May 28, 2010
“Is there any way to Track who visited my Facebook Profile?“, my sister, an avid Orkut user who is new to Facebook, asked me curiously. “No, we can’t track the visitors of your Facebook profile!“, was my reply to her.
This is a very curious question among the people who are used to other several social networking sites. In this new age of information technology, the social network user has became more keen to know who visited or viewed his online profile. After the Rise of Facebook over Orkut, the users look out for at least similar features in Facebook interface that they experienced in the age of Orkutting. One of all the features was the display of recent visitors of profile. And to the users’ disappointment this feature is completely missing in the Facebook.
However there are several applications like “Doorbell“, or “Who is Watching You” which claims to provide the feature to track who visits your Facebook profile. But the reality is other way around and truly speaking there is no application and no method till date to retrieve any kind of statistics relating to the profile views or about the people who just viewed your Facebook profile without the profile visitors’ consent.
Technical Panorama
Tracking the IP address of the visitor is technically possible, but to track specific people data is impossible and illegal if you want to stay within the Facebook’s Terms & Conditions. The Facebook public profile with all the visible applications are actually static and cached version of the actual application. The static content can’t run any type of code by default and hence there is no way to log and track the visitors. Even the images are the cached version of the actual uploaded images.
Applications which claims this feature also place the static banner of the profile and require the visitors to click the button or so to log their presence. The applications like this are, however, illegal to use. The founder of the site, Unfaced, which actually achieved the feature of tracking the visitors of your Facebook profile in a different way, is banned officially from the Facebook.
Notes are the only place where the HTML is allowed. Some application developers might consider the idea of having some Hit Counters installed there within the HTML, publish it as a Note and place it in the mini feed on the Facebook profile. However this can be possible but it will only display the hit count but not the visitors’ details.
Illegal, but is it Possible?
As a reader you might have a feeling that completely all the applications which claims to provide visitor tracking feature can not be wrong, then you should visit the Facebook Help Center’s Privacy settings and fundamentals section where Facebook has itself denied the existence of any such application that can provide these statistics without your consent.
The statement, “Applications CANNOT track profile visits for users who simply go to another person’s profile; Facebook has made this technically impossible.“, is clearly mentioned in the Facebook Help Center.
Further to clarify more, Help Center writes,
“If an Application claims to provide this functionality, you can report an application for abuse by going to the application’s About page and clicking Report Application at the bottom of the page, or by clicking Report at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.“
Author’s Note
If you have been reading the article out of curiosity to find the method to track the visitors of the Facebook profile, you must be disappointed, and must be having a feeling of misguidance from the title of this article. I apologies to use this misguiding title. The use of this title was a damage limitation move as you are now aware and can not be tricked by the applications promising to track the visitors of your Facebook profile.
Facebook profiles are indexed by almost all the search engines and is easily searchable. If you don’t want search engines to display your profile then you can change your privacy settings by following steps.
- Go to “Settings” on the top right bar
- Go to “Privacy Settings”
- Click on “Public Search Results” (in order to change the settings – and control who views your page on a Google search) and uncheck the box titled “Allow indexing.”
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would you please pass to me this app.?
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how to track visitor who viewed my facebook profile
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There is no solution for it.
You say “Tracking the IP address of the visitor is technically possible”. Is this legal, and is it hard to do?
It is technically possible for the programmers working in facebook office. And if hacking is legal in your area then you can do it too
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