How to know if someone stalks you on facebook

Have you ever wondered if you could find out who all visited your Facebook profile? If yes, then you can find your online stalkers by following a few simple steps. Currently, there are two ways using which you can find which friends are stalking your Facebook profile. However, one of the options is limited to only iOS users of the Facebook app. 

Here’s how you can find who visited your Facebook profile: 

Option 1 for iOS users: 

Facebook is offering the facility to iOS users to find out who visiter their profile on its flagship app within the ‘Privacy’ settings. If you are an iOS user, all you need to do is go to Privacy Shortcuts, wherein you need to select the “Who viewed my profile" option. 

Upon selecting the option, you can find out who all stalked your Facebook profile. However, the catch here is that you won’t be able to find it when your Facebook friend visited your profile. 

The feature is available to iOS users since 2018. However, the social media giant is yet to roll out the feature for Android users. The company hasn’t officially even revealed when or if it’s planning to bring the feature for Android customers.  

Option 2 for all users: 

For the second method, Facebook users can use any browser on their desktops or laptops to find who stalked their profile. 

1. All they need to do is visit Facebook.com and right-click on the web page. 

2. From all the selected options, users need to click on ‘View Page Source’. 

3. Search for BUDDY_ID. Alongside, the BUDDY_ID tag, you’ll find a 15-digit number, which is basically the Facebook profile ID of all your friends who have visited your profile. 

4. In the next step, go to facebook.com/15 digit profile ID and click Enter. You’ll be able to see the Facebook profile of the friend who stalked your profile.

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1. If a person is stalking you then they might like one of your old posts by mistake. This means that the person has browsed to your old posts to stalk you and get more information about you.

2. According to one theory one of the parameters that let a person show up in your friend suggestions is that they were stalking you. This also means that if you stalked someone you might appear in their friend suggestions.

3. One of Facebook features is called stories. When you post a story about yourself you can actually see how many people viewed it and who exactly saw it. Post stories to know who stalks you.

4. If you have enabled followers on Facebook then you can easily find out who is following you. Some of your followers might actually be stalkers.

5. If a person is already on your friend list and hardly likes your posts then one random like might indicate that this friend was actually stalking you for a long period of time.

6. Stalkers can in many cases try to increase the number of common friends between you and them. If the common friends between you and another person are constantly increasing then this person might be stalking you.

7. According to one theory one of the parameters that determines the 9 friends that show up in your profile is whether this person was stalking you or not. According to this theory if a person stalked you then they might show up in the friends box. (See How does Facebook friends suggestion work?)

8. If a person is stalking you then they might make an accidental like by mistake. Getting one of those likes by a stranger is a clear sign that you were being stalked.

9. If you realized that someone knows your news even though you haven’t been talking then probably that person was stalking you on Facebook.

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Alex Williams is a PhD student in urban studies and planning. He is broadly interested in the historical geographies of capital, the geopolitical economy of urbanization, environmental and imperial history, critical urban theory, and spatial dialectics.

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