Off late I am being bombarded with loads of notifications on my Facebook profile and most of them are about me being tagged in a photo and a comment following that. And as you see in the screenshot above, they are about my friends checking ‘Who is glancing through my profile?’ or ‘Who has seen my profile?’
Yes, Facebook provides me an option to Hide and free myself from all such alerts. But the issue is that I see that there are many such apps (with different names) but doing the same thing. The app lures the users by promising to reveal which of their friends are checking out their Facebook profiles recently.
You must know by now that Facebook clearly states that such a thing is very much against their privacy policy. But somehow these apps are making their way into the Facebook app directory and (un)surprisingly find enough stupid innocent people to install them and get fooled. The names of some of these apps have SPAM written all over them. http://apps.facebook.com/azklaukfwucevsz/ is the name of one such app!
It seems, there are some Facebook pages as well which promise to reveal the identities of all those who are checking their Facebook profile, but I am very sure that they are nothing but fake and scam as the users are forced to complete surveys after surveys.
Why I think all these apps are fake? Because most of the notifications I get from Facebook are from those friends whose profile I have never checked. I checked this with a couple of other friends who also shared the same view as mine!
I am not sure what is the process followed by Facebook before approving these apps, but they certainly need to buckle up and evaluate each of them before giving a go-ahead signal.
Update: And now, within minutes of publishing this post, I see one of the apps taken down
Blocking these apps is really no solution! As there plenty stupid apps with different names so its almost impossible to block them all.
I hope Facebook will come up with some solution soon or atleast they should have a provision for checking out the app once before approving it!
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Yeah, I have seen lots of my friends falling prey to this application.
omg..this is me
fallen prey for sure..
lets hope Facebooks comes up with a solution before its full of such crap !
Hi , some of the spam from ‘who is looking at my profile ‘ has gotten into my facebook profile photo album , and now my computer is playing up. When I type anything , the letters come out partially scrambled , some keys don’t work at all. I can’t delete the spam , the option is not there. Really worried it’s a virus , how do I get rid of it , any one know?
As the apps do not have access to the information of who’s visited your profile, my guess if these do work at all is that they only track people who visit whilst having the app on themselves, so joining one, apart from the spamminess of them, means you’re signing yourself up to be tracked!
I have mentioned the modus operandi of these apps. They just aim to get more users and spam them (on Facebook and off it) with their affiliate links. A small conversion rate of say 1% will still be fruitful
Is there anyway possible people can check who has been viewing their profile?????
simple answer = “NO”
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