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Confession time: I am low key social media stalking an acquaintance-ish person. I probably have a crush but let’s just say it is an impractical one. It is a person I get along with well but they live on the other side of tge country. Sort of like right person wrong time sort of thing.
Anyway, I use facebook frequently, mostly to share articles, things I observe and ocassional pictures and check-ins with friends. I post fairly often a couple dozen times in a week. Weighted about 75-80% towards articles.
I have tagged some people as top friends to keep them on top of my feed. This list is a mostly mix of actual good friends, family, people I want to keep tabs on and people who post interesting things. This person falls into the 3rd and 4th buckets. I also follow this person on Spotify to peep their playlists (we have a lot of music taste crossover).
He is not a prolific poster on facebook or other social media, but posts interesting things when he does. Ocassionally I’ll interact and vice versa. Sometimes if I haven’t seen any updates for a month or 2, I’ll scope his page and see what’s there - his friends post funny videos. And once in a while we’ll connect over some texts in real life.
But let’s say he is basically an acquaintance.
So back to facebook - his birthday is in a few weeks and facebook keeps “reminding me” to setup an event for his birthday. It is like facebook knows about my multimedia stalking. It doesn’t do this for all people in your tops frieds list, as I can think of two actual good friends for who I didn’t get this ping for. And we are all in the same location. And they engage more with my facebook life. It is not based on number of pictures you are tagged in together. Or events. Or mutual friends.
So I am curious - how does the algorithm decide who to tell you to create events for? If does not seem logical to me. Do you notice a pattern?
All that clicking you do, all the links and articles you share, every post you like, all that is considered. So whenever you've searched for him, that is factored in.
Does the other person know if you've clicked on hisorher profile and how many times you've clicked it?
If I click on a strangers profile will the know?
Your friends that you engage more.... it should be telling you about their birthdays too... IF they are sharing their birthday publicly... they may not be. I don't.
I don't know because I made a fake facebook account for stalking and has the most private settings set so it would be hard to come across my fake profile
Good grief. There are settings on social media, to show people what you want them to see. You don't have to put anything there you don't want people to see... But it is a great way to share things you DO want people to see.
The answer to the question is, there is no facebook notification to tell you who clicks your profile.
So they don't know when you click theirs either.
Exactly. In fact, when I set up my business page, I thought I’d get to see who clicked my page, but nope, don’t even get to see them on that.
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