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Has anyone else heard about this? You do a short survey at they give you a list of the top 10 people who have most regularly viewed your profile on Facebook. This is Big Brother and a half! The whole point, rather like Friends Reunited, is that you can look at someone's profile and they don't know you have.

I've read the profile's of people I tracked down on Facebook who I knew when I was at school and haven't spoken to since I left more than 20 years ago. Thanks to this new thing there is the possiblility they will know I've been looking, may have looked several times (like if the person is about to become a parent I might check back to see if any pics have been posted) and thanks to this they'll now know I've been looking and I may be regarded as some sort of 'stalker'.

What I've just outlined above does, of course, apply to everyone who uses Facebook because we all look at people's profiles who we don't associate with anymore out of curiousity. Who else thinks this 'Profile seekers' list, that is available to everyone on Facebook, is worrying?

Facebook don't allow this and any third-party applications that claim to let you see who's looked at your profile are either trojan installers or links to pharmaceutical websites....

I deleted my FB account - IMHO it's the biggest fucking waste of time and space on the internet.

It wouldnt bother me in the slightest and I htink people should have thr ight to see who looks at their profile.

What have you got to hide unless you really are a stalker?

If someone accused me of looking at their profile i would admit to it because Im a nosey git. Its there for all to see, so what?

The good thing about this is at least people can see who is looking at their profiles.

Dont they have the right to know?

This actually appeared on my page, and on other people I know's pages, and I followed it up. You have to do a quiz, and I just bluffed through the answers to get to the end, then you get your Top 10 'seekers list'. Most I was familair with, one or two I'd never heard of.

Facebook seems to be getting so big it is almost worrying. It will BE the internet soon.

Quote: 'What have you got to hide unless you really are a stalker?'

I think we have all input names of people we have known over the years who we've not sopken to for ages, former work colleagues, people we knew at school, former partners, people we knew and hated, and so on, and looked them up. It would be worrying to think they might know you looked them up because they could think your motives were not what they actually were - especailly if you looked them up several times. 'Curious' could be interpretted as 'weirdo' or 'stalker' quite easily - and wrongly.

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Quote: 'If someone accused me of looking at their profile i would admit to it because Im a nosey git'.

Yeah, we are all nosey like that and there is nothing wrong with it, but people still might think the person doing it is odd if they found out. If your bus ride to work each day took you past your ex's house you might, sometimes, glance at the window to see if there was anything going on as you went by. That is innocent and fine. If the person discovered officially that you 'snoop' on them from time to time it all of a sudden sounds sinister and they would be freaked out. Someone you know well it is no problem, somone you used to know and are curious about and all of a sudden it seems sinister.

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Dont they have the right to know?

So long as they didn't think you were odd, as they might, then they can know and that is fine. However, as I've said, in a lot of cases people will wonder what your motive is and come up with a reason very differnt from what it actually is.