To wonder if you can know who has viewed your social media accounts?

[JustWantCake]

Light hearted I promise.

Saw someone I follow tweet "i can see you enjoying your stalking session 😂" which has now got me wondering if you can work out who is viewing your profiles? 🧐

I asked DH and he doesn't think it would be allowed by social media platforms but after recent events I wouldn't be surprised. Only way we think might be possible would be if you could see people's IP addresses or rough location of who views your profile.

I'm not interested in working out precisely if this is possible or how to do it but rather just wondered if my location would be available to anyone due to social media?

Then again we also wondered if the other possibility was that, the "stalker" had liked a load of their past tweets?

(The connections will be for you, but not for them)

I don’t think that fb trial will come in full now, although it may! I don’t use fb anyway. The beta reactions are funny though! However I only ever stalk without logging in

Amanduh no I agree. It’s not rolled out in any way on a wider basis since April so unlikely now I think.

What are instagram stories? I thought it was just photos?

No one can see on any social media how often you are creeping unless you are hitting things every time you are there on their page. They are trying to biff out someone they have been told or think is on their page a lot.

What if you don’t have an Instagram account, or aren’t logged in, but look at someone else’s - would Instagram say that someone unknown/anonymous has seen it? I don’t do Instagram so I don’t understand it!

Facebook seems to be listening to stuff though. I was chatting to DS earlier in the car about the wild rabbits we had seen - when I picked up my phone later, the fb adverts were for rabbit hutches . We don’t have a rabbit, have never had a rabbit, will never have a rabbit, so it’s either pure coincidence or it’s stalking me! Same thing happened a few nights ago with gin, which I never drink, but had been discussing with a friend. I checked my settings and the microphone access was not switched on, so I don’t know how it’s doing it.

In my case (above) surely the ex wife must have gone home and checked me out... I didn't have my phone with me so no 'tracking' showing we were near each other...fb can't mind read... Or can it!?

In my case (above) surely the ex wife must have gone home and checked me out... I didn't have my phone with me so no 'tracking' showing we were near each other...fb can't mind read... Or can it!?

If previously you’ve both tagged yourself at the gym, or you both like the gym’s FB Page it will be via that. FB don’t collate profile viewing data on a widespread basis and use it for suggestions.

If she HAD looked you up, you would have appeared in her “people you might know” but she wouldn’t appear in yours

I think the people you may know is/ can be stalkers.

I'm not saying it's true every time but new people who randomly appear after you have just bumped into them (for instance) have totally looked at your profile.

I shamefully looked up an ex boyfriend. Zero and I mean zero connections in real life. I have a new married surname which is unusual. You can't search for me on my phone number (which has long changed) or email address (married surname anyway so he wouldn't have that) I don't come up in search engines or linked in etc and the day after I snooped on him he sends me a friend request.

It had been over 12 years. I was mortified. It ended badly and I would never want him to know I'd been curious.

Zero connections. I really mean that. He was totally unrelated to my life and location when we dated and now I live abroad.

I don't stalk anymore. Never will ever again.

Not social media as such but,I found out he hard way when I stalked a guy I had just started chatting to on Linked in. He added me on it and when I next saw him I said,’what a funny thing to add me on’ (we weren’t in the same profession’...I added you because you’d been looking at my profile

He added me on it and when I next saw him I said,’what a funny thing to add me on’ (we weren’t in the same profession’...I added you because you’d been looking at my profile

Yup. LinkedIn does show who has viewed your profile. Very useful from a business aspect but not from a personal stalking point of view

Ah I've been caught out by the accidental "like" of a picture from say 2012. The picture that is buried deep in the heart of the profile and the only way I could have liked it is by a stalking session.

Mortifying.

I can’t see where someone has viewed photos on Instagram? Is it only stories?

rockyoursocksoff yes, only stories. Although I’m not sure if it’s videos on a page too so I never watch them on a stalking session either

Hillbilly

Thanks everyone. Is interesting. I'm guessing the ex wife of the office fling doesn't know that I can't see her looking at my Instagram stories daily (she doesn't follow me yet she's one of the first people to look at them?!)

I recall when I found my DS playing with my phone, he had been commenting gibberish and liking all sorts over Facebook haha!

jacques - no, no gym fb page either.

That’s a myth. Friend suggestions on FB are worked out on connections, locations etc.

It’s not a myth. I have a Facebook account with zero connections, in a made up name. I use it for curiosity satisfaction. I’ve looked up one particular person a number of times and his connections have showed up as people I might know. They all live on another continent. I know that my made up profile has shown as a friend suggestion for them