Beware of Stalker Check Facebook Application Misconception
Recently, I have noticed that many of my friends had a Stalker Check Facebook Application appearing on their Facebook Home Feed. Stalker Check is a new Facebook application that lets you see who has been interacting with your Facebook Profile. If you fear that your friend has detected you as a regular stalker on their Facebook page then you do not have to worry. First off, it is against Facebook Policy for any Facebook application to help you detect who has been visiting your Facebook page. If they removed this policy then I am sure the popularity of Facebook would be in decline right now, just like Xanga a few years ago.
To confirm this, I have tried out the application myself. When you add the application, you will first see a screen like below. At first, I was quite skeptical as I thought it would be one of the ways in which a spyware spreads through Facebook.
You are then prompted to choose whether you wish to have your stalker check notices published in the news feed, which you must agree to. From what I can tell, your ’stalk ranks’ are based on how many posts and interaction you have between the person and yourself. For example, the top 5 stalkers on my list were people who recently posted a comment on my Facebook Profile. So if you are worried someone will find out that you have been stalking them then explain that the ranks are not based on the number of times you have accessed their page.
Here is an announcement by the developers themselves on how the stalker rank is judged.
Thanks everyone for your questions and comments. The list is based on a number of factors, but real interactions (wall posts, likes, comments etc) are weighted heavily. The app considers the last 200 friend interactions – for most people this means visitors over the last month.
If you do not want your friends to see your name on the stalker check list then simply block it by accessing its application page. You can find the block button under the ‘Go to Application’ button.
Yes, its damn true..I read it before.
This is great! Obviously the stalker app is just a piece of poo for children, so who cares but the best thing here is the rich crop of flaming about people's use of English, grammar, spelling, etc. It is so funny to see people being "corrected" by other people whose own posts are littered with poor spelling and grammar. You can almost see the whole history of the evolution of the intellect, all laid out with examples. Brilliant! Carry on everyone!
oops, I think I think I've landed in kindergarten land!!
Are you guys sure about this? I appeared as someones No.2, but have only posted something on their wall and commented on one thing, but the guy behind me comments on everything. What’s up with that?
I’m amazed how stupid my friends are to add this kind of crap app.
Really, get the trick : everything you post on this damn site is like shouting it out in the street…
Everybody sees/hears it and that’s your choice.
I still don’t get stalker check. It’s supposed to calculate based primarily on interaction with the profile, yet I have someone on the top 10 of my stalker check list who has only commented once on something from my facebook…yet she still beats out nearly everyone else?
Just a silly observation, but would a real stalker ‘interact’ with your profile? The top ‘interacters’ on mine are quite simply my best mates! When a predator ’stalks’ its prey in the animal kingdom, it doesn’t make constant comments on the last 10 moods its prey has experienced! Although it would be great to see a documentary where David Attenborough says “And here, we see the Lion stalking its prey… Yes, he has just winked at the antelope, and now he’s forwarding some chain letters and viral videos.”
Em back to when people where not dizzing eachother and the 2 legit posts in this 10 comment discussion.
To start of i must make my point very clear. This is just another waist your time and its just another totally unnesasery application from facebook. Meaning if you activate it you either do it because your curiuss or just simply (most comonly) because you dont want to look like a stalker yourself. And in the end Facebook is the heaven homepage for stalkers. Not neceseraly stalkers from other countryes and shit (ment for 9 year old girls who think thats the only “stalkers” in the world) but acctually your friends. so, if you dont want your friends to stalk your facebook page. Get the fk of the facebook people!
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David Mudkip
July 30th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hi there,
I knew this wasnt legit, but quite a few friends of mine have added it anyway; what exactly does
Mate it doesent do anything… it just an app from facebook and doesent hurt your computer what so ever. though it is always recomended to have a spyware block on your computer while beeing on internet since its filled with it. spyware is not viruses but small unessesary shit that sits and takes space on your harddrive making your computer run slower.
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Nutrition Boy George
July 31st, 2009 at 5:05 am
“If you do not want your friends to see your name on the list then simply block it by accessing its application page.”
What list?
Your friends stalker list?
Or your name associated with “Stalker Check” in the newsfeed?
I didnt really understand this myself but i guess it means you can change the app setting of the stalkercheck by going into edit apps down left corner in facebook though that will require you to activate the app first so i recomend just to let it be. if someone can find you as a stalker its first of all based on the number of coments theyv posted on your profile. Wich usually only tells that you like to be social. So i wouldnt bother turning my head inside out trying to read behind the lines of this sentence.
To finish of i was pretty curiuss myself on what this could cause you and wy so many of my friends seem to have it activated. thats what brought me to this page in the first place. Iv read through some pages now and made up my meaning (my point) wich i wrote in the start of the post. So for those who cared reading though this i hope you got your answers and for you who dont. well you wont read this anyway so i dont have anything to say to you. Happy facebooking.
Cheers Geico.
Coltrane251 speaks the truth
hahaha! stalker check is a bit of harmless fun! not as fun as reading all these comments tho…
Kudos to your name Mike Hunt (”My Cunt”)