Somebody told me that there is software you can buy or download to find out who has viewed your MySpace or Facebook profile page, or even who has TRIED to view it but gotten the "you have to be a friend" message. Is this for real?

I think it's kind of creepy that I could check somebody's profile to see if it was, say, somebody I went to high school with or just someone with the same name, and the person could tell it was me that looked. Spy vs. Spy?

They have it to download. Many website use it too. Yep..creepy.

Learn something new everyday..

looked this up and found a few things about it.

http://www.articlesbase.com/free-art...ker-32239.html

http://www.mstrackers.com/

[Because of technical limits imposed on MySpace.com, identifying visitors by username generally only works when visitors are all subscribers to the same tracker service. Additionally, most reputable MySpace profile trackers will not share the IP addresses of visitors to protect confidentiality.]
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/s...acetracker.htm


cnet downloads - profile protector programs-
http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0...form%3DWindows

Something else along those same lines a personal location tracker-

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...AaWOY&refer=us

From what i found online searching about it..

The basic thing that trackers would show about who might be visiting your MySpace or FaceBook profile is, a general location and/or possibly an IP address.

The only way some of them might give you more info is if the other person is logged on the site and had signed up with true identification.

And some tracker sites require you to sign in on them to get the info... some even ask for your details...

It looks like many of the trackers are getting blocked by both sites as they come up.

Some sites suggest many of the tracker programs are scams themselves.

Well, I can't get the thank you button to work this morning, but THANKS! So much the average person doesn't realize while happily tapping away!

Here's another one: A friend of mine called me the other day and said that her boyfriend accused HER friend of calling him a name. Apparently my friend had used his computer, and he was somehow able to use a cookie or temporary internet file (not sure which) to open her private messages on either Facebook or MySpace and see what her friend had written, calling him a bozo or something.

Of course, that makes him creepy, but I thought if you used a public computer (or somebody else's) and logged out of a social networking site or Yahoo or whatever, you were safe. Hmm, maybe she didn't log out. Does it matter?