Oct 27th, at PM. There will be a different set of friends when you view your profile vs someone else viewing your profile. Nov 2nd, at PM. Nov 7th, at AM. Nov 22nd, at PM. What's Your Name? Nov 23rd, at PM. Nov 25th, at PM. Nov 28th, at AM. I forgot to also mention that it is the 8 people during the day until about 5pm or so. After that time in the evening, it seems just random. Next day that person will be back in the 8th place. Dec 3rd, at AM.
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Dec 27th, at PM. Dec 30th, at AM. Dec 30th, at PM. Yes that's true. But what I want to know, for example when I view as with my friend X profile, I see mutual friends of ours. But those friends, are they closer to me, or to my friend X? Hey BlackSky As an example, my husband and I have a mutual friend that I communicate with regularly, but he hasn't communicated with in over a year.
That's the picture that replaces mine in the lower right corner. I have never seen it be someone closer to the other person I always thought of that corner as the "stalker" corner, but it makes more sense now :- — Holiday11 Jan 2nd, at PM.
Dec 31st, at AM. I think you're right. Same for me. Answer this question by Anonymous - Already have an account? Login now! Your Name: Your Name is required. Your Answer: Answer is required. Source s : optional. Enter the text you see in the image below.
What do you see? Your answer will appear after being approved. Ask your own question. Related Questions. Ask a Question. All Categories. Follow Us. How are the 8 friends pictures chosen in your Facebook profile Timeline? Mar 21st, at AM Reply. May 17th, at AM Reply. Friends lose interest, start caring less, and you see them show up on other people's grouping when they claim they don't speak or interact with them. That's when things start to suck. Jul 6th, at PM Reply.
I hope this is true because the guy I like is on both boxes. The 6 and the 8. I rarely creep him. But my cousin i know creeps me all the time. She is on there. But what doesn't make since is that my enemy is on there. I don't interact with her at all. Maybe she creeps me. Jul 20th, at PM Reply.
That's really amazing. Aug 4th, at PM Reply. I think, because it makes sense on mine.. I think the six are people you've interacted whether it's viewing profile, liking, commenting, etc and the eight are people who have visited or interacted the same with you with your through posts, updates, photos, links, etc.
I very seldom go through people's timelines or profiles, but I do interact through the news feed that way I also think it's a few days behind since someone interacted with you or vice versa Aug 13th, at PM Reply. Like 2 to 3 out of the 6, I have interacted. But the rest, no way. Aug 18th, at PM Reply. My dead best friend has popped up on my top 8 more than once this week. He's been dead for almost 4 years.
Sep 9th, at AM Reply. Their picture shows in the same exact position on the list bottom right corner no matter how many times I refresh the page or when I come back to it. Everyone else picture changes regularly and rotates position in the box.
Can anyone explain this to me? Does this person have some type of software or means not known to the masses that allow them to do this? Does this mean that this individual is somehow tracking my activity?
I have very little, if any interaction at all, with this individual. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Sep 14th, at PM Reply I've had the exact same thing happen to me. Sep 24th, at AM Reply. Kinda like seeing your profile through the eyes of someone else. To do this, you click the gear button under your cover photo and next to the "activity log" button and select "view as.
When you do that, the little 6 at the top will change depending on who you're view your profile as. So if I view my timeline as my friend Bob, mutual friends of ours who I seems to interact with often are shown in the little 6. But sometimes when I view my profile as Bob, the little 6 will have people who are not mutual friends of Bob and I and these people appear to be completely random because I have little to no interaction with them and they don't seem like the type of people who would be viewing my profile often.
So I feel like your little 6 can be totally random for some people, but usually includes people who you interact with, and whose profiles you view a lot. The little 6 also seems to change every time and draws from a large pool of people, rather than just cycling through the same 10 friends or so. It's obvious why some of these people appear in my big 8; either they have commented on my status, or liked a picture of mine recently, or we've been tagged in the same picture or album recently, or they are one of my "top friends.
Those who's profile I do not frequent, who haven't liked or commented on anything of mine or me on anything of their's , who don't private message or chat me or even have many of mutual friends with. I've decided that these people are showing up on my big 8 for 1 of 2 reasons: either their incorporation to my big 8 is completely random and they have just been put on the person cycle at random, OR they happen to be frequent visitors to my profile and I have identified some of my frequent FB stalkers.
I think that it is the latter personally. What does everyone think? Are my experiences and observations congruent with yours? Sep 26th, at AM Reply. I have watched for patterns on this and I finally found it.
Now I think I will be seeking a new romantic interest because the pattern I see indicates an interest outside our relationship. Sep 30th, at AM Reply. I had a crush I was slightly stalking. Then I found out he had a girlfriend. He got downgraded to regular person status. Basically that means I see your posts when I see them instead of seeking them out. I comment on some since it has been established we are pretty similar, he posts stuff I would be into about a third of the time -- in the same frequency I comment on the other people I comment on the most.
I have about people who likely get a daily like or comment. He occasionally comments on mine. He is now a regular in my top 8. We have one mutual friend. I don't visit his profile at all.
Or really many profiles. Oct 3rd, at PM Reply. They are my best friends, and they never change. I know this for a fact since i have the most interactions and then tagged pics etc with them. Today a guy who I thought was cute was in the top part of my chat, but that was the first time he showed up there. Ive searched from him other times before and he was shown at the way bottom of my friends list.
Which in a way proves that he was just "stalking me" And its not people that I stalk, because I haven't visite their pages ever.. This is mentioned a lot. I just wanted to say that they've changed this algorithm recently and I think it updates more frequently to show people who have recently viewed your profile.
I think those people stay around in the 8 box longer than randoms, or people who've only commented or liked something of yours. The other night my husband logged in and viewed something on my profile page while I was there with him.
A few minutes later my 8 box updated to include him It used to be that the 8 box only updated every evening at 5pm PST--which it always does updated something at that time--but more recently the 8 box will update suddenly and on no certain schedule with those who in my guess are viewers of your profile. Oct 6th, at PM Reply. I have a friends who has been suffering in military where all kinds of electric devices are BANNED for a year and he's constantly appearing in my 8 box.
These 9 friends may be your closest friends, family members, crushes, Facebook stalkers or just friends that have recently viewed your profile. Facebook most likely takes into account whose friends profiles and photos you view and who your friends view.
And then compares these profile views in relation to all of your friends or in the case of your friends, what other friend profiles and photos they view more often. Keep in mind, because everyone has different friends, a different number of friends and different types of relationships, everyone will have a slightly different reason as to why certain people show up in their friends box. Facebook is always tweaking its algorithm that determines these factors, so the reason why certain friends show up may always be changing slightly.
These factors include: Interactions on Facebook. Recently and over time. Recent interactions play a large role, especially if someone has recently viewed your profile page. Profile views. Could you go a month without looking at your crush's profile I know that's a long damn time?
I don't know that anything less than a month would necessarily be conclusive, and if you stalked someone ELSE during that month, that would be even better.
The person who tags me, just tags me in those stupid pictures on FB, we dont actually have photos together, bit she tags me alot but never comes up in the I think she just tags, like 20 people at a time in one picture, but doesnt look at my profile. Ok, i will try that!! I was going to try and look at absolutely no ones profile at all and see what that does to the freinds list. I'll try that one. Maybe you can try stalking someone on your list you never, ever talk to, and see if they come up in the 25?
Good to know! So there is definitely a difference between just tagging and tagging something that you, yourself, have uploaded I guess that's what makes this so difficult to try to manipulate!!
When you stop looking at her profile, ideally you should stop even clicking on pictures that show up in your newsfeed, because that will "count" as interaction. Stay strong! And yes, I'll see what I can do about coming up with someone random to stalk. Im not the same anonymous. I didn't look at my crush profile for about 4 month. He still was in my 6 box. He shows up more frequently when he's online. I've been in a similar situation before, leading me to think that perhaps there is a cumulative effect.
Like, if I stalked the HELL out of someone originally, and then stopped stalking him altogether, Facebook would hold him there for a while just because of how much I paid attention in the first go around. Or at least that's the clinical explanation.
It's also possible this is evidence right here of mutual stalking. I really don't know, but I find that very, very interesting So, you think its about who is online? And do you think he is looking at you? Well it's difficult to say. They changed a lot of things. In my opinion if you see someone you don't intetact with since a long time, there's a good chance that they look at your profile.
Not neceraly stalking, but looking at your stuff via the news feed. Nothing is random in fb. I had a few private messages with a friend.
She started showing up in my 6 box. After a few refreshes, she vanished So when fb says it's public interactions, as you can see, that's not true. Profile views are part of the algorithm, They wouldn't change it so often if it wasn't the case. I totally agree with profile views being part of the algorithm. I also know for a fact that private messaging is a part of it too regardless of what they say about "public" interactions only being taken into consideration.
All we did was exchange a few private messages and suddenly he showed up in my top 25 AND in my 8 for several weeks afterward. So there's a lot that's being taken into consideration. But even though yes, I think that when a person is online has a lot to do with it, I still stand by the fact that you have to do something first to trigger that person's inclusion in your list in the first place.
Yes that's true. Have you ever notice that some of your friends could be stuck in the bottom right corner of your 8 box? For me it's often my sister, and that's probably because we intetact a lot, I don't stalk her. When you see your friends profile with your own account, and you see someone stuck in the 8 spot of their list, in fact it's probably you instead.
But you see a mutual friend of yours I've made a little experiment, I stalked my cousin for 2 weeks every day. She didn't show up in that 8 spot until I liked just once, a video on her wall. Now she's in my 8 box,sometimes in the bottom right corner. As I said, I don't believe it's random. I saw on the site" got to know how" that fb take in count views on other site like youtube for example. There's a lot of interesting theories there. I definittely believe that private messages play apart in this as well.
I believe my experience has been due to me viewing this person's page a great deal and the few private messages the we have exchanged. As I have mentioned before my 25, with him included changed dramatically since I deleted our messages and a few friends. I no longer see him in my But I guess the changes, if any, will be different per user. Anon, your English is wonderful! And I've read that, too, about view counts being taken into consideration, particularly with regard to what shows up in your newsfeed.
The algorithm for the newsfeed, then, seems to be very different from that that generates the list of 25, and it's a different one yet for generating the list of I did a similar experiment a while back with a friend of mine; we wound up in each others' 8 but when we clicked over, we saw 7 of the same friends but we couldn't see each other on the list of 8!
So I think you're exactly right about assuming it's yourself on a person's 8 if you notice someone else "stuck" there. And iLVenti, I find it fascinating that you manipulated your top 25 by deleting things. Thank you Becky ;- I try to do my best. Sometimes, like today, a mutual friend of ours is in the 8 spot , when I look at my crush profile.
I suppose it's me there. So why am I? Is it because I used to stalk him in the past? Or because he's looking at me? That's the real question for me, and I still don't know why. I've noticed that some people cycle through my 8 for many months, even if our interaction has ceased in the meantime. For instance, I went to the wedding of a friend from college and she tagged me in several wedding photos.
After that, she showed up a lot in my 8. But the wedding was close to a year ago now, and in the interim, we've posted on each other's walls on our birthdays, but otherwise not Facebook-interacted at all. I guess that's what makes it so difficult to come to any solid conclusions. Some things change very rapidly, and other things stay the same for an extremely long time The basic conclusion is that the 6 friends at the top of your Timeline are part of a group of 25 that Facebook has weighted based on your personal interaction and viewing habits and history.
There is no way of knowing for sure if someone is stalking you based on your list of I've been wondering same thing. There is somebody who I haven't viewed her profile since August that still appears in my 6 out of yes, about 25 others. We probably had 5 to 10 total private messages.
On top of that, I have actually hid her so I don't see her newsfeed posts. Yet she still shows up in my top 6 consistently.
I have noticed your theory on people being "temporarily" bumped out of the top 6, but then after a few days it returns to the original 25 it seems she was temporarily bumped for 2 days. So at least in my case, if you stop looking at somebody's profile for 7 months, they still can consistently appear in the top 6. Not sure if this means she stalks my profile or maybe like you said it could be because initially I had gone on her profile a lot.
I'd think after 7 months of not checking it though, she'd disappear. Also, one time I had a friend who i never once went to his profile, look at my facebook page.
The next day he appeared in my top 8. So I think if somebody randomly appears in your top 8, it's likely not random at all, but they've accessed your profile.
Anyhow, interesting discussion on the inner workings of fb Seven months and you hid her I wonder what makes her different?! It's got to be either that there's some holdover from before OR her inclusion is being prolonged based on her activity. And I'm definitely going to start paying closer attention to my 8.
I noticed that a friend of mine whom I rarely interact with online showed up there temporarily after we exchanged a couple of comments. But then when we recently exchanged messages over a period of a couple of weeks, he took up permanent residence there. The 8 switch up once or twice a day, but for the past two weeks, he's been there every single time I've checked whereas people with whom I've been exchanging messages with regularly for years show up regularly in the 8 but not on a permanent, consistent basis.
Nope she has never commented or liked any of my stuff. She is on 2 of my business pages as well as 1 other mutual business we both have "liked". However I have other friends who like my business pages and have other pages in common with as well, and they don't make the top So I'm not sure if mutual likes especially if it's a business site that I run, is having an effect or not.
I think it has to do with previous profile views by me, but I guess I'm wondering like everybody else, what role people who view your profile play in being displayed in the top 6 slots.
I should find some random person and just click through all their old pics and old posts and see what happens!
I can't believe I clicked on her profile so much that it would obliterate every elses, especially over 7 months. Seven months is a long damn time. And especially since she hasn't commented or liked anything It seems like even if you spent ALL of your time on Facebook on her page, the amount of time passed would have canceled that out by now!
If anyone else has any thoughts on this, I'm all ears. And I hadn't even considered the effect of pages and mutual likes! If you wind up doing the random person experiment, please let us know I've noticed the girl who was on my 6 for the past 7 months has disappeared in the past few days after a flurry of activity on fb by me and other people who have perhaps only temporarily replaced her in the top 6.
I still haven't accessed anything on her profile, so I will keep you updated if she somehow returns to my 6 in the future. My instict is that enough time has passed to where she won't be back in my top 6, unless of course she is looking at my profile. Good luck in your investigation. Whats the difference between the box of 6 which rotates 25 people and the box of 8? The box of 8 seems to be tied directly to interaction, in terms of liking, commenting, or messaging.
The 25 which, unlike the 8, only you can see is generated by liking, commenting, messaging, AND whose profile you're looking at and, within that, possibly also who among your friends is logged into Facebook at the time.
Here is an interesting experiment, not mine but interesting: "I've always wondered about the significance of both the 6 and 8 friend boxes. So I decided to try a little experiment as well.
My son and I each have FB pages so last night I signed on to my page and started looking at his page multiple times.
I then asked him to sign onto his to see if my profile pic appeared in his 8 friends box. It did. It showed up as the second pic in the top row. I asked him to refresh the page 3 times and each time my pic was there but in different spot. Now mind you, he and I do not interact on FB. No likes, comments on each other's pages, etc. When I view his page as myself and view my page as him the top 6 reveal pics of our mutual friends.
Some I don't interact with comments, views, etc. And looking at my son's FB page during my experiment I could tell that he barely accesses his account. There wasn't a lot of activity going on. To take the experiment a step further, I unfriended my ex about a week ago. I've looked at his page a few times via the search engine but for my experiment since they're still FB friends, I accessed his page a few times via my son's page on my mobile phone earlier in the day.
When I got home and looked at my son's page via my laptop there was my ex in the 8 box. I refreshed a few times, his pic rotated then disappeared. When I looked at my ex's page a few times via my son's on the laptop, my ex didn't show up on the 8 box.
As for my own page the 6 box shows 3 or maybe 4 people I interact with, 2 or 3 I don't. The 8 box will show the same 7 people I've interacted with regularly mutual comments, likes, etc. I suspect that he looks at my page constantly because every now and then I'll get a compliment from him via message on my FB mobile message app. Then hours later, 7 of the pics will change to people I have interacted with on occasion but haven't done so in days or weeks. The same guy is the 8th person.
People I don't interact with at all are never displayed in the box. So, I believe that the 8 friends box shows: A those who have recently or consistently viewed your profile and those who you have viewed via mobile. I am almost certain that FB is keeping track of mobile views as well.
B those who you have consistent interaction with C those who you have occasionally interacted with. I suspect that's done just as a reminder to let you know that you haven't communicated in awhile. The 6 friend box is random.
A combo of those you communicate and those you do not communicate with. That is very interesting. I see we all are experiencing different things. Well, I can't say for sure if the guy I have stalked if you will see or has seen my picture amongst his top friends.
We aren't that close enough to where I feel comfortable to ask him. I do know for sure he has way more friends than I do. I never paid close attention to my box of eight friends, although I do believe I have seen his picture there. My 25 top 6 friends he most definitely has been apart of. In the past I have refreshed my page many times and it hasn't failed for him to show up the majority of that time.
Thanks for that, Lau, and I do think there is some credence to that because there have definitely been times when someone has shown up in my 8 who I know would have been interested in something that recently went up on my page, so I just assumed their appearance meant they'd looked That said, based on earlier conversations here and my own observations , I think there has to be a foundation of some sort of interaction before they'll show up, though.
And I say that because I have had people come to me in real life and talk to me about things they would have had to have gone to my profile to see things that wouldn't have shown up in their newsfeed , but I never have any online interaction with those people, and they never, ever show up on my 8.
Do you know what? I think many people were right, that's why they changed the old fb to timeline. It was easier to guess your stalkers then. Timeline was a pretext to hide the fact that you could possibly see them. I remember before timeline, my crush showed up in the friends bar on the left.
At the time, I wasn't interested. I was in his too. But yes, now it's very very hard to figure out why. Hi, Im the one that was going to do the experiment of not looking at a girls profile for a month.
Im still gonna do it, why not? She is still in my 25, and i made an excel spreadsheet of who is in the top 25, only started it a few days ago, but she ranks in at number 3, out of 40 people. Now this could be because i was always looing at her profile, but she must have also looked at mine because we are recently added , but i dont know how much.
Also, there was a guy who never sends me messages or writes on my wall, and he recently sent me a few messages in my inbox. He came into my top 25 for 1 day only, then disappeared Could it be FB just "saves" people and recycles them, and thats it? Because it is easy for the algorithm to remember?
Also, if you go to View As, and type in someones name, like your crush, you can view your page from their POV, and i found that totally different people come up in the 6 box, like people i never ever talk to. So, it seems that what you can see privately from your profile page in the 6 box, only you can see. I DO know for a fact that people who are recently added get a bit of a bump.
They will rank a little higher in your newsfeed even, although the effect is temporary. But after a month, whatever bump she got from being recently added will surely evaporate. Go for on the experiment. I think it's a definitely possibility that people are "saved. She comes and goes in my top 25, but why the hell would she be coming and going if she's dead?!
It's got to be because Facebook just pulls her up now and again. And yes, I, too, noticed that only you can see your six! I don't know if that's comforting or not.
On the phone app, you can see 6 people when you look at others profiles , not the mutual friends. I don't know why it's different. Do Kara's family still log into her fb? If so, it could be because they are active on your profile? Like, clicked on it? If they dont, it could just be truly random, OR FB picks a person you havent interacted with, to remind you of them, so you will interact with them it is social media after all.
Hang on, but i think you said before that you think the 6 box is for YOUR activity, not other peoples? So you think it is NOT about people who access your profile? About recently added people: i have added like 20 people recently and they all havent come up in my 6 box, so i dont think its that Update on my excel experiment log: So, that girl was at number 3 out of 40, then rose to number 2 and today she is number 5.
Someone wrote on my wall, and sent me a private message, and came up in the 6 box afterwards. He surely is more active on my page etc than the girl, so i dont understand why she is in the After i added her i looked at her profile, went through all her pics, and then briefly visited her profile like twice. Maybe FB keeps the interaction from when we were not friends?
Kara's family does very occasionally log in to her account to upload pictures, but I'm friends with all of them on their regular accounts. So I'm not sure why they would look at my profile from her account instead of their own and I really don't think they log in but a couple of times a year to hers anyway. As for the top For instance, my birthday was in January.
I had a couple of friends who wrote on my wall and then wrote on other comments on my wall. I did not look at their profiles, but they're both now in my top That's a case in which I didn't do anything, but there was clear action on their parts, and now there they are on the list. There is not a single person currently in my top 25 who is completely random. But what I'm determining from this conversation is that every single person here has stalked their crush, and with that being the case, we all have to acknowledge that yes, it is our own activity that is most likely putting these people in our 6.
Since we can only track our own activity, there is absolutely no way for any of us to know with certainty how much if ANY of the other person's activity is influencing their appearance Well, it is a brain buster that is for sure!!
There are a couple of people on my 25 that i dont interact with, but alot of the ones i do, dont come up in the 25 at all!! Hi you think it might have something to do with the pic its selif like you said. Mobile is different my friends pic shows up on everyones pages she's a friend with and she has a lot of friends she always shows up. That is what I find strange.
The manipulation as we will call it wasn't done on purpose. I guess I have a strange relationship with facebook. One day last month I got on and decided to delete old messages and a few friends.
Since then My top 25 has been people that normally didn't show up or maybe I jsut hadn't noticed before. My newsfeed is pretty much the same though. My lame experiment has been simple. All I've done was send a private message to see if he would return to my top 25 and so far he hasn't.
I have visited his page a few times. I'm more nervous about it now that in the past. But, I'm also wondering if the algorithm has changed. Sorry, I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. Well, I think you can take some comfort in a couple of things. Most people probably don't pay as close attention to all of this as we do! And 2. I think the algorithm HAS changed, and with each change Facebook makes, I think they make it more complicated.
They're pretty adamant that you can't tell who's been looking at your profile, and I would imagine that any changes that they made would make it more not less difficult to even attempt to figure that out. And he might show up yet.
Sometimes there's a lag Let us know! But he was in the 6. I stopped, and I saw him in the bottom right corner. I don't understand why. That's not logic. I think you're right. It has changed and they probably want to make it more complicated since a few of us has noticed this.
I don't log into Facebook as much as I used but I do plan to keep watch to see if anything changes. Lau, I never paid as much attention to my 8 box, but I do believe he has shown up there. He was definitely in constant rotation amongst my 6. The journalist talked to a VP from Facebook and he said that they are "constantly changing the algorithm. But it was more about what advertisments users want to see. I hope this is of some help some of you. I still think our theories though different are on point.
The total friends list could possibly be an indication. I was in the first block of my crush friends list. When I looked his profile with my fake account, the bottom right corner was stuck with a friend of his, someone "X " I don't know. With my own profile, it was a mutual friend of ours. I deactivated my account, and now, when I look at my crush friends list with my fake account, mister X took my place in the friends list Did you log into both profiles from the same computer?? Since it came from the same IP address, Facebook may have registered both profiles as the same person since it came from the same computer.
Just a thought Yes I think so. The new timeline has 9 friends pictures on the left. I don't know what it means, but my crush is there, with family members, and people I interact a lot.
I took a break because I didn't have anything to further contribute especially since I try to stay away from Facebook as much as possible, but plan to login some time this coming week. In the meantime something strange happened to me today.
I will get to that in a moment. My laptop that I hadn't used in almost a year because I thought it had died on me. Now that that has been taken care of I have been using it. Okay, now back on subject. I received an email at my Google account about "people you may know" on Facebook. I have no idea who 3 of the 4 people are. Could it be they are friends with some of my friends? They very well could be but I am not on Facebook enough to figure it out, yet. One of the suggestions I am following on Twitter already.
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