Can someone on Facebook tell if you searched for them?

No, Facebook doesn’t tell people that you’ve seen their profile. Third-party apps also can’t provide this functionality.

Is it illegal to look at someone’s Facebook?

It’s perfectly legal to look at a person’s Facebook to acquire information. Facebook’s public and available to anyone.

What are Facebook search suggestions based on?

As you begin typing a name or a company, Facebook’s algorithm will begin suggesting content. These different categories of content will match the words that you typed and they will appear in a drop-down menu beneath the search field.

What happens if you keep looking at someone’s Facebook?

If you search a person on Facebook and view a profile, what happens? In your worst imaginings, your ex receives an alert that you’ve been checking them out. However, Facebook doesn’t let users track who visits their profiles, and it doesn’t permit third-party apps to do it.

Is it creepy to find out other people’s information on Facebook?

Finding out information about other people is not as weird as it used to be — it’s just not. Any time people are called “creepy” for Facebook “stalking,” it’s as if they’re being called creepy for looking at my hair and telling me that it’s brown.

What is Facebook’s ‘people you may know’ feature?

The “People You May Know” feature is just one of the platform’s tools that seem straight out of your dystopian nightmares. In March, reports broke that political data firm Cambridge Analytica was able to collect personal information for more than 87 million Facebook users without those users’ knowledge.

Does Facebook’s people you may know suggest people in your network?

However, Facebook didn’t respond to the two follow-up emails asking to clarify about other potential data sources like Instagram and phone contacts. All of which is to say, there seems to be more than just “suggesting people in your network” factored into Facebook’s “People You May Know” suggestions.

What kind of people do you avoid on Facebook?

People who I have no mutual friends with and who have curiously incomplete profiles (i.e. no mutual contacts or shared groups/networks, based on the person’s public information)