billy beane
Banned
Weird, then I haven't a clue.
The facebook numbers...WHAT DO THEY MEAN?! WHAT DO THEY MEAN
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FreeMufasa
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This shit better be true coz ima bout to blow up some inboxes.
If its not, I'm coming for u snoozer.
If its not, I'm coming for u snoozer.
If the list is really about who is stalking you (which I doubt), hell no to real time tracking updates. I don't want anyone to know who's profile I'm looking at.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
Member
Just curious has anyone tried it long enough to see if the list changes? ie: the order of the ranks?
Because that may help to know more about what its really doing.
As in if you're best friend is the top "stalker" now but tomorrow he's like number 5 then, the thing is more dynamic and works different than "most frequent visitor" of your profile.
EDIT: beaten... kinda
Because that may help to know more about what its really doing.
As in if you're best friend is the top "stalker" now but tomorrow he's like number 5 then, the thing is more dynamic and works different than "most frequent visitor" of your profile.
EDIT: beaten... kinda
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
"This list is NOT the list of people viewing your profile the most. This is just an array of user ID that is used when you start to type stuff into the search box. Facebook pre-loads the data so that your search results appear instantly. So these user IDs are simply the people/games/groups/etc that YOU most likely to search for.
There are a number of applications, groups, and games are in my list - are they really stalking me? Of course not."
This makes the most sense from that script^
It makes no sense why Facebook would store anything related to page views.
EDIT: Yep i'm pretty sure its this. Put a single letter in the search bar and you will see those top people pop up.
EDIT2: This is a pretty interesting algorithm.
It changes.
Nope. Why would my top #3 likely searched/page view would be for 3 married/engaged people that I rarely talk to online or IRL? I'm not a homewrecker, FB!
+1. I've never searched for my #3.
I had searched for everyone in my top 10 at least once, some very rarely though. If it was just by that I know my list would be different.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Try putting a single random letter of that #3 into the search bar. Lemme know if that person pops up? Seems like an neat algorithm..maybe you two share a lot of mutual friends or likes of posts/movies/music/etc?
The top 3 in my list are my closest friends and they show up first in the search bar.
This is a good idea. Someone should do this. Or even try it using existing accounts and just keep visiting.
This is a good idea. Someone should do this. Or even try it using existing accounts and just keep visiting.
Except this doesn't seem to be it exactly. I have three people in my top 10 whose name starts with an M but one of the three doesn't even show up when I just type in M. Also one of the other two is the second result (while the first, my brother, has a name that starts with a different letter) and the other is the fifth. So I guess it's part of the above but also something else.
Also, there's some really recent additions in my list but I've only looked at their profile once/twice, so I wonder why they're in the list.
Afraid not:
Still nope. I got Pacific Rim, which I did like a few months ago.
Oh, you meant Facebook search bar? oops, let me retry that then.
Nope, got Pacific Rim.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
lol i meant the facebook search bar.
Facebook seems like its queuing up a "ordered list of friends" in its script to immediately popup (hence the instant drop down).
The question now is what variable/s its taking into account for it.
Der Flatulator
Member
Something to do with interactions with each other.
For those who want to go through them quickly, try something like this:
Copy that code, paste it in your address bar (if chrome strips out the "javascript:" at the start, type it back in), go to the facebook source and copy the list (everything inside the square brackets) and past the list where the code says PASTE_LIST_HERE. Hit enter and it should open a new tab for each member of the list in order, then scroll through the tabs (Ctrl+Tab in Windows/Linux).
UPDATE.
Made this:
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
For those who want to go through them quickly, try something like this:
Code:
javascript:(function(){a=[ PASTE_LIST_HERE ];for(i in a){window.open("http://facebook.com/" + a[i], '_blank');}})()Copy that code, paste it in your address bar (if chrome strips out the "javascript:" at the start, type it back in), go to the facebook source and copy the list (everything inside the square brackets) and past the list where the code says PASTE_LIST_HERE. Hit enter and it should open a new tab for each member of the list in order, then scroll through the tabs (Ctrl+Tab in Windows/Linux).
UPDATE.
Made this:
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
Johnny Cage In The Shower
Member
If it's any consolation the reverse is also true...I tried something different, I started searching the numbers from the bottom of the list, and sure enough they were of "friends" I barely knew that were on my Facebook friends' list, I barely knew they existed. People who never posted anything on my wall, liked anything or even messaged me in my inbox. And at the same token people I have never interacted with on their page/profile.
On the flip side, almost everyone on my top 25 list has "liked", has posted something on my wall or in my inbox at least once if not half to full dozen times and vise versa.
Nope, no browser biased for Firefox, works equally the same on Chrome and Firefox, I've never tested on others to confirm anything further.
On the flip side, almost everyone on my top 25 list has "liked", has posted something on my wall or in my inbox at least once if not half to full dozen times and vise versa.
Nope, no browser biased for Firefox, works equally the same on Chrome and Firefox, I've never tested on others to confirm anything further.
Canis lupus
Member
Hey! The girl I like is ranked pretty high!
schroddycat
Member
Did anyone do the method a few times by logging in and out just to see whether the list of friends are arranged randomly or it stays constant?
I've tried refreshing my FB main page and relogging three times and found the order is sort of random. I said sort of because the friends that I usually chat on FB or interacted the most didn't seem to appear in the list whereas those I hardly communicate with are the ones in the list of order and the names shuffled everytime I refresh/relogging.
I've tried refreshing my FB main page and relogging three times and found the order is sort of random. I said sort of because the friends that I usually chat on FB or interacted the most didn't seem to appear in the list whereas those I hardly communicate with are the ones in the list of order and the names shuffled everytime I refresh/relogging.
Number 5 on my list is the girlfriend of one of my good friends who ranks much lower. I never use chat, and I never interact with her in much form really ever on facey-b, barring the occasional comment or like, while those I do interact with on a much larger basis rank lower. She did however tag me in a shitload of her own photos from summer so I can only hope this isn't a stalking list. There's some backstory that provides reason for my suspicions but nah, she can't be stalking me. In fact I stalk myself a lot (hey I like to browse my own photos okay) so perhaps when I browse the photos that she tagged/uploaded that counts as some sort of interaction.
Oh Facebook. U so Crazy.
Edit: Sheeeeet. I'm a member now? Time to shit up the gaming side with horrible threads.
Oh Facebook. U so Crazy.
Edit: Sheeeeet. I'm a member now? Time to shit up the gaming side with horrible threads.
congrats
Der Flatulator
Member
I made a quick tool to do the laborious part for you, check it out!
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
Takes a little while due to it choking on heaps of API requests at once, but it works
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
Takes a little while due to it choking on heaps of API requests at once, but it works
PetriP-TNT
Member
ITT: People who don't understand how huge websites work.
PROTIP: It's not some huge conspiracy.
PROTIP: It's not some huge conspiracy.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Wait..there's a way people can see who's been looking at their profile?
schroddycat
Member
Nope. Half of the names are people I don't even think about yet they're in the "top list". If this is a list favorite search results, then all of it must be girls.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
Well.....that backfired
Anticitizen One
Banned
I made a quick tool to do the laborious part for you, check it out!
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
Takes a little while due to it choking on heaps of API requests at once, but it works
I inputed the codes into this tool and it just lists in order the profiles I have visited most recently
I made a quick tool to do the laborious part for you, check it out!
http://jsfiddle.net/DerFlatulator6/BApjQ/embedded/result/
Takes a little while due to it choking on heaps of API requests at once, but it works
nifty
Chuck Norris
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I wouldn't be surprised if they threw in a couple randoms to mix up the list. The first on my list is a girl I talked to for a bit a year ago, but now I don't think I've looked at her profile for about a year and I don't see her stuff pop up on my feed. Could be she is infatuated with me though
Der Flatulator
Member
I wish I was having the same results...
It is indeed the list used to populate the search results, but I don't think searching actually affects the generation of the list. It has to be something to do with interactions.
Der Flatulator
Member
Thanks
Just updated it to link to profiles. I forgot who some of the people on my list were...
Myoclonic Jerk
Member
me too, and she almost never uses FB
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Thats what I figured. Its definitely using some variation of interactions to populate it.
The first 11 on my list are a group of friends and we're all in a group chat together. (Thats why I quickly jumped to the messages conclusion earlier.) Then I checked the last handful of tokens from the list and its some random people i've never interacted with other than I accepted their friend request and vice versa.
I got my ex-girlfriend, we broke up nearly a year ago and we don't have any contact through facebook ever since.
I don't know what to think of this.
Hahah, now i look really bad. Weird though, haven't 'interacted' (chatting, searched her name etc) with her through facebook since the breakup.
I don't know what to think of this.
Hahah, now i look really bad. Weird though, haven't 'interacted' (chatting, searched her name etc) with her through facebook since the breakup.
You didn't defriend her?
Dunno, never use facebook that much and we don't have anything against each other.
It's like whenever there's a new digital service that allocates a big temp file for downloads, but they don't zero the file out and people think the service is sending the left over file data to themselves because they don't understand how file tables work.
moniker
Member
It definitely seems related to the sidebar chat. When I shrunk the window vertically to the point where the list is split in two, the numbers corresponded with the order of the people in the list, with the exception that people who were currently online got bumped up in the list.
EDIT: That still doesn't explain how the list is generated though, but the code snippet is most likely used by the chat.
EDIT: That still doesn't explain how the list is generated though, but the code snippet is most likely used by the chat.
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