Facebook again...

LegacyUser

I realise this sounds kind of stupid. So I was on FB the other day and a post pops up on my feed basically saying the my boyfriend has ranked no 2 on the amount of times he's looked at some girls profile. (Hope that makes sense, basically she used an app to give her that top ten people that look at her profile measured I presume on how many times they look at it)

BF was sitting next to me at the time and I said how did you end up no 2 on this list, he said he'd glanced at her profile the day before and that she is some girl he knows from his home town from going. I said he must have looked at it a few times to get to no 2 and his response was to shrug and say that those things probably don't even work.

So this has been running around in my head for the past few days, why was he looking at her, why is she so interesting to him etc?

I know the advice will be to talk to him but I tried once more after the first time and he shrugged it off again. If I bring it up again I think it'll just look like I'm making a huge deal out of it.

I'm unemployed at the moment and probably have too much time on my hands so I don't know if I'm being overly paranoid or if my boyfriend actually spends his time checking out other girls online. Any insights?

lynsalot

Hey OP,

I use this app myself and there's an option to "take the test again" and it provides completely different results each time which would make me wonder how accurate it is also.

Anyway i totally understand why you're feeling that way though. I wouldn't worry too much about it though. Ya know sometimes I'd be snooping on people's facebook pages from pure nosiness and they would be male and female. Sometimes I even look up ex boyfriends but it doesn't mean I want to get back with them.

It really depends on how trustworthy your boyfriend is. If this is an isolted incident I think i would let it slide as you can't be sure how accurate it is.

Barracudaincork

I think you have to much time on your hands right now.

When reading your post, i kept thinking oh here we go again another kid getting upset over facebook etc etc and i was thinking will these people ever grow up etc (not very fair but im being honest).

Anyhow as i read the rest of your post, you came accross as an intelligent adult with too much time on your hands. So yeah imo you have to much time to think and not enough to think about.

You will be sick of hearing this since being unemployed, but its still worth mentioning, look for ways to occupy your time, either doing stuff you like, making stuff, visiting people, going to the liabary etc etc

mood

I often accidently look at people profiles as well - click there photo or name when I want to reply to an e-mail or something stupid. Also I know some people who have used that app thing and the most unlikely people are in the top rating so I wouldn't worry about it. I don't understand why anyone would even use that app thing!

ash23

I don't think that app works at all. I got in the top 10 of some guys profile I looked at once or twice. So unless he is billy no mates and nobody looks at his page, it's complete BS and I wouldn't worry about it.

seamus

None of those apps work. They pick random names from your friends list, prioritise members of the opposite sex and just rank people anywhere on the list.

It's the kind of thing that 15 year olds install and coo about, so that's who it's aimed at.

Yes, you're thinking about it waay too much.

spinandscribble

those applications are in no way accurate. I was listed as number 1,2 ect on peoples profiles i hadn't looked at in weeks. Sometimes it goes by how often you wrote on their wall ect. seriously op just forget it.

LegacyUser

Those apps often go by the last few people to view your profile rather than the amount of times. i've.

Ian Beale

flaker wrote: »

Those apps often go by the last few people to view your profile rather than the amount of times. i've.

No they don't as there's nothing that stores page views, at least not in the api that devs have access too, as another poster said it's a random selection from your friends list, or depending on how complicated the selection process is it could be based on wall comments,although he only added her days ago so it would be a random selection from friends list.

Tragedy

Those apps work based on, if I remember correctly,

The amount of statuses/comments/profiles that you and the person in the list have both liked/commented on.

As in if friend x has friend y and friend z, and friend z and friend x both like friend y's status - that counts.

So yes, quite paranoid and if I was your boyfriend I'd be a bit miffed at you.

krudler

Those apps dont work, I used one and it said I was the #1 viewer of a person that I've literally looked at their profile once and that was the day i added them, havent spoken to them since, you're getting worked up over nothing

Ashlinggnilsia

ya again i agree with what everybody is sayin, I saw today that I ranked no7 on someones page and I was like wtf I never even look at it so i clicked it and did it myself, gave me my top 10, and I did it again 2 seconds later and it gave me 10 totally different people, besides if you think about it, its not like anything could be going on because if he was posting to her wall and she to his you would be able to see it on his profile, so stop worrying, I can say I would be fairly pissed if some other girl came up as my bfs no1 fan or something but its really a load of ****e tbh!

Wagon

Those apps just pick friends and rank them randomly. There isn't even anything remotly accurate about them.

cafecolour

As said above, those applications are basically full of sh*t. FB does not share page view information like that with it's users or applications, and moreove it's expressly against FB's terms of use to create an application that measures pageviews.

kjl

This app just checks to see how many times people have posted comments on pictures or status updates, not how many times the person has gone and checked the site.

He might have simply clicked like on a few pics or links and he would be at number 2.

My advice to you is to not get so over the top about things like this. So what if he talks to another girl, he is not cheating on you, and without proof of that don't get paranoid. That is the quickest way to losing you bf

Good luck

and relax

Bottle_of_Smoke

Would say it would break facebook user agreement if they provided information that would allow applications to measure this