are fact. And if you see an application that CLAIMS it can, run... run away fast... it's probably NOT something you want to grant access to your data!

Facebook DOES, however, give-up a LOT of your personal information to others - hust not "who's viewing your profile." In case you haven't heard, and in case you're interested in knowing (knowledge is the root of all power), then keep reading. Otherwise, just stop here!

================ TMI ================

Look at this time line:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

According to the above time line, in December 2009 "Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings."

And just so you have no more "surprises" when you find stuff on Google you didn't want to see on Google...

Privacy advocates not happy AT ALL:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Fac...story.html

Politicians ain't none too happy, either:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...AD9FBLP800

Politicians in Canada don't want to be left out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8484664.stm

Facebook is now allowing certain websites to add applications WITHOUT you knowing:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-cent...1?page=0,1

Your personal info could be sold to anyone willing to pay a hacker who stole it - personal info can be used to hack into other sites you visit, like your bank for example:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/15-Mil...ts-875346/

Yo! New software that allows your boss/company to see if you're not being nice:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/...tivity-664

Got any new friends? Are they FBI agents?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191688/yo...agent.html

BUMMER!!! Chat glitch allows your friends to see you chats in real time - for a few hours, at least:
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/05...-chat.html

But what the heck... if the Library of Congress can buy the entire public Twitter archives, allowing ANYONE to search EVERYTHING ever sent out on Twitter - what does one little "Chat" glitch on Facebook matter???

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-twe...r-archive/

Go forth and be social! Just be smart... DO NOT put ANYTHING on the Internet (including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc) that you wouldn't put on a sign in front of your house!

[Rom Cartridge]

Facebook doesn't allow people to track who views their profiles. Facebook applications, on the other hand, are unable to track anybody unless they have the consent of the viewer.

Follow the source to see the Facebook's statement about this issue.