I do have a facebook account. I ONLY use it to check out pictures of our dogs when we have to board them on vacation.
So if I go on facebook and search for someone, and find them, will that ping their account? Will they know even if I don’t open any of their, post or pictures or whatever?
I’m not a stalker. A friend of a friend told me someone is a big Trump supporter, and I would like to know for myself. Oh… I guess that sort of makes me a stalker…
I don’t know that it’ll ping their account, but it’s happened to me numerous times - enough to believe that it’s a feature of FB.
If I want to search for someone and I’d rather not be pinged that it was me, I log out first. Idk if that is enough. Probably should even use a VPN if you want to be extra careful.
There is no mechanism for Facebook to ping you to alert you to people who visit your page - as far as I’m aware, that just a LinkedIn “feature”.
The only thing that may happen is that The Algorithm may start increasing you and your FB friends’ appearances on their “Recommended Friends/People You May Know”.
After I visit a new FB page, that person often gets recommended to me as a new connection, especially if we have a 1st or 2nd degree connection in common. So it seems trivial for FB to also recommend me to them.
Which my 2nd paragraph covers. But “you may have a connection with enipla” is not the same as “enipla visited your page 7 hours ago”.
If you’re not signed in, you’ll only see their public posts. If you’re signed in, you’ll only see their public posts (unless Facebook still allows them to select that Friends of Friends can see their posts).
Ok. Thanks.
It’s weird. A very good friend saw that this person is probably a Trump supporter. That supporter is married into the family (the family member is apolitical), and it will probably be up to me to sort things out when a spouse dies. I don’t want anything.I don’t think there is a will (no idea). It’s gonna be a mess, and I really don’t want any contact with them. But, I suspect I will have no choice and have to help to some degree.
Is this death in the family imminent?
This all feels like prematurely borrowing trouble to me.
Two packs a day for decades. Heavy drinker. 70 years old. Not imminent, but predictable.
Doesn’t really matter I suppose if the spose it a MAGA. But I suspect I will get a phone call. I doubt they will be able to juggle this. It is hard, so I understand. There may be a bit of a hording issue that I want nothing to do with. I have a life.
As others have said, if you sneak a peek FB may start to recommend you as a friend to them but there are numerous other reasons why that could happen.
It’s trivial to make a new FB account and use that for checking out such things.
It just started to work again. I have no idea what was going on.
I do not have an FB account and make little use of it.
But IME I can anonymously look up anyone and see whatever stuff they’d labeled as public. So I’m a bit confused about the question.
IME FB tries real hard to make it look like you need to get and use a logon to see anything, but that’s social engineering, not something they actually enforce by their software.
Am I confused, or has something changed or what? Any FB mavens care to weigh in?
I donno. Perhaps the Doggie Dude Ranch where our pups sometimes stay need to make their fb site public or something. I know nothing of fb. Don’t want to. But it is working now. I got ‘black balled’ or whatever for some reason. Perhaps because I don’t use it except to look at my pups when I’m on vacation. I have an account for that only.
It would be- but 90% of the people Facebook tells me I might know actually have no connection to me. They are “friends of friends” . That’ s apparently how a lot of people have “friends” they don’t actually know. I noticed one of my second cousins and I had a friend in common. That friend was one of my high school teachers. I asked John how he knew Herbie one day, because although John grew up in hte neighborhood that fed into that high school, he went somewhere else. Turns out John had no idea who Herbie is, but they had 20 or so friends in common so John assumed they knew each other from the neighborhood.
A lot of people don’t post publicly, my default setting is only Friends see my posts. You aren’t aware of what you can’t see.
Back when i used Facebook, my default setting was friend of friends could see my posts, with one guy blocked. But a lot of people post publicly. And if you want, for instance, to complain about a hotel or something, you need to post it publicly. And then you need to remember to reset your privacy settings.
(This is all from back when i was an active user. Facebook has changed a lot, and maybe that’s changed, too.)
As far as I know, that’s all accurate. I generally just post for my friends, except for when I’m a photographer for an event, then I post publicly. I’m pretty used to changing my permissions but I sometimes still mess it up.
If someone has posted something publicly for the entire world to see, how does it make you a stalker by looking at it?
The stalking in this context doesn’t mean the crime of stalking, it’s Facebook Stalking. It means checking out what they are doing when you aren’t friends, like you are peeking in on an ex who hasn’t explicitly blocked you.
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Is there anything unethical or creepy about it?
Keep in mind I haven’t posted anything on my FB account for years nor have I posted or commented on anyone else’s for quite a few years. So I’m not real hip to these things.