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UPDATE February 14, 2012: Many people have noted that Facebook has changed stuff in the last several months and so the bookmarklet broke. I have updated it to work on the new filename Facebook is using, and also to match the protocol you are browsing on. Drag this link to your bookmarks bar and click it when you are on Facebook. You may have to click it twice to work.
Facebook Friends Rankings
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Have you ever wondered how Facebook orders your search results? Clearly they have some ordering about who they think you are looking for, and they seem to guess pretty well. I can only guess, but it seems like they order it based on who you interact with, whose profile you look at and who you have recently become friends with.
Well Facebook gives explicit numbers to the directed edges (connection going from you to your friend), about how much they think you are looking for this person. I wrote a bookmarklet that makes it easy to see this list. Although you already know who you look at most, it is eerie to see the list they have come up with—and the numbers they give. The more negative the number, the more Facebook thinks you are looking for them.
To try it out, just drag the image here up to your browser’s bookmark bar. Then go to Facebook and click the bookmarklet. More explanation below.
Note: This is really interesting, but may be embarrassing to you.
Try dragging this link if the image doesn’t work for you.
Facebook Friends
Tested on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. If bookmarklet does not work on chrome, just try creating a new bookmark with the javascript as the url.
(Note: If you have https on, it won’t work. You can disable it temporarily by going to Account Settings/Security/Secure Browsing.)
How We Discovered this Link
We were working on our autocomplete search for the website we are building this summer called raunk.com and we were wondering why our autocomplete was so slow. If we typed fast, we could type faster than the results would show up. I thought, “Maybe I just type really fast, faster than the results can load.” We then checked Facebook. If we typed faster than Facebook autocomplete then it had to be okay. Well we started typing, and no matter how fast we typed, they already had results showing up.
How did they do this? Were their servers just that much faster than ours? (They are that much faster than ours.) But what turned out to be the difference was this file that they were preloading called first_degree.php. If you open up the Network panel in the Chrome Inspector or Firebug, you can see this file being requested asynchronously. Select XHR to only see AJAX requests.
Well in this file there is a lot of great information. It’s just JSON. There are probably two files, one which loads your first degree friends, and one which loads your “first degree” pages and events. Well if you open up the JSON file you will see, an ordered list of who Facebook thinks you are looking for.
Basically, you will find a list which is mostly who Facebook thinks you are Facebook stalking. And if you expand the entry you will see a field called ‘index’. ‘index’ is the number they give to that edge. The lower the number the earlier they show up on your search results.
And this stuff is all client-side, so it is all visible to you, and most likely will be for quite some time. This list is surprisingly interesting to check every now and then, and it will make you wonder how their algorithm is working and how those people go there.
Other Interesting Parts of this File
If you look a little more at this file you will find lots of other interesting information. There is an optional field that shows up in some results called ‘tokens’. This ‘tokens’ field stores common aliases to your friend’s name. For example, I have a friend named Michael, and his tokens says ‘mike’. My brothers is named Zach, but his tokens says ‘Brother’. Under Daniel it has ‘dan danny’. So look through the tokens, and find a friend who has a token that is not all close to his or her name. If you search it, you’ll notice that your friend will come up. That’s how it works. These are just common aliases for the name–not ones specific to your friend.
How the Bookmarlet Works
Here is how the bookmarklet works: It creates a script element on the page, gets a javascript file from my blog, and this file makes a request to the file first_degree.php with the correct parameters, and then it displays the results formatted nicely on your page.
UPDATE: Thanks for all the comments and feedback! I really appreciate and am glad you found the bookmarklet interesting and entertaining. If you’d like to contact me about the bookmarklet or about our website raunk.com, just shoot me an email or find me on Twitter @jkeesh.
Really neat, thanks for diving in and explaining this so well.
Wow very nice work…embarrassed to see that i am stalking my old college friend for such a long time any ways nice work
Hi,
I’d like to interview you for PCWorld. WOuld you like to answer some basic questions on the information stated in this article?
I think you should butt out reporter dude! This is awesome, no more questions?
very impressive! i love how it works!
I’m not certain, but in my list, it looks like some of the ranked names are friends of my friends who were looking at my page, as opposed to me looking at them.
FYI
I ATTEMPTED THE DRAG AND DROP. IN CHROME THE DRAG AND DROP WORKED BUT WOULD OPEN. IN IE8, THE DRAG AND DROP DID NOT WORK FOR ME.
CANNON
Canon-
FYI your caps lock is broken…
mine did the same :/ and I have no clue how to get to account settings to take it off the http thing
Facebook Settings > Account Settings > Security > Secure Browsing
Uncheck the “Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible” box.
Click on “Save Changes”
it still doesn’t work :/
well it only worked once, can’t get it to work again, what do the numbers on the right side mean?
Well done, guys! Wonderful job!!
so the 1st name on the list is the top friend i am stalking? did i get that right?… how will i know who’s stalking at me?
Nice find! If you can work out how they come up with these numbers, that would be amazing.
Things that seem very likely to me:
- The list is based on quite recent interactions
- It seems to matter a lot more if you visit someone’s profile than if you just reply to something on your newsfeed
- Facebook doesn’t care if you’ve blocked someone from your newsfeed (in fact, this seems to help: Andy isn’t on my newsfeed because he spams like crazy, I go to his profile once in a while to see what he’s been up to, Facebook see that I like going to his profile)
What I’d like to know:
- Does mucking around with photos etc matter?
- Does the ‘friendship’ page matter?
- Does my rating of someone effect their rating of me?
Also, I’ve noticed that there are a few tokens that are definitely specific to the user.
Maybe the rankings based on how quickly you would respond to someone, in comments or through messages.
What kind of tokens are these? Because as far as I saw, FB only generates nick names and names for relatives (like Mommy etc.). Plus I have some friends with “German” names like Jan and they won’t even come up with male nick names (Jan is male!).
I’m guilty of photo gazing on people that I don’t interact with on FB that much and yes, they’re HIGH on the list
Did not work, I have https enabled by default, so Chromium blocked the insecure request. Enabling the loading of insecure content I still got errors:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/search/first_degree.php?__a=1&filter0=user&lazy=0&viewer=number_censored&token=v7&stale_ok=0. Origin https://www.facebook.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
edges.js:39Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘payload’ of null
That’s cause if you have https turned on, facebook with block the http-request. The request for the first_degree.php is done over http, and is thus blocked by facebook.
works on iexplorer too ;P (yes i use it) P:
“If you have https on, it won’t work.”
So it’s not secure?!
recently a have deactivated my fb acount and after few days activated acount again.And results of ranking my friends were drasticly changed..How is that possible if i didn`t have any activities?
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This is very embarrassing.
Awesome, nicely done!
Didn’t work on chrome
Worked on chrome for me
Have you enabled “always show bookmark row?”
Of course it works by dragging to bookmark, what i mean is when i click the bookmark, it did nothing
You have to be on Facebook and signed in to your account for the bookmarklet to work.
Yes yes, i know…i’ve read the instructions above
but still, didn’t work
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Brilliant! How about the other way round, who are looking at our profile, like many spams use the trick to spread their virus…??
I have no proof, but I thought that others have said (maybe even FB) in stories about those scams, that that info is not kept, or at least not available at the browser end at all.
Error on Chrome 13 on Win XP:
Uncaught ReferenceError: Env is not defined
(anonymous function)
line 22 of edges.js
Nevermind, realised I had to be looking at Facebook for it to work
Awesome!
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Nice Bookmarklet. But you should mention that it works only if you switch secure browsing (https) off at your facebook account security-page.
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Hi,
Thanks for discovering this Facebook stalking measurement tool. I wonder if it will stay there.
And you, despite being referred to on Mashable, have no comment here. Will you be deleting me too?
cool stuff. great post.
Freakin brilliant. Nice hack. Not sure if I agree with results 100%, but there’s certainly some degree of accuracy.
hahaha.. It shows my own name in negative and all others as positive. Wonder that that implies eh :-/
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looking at ex girlfriend isn’t the best thing?
being another Dan, I can say I am so busted if my gf runs this on my profile.
Would it be possible to get this data for users through their API (for use in app development?)
Or is it already possible and I’m missing something?
Thanks
Jan
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Simply put – you’re awesome! Thanks for sharing this.
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Didn’t work for
Safari 5.1 (6534.50)
Opera 11.01
Firefox 4.01
Worked for
Chrome 13.0.782.112
All on Mac OSX 10.6.8
And thanx, interesting info
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Excellent ! merci
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totally cool. why would it be embarrassing though?
oh god is there a way to delete this?!
You are GOOD. Thanks for sharing
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It seems to be very heavily weight towards recent as well as recurrent look-ups; people who sprung up on my newsfeed this morning whose profiles I checked out for the first time in years are in the top ten.
I have 2 duplicate (it looks like) lists. Problem is, a lot of these people are not even on my friends list nor have I ever looked at their profiles nor do I even know who they are. It must be 2 sided. People who are also looking at my profile. Just an FYI
I’ve gone through the list a bit, just picking random names, and some have mutual friends and some don’t.
It appears the list also shows who has looked at you, as people i have never looked at appear on my list!!
I agree, it seems to somehow blend some of my recent lookups with searches by complete strangers I never “touched” on FB.
Nice job. Doesn’t work when secure browsing is enabled in Facebook though.
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You could make this work in https on by changing the requested url on runtime. Instead of doing $.ajax({url: “http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/search/first_degree.php”}), you could use window.location.protocol in place of the “http:”, so just call $.ajax({url: window.location.protocol+”//www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/search/first_degree.php”})
Hi aidilfbk – just tried that tip re changing the javascript & it works great.
Many thanks,
Dez Futak.
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Interesting to see that the list contains both people that are not my Facebook friends (and that I haven’t searched for etc).
Recency gives high ratings as a friend I connected with only yesterday is high in the list although that is my only interaction with her (haven’t seen a status or even looked at her profile yet).
Nice work!
This has to be 2-sided. People I never heard of and never visited their profile are showing up in my list. A little more investigation shows them as friends of friends or in some cases co-workers.
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NICE! Of course, I have very few friends on Facebook (<100), so the top of my list is the usual suspects. The bottom of the list has a whole bunch of people I don't know…
This is very interesting, and I’d love to know how they calculate this. Great find!
There was a random person that appeared quite high up (at #50 with a score of ~0.12), so that I had never heard of – I checked her page and we had 10 mutual friends. I’m wondering if this is maybe a result of her recently checking my page (perhaps I was recently one of her ‘suggested friends’), or because other friends have recently added her, as I know there are plenty of other people with more mutual friends that weren’t anywhere near as high up in the list.
There is definitely something going on with the names with the numbers above 1.0
Id like to think that Facebook wouldnt actually have a “who is visiting your profile” anywhere near client side given all the scams. My guess is this has to do maybe with people they think you might want to be connected with?
But just looking at my list there is a clear demarcation between >1.0 and <1.0 for the index.
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It seems to be ranking people that you recently interacted with much higher, so either the dataset is limited to recent activity, or it is time-weighted somehow.
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Damn, I need to stop FB-stalking my hot mechanic.
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This is great, though to get it to work I used Firebug. I opened the console, then the command line and executed basically your code:
var script=document.createElement(‘script’);
script.type=’text/javascript’;
script.src=’http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js’;
document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(script);
And it worked like a charm.
Very nice hack!
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The list doesn’t make a lot of sense. The top few are correct, but after that it doesn’t make much sense. The order is all wrong
Think about it dude. “Graph” API. Edges. Nodes/vertices. A discrete mathematician’s or computer scientist’s wet dream, to fiddle with these things and play god and architect how people interact online. Of COURSE they measure all of this shit… they run the servers. They serve the pages. They write the scripts. They maintain the databases. They can do pretty much whatever they want save for reaching out and touching you.
Shocking, but not surprising results when I thought about it a little. It looks like some of them ranked higher from viewing lots of photos.
Bit more insight, someone who I know reasonably well in real life but have no mutual friends and I am sure that I have never looked for (didn’t even know full name) appears near the bottom (top? highest number) on the list. So others searching you must have quite an effect.
Can you please post the source of the javascript file from your blog that it runs? I’m not running unknown scripts on facebook.
Thanks very brilliant!
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I don’t think it is showing other people that have looked at you. The people at the top of my list have all participated in conversations with friends I have interacted with recently. This list is friends, and friends of friends and also friends adding new people to their lists. There is a particular person high on my list that a lot of my friends know and they have been adding him, because it appears as “friend has added” regularly on my news feed this is why they are high.
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Works very well with Windows XP Home. Firefox 6.0.
Order and content of the list makes intuitive sense. A friend-of-a-friend, whose music I like, whose page I just looked at, is at the top. Friends I have not looked at for a long time are at the bottom. Fascinating.
what does the numbers mean?
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How can I restore the settings?
This turned out to messup my FF, Chrome and even Safari. I cannot access to FB anymore. All I get is an incomplete initial page loading screen with all the layout dispersed.
Help anyone?
Mac OSX 10.6.7
Boo, does this not work anymore? I tried the bookmarklet and pasting the javascript into a new tab and…nothing.
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I doubt the accuracy as there are people in there whom i hardly see on FB even! The 4th person on my list i have commented on once and he is not even really active, or in any case i cannot remember the last update he had on FB. Whereas my boyfriend is number 3 only….i am tagged in pics with him, emailed with him, commented on his status and we both wrote on mutual friends’ walls… how can it be that he ranks only one place higher then this guy i have been in touch with on fb perhaps once??
It puts this person so hi because FB knows you secretly love him and will eventually marry him. Tell your bf sorry but FB knows what’s best for continuation of the species.
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How do you do this with Internet Explorer?
I have also figured out some Facebook hacks.. I have complied code to allow you to inject a song into your status update ON YOUR MAIN PAGE… No stupid App pages… I can also inject flash games into status’s as well as “shout boxes” which in turn can connect to a blog for twice the hits…..
Proof on my blog…
jonnyf5ve.blogspot.com
Nice find though J
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I’ve uploaded a version that works with HTTPS.
Instead of linking to thekeesh.com/js/edge.js you can link to:
https://facebook-friendstatus.appspot.com/friend-status.js
I disabled the https on my facebook… i dragged and dropped it onto my Firefox toolbar…. still didn’t work. What am I doing wrong?
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Jeremy: this is brilliant – thanks for sharing it.
Here’s my question: if I switch to my business page profile and run the script, it also gives me a list of people. But my fan page doesn’t “stalk” people in any way — so how do you think Facebook is ranking that list? Does it give you any more insight on what they might be measuring?
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Sad to say I must not be stalking anyone. My list is pretty benign, although it totally missed the search I did a couple of weeks ago for an old girlfriend, who I found, and who I found out is married with kids, so I moved on…
What are the chances that this web page is collecting the info we get back? This appears to run a .JS file on their server.
Just sayin’
How can I reset the list?
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Works under Opera 11.50 surprisingly.
Isso mostra oq a pessoa mais visita? ou as pessoas que mais te visitam?
Pretty nice app! I am surprised at the rankings though… Some people I regularly check out on FB from the iPhone app do not show up high my rankings, which is what I would’ve expected… This makes me believe that this is truly a client side app only. Guess if you don’t want your GF or BF to know who you’re stalking, use the iPhone app to stalk…
Instead of including the whole jquery library with the script, you should add code that links to the google hosted jquery library inside of your bookmarklet. That way both the only the actual script is loaded and your server isn’t under such a heavy load. Or for that matter just host the whole thing on google.
WHY IS MY NAME ON THE LIST?
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i need to reset quickly haahhahaaahahaahahaha
guyz wats the next step after gettin the link in my bokmarks?!!!
O site da Globo.com no brasil acha que o aplicativo consegue ver quem esta atras de vc ..porem ..o APLICATIVO DIZ QUEM VC MAIS VISITA!
THIS tool only shows the PPL u are looking for …or stalking to , ..it was interesting if showed the ppl that are stalking into u !
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Interesting script – thanks for sharing.
I’m interested as to why Facebook assign a NEGATIVE number here. For example a friend of mine ranks highly in my list, but I am not stalking her by any means. She has a business page and I visit daily to see what new things she’s posted; 9 times out of 10 I will “like” her post (and quite possibly comment). I’m sure people with business pages get this a lot (I know I do with my own page).
In terms of her ‘impressions’ and ‘engagement’ this is good for her but the negative score appears to paint me in a bad light. It won’t, however, stop me from visiting her page and supporting her business
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Wow, Didn’t Excpect This To Work, Found Out My Ex Is In The Top Five …. That Sucks
I don’t understand how to take off the http for chrome…someone teach me step by step please?
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this is the script. Just copy it and paste.
javascript:(function(){var script=document.createElement(‘script’);script.type=’text/javascript’;script.src=’http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js’;document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(script);}())
wow, one that actually works..well done
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Interesting. The people who’s profiles I view most are on top, that was expected.
However, there are some people pretty high on that list that I never once looked at the profile. I share one group with them and live in the same city (like about 2 million other people)
That kind of makes me wonder, how this data is gathered. Is it just based on MY search, or do they also take other’s searches into account?
For example, when I type “A” I get a list of a person I’m not friends with but looked at their profile recently. Let’s say I look at their profile every day, will I eventually move up on their list as well?
Because there are really some people on my list that I can’t explain how they got up so far.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that list wasn’t solely based on my own search/activity with one person. I also noticed that the list seems to update pretty fast, meaning if you don’t interact with a person for a short while, they drop down fast.
Seems not to work anymore. Too bad.
High Negative Numbers = People you stalk
Low Negative Numbers = Frequent visits
Zero = “People You May Know” + Rare Visits
Low Positive = ???
This is what I’ve encountered. This is also why some people have no mutual friend people on the list. They are the people which are “People You May Know.” Since the app does not differentiate between zeroes, “People You May Know” may even take precedence over real friends.
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Thank you for this post, it was really surprising to see some of the results of the list
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Didn’t worked for me, I’ve tried it with chrome and safari. I click the bookmark and nothing happens. What I’m I doing wrong??
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This is amazing!! The results were quite amusing to look at, cheers for this!
This is crazy! My top result is a guy I used to date and cyberstalked like crazy a couple of months ago. But I haven’t checked his profile at all recently and we don’t have many interactions. The latest cyberstalk victim (god I sound crazy) isn’t anywhere near the top of the list but really should be as facebook continuously suggests random friends of his to me hinting that they know of my misdemeanors.
The list is very interesting but I can’t quite work out what it means.
Haven’t anyone made a dummy profile and just tested sh*t yet?
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Doesn’t work at all for me, is this some kind of joke?
How does facebook generate these numbers!??!
Some numbers stay the same.. do they ever go down? I mean i haven’t checked this one person’s facebook in months yet they’re still in the same position and people’s facebooks i check at least once a day hasn’t moved… X]
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Top on my list is my ex with -42.8123098. What does that mean?
I have not been near his profile in a long time.. :scary:
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Neat stuff! the top 15 were super-accurate!
works like a charm!
First time I checked this app was about four weeks ago, and the list seemed to include people who has seen my profile. I have checked it out very often to try to understand how it works and thought I had figured it out (ok, sounds crazy;)) but today when I tried it, it included a girl who I wasn’t friend with when she was ALIVE for two month’s ago! How the f* is that possible??
Make sure you’re not on v6.
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I made a dummy account and repetitively searched my main account. When I run the bookmark on my main account, the dummy account does not show up. When I run the bookmark on my dummy account, it shows that I had been searching my main account only. Oddly enough someone has tried to add my dummy account as a friend. That person does not show up on my dummy account list. So, my guess is that the list indicates people you have searched, and does not reflect people that are searching for you.
doesn’t seem to work anymore with the new ui. does it?
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this numbers are useless until someone figures out what they really ARE.
I think that they could be the affinity parameter in the edgerank, so the measure how much inbound traffic one has on his own profile.
they must refer to inbound data.
I have on the list some people I never interacted and some that don’t even are my friends!
any thoughts?
It appears your code is broken (or FB is blocking it) but the script keeps coming back with a ‘friends is null’ error message here. Maybe with the new FB changes they updated the base code.
Error: friends is null
Source File: http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js
Line: 39
ok, i saw my rank list, and after 3days it is still like before, nothing was changed.
will it be “updated” after some daya, weeks??
I would like to know the same!
Does the ranking system take into account other variables? ie. higher ranking if you declared you are in a relationship with a certain person on facebook regardless on the frequency of visiting his or her facebook?
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I have someone at -530.83937763 biggest stalker ever evidently -_-
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Something very eerie is happening on FB, and it has something to do with this index list you are saying. FB seems to be reverse tracking the list recently, which means people who you searched most, will find you on top of their search list when they look for your name, even without you being their friend. Ha! Try to think of someone that will most likely search for you, but is not your FB friend, and you’ll know what I mean. Yep. FB finally rats us all out.
Interesting, but I’m dying for further explanation as to how these are ranked. I’m happy to see that my best friend is on the top of the list, although I wouldn’t say we both have a huge amount of FB interaction between us, and I don’t view her profile nearly as much as others I “stalk.” The person I feel I interact with the most (mostly leaving comments on status updates and likewise) is only number 8. My number 3 person I work with, but we interact on FB far less than the number 8 person. Going down the list of non-friends, I recognized some but others I have no idea who the hell they are. Number 25 is someone I’m not friends with, although we share mutual friends. Only recall viewing her profile once.
Don’t work anymore.
Note – you must be on the Facebook page when you click on the bookmark. It will do nothing if you remain on this page.
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So mine is strange! I tend to not look at people’s profiles, nor do I interact with anyone on Facebook. However– my rankings does include a log of everyone I have interacted with since I started using Facebook. It also has the names of people I have blocked recently.
The weird part is about my rankings, is that my rankings change on a daily basis. It’s still always the same 15 people I notice, but the numbers change and the people move up and down on my list. Does this mean that this also considers who is looking at your profile as well?
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Nothing happened when I tried it (chrome + osx). I had https enabled first.
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Thanks for the code!
This seemed to work for a while, and provided results consistent with the interaction ratio with other users. That means, messages, likes, viewing their profile and photos, etc.
For the last couple of weeks it seems to provide somewhat dated results. For instance, there is this person that I used to visit their profile a lot but haven’t done so for about a month. No likes, no msgs, nothing. Their ratio fell from -78 to -58 and have stuck there for weeks.
In the meantime, several persons I interact a lot, in several ways, haven’t increased theire ratio.
Does anybody know, every how many days the Facebook server cache is updated? Because it seems to show the same values for days. Also, what happens with cookies? It sometimes shows DIFFERENT values if I reset the cookies on my PC.
Thanks for any answers and comments.
how do i know whether the opponent ppl looking my profile or not….
found the list following the instructions. now how do I clear it?
Its not working anymore… But there must be some wayout to make it work again.. I hope some genius will find it soon…
One thing I’ve noticed: People that have their names private (you can’t search for them) do not appear on this ranked list, even if you have a link to their profile and you constantly visit it (i.e. though a bookmark).
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i didn’t understand how can i use it will u teall me plz?
First off, I am fascinated by this subject and your script you have posted is incredible.
That being said, it was working for me a week ago. Then I deleted the link from my bookmarks.
Now, when I drag and drop the link into my bookmarks toolbar, as I did before, clicking the link simply brings me back to this page. Any way to fix this?
Ok I dragged and dropped first the image, and then link because the image didn’t work. I opened a new window, signed into facebook, clicked my “Facebook Friends” bookmark. I have secure browsing turned off in my facebook security settings (“Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible” is UNchecked) I tried with all my add-ons disabled. I tried in Chrome and Internet Explorer. All that happens when I click the bookmark is it brings me back to this page. What am I doing wrong?
I cannot get it to work on Chrome or IE. It just takes me back here :/
Please let me know how to use it? I am exactly following the same issue that is after adding the book martk It just takes me back here.
I put in my bookmarks bar, turned off secure browsing (https) and all that happens when I click on it while at FB is it drives me back to this post…
Same issue for me. I’ve tried all the different things but it just brings me back here.
It did not work on Chrome for me…. i have turned off http on fb but every time i click on the bookmark it just brings me back to this page…..
Same here – i keep coming back here, too.
When I tried this it just sent me back to this website rather than showing me the list – even when I clicked the bookmarklet whilst on facebook. Help?
I know that I’m just repeating the last few comments, but I also couldn’t get this to work on the latest version of Firefox. Maybe Facebook fixed the loophole.
Anyone know why this doesn’t work anymore??
Same problem. What is going on? I just tried it on firefox and internet explorer with https off and it just brings me back to this page!!!!
Possibly a new year thing why it stopped working?
Judging by the comments, since 2012 everyone has just been taken back to this page. Same happened to me- really annoying coz i read all the other comments about how awesome it is.
Would like to see if it comes back!!
The world must be coming to an end.
The file first_degree.php is not being loaded any more. Instead they seem to be using one called bootstrap.php. It seems to contain similar information, but with entries ordered in an array it seems?
Could be fun to reverse engineer this file and make the script work again.
The data is all still there, they just use the userid instead of the name. Makes it harder to look through, but it’s still there.
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If I click on the bookmark it just takes me back to this page (while in FB, with secure connection off). As far as I can see that is all the bookmark is – a link to this page.
@Chompy, @tiny00: Its all about the link of the bookmark. This was once the correct javascript, but is now just this pages URL with a “#” added. I dont know why, but if the described effect occurs, the bookmark is perfectly working.
So, it seems like the script doesn’t run because it can’t read /’/ as an apostrophe. Fix that in the code and it runs
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Looks like Facebook is blocking the script now, it’s not working anymore.
Yeah, I was disappointed too, every time I click it, it doesn’t appear anymore on my screen. I wonder what happened? Is there anyway to contact the person who created the list and ask them about it?
yep, seems like it’s been changed significantly enough that the bookmark script doesn’t work now.
ITS JUST KEEP BRINGING ME BACK HERREEEEEE
No worky anymore?
The only way I got it working was by running the script (http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js) in Firebug’s console. Still: nice work from the Keeshmeister!
How do you disable this “Typeahead” search feature on Facebook?? Is it possible to do so?
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It’s been working fine for me.
I stumlbed on this about 6 months. I check every so often and every time it has worked and the numbers are still changing so it is updating too.
add me facebook
Nope no good for me either
The script works (I checked today, I had saved it as book mark a few months ago), I think the problem is with the bookmark posted on the site.
you said the bookmark on the site doesn’t work correct? so whats the one the you used?
It’s not working for me. Even though I had saved it in my bookmark bar months ago too! Does anyone know why it might not be working? Does anyone have any idea who was the person who made this list?
Can you please post the script? thanks!!!
Try making your own bookmark and set it’s location [URL] to this:
javascript:(function(){var%20script=document.createElement(‘script’);script.type=’text/javascript’;script.src=’http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js’;document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(script);}())
Have fun.
It doesn’t work. I tried it several times. I stopped even the security measures as told above. Very sad
I’ve got the same problem as Steve up there, it’s not working for me.
Does anyone have the old bookmarked link? Perhaps this new one was changed to just bring us back to the article.
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Hi all. Facebook changed the filename that it used to store this info which broke the bookmarklet. I’ve updated it now, and so it should work again.
Thanks a bunch Jeremy!
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Hey, I tried both, the script that gaylor posted:
javascript:(function(){var script=document.createElement(‘script’);script.type=’text/javascript’;script.src=’http://thekeesh.com/js/edges.js’;document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(script);}())
and the new one released on february 14th. They both show more or less the same ranking, but there are some major differences. E.g. there is a person I don’t know who moved from -12 to -21. Is there an explaination for this?
Can you make a bookmarklet to show who is viewing your profile?
That is exactly what we need!
So… I stalked some people before, and I don’t want them to appear anymore when I type in the search box on facebook. I know I can block them, but I just wanna clear the list of people I searched before… Is there anyway I can do that?
Facebook want you their website for long periods, the more active the user, the more they are likely to look at ads and so generate more revenue.
Getting you to spend more time on the site is achieved by:
1) Getting to interact more with your friends on the site, so wall posts, tagging, commenting etc
2) ‘Stalking’ other people. No one likes to admit it, but you can spend a great deal of time going through friends lists and suggested friends and seeing whose out there,
So the search list has to strike a balance between showing you the friends you interact with most and people who aren’t your friends but who you may know or may have mutual friends with, or even people who share a similar profile to you (location, interests etc).
It is HIGHLY unlikely the search reflects people who have searched for you, you can prove this by making up a dummy profile and searching for yourself many times – like one of the previous posters did.
Anyway, I plotted my results (very geeky I know..) and got a exponential type relationship – can’t be bothered to upload the graph but it was similar in shape to this:
http://www.mathplanet.com/media/56348/graph3.jpg
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this link only brings me back to this article? (the new link) what am i doing wrong?
there has got to be a reciprocal factor here, no? there are lots of people i view that are not on this list, and they are likely NOT viewing me…then there are some people who are very high on my list, that i rarely interact with or view or haven’t viewed in ages….i’d love to know the ranking for how they determine who shows up on your chat list and why they choose which ones get bumped and which don’t when they are off line….get working on it! ;-X thx.
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Worked… but a bit of a flawed modelling system I think. Some people I added recently were very high for example. And people whose pages I never look at because they comment on my stuff – perhaps I like their comments… FB could do better… When it started you could set your preferences for who you saw more news from but not anymore.
It really work, the number 1 its a person that I used to like and its a very weird because i didnt see her profile many times, or even to speak with her, but when i was really into her, I saw a few of times her profile, like when i was really emocional… so its a quite stange, but in the same way very right..
thats for the work..
love and peace
It workout really nice! Thanks, very useful to know these things.
have you tried posting this website on facebook?
they just don’t let you… is it because of keywords or what?
That would be awesome Matt, if possible.
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I’m just thinking if you post this on FB maybe FB would change the way they do things and this wont work any longer. I would rather not chance that.
anyway… I have been trying to figure out how this works.. …so my 6 favorite friends usually change numbers every few days alternating the top 3 with a random boy I stalked about 5 months ago in slot number 4 ( which hasn’t changed in months- even w/o going on his FB at all) slots 5,6,7 are the other favorites. Slot 8 yet another boy I was crushing on a few months ago but haven’t gone in weeks. So today I friended a brand new friend around 5pm, never knew he existed before today but browsed all his pictures … and now at 11pm he shows up at slot 38. Not a huge rating but the fact that it was the same day made me curious . I always figured there was a delay in the readings … today showed me it was only a few hours delay.
FYI, Facebook renamed first_degree.php to bootstrap.php.
That must be why it stopped working.
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Facebook has just started changing up the friends displayed every time I click on my profile. In just the last couple days, I have noticed this. The line-up literally changes quite dramatically every time (not just re-arrangement of same people), so I guess whatever secret algorithm they were employing before got thrown out the window perhaps. It seems truly random now as far as I can tell. The script still works but I am not sure what it means (I really wasn’t completely sure even before when I used it). It does seem to possibly correlate to some degree with one’s own stalking/viewing tendencies although it doesn’t seem to match perfectly or well in many cases.
Worked this morning… tried it just now and link doesn’t do anything
Same thing happened to me
Worked yesterday (Thursday), but not today (Friday). Chrome 17.0.963.79 m
You’ve given me such a thrill, monitoring my ex’s frequency with visiting my facebook page hahaha…
Today, however, the marklet’s not working. I reinstalled it, restarted my computer and I’m running it on Safari. Any ideas?
i thinks its 2 ways
my ex’s is right at the top but i never go to his page, but the number goes up and down
his new girl popped up yesterday in number 2 position, under him pardon pun, and i’ve NEVA gone to her page
ps. yeh doesnt work for me now either,
I keep trying to refresh it–it has seemed stuck for the last few days. Finally started messing around in Firebug while logged into my facebook account–within a few minutes of that it would no longer work on my facebook account, but when I logged in as my son, the bookmarklet worked fine on his account.
It still does not work for me, I’ve disabled the secure browsing, enabled all javascript, and when i click on the bookmarklet nothing happens at all. I’ve tried safari and firefox both latest versions. I am using a Macbook Pro… I think facebook must have changed something.
Facebook changed again. The link no longer works.
Yea!!!
Had this a long time. Found it very interesting indeed. However I too noticed stop working. I am not on timeline, reluctant to so.
It doesn’t seem to be working anymore =(
doesn’t work…..comes up with error processing script.
Anyone gonna fix this? It’s knackered
The code is broken. It stopped working.
stopped working this morning?
same thing happened to me this morning
Yeah it stopped working for me too
I wonder what has happened…
me too!
This will sound repetitive: it’s not working for me eighter. I am using Firefox, but I am assuming Facebook changed something again. I hope it’s fixed soon!
Stopped working a couple of days ago, about when they changed the larger friends box on timeline to 8 friends instead of 6.
I cant get it to work either, tried IE9 FF and Chrome.
yeah mine’s not working anymore either as of yesterday….
so this is interesting, it works in my dummy account, but not in my regular one which i’ve been checking the bookmark frequently. also, in the dummy account, if secure browsing is disabled, it works only when on the account settings page. If secure browsing is enabled, it does work when on other pages. i wonder why it would work in one account and not the other? i am using the same browser/bookmark.
Scrpit dont work’s getting console error:
payload is null
friends = friends.payload.entries;
there is file called buddy_list with all id of friends but data returnes is not sowuing up
i want to modify headers
this link worked perfectly fine until a few days ago, there are no response when clicked and FB is recently acting really weird :/
This is a very curious topic. Yesterday, Will Richardson (website by the same name) spoke to the staff of my high school about the changes taking place on the internet, and he references a book called “The Filter Bubble,” which in turn referenced your website. (At least this is how I think I found you, some 12 hours after the fact.)
I want to educate my Public Policy Seniors more concerning some of the new insights gained through the above three resources (including yours), but I can not get the Facebook Friends Rankings to work on my laptop. I altered my security settings on facebook and rebooted to be sure they took effect, and I can not get the java script to work.
Any new suggestions? I have tried using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Stopped working on the 21st for me.
Yes, it stopped working for me as well
I don’t understand why, if Google demands so much thought and scrutiny why bother, its not worth the effort just for some unimportant socializing and gossiping. I was signed on to Facebook and Twitter and the thought of finding out they could and would use my information without being upfront about it made me unsubscribed to both. Funny, the media keeps trying to find ways to apologize for their constant misuse and less than ethical behavior. The rules on underhanded behavior for the rest of us is far more limited, in fact its usually black and white.
doesnt work anymore…
link is now on the orders of..
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/search/bootstrap.php?__a=1&filter0=user&viewer=500496###&token=########-#&__user=500496###
Would love to see your script updated..
sadly, JS is one of the few languages I’ve never really touched…
Looks like it’s stopped working.
Its not working for me either, tried clicking twice. Any fixeS?
stopped working for me a few days ago as well
Not working anymore.
it’s not working anymore! fix it again please jeremy?
This does not work for me. I have updated java, tried the link, the image and the updated link in both firefox and chrome, unchecked secure mode and everything, but when I click it, nothing happens… Any ideas?
This doesn’t work anymore
please recover
Not working here either.
Just started working again today. Yay !!!! Thanx
I am awfully confused. The top person is someone whose Facebook I avoid looking at … and my name is second on the list??? The rest is mostly family and friends… but the #1 person I have only once viewed their profile when he added me a while back.
What has happened to the keesh list? It is not working anymore….When is it going to get fixed?
Hello there! I just found out about this great tool and i think its awsome and very useful! If the first person on the “Facebook Friends” list is 102 and the second person is 33, how would you grade (like ../10) the first Facebook relation compare to the second one?
Thx and God bless
is there a way to hide yours? or reset or something? maybe de-activate then re-activate facebook?
So the link didn’t work for one week March 21-28. But it’s back and I am a happy girl
The names and numbers are all basically the same ( within a plus or minus 10 ). I’m trying to figure out if this only who I stalk or visa versa too. The number one spot was an old crush but haven’t gone on his page in several weeks) and his number has gone from 110- 115 in the last three days. But I know the numbers have been updated since then because a few new friends I just added and visited are now on there. Its like a puzzle and I’m dying to figure it out.
Glad to see it is working again. I have been watching this frequently for several months now and here are some observations:
1) Sometimes it seems to update frequently (within hours) and sometimes, despite much facebook activity, it stays the same for several days at a time.
2) Profile views only seem to have a lot of weight into a high ranking. If you frequently search someone, they will appear high on the list. When you stop, it takes a couple of months, but slowly their number will decline.
3) I have a dummy account in which I searched my own profile repeatedly before I ever looked at the dummy account. After a week or two of this my dummy account’s name still did not appear on my own list. However, after I viewed my dummy account once or twice from my main account, my dummy account suddenly appeared at a relatively high number. My thoughts are that ONE view of the dummy account placed the dummy account high on my radar since the dummy has been viewing me frequently. I think it takes into account mutual views, but that one initial view made it ‘mutual’.
4) I do think that other’s views of your profile are taken into account. There is a person on my list that has always remained high even though I have not viewed their profile in several months, but I used to view frequently. In fact, the number has slightly increased (only from 15.11 to 16.05) in the past few weeks and I have not viewed their profile at all. Other people whom I know I used to view frequently keep decreasing in their number over time. My hunch is that the one person who’s numbers are staying the same and even slightly increasing is viewing my profile.
5) There seem to be 2 lists that are very different. It usually is the same list, but from time to time here and there it gives me a completely different list (that doesn’t make as much sense in regards to my interaction with them), but it returns to the main list shortly thereafter. Just sporadically there is another list. It seems like the list is from the past- maybe relevant to my views a few months ago- or perhaps it is the list of people viewing you. For example, that person that is high on my list and their numbers never go down is at the very bottom of this second list when it does appear.
6. Besides just a couple of views on one day to my dummy account, I never view my dummy account from my regular account. However, my dummy account views my regular account frequently. My dummy account does not decline in number over time on my list, it stays the same, while other accounts I stop viewing go down in number.
Thank you sooo much Danica… it seems you are as intrigued by this as I am. I should try this dummy account thing. I bet it will give me some answers too. Thanks again
I have been testing this for a while. started using this bookmarklet about 3 weeks ago. after 3 weeks, the order on the top of my list mostly stays the same, but the person at the top (whom I stopped interacting and viewing profile ever since I use this) goes from -83 to -105, and we didn’t have much mutual interaction before that. the second one, whom I have some mutual interaction (wall posts, likes, messages, etc) with, goes from -35 to -50. everybody else’s score is much lower than these 2. I don’t really understand how there is such a difference in these results. Can someone explain?
Hey, what do you mean by search?
lets say if you put a letter, lets say a in the search bar and that person appears, is it the same as searching that person?
And thank you for your insight.
by search i mean type their whole name and then view the profile
It works! But I don’t really understand all of the results. I rarely go on other peoples walls. But, my ex is top of the list – understandable, i deleted him from friends list 3 months ago and will admit to looking at his page a couple of times since then. However, whats really interesting is the people at the bottom who I have not viewed at all, they are not friends, a couple of names seem familiar as they have commented on a friends status that I might have also commented on, but it would appear that in some part these results are based on interactions from both sides.
I came across this on one of the boards they were discussing this very bookmarklet, it seems to be another way to view ‘first degree’:
https://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/search/first_degree.php?__a=1&filter=user&viewer=***userid***&token=&stale_ok=0
(you can replace ***userid*** with your user ID).
(credit to kmavm and danger here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897740)
1) It seems to include people you’ve had message conversations with even if they’re not friends on Facebook. Mine includes my mum, (ranked second for people I want to search, somewhere in the sevens) whom I love dearly but don’t have on Facebook as a friend (we spam each other with links via messages instead, as I don’t want all my snoopy relatives who are her friends to add me, she’s cool with that heh). We have no mutual friends, and I don’t use friend finder. Even if she did, the email address I use for FB is not one she has in her contacts. I can’t think of any other way to explain that. I don’t even search her page, since I can’t see it – I just message her.
2) Most of them are people I know I search for, so I’m not surprised by the majority that rank highly. Even among these some rank more highly than I would expect based on how much they’ve been active on Facebook recently.
3) Interestingly, around the 5s and 4s some people come up with bigger numbers than I would have expected based on our interactions. I am certain I haven’t searched for their names for months (nor did I search more than a couple of times even in the past), and they come up much more highly ranked than people I’ve been spending more time talking to on Facebook of late, or others that I added around the same time and interacted with roughly as much. As an example, my friend admitted her flatmate was checking out my profile (we’re friends on Facebook, so I didn’t feel that was problematic), and though I never really interact with them, they did come up in my first degree higher up than I’d expect for someone with relatively few mutual friends who I barely interact with.
4) Around the 2s and 3s it’s not really surprising. Interestingly, at the really low numbers, people I’ve not friended can come up higher than those I actually have (and interact with really infrequently)… It’s all quite amusing, actually, whatever algorithms Facebook are using. Also interesting: I come up on my own first degree list quite high up. I guess because I use Facebook more to update my own page than stalk others :S
5) Tokens CAN be name-specific. Maybe they’re based on nicknames that same user has entered into their information, but I’ve noticed tokens you couldn’t just guess. However it does come up with general (including incorrect) ones as well. For example, a friend called Tina has tokens such as ‘Chrissy’ even though her name is definitely not a contraction of Christine (or Christopher…WTF facebook, she’s a woman!), or an Ellie coming up as Elaine, things like that.
6) I was worried that if you could just enter a profile number, someone might be able to use it to look at profiles that were not their own. Just to be sure, I had a look, and it seems you have to be logged in and accessing *your* ID for your profile, the external profile numbers. Makes perfect sense, but still a sense of relief…
So, how does this compare to the friends list on your facebook profile page? anyone notice any relation?
I think it’s interesting: I checked my indices and some of the people who come up on the side a lot don’t actually rank all that highly, surprisingly! I would have figured they might tally. I don’t search for these people much (read: never), but they still rank higher than I expect (say, around -5 as opposed to -2, compared to people I interact with similarly), and even if I haven’t interacted with them recently they come up on the side…
I do find my mum ranks highly on my index even though I don’t search her (or go to her page), I just message her (to avoid snooping relatives on her page, lol), and of course she comes up on the side recommended as someone ‘you might know’.
I think it automatically ranks ‘relatives’ on Facebookmore highly even if you don’t interact with them particularly often as that is the case with one of my sister’s friends I have listed as a ‘sister’ on facebook. That surprised me, but on balance it shouldn’t have.
I expected all the high numbers because they are people I know I interact with a lot, but things got confusing around the 5s and 4s. There are many people I share a similar level of socialising on Facebook with, and I couldn’t quite fathom why some come up really low, and others really high (taking into account me liking their stuff and vice versa being roughly equal, knowing them roughly as long on facebook, etc). I generally don’t go to people’s facebook pages or search them unless we’re really close, so I doubt it was much I was doing. Of course, it could be my bias- if I don’t see them as close I might not remember interacting as much as I really do, but I doubt it’s the case entirely.
I also noted that at the lower end of the index spectrum, sometimes even people I am not facebook friends with (and don’t ever search) come up more highly than actual friends I interact with infrequently…
@Riss: That’s odd. For me, there are some people who I expect to always be there (we go to each other’s pages a lot, no secret LOL), and If I go to someone’s page they show up for a while, or if they like my stuff etc… but then they then some people always seem to reappear sooner or later back onto the list, even if we don’t interact much on Facebook.
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Update: It’s been a few weeks that my dummy acct has viewed my real account. The dummy account’s numbers have not changed when viewed from my real account. Last night I went into my dummy account and viewed my own account, refreshing several times, and looking through some recently posted photos. Tonight, my dummy account’s numbers (which I’ve only looked at maybe 3 times in the past several months, and not recently) have jumped up to third place on my list! I really think it’s because it viewed me and looked through photos. I didn’t look at it.
dummy account was #11 before dummy looked at my profile/pictures last night, and is now #3. moved from -15 to -22. something is going on here :-0
Okay, here is a question I’ve been meaning to ask: what happens when you have refused to view a person’s profile/click anything in anyway remotely related to that said person’s profile…..& gradually that person’s ranking (on your keesh list) comes down from -180 to -1 over the course of a couple of months. What if I finally ‘give in’ right now & click on that person’s profile picture/or profile at least once? Will the number, say for example, jump from -1 to -24? Because judging from yours (as well as many of the comments from others) it sounds like this is a mutual viewing/mutual-stalker list…& that the numbers change/increase very little when you stalk, but DRASTICALLY increase not because you were stalking but because the person was stalking you as well! Correct me, if you guys think I’m wrong….
I don’t know what will happen!
I just know that my dummy’s numbers jumped way up for me after a long time of nothing happening. The only thing that happened different is she viewed me the night before. Could totally be a coincidence but I find this timing interesting….
You said that “the numbers change very little when you stalk”….. i’m not sure about that. When my dummy stalked me my numbers keep climbing up for her, way up.
facebook has changed the numbers
bootstrap now references a file from 30-3-12 instead of 23-3-12
it happened on the 11th, so people youve stalked/stalked you within the time change, whether before or after or inclusive who knows, will have revised numbers.
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“You said that “the numbers change very little when you stalk”….. i’m not sure about that. When my dummy stalked me my numbers keep climbing up for her, way up.”
Yes, but I do think it increases even more when the person stalks your profile in return!
On a side-note: considering the fact that @jeremy keeshin created this list…I’m left wondering if he knows anything about the secrets of the list. I would love to see his insights!
Danica, thanks for your great analysis! Maybe for purity of experiment you should completely avoid visiting your dummy account for at least a month – a month and a half, then numbers are supposed to go down (they do for my high numbers once I stop visit them). Then if you log in to your dummy account to check your own page, and the numbers go up, you are really up to something!
That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I last viewed my dummy account from my regular account maybe about 6 weeks ago. Dummy was -6 after the first time I viewed and then -15 after the second view. I have not viewed dummy since then and numbers have stayed at -15. Dummy account had purposefully viewed real account frequently (every day) until maybe 2 wks.ago. (I’m -102 on dummy’s list). The other night dummy looked at several pictures on profile of real account, refreshing profile several times, clicking on things, etc. The next day, in real account the dummy’s numbers went up to third place, jumping to -22. Number increase is definitely not from interaction, as there has been none ever, (likes, comments, etc.) or from my views of dummy from real account, since there hasn’t been any increase of that. rather there has been a decline. In comparison, other people I’ve only viewed 2-3X ever with no interaction are WAY farther down list. Dummy is up there with my top friends…people I’ve been FB friends with forever and mutually interact frequently.
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Okay, I’ve been viewing my own account through the dummy account for a week. At the beginning of the week, my dummy account and real account viewed each other mutually and equally. The dummy account appeared on my list on my real account at a pretty high place. Then I only viewed my real account from my dummy account (in other words, I didn’t view my dummy account anymore). By the end of the week, which is today, the dummy account dropped lower on my list? I got opposite results from Danica?
Hiiiiii!!! OMG!!! Finally I found a serious website!!! I have firefox and I dragged the image and I bookmarked that part which says ‘FB friends’. I get a list…does anyone understand those numbers???
Thanks in advance!!! I’ll be extremely thankful if you explain how this works to me!!! ♥♥♥♥
“Yes, but I do think it increases even more when the person stalks your profile in return! ”
very possible! i wonder the same thing. i just wonder how numbers can creep up when you are not interacting with them or even viewing them if this is supposedly client side only. now that i’ve seen dummy’s numbers creep up and i’ve avoided interaction with her, i am becoming convinced there is a mutual component.
that day another friend’s numbers increased by -12 as well. I never look at her profile either and she rarely posts anything. However, the night before, I had posted some photos to my profile. Instead of commenting/liking, this friend texted me to tell me i looked fabulous in them. So I know she was looking.
I have been viewing the lists from both my real account and dummy account. I found when I view my real account from my dummy account frequently and regularly, the dummy account does not show up high on the list in my real account. Apparently, I’m not getting the same results that some of you are getting. I wonder why…..Only when I look at my dummy account through my real account will the dummy account’s number in my real account actually increase.
“Only when I look at my dummy account through my real account will the dummy account’s number in my real account actually increase.”
–How about looking at your real account through your dummy account? What happens to your numbers on your dummy’s account?
my own experience:
1. i made friends with some vlog celeb years ago while he hadn’t quite made his name as big as now and were still accepting stranger requests. Now he has over 4000 something friends and I believe he couldn’t possibly add more;
2. After I found the this blog and the bookmark, i purposely started stalking him by refreshing his page multiple times a day and watching his videos for like a week (i hadn’t really stalked him before), just to see if he’ll show up on the top-left little six-friend box, and, if he’ll show up on my secretive stalking list, knowing there is no fb interaction between us whatsoever, and no chance he knows my existence, just because there are so many fans posting on his wall every day;
3. I do stalk two other friends of mine and I’m 100% sure that in the name of my entire stalking history, the number of times i’ve been on the two ppl’s profiles absofuckinglutely out-numbered the celeb’s in the past week.
3. one week later, the celeb showed up on the top six-friends box. And not only that, he’s been #1 on my list since then with a score way above the 2nd and 3rd, who are the two i stalk most in history. Even though I’ve stopped viewing him now, he’s still there being #1. It’s been a week already…
4. Did I mention that there is literally no chance of him noticing me? btw, he hasn’t switched to Timeline yet.
5. The scores of the two ppl stayed flat for quite a while, with one going up slightly a bit.
So i guess the conclusion i can draw so far is i don’t know if it’s a mutual interaction based algorithm.
kazza on April 12, 2012 at 10:35 am said:
facebook has changed the numbers
bootstrap now references a file from 30-3-12 instead of 23-3-12
it happened on the 11th, so people youve stalked/stalked you within the time change, whether before or after or inclusive who knows, will have revised numbers.
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Kazza, can you explain this more? The 11th is when my list updated drastically. So basically the numbers we see now are reflective of activity as of March 30 and there is a 2 week delay in updating? Or are you teasing us?
not sure how it works….but up until the numbers changed there was a reference in the bootstrap in red of 23-03-2012….when the numbers changed and yeh drastically, the reference changed to 30-03-2012.
but the numbers for me were consistant for a lot longer than a week, ie they were the same before the 23 and after the 30 (up to the 11th) so i dont know if facebook update the reference date every week (as per the ref dates) or if its at longer/shorter or a random time frame generation….
all i know is that if who you stalk/stalk you is stored somewhere by facebook, they may be accessing this information and changing the way the search function interacts…..
i’ll keep track of the bootstrap for a little while….till i get bored…and check to see if it happens again.
sorry just to add…..
there maybe a delay in updating the info, this time round it appears to be 2 weeks.
but since the numbers had stayed the same for me for so long, i can’t say if it’s always a 2 week delay…it may be shorter or longer or random.
or it may just happen once every 6 months and we hit it.
thank you, and i agree, it seems like things will stay the same for weeks for the most part (with a couple of minor changes) and then suddenly it updates everyone. on the 11th most of my numbers dropped drastically, some up to 20 points.
i think what could be happening: there is such a long delay in updating the numbers to real time, that it is hard to remember who you’ve viewed/when…it takes so long to update that it’s hard to track what time frame the changes are based on. In other words, I could have viewed my dummy 4 weeks ago. No change in the numbers of my dummy account since then so I assume the one view just did not affect the numbers. I make dummy view me. Next day dummy’s numbers increase on my end. I hypothesize it could be from my dummy viewing me. However, maybe it’s from the one time I viewed dummy 4 weeks ago….
yikes…OK. i just checked the list again and again it had not changed. then i logged out of secure browsing (which i usually do) and the list has updated again, reflecting only the things that have happened over the past few days.
note: i just logged out of fb and back in, and realized that if i don’t click the bookmark while on my PROFILE page AND in disabled secure browsing, it reverts to the list from the 11th, not the new one I just spoke of.
Okay, I just checked this out on my profile too. But my dummy account dropped on my list, by quite a bit actually, even though I have been viewing myself consistently through the dummy account, several times a day, for past 4-5 days or so. The list only changes/increases when I view my dummy account by my real account, not the other way around.
In my case, the numbers also stayed flat for weeks, perhaps 2-3 weeks, and then around the 11th everyone dropped and re-shuffled. Maybe it is indeed one-side but with updating at very irregular intervals. At least the person I wanted to drop, who was the highest, finally dropped to number 5, as I stopped visiting his page at all for at least 5-6 weeks.
Okay, so this is apparently kind of random and unpredictable? Wow, this thing to so hard to figure out! ha
This is weird… There was this cousin of mine whom I stalk occasionally and her ranking points goes from 2+ to 5+. However, on the next day I used the script, her name is completely gone! What in the world had happened!
Ok I got quite a surprise when I checked my account, there were quite a few people who I don’t know at all and have never clicked on their profiles and they were ranked quite highly on my list. Kazza, (or anyone else here), how did that happen?
Im finding that by taking screen shots of my lists this is helping me keep track. So yesterday my list updated 3 times and today 2 times so far. What is really freaking and odd is that my latest list (3pm today) is the exact same at yesterday’s 6pm list. But I got different readings at 12 midnight yet another different one at 7 am. Some numbers don’t move at all. Of the 30 or so in the screen shot the most activity is in the top 12. But it was really crazy that the numbers went both up and down and then back exactly where they were 3 lists ago. And I don’t know about your lists but mine all have 9-12 digits. Thats too much to be a coincidence.
Very very intersting post. I’ve been working on it for past two days and found interesting figures as you’ve mentioned “index”
It is quite randomized. Have checked js files also which showed hidden time stamps which are no more visible on facebook posts.
What’s strange is that where did it save my imported contacts from other email that i deleted, the one it showed i’ve deleted those imported contacts, but still it is showing me suggestions from them and the index was also high. Does it also give suggestions to the other person who it thinks i’m stalking to.
I think there is definitely a delay in the updates and it is kinda weird how it changes unpredictably throughout different times of the day. But I think what we want to know is whether the list is two sided; if other people can see if you were looking at them. So far, I can’t prove it is two sided with my dummy account….
i have a fake account too which i created not a long time ago. When i view my real account throu the fake one for several days in a row, the score of my real account didn’t change much on the list.However when i view the fake account via the real one, even for just once, the score of my real account would shoot rocket high, at least double the original. After I stopped viewing the fake one, the score went back to to a low range. This happened multiple times already. but the fake account had never showed up on my real account list (i guess it’s because the fake one hasn’t been there very long).
So from this point of view, yeah, it seams two-sided.
One other observation is Firefox seems to reflect a more up-to-date list than Chrome. Not sure if this is the case for everyone else here.
I agree it’s being updated at very long and random intervals so it’s hard to track. I keep screen shots, too. It updated on the 11th, and then on the 14th again. My dummy looked at my account one time on the 14th, after the new list, so I am waiting to see what happens. So far neither account has updated. I won’t look at my own profile again until I see an update in the numbers.
do the ranking change based on which computer you’re using? Or is it an aggregate of all the data collected regardless of which computer you are using? I use to different computers and it seems as though the ranking are different.
About 2 weeks ago the person on #1 has index -501. Today, there is another person on #1 with index -13… So great change…
I’ve been thinking of how facebook figures out these search lists. Not sure if you’ve already know this but one thing I’ve noticed is that if you and a person have attended the same event lately they tend to come up quite high. And if that person and you also recently have gotten a mutual friend (i.e. you are invited to a event by a friend who “finds this friend” at this event) they completely skyrocket. I’ve encountered some pretty freaky matches this way.
I was a bit intrigued with results. My ex appeared no 1 on search but I looked at his page since January. The only interactions we ever had on facebook were messages in October. He hasn’t been a ‘friend’ since January either, although we do have 1 mutual friend who is ranked 2nd on the list, and I do visit his page regularly. I decided to block the ex, so he can’t see me, and I can’t see him. He then didn’t show up on list. I then unblocked him 2 days later and he had dropped from -75 to -37!
I am guessing he had been looking at me, then when he was blocked, wasn’t able to do so anymore, so the list reflects that.
My dummy account increased slightly, after searching me from it, but there are also loads of people on my list who I am not friends with and haven’t searched or seen their facebook profile. Some names appear familiar, friends of friends, I can only presume that maybe they have commented on the same posts from the mututal friend?
Very interesting stuff and has kept me amused.
I’ve been keeping screenshots of my list for a couple weeks, and my list seems to update itself every couple hours… it’s always changing, except for a few people at the top of my list who seem to stay the same. For the most part, when my list updates itself, it definitely accurately reflects my “stalking victims” of the day. This leads me to believe that the list really is only one sided. Especially since I made a dummy account that I make sure to NEVER view with my real account, and I “creep” my real profile multiple times a day (for a couple weeks now), and it has never shown up on my real profile’s list. I have yet to view my dummy account, because I want to give it another week or so to see if it shows up, but when I do I’m pretty sure that THAT is when my dummy account will show on the list, proving that it is indeed only one-sided. I’ll update with my findings.
P.s. I’m waaay too fascinated by this.
numbers were wildly different today for some reason. more accurate probably, but now they are -.99999 or something instead of the -36.9 something there were before.
Wow, it seems like the numbers haven’t updated at all. They keep switching between two lists. Wonder what’s going on.
is there a way to who stalks my profile?
is there a way to see who stalks my profile?
My list updated today… seems like it’s now a mix of people you’ve looked at recently and people who have looked at you recently now…
Yep… I noticed the same thing. The last change other than the switching back and forth between two was 4.16. Is that what you have as well ??
Can I remove people I’m not friends with from this list?
Very strange… I installed http://socialfixer.com/
and all my numbers were reset. coincidence?
What is “socialfixer”? Did you figure out why it changed?
Mine changed like 2 days ago….and the list is very different. They’ve clearly changed the criteria. My highest person now is only -13, and most people are -.9 (decimal) something with the numbers very close together. Relatives are all near the top, about 25 of them clumped together. I have tons of cousins listed as my relatives on fb- however, most we never interact and they’ve never made the list but this time they all made the list near the top regardless.
Serious guys— I’m done trying to figure this thing out. It doesn’t make any sense anymore.
I confirm, the numbers have turned very small, -0.smth, 0.9smth being the highest for me. I don’t have any family members among ‘friends’ nor do I visit their profiles. I haven’t been visiting people’s pages recently really, so the top people look right on the sum of various interactions with me (likes, comments, messages, chat, random photo look ups in the news feed…)
The happy thing is that the guy I wanted to ‘get rid of’ now dropped to 9th position! Yes, I visited his page too much, so he was all over my FB page to the point of making me sick (1st pic in the ‘friends to chat with’ quadrant, 1st name to pop up when typing a letter of his initials, the name to come up in email alerts like ‘AA (friends with XX) also commented on…’ even if I had dozens of other mutual friends with AA) … It took about 8 weeks of ‘ignorance’. So I am sure this list is one way
yes i’ve found the same – all the relatives are now top of the list even though I never visit their pages. The next person down is my ex whose page I haven’t visited since January! And he isn’t a friend anymore. We have one mutual friend who is next to him whose page I have visited. Next are work colleagues, however, some of these people I have a lot of interactions with, although no page visits, but they don’t appear on the list. There are still names on the list that I don’t know, which makes me still think this is 2 sided. All the codes have changed too e.g ex used to be top at -75. now is – 0.64 the highest code is my cousin at -0.95
Mine actually still has really high numbers like in the -90′s. And a friend of mine who I used to interact with a lot (and was always really high in ranking), but have not talked to this person for the past 3 weeks has actually increased in his number from -92 to -99…?? My dummy account has dropped even I’ve been consistently viewing myself through the dummy. This thing doesn’t make any sense. So yeah, there I’m done too haha
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I’ve noticed that the numbers don’t make any sense anymore too. But have realized that if you click on the the friends tab on the right hand side under the profile picture, then start to type the initial of a friend into the “search by name field” then the results you get are more true to what my previous list used to say. Is there any way you could make a bookmarlet for the “search by friend” field results???
I thought I was the only one who started getting a list with numbers in the range of 0.xxxxx……it’s sooo strange :-/
The list has clearly changed & I’m trying to figure out why :-/
weird thing… i have two laptops and my lists are different on both of them… i don’t get it.
Yeah that happens to me too. Basically one is a more recent list than the other one (& when I mean recent, I mean it could range from anything between 2 days old to two-weeks old). You have to figure out for yourself, which one is the more recent list.
I’m a little confused at this point…and I would really appreciate some feedback on my comment/findings: My cousin’s account was blocked for a couple of weeks. When I helped her re-open her account & opened my account one day later, her name appeared on the list with a ranking higher than usual. I asked her if she had viewed my account anytime during the weeks before her account had closed & she said no. I then asked her if she had viewed my account the previous night after I had helped her re-open it & she again replied no. So I’m now left wondering how accurate this list actually is because I don’t & never used to visit her account all that much. So it makes no sense why her name would suddenly appear in the ton-ten on my list.
probably because she’s your family… i find that my family members show up at the top of my list.
That is true…Most family members show up high on my list.