Who Viewed My Profile - Top 5 Posts November 2013

Here is a recap of the top 5 posts in November 2013, connected with the "Who Viewed My Profile" scam analysis.

1. Who Viewed Your Profile Facebook Application The name of this malicious Facebook application is "Who viewed Your Profile". The application will post a link on your wall stating that you can check who is spying on you easily at the following website: http://bit.ly/SoQ0gD.

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2. Who Viewed My Profile Apps - Dangers

According to Real Simple, the dangers of giving Who Viewed Your Profile apps access to your Facebook profile are giving those apps access to your:

• email address
• pictures
• physical address
• friends list

which will allow the hackers (the people who created those apps) even ways to steal your identity.

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3. Find Our Who Viewed Your Profile - Watch Video

If you have been the victim of a "Who Viewed My Profile" scam and your Facebook profile is spamming your friends with invitations and posts, watch the video below for information about how to remove this problem from your Facebook profile. Same if your Facebook wall is spammed by your friends who have been infected.

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4. Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile - Initial Chat Friends List

There are a lot of websites claiming that you can see who saw your Facebook profile by looking at the so-called "InitialChatFriendsList" in the source code of your Facebook page.

Instructions:

• Login to Facebook
• Right click anywhere
• View source page
• Hit control+F and search "initialchatfriendslist"
• There will be a set of numbers following it. Copy one.
• Paste it in "www.facebook.com/[number]"
• You will be redirected to that person's page.

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5. Who Has Viewed My Facebook Profile? - One Argument For Why Facebook Doesn't Allow This

We have looked at many arguments why apps claiming to let you see who viewed your profile are scams. If Facebook doesn't allow this kind of functionality, then these apps are just using fake data, and shouldn't be installed by anybody.

Tech for Luddites makes an interesting point about why Facebook likely doesn't allow this functionality:

"...there are lots of people who use Facebook primarily to look at profiles and pictures of other people, particularly those they're interested in or have broken up with or who are currently seeing people they've broken up with. Now, if Facebook were to start allowing people to see who had checked out their profiles, a lot of people might very well delete their profiles and stop using FB altogether because they don't want to be caught stalking. And since there seems to be some evidence that Facebook is already beginning to lose users, especially among the younger set, they're not going to do something that will drive more people away when that feature has no particular value to the company itself."

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