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Videos on Watch. Interact with Pages. Create and Manage a Page. Names and Usernames. Manage Page Settings. Post tracking links to log peoples' IP addresses. This will only work if you have friends in a variety of cities. This won't tell you people's names, but you can look up their IP addresses to find their general locations. It's pretty simple:. First, decide on a site that people would want to check out, such as a funny wikiHow article.
Copy the URL of that site. This will be the link that you'll entice people to click on. Then click Create URL and agree to the terms. Write down or copy the "Access Link. Click View other link shorteners. You will be able see other services you can use to mask the fact that you're using Grabify—its name may prevent people from clicking the link.
Select a less obvious URL shortener from the list. These URLs will look like cutt. Copy the shortened URL. Then share it on Facebook with an enticing message.
This will make sure you get some clicks on your link. After some time, check the results by visiting the Access Link. This is where you'll find a list of all IP addresses that clicked your link.
Repeat this for other interesting links you want to share, and check those Access Links, too. IP addresses change often, so the person viewing your profile most may not always have the same address. Still, if they aren't using a VPN or proxy, it should help you figure out their region. Question 4. Check your profile's source code. Still, it's worth a try! Sign into Facebook using Chrome, Edge, or Safari on a computer.
You will need to enter your phone number or email associated with your account along with your password. Click your name to open your profile. This will be at the upper right hand side of the toolbar at the top of your profile. This will open the page source menu. Find the users ID. This bad boy allows users to get finite data, like date, time and location, about visitors to their pages.
First set up a Google Analytics account, and then add a new profile for your Facebook fan or business page. This requires a number of steps to integrate Google Analytics with the particular page. The good news is that Google has been kind enough to provide detailed instructions for doing that, as well as using tracking services on other social networks like Twitter.
Designers know there's a market for Facebook apps that allow you to see who views your profile. And they also know that Facebook has strict privacy rules forbidding it. So many designers toe this line, bringing you right up to the edge of something resembling actual knowledge. Typing the word "statistics" into the Facebook app directory returns a long list of traffic tracking apps , similar to Facebook Insights.
Most of them aren't as good. But you'll find a rotating and ever-increasing list of gems that do things like mine your status updates for the words you use most. Just be sure to keep one important point in mind: These apps mine your profile for interaction. When someone "likes" a photo you post, comments on your status update or otherwise interacts with your profile, these apps know, and they may be able to build models of your most active friends.
But if an ex-boyfriend is simply lurking around your profile, there's absolutely no way to tell, so don't believe the apps that tell you otherwise. Be assured that app designers are constantly prodding Facebook for workarounds that take you past the Facebook privacy rules, and every once in a while, a designer finds an inroad. Generally, when this happens, an app that actually does return interesting information about your profile views has a ticking lifespan, which ends when Facebook finds out and shuts it down.
For example, take Breakup Notifier, which claimed, "You like someone. They're in a relationship. Be the first to know when they're out of it. In 36 hours, it attracted , visits and more than 3. And then, poof, it was gone within the week, squashed like a grape under the stiletto heel of Facebook, which blocked the app.
If you keep your eyes peeled, you might come across the next banned app before it's banned. Until then, learn to live with the fact that -- definitively, finally and with an exclamation point -- you can't see who's stalking you on Facebook, and that's the final word from straight from the Zuckerberg team.
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