See Who You are Most Connected to on Facebook

If you use Facebook, you're probably connected to hundreds of other people,[1] and you might be left wondering who is viewing your profile, commenting on your posts, and "liking" your statuses or photos the most. There's no way to know for sure who is checking out your profile, but delving into who Facebook thinks you're most connected to – based on likes, comments, pokes, and messages – can tell you who your "closest" Facebook friends are. In general, your closest friends will be the first to see your status updates, and sometimes may be the only people to see them, unless they become heavily liked and commented on. If you want to find out who you're most connected to on Facebook, you can simply check who's at the top of your Friends page or view your "top" friends list from the page source code of your profile.

Steps

Basic Method

  1. Open your profile. While you can't determine who exactly is looking at your profile on a regular basis, you can determine who you interact with the most and who Facebook thinks your closest friends are. If you find someone on the list that you don't interact with often, they may be expressing interest in your status updates (with likes, comments, or views).
    • You can quickly access your profile by opening Facebook and clicking on your name in the upper-left corner.
  2. Open your Friends page. Click the Friends link on the left side of your profile to open a list of all your Facebook friends. The list may seem random at first, but evidence suggests that it is actually determined by Facebook algorithms to show you the people you are most connected to.
    • This list is determined by a variety of factors, including who comments on your posts, who shares items with you, and who views your profile the most.
  3. See who's at the top. The friends at the top of your list are who Facebook has determined to be your closest connections. People in this list are most connected to you, either by your interest in their status updates or theirs in yours (likes, comments, etc.)[2]

Source Code

  1. Understand this trick. This trick will give you insight into who views your profile, but Facebook isn't confirming exactly who they are. This list that Facebook keeps is determined by a variety of factors: who comments on your posts, who you message frequently, who looks at your Facebook the most often, and more.
    • There is no way to see JUST who looks at your page the most, and any app which says that it can tell you that is lying and a scam.
    • You'll have to learn how to interpret the list that this trick gives you. For example, look out for people showing up towards the top of the list who you know you don't message and you don't comment on their stuff. If someone you never interact with shows up pretty high on your list, you'll know it's because they're looking at your page.
  2. Open your web browser. You will need one which allows you to view the source code for a website. Google Chrome is one of the easiest browsers to perform this trick with. You cannot do this from mobile browsers or the Facebook app; you will need a browser on a computer.
  3. Navigate to your profile. You will be looking at the source code for your profile. You can quickly access it by logging into Facebook and then clicking on your name in the upper-left corner underneath your profile image.
  4. View the source code. If you are using Google Chrome, right-click the background and choose "View page source". You can also use the Ctrl+U shortcut (⌘ Cmd+U on a Mac). Other browsers usually have this option under the "View" menu.
  5. Use the webpage search function. You can search the source code by pressing Ctrl+F (⌘ Cmd+F on a Mac). This tool will search all of the text on any given page for the term you type in. Type InitialChatFriendsList into the Find box.
  6. Look at the list of profiles. The numbers which immediately follow are the identification numbers of the profiles of your friends. You will see a string of numbers, each set in quotations and followed by "-0", "-2", or "-3". Copy the string without the - and the final number. Paste this after the ".com/" when looking at the main Facebook page. This will bring up the profile so you know who it belongs to.
  7. See who each profile belongs to. Copy the string from the source code, omitting the "-" from the end of the number. For example, if the first person on the list is "1111111-2", copy "1111111" to your clipboard. Open a new Facebook page and paste this number at the end of the address. Using the above example, the address would look like "www.facebook.com/1111111". Press ↵ Enter to load the page and find out who's profile it is.
  8. Look up a specific profile. To do this, you will need to look up the person's profile ID number. The easiest way to find this is to open a picture that the person has uploaded, and then try the various numbers that appear in the address bar. One of these will be the profile ID.
    • Once you know the profile ID, you can use the Find tool to see where that ID appears in the list. The closer it is to the top, the more connected you are to that person.

Warnings

  • Do not install any Facebook app that claims to track who visits your profile. None of these apps work, and they are typically phishing for your login information. Facebook has not revealed any way to track who views your profile.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/6-new-facts-about-facebook/
  2. ↑ http://kitemediaworks.com/what-determines-which-friends-photos-show-up-on-your-facebook-timeline/
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