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Can someone know if you browse their facebook page

MistyWhisper — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:39:26 GMT

I just got a junk email letting me know I looked at someone profile on facebook, and it said they are looking for someone that I know. Is this a scam or the real person contacting me?

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I am still oxox — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:44:36 GMT

I do not think so

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Ainhisg — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:46:08 GMT

No one can tell when you look at a profile. Ignore the email. Did it come to your spam (junk) folder?

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jackthebear — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:57:45 GMT

scam scam

go to profile settings and lock down your profile as much as you can

you can google how to that

and keep your personal pic off your page

Re: Can someone know if you browse their facebook page

Mz iMac — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:45:54 GMT

@MistyWhisper wrote:
I just got a junk email letting me know I looked at someone profile on facebook.....

@MistyWhisper Well, did you?

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gardenman — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:51:41 GMT

What you got was almost certainly just spam. As to the bigger question of, "Could someone know if you browsed their Facebook page?" Eh, maybe. This goes back many years, but I'd entered one of my books in a contest and the contest website let me see which websites those voting for our book in the contest came from. That was designed to show us which method we were using to promote the book was the most effective, but it was somewhat eye-opening.

You could see the last few websites (I think five, but it's been years ago) anyone casting a vote in the contest had viewed. It was designed to let the writers know which promotion we were running was the most effective, but you'd learn a lot about the voters by looking at the sites they'd recently visited.

Some of my votes came from the Q forums. Some came from other forums I was active on. Some came from a book promotion site I'd submitted to. It was an impressive amount of information available to the writers and those voting in the contest had no clue we could see all of that.

Now, if someone had access to that type of software and they saw that you'd visited that Facebook page, they could possibly be legit. It would just be highly unlikely. Is it possible though? Yeah, I think it is possible based on what I saw back then.

Re: Can someone know if you browse their facebook page

CalminHeart — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:52:06 GMT

@MistyWhisper wrote:
I just got a junk email letting me know I looked at someone profile on facebook, and it said they are looking for someone that I know. Is this a scam or the real person contacting me?

I investigated fraud for 20 years. My thoughts.

A lot depends on how the other person set up their security. There are options within fb that can do all kinds of things. And they aren't all easy to find.

Block everyone you don't know. FB and all social media is full of scams and people who want to steal your info. I don't trust anyone I don't know.

Decline friend requests from people you don't know.

Delete fb messages without reading when they're from people you don't know.

Remember, everything you do on facebook or the internet is tracked in one way or another. ***Clear your cookies, history, cache on a regular basis. I even do this after searching just in case I clicked on something strange.

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CalminHeart — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:55:06 GMT

One more thought. Set your security options so those who aren't friends cannot view your fb page. Google how if you need to.

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manny2 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:02:52 GMT

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jackthebear — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:16:11 GMT

@CalminHeart wrote:

One more thought. Set your security options so those who aren't friends cannot view your fb page. Google how if you need to.

this

I set my settings with as much anonymity as possible I have no pix of myself on facebook or other pix

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MistyWhisper — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:47:02 GMT

I WILL DO THAT, i KNEW I COULD RELY ON YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE HELP. I AM SO RELEIVED, THANKS

Re: Can someone know if you browse their facebook page

Icegoddess — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:23:44 GMT

There's a difference between looking at someone's Facebook page and looking at someone's Facebook Profile. Either way, the user would not know if someone viewed either. However, you can shut down your page so that only your Friends can see it. There's also a little icon you can use to change the audience for your posts in the box where you create a post. It looks like a little globe or a silhouette of two people depending on how it's set. You can change that to Only Friends if it's not already set to that and it will hold that setting until you decide to change it.

As far as I know, there isn't a way to keep someone from viewing your Profile, but you can put as little information in it as possible. Also, you can hide your Friend's List to only Friends. The folks who like to duplicate your account use that Friends List to invite them all to "your" new Profile. That way they don't even have to hack your account.

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Snowpuppy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:39:37 GMT

DS is active on LinkedIn.

He said a former friend of mine had viewed his LinkedIn page. I was stunned. They had to have been logged into their own LinkedIn account and then viewed his page.

I am no longer on LinkedIn and never been on FB. I wanted to respond to this person in unkind terms but then they would have my contact info.

They are toxic and I haven't had contact with them in 15 yrs.

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geezerette — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:00:55 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
There's a difference between looking at someone's Facebook page and looking at someone's Facebook Profile. Either way, the user would not know if someone viewed either. However, you can shut down your page so that only your Friends can see it. There's also a little icon you can use to change the audience for your posts in the box where you create a post. It looks like a little globe or a silhouette of two people depending on how it's set. You can change that to Only Friends if it's not already set to that and it will hold that setting until you decide to change it.

As far as I know, there isn't a way to keep someone from viewing your Profile, but you can put as little information in it as possible. Also, you can hide your Friend's List to only Friends. The folks who like to duplicate your account use that Friends List to invite them all to "your" new Profile. That way they don't even have to hack your account.

@Icegoddess

You can also set your Friends List so that only you can see it.