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How do the 6 friends photos at the top of Facebook Timeline get choosen?

Why do certain friends seem to show up as one of the the six photos in the small friends list photo box at the top of Facebook Timeline? Are these the 6 friends people who have visited your profile recently or have been online recently? What is the reason for only seeing certain friends pictures in this friends box?


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both show oddly similar characteristics. as i said you can manipulate your private 8 box, when i take someone off it my crush will always take the spot. but when you manipulate it youre only manipulating your private box. what does that mean? as being ive been creeping hard on said crush so that extra spot might be taken in on personal profile views.

PUBLIC as i think we might have some real stuff going on here might be more important to look at. said crush hasent shown up on my 8box in months "because i aquaintenced her, and took off news feed" i decided i wanted to change it back as i was feeling better about the situation, and no crush on 8 box for about 3 weeks.
than after i went to a night clubbing which she attended with my group she started showing up on my 8box again. *at this time i was rarley looking at her profile* i also may have drunkinly told her best friend i had a thing for her aswell which may have lead to facebook creeping. regardless, she started showing up on public 8box. 2 days later she liked something on my facebook at 3 oclock in the morning, which leads to believe shes been creeping me.

conclusion, public might have something with my friend showing up in her 8box how she shows up in my 8box and randomly liked something on my wall 2 days later."she never likes anything on my wall*hard to get right*" private might have something with being able to manipulate and seeing who shows up more consistantly amoung the lists.
Dec 18th, 2012 at 7:18 AM
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Ok. When I was looking at my crush profile, , he never was in my private or public box. I was in his public one. I don't do this anymore since october, and now he's in my private 8 box, in the bottom right corner. He is always in my 6 box, but when he pop up the 8, he shows up a lot in the 6... What do you think? –  BlackSky  Dec 18th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
6 box as far as i see it, shows people relevant in youre life. have it be profile views, likes, being in the same event or group where you are veiwing and interacting with the same content that person should be there. mainly because when i look at my 6 box im like "oh ya i can totally see why that person is there" that 8 box public being stuck on the bottom right is something to take note of. as my friends profile is stuck on my crushes bottom right. now i have no idea if hes been looking hard at the profile yet or notill be suure to ask, or maybe she knows im good friends with him and shes looking at his profile as well. mutual viewing really activates these profiles to show up i think. im curious as to how you see yourself in his profile 8 box..youre not supposed to if your logged into your account. –  anonamoose  Dec 18th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
@ anomamoose... His friends box are public, sooooo, I can see myself with my fake account, or my sister account. Not with mine of course.... –  BlackSky  Dec 18th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
" as my friends profile is stuck on my crushes bottom right. now i have no idea if hes been looking hard at the profile yet or notill be suure to ask, or maybe she knows im good friends with him and shes looking at his profile as well"
I think it means something special when one if your friends is in the bottom right corner. For me it's your biggest stalker. –  BlackSky  Dec 18th, 2012 at 1:05 PM
id doubt if the bottom right thing would show your "biggest stalker" i think facebook has it set up so the 8 box shows a set list of people and has a forumla to show who gets to be there more often or not. i think the being stuck in the bottom right is one of facebooks formulas to show up on the 8 box. how do you meet the criteria? who knows, id assume it has something to do with mutual viewing. not just one sided borderline criminal profile viewing, but possibly mutual viewing without much public or private interaction. –  anonamoose  Dec 18th, 2012 at 10:10 PM


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ps: my crush he's stuck on my private profile, not the public one.
Dec 18th, 2012 at 12:47 PM
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Interesting thing I found out: If you go to someone's profile ans the bottom right pic in their 8-box is stuck with many refreshes, that person is actually YOU and not the one you see when you visit your friend. You can verify this by viewing the profile from a dummy account.

And why isn't the keesh list working anymore? Or is it not working only for me?
Dec 20th, 2012 at 1:49 AM
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I'm sick of the keesh list being broken!!

Have you noticed that if you have multiple dummy accounts, you will see different people in your 8 box or the 8 boxes of others?...and I think this might be based on which of your friends' profiles (or your friends' friends profiles) you've viewed recently from that dummy account. I've logged in with dummy accounts #1 and #2, plus my son's account, and seen different people in my own 8 box, or those of my crush. –  portlandia  Dec 20th, 2012 at 9:26 PM
portlandia Same for me! I hadn't noticed! When I view friend X from my dummy account, his 8-friends are slightly different from what I see when I visit him from my real account. The persons that change (the ones I see from my real account) are actually a couple of friends I interact with a lot from my real account.

Keesh still broken –  randomname  Dec 21st, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Keesh is still working if you download Firefox, as of yesterday when I tried it. –  portlandia  Dec 21st, 2012 at 8:28 PM
@anomamoose....I've done what you said. I have removed 2 names from my news feed. Now my crush is in the 8 box , stuck in the bottom right corner....
And @yourrnamee, when I go to my crush profile, his bottom right corner is stuck with many refreshes. Maybe he's looking at me. I don't interact with him since march, and don't look at his profile since october. –  BlackSky  Dec 23rd, 2012 at 6:46 PM


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Anyone else notice the grid of pictures that comes up when you go online to chat? My longtime crush is first in the upper right corner on a grid with about 20-25(?) other profile pics. Thoughts on the order of this thing? Just started seeing it a couple of days ago.
Dec 23rd, 2012 at 3:20 PM
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I have 6 friends in that box. And i've got about 600 friends. But there are 2 people that I haven't spoken to in a month. And I haven't talked to them in the chat, or liked their pictures or foto's or commented on their foto's or status or whatever. And yes, they are online very much on facebook, because they've got the app on their phone. So the answer to that question is that they visited my account? And how many times? Just once? Or more often?

Thx
Dec 24th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
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All this stuff is weird, but I have some ideas... Here's my conclusion (sorry for my english, I'm not an native speaker):

6 BOX
a) The 6 box seems to show you the people, whose profile you've recently visited or whom you've wrote a message. Mutual interaction might have a little effect.

KEESH LIST
b) The keesh list seems to show you the people that you are STALKING: I have two crushes (that I stalk regulary) and they are always on top of my keesh list and within the 6 box.
c) The keesh list and the search suggestions shows you the same order of friends.
d) The keesh list seems to be influenced by something more than "who you have been visited". If you visit the profiles of three people (who are having the same number and are ranking not very high) only one time, you will recognize, that the ranking will change afterwards. I did that experiment with three people (A, B, C): Afterwards, friend A was still very low (we've had some interactions on FB, but it's a long time ago). Friend B was higer (she likes my postings very often) and friend C climbed up really high. She worte me a message some days before, I visited her profile and wrote her a message too). She was defenitly on my page and I was on hers. We didn't interact in public. She's in my 6 Box now. I think, it's mutual.

THE ORDERED FRIENDS LIST
Do you now, what it is? Take a look here:
www.gotknowhow.com/answers/whats-the-ordered-friends-list...
(the search "orderedfriends" doesn't work for me - try "ringtone" - without the "")

Well, THIS list is quite interesting! It shows me very different results than the keesh list. Remember? My two crushes are both on top of my keesh list, but not at the top of my OF List. Only one is high (I wrote something on his profile some days ago) the other one is at the bottom. THIS list doesn't show you the people that you are stalking!!! They are not random, most of them make sense. But if there is somone high onh the list you don't interact with, he could be YOUR stalker.

What do you think of it?
Dec 28th, 2012 at 2:19 AM
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Facebook seems to have changed the criteria for these lists quite a bit since this conversation started and since people here started "discovering" how they work. The basic characteristics seem to have remained kinda consistent though. Anyway update:

6 friends list for me currently:
-People in the Close Friends list are always in the 6 list. (Acquaintances are never in the 6-list.)
-Friends with a lot of mutual interaction (mutual likes, wall posts, messages etc)
-Friends I've messaged and chatted with
-Friends whose stuff I like but they never like mine. (for example people whose profile pics, statuses etc I like make it to the 6-list right away and stay there for quite a while)
-People I stalk, but do not interact with publicly and never chat with them or msg them. I just visit their profiles a lot, go through their pics etc.
-A couple of VERY likely potential stalkers, who I DO NOT stalk at all or have any other interaction with them.

8-Friends list:
-People I have a lot of mutual interaction with
-People whose stuff I recently liked (but they did not like mine) make it there right away and stay for a bit.
-A couple of people with whom I used to interact a lot, but haven't interacted with in any way for months.

Interesting observation: People I stalk and potential stalkers of me, do NOT appear in the 8-list. Actually for months now I've NEVER seen someone on my 8-box with who I have not interacted with. That is, people whose stuff I have not liked or people with whom I do not chat etc do NOT make it in the 8-list.

OrederedFriendsList:
-People I interact with a lot
-People I chat/pm with a lot
-As the list moves down there are a couple of potential stalkers.

Interesting observation: #1 in the list is my best friend in real life, who is also the person I have the most interaction with on fb. The rest of the friends in high places in this list are also people I interact with a lot on fb, with one exception. #2 in the OrderedFriendsList is the ex girlfriend of a guy who has a huge crush on me (and she knows it). I never interact with her. NEVER like her stuff or msg her etc. I don't know how she made it there. She's also #2 in my Chat list at the right side of the screen, even though we never chat.

The 3-list in the "Find Friends" section has been consistent since forever and shows mainly the friends I've interacted with the most throughout my whole fb "history". BUT that ex girlfriend of this guy is also in this list.

p.s.-Close Friends suggestions are back, but they seem kinda random.
p.p.s-Facebook is so monitoring this conversation and altering things as soon as we are up to something. –  randomname  Dec 28th, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Oh, also, the frequency with which the people in the 6-list appear (how often they appear in many refreshes) seems to have a lot to do with who is currently online at that specific time. (By online, I do not only mean online on the chat, but simply just logged in on facebook-even if they do not publicly like stuff etc) –  randomname  Dec 28th, 2012 at 9:35 PM


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I also follow the discussions in Germany. Two girls did an experiment with the OrderedFriendsList: They created several accounts and started to stalk one dummy. And they could always see, who has stalked the dummy at last... I don't know, whether it's true.. But it sounds quite interesting.

I really think, that the exgirl of the guy stalks you, randomname.
Dec 29th, 2012 at 12:12 AM
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Has anyone elses 6 box disappeared? When I go online on a regular computer I have no 6 box anymore. Its been missing for about a week. But when Im on my iPhone, its still there. Very strange...
Dec 29th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
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The box is there for me. Try using a different browser. –  randomname  Dec 29th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
It doesnt seem to matter which browser I use my 6 box is GONE! And I can't see anyone elses either! When I log on to my husbands account on the same device his is still there. Im wondering if fb is testing my page with one of their experiments. Dont know whats going on... –  Gracie  Dec 30th, 2012 at 12:24 AM
@Gracie You could be right, Facebook, like youtube, tries potential new changes with a few users before making these changes for everyone. They could be thinking of getting rid of the 6-box. Who knows? If anyone else's 6-box is gone, please share! –  randomname  Dec 30th, 2012 at 8:36 PM


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The chat list is so totally not random! I've visited an old friend today and I told her about this funny FB thing. She logged in - and there I was - in her chat list! I've visited her profile some days before, because we meet maybe one time in the year. We don't interact on FB and don't have that much common friends. And I was high in her ordered chat list too (she wants to stalk me the next days, so we'll see that will have an effect)...

And here comes the weird thing: In her ordered friends list was a person that she doesn't even know, but is a facebook friend of mine. Both studied in the same town - so maybe my friend was curious and visited her profile.
Dec 30th, 2012 at 1:42 AM
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My chat list has become somewhat random recently -- people i interact with a lot, and then people i NEVER interact with strewn in with them. very strange. –  tiff  Jan 3rd, 2013 at 1:10 AM
Yep, my 6 box still gone! What the heck??! I hope I get it back but I have no idea why it's missing. Facebook experiment? Virus on my facebook account? Anyone else's missing or have any ideas? –  Gracie  Jan 3rd, 2013 at 2:12 AM


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@tiff
i agree, i just had a couple people i havent even thought of since highschool "4years" shoot their way up my orderedfriendslist, and ultimately chat bar.
Jan 3rd, 2013 at 4:55 AM
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Mine has gone all random, the 6 box, the 8 box and the 3 mutual friends in find friends have all got people that i havent spoken to since friending them, or people who as far as i know are never even active on fb. I think you people were on to something and fb knows it and changed things around.

Also, for the past month or so every now and then my status's from the last month disappear from my wall, they return later though :/ ..also instead of ''Whats on your mind?' ...i am getting ''Whats going on *name*? ' and Whats happening *name*? ' Changes in the midst :)
Jan 4th, 2013 at 8:35 AM
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Yeah, mine says the same thing, What's happening...for my status update. –  Gracie  Jan 6th, 2013 at 2:01 AM
My chat at the right side of the screen has suddenly gone completely random. A couple of people I chat with a lot are still there, but the rest couldn't be more random. I didn't even remember I was friends with those people who suddenly appeared there. What the hell? –  randomname  Jan 9th, 2013 at 1:04 AM


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i never go to my ex profile and we haven't been interacting for months.i must have commented 2 of his status in the last 4 months and he has liked 2 pics of me. he has been in both my boxes for months, since we dated and after we stopped. i never go to his profile because i'm not interested and not a stalker so i guess he goes on mine otherwise how can we explain he's always in my boxes? the other that are on my boxes are people i interact with or people i visit the profiles.
Jan 7th, 2013 at 8:49 PM
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it takes an extreeeemely long time for people you have a long fb history with to disappear from your boxes. i have people that i had interacted a lot with in the past who have now been on my restricted list for 8 months (meaning they can't see ANYTHING) and they're still in my 6 box. –  tiff  Jan 8th, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Totally agree with tiff –  randomname  Jan 8th, 2013 at 9:55 PM


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I don't know whose theory is right. All I can speak of is my own experience. I deleted an ex from my FB account about 10 months ago. She was ranked pretty high on my list when I first started using the Keesh list (about 14+). I didn't visit her profile after the break up though but the list would go up and down even though I didn't visit her page. It took a while to go down but eventually, her ranking went down to about 1.22. Now it's 4.32 and I haven't even been on her page! Can someone explain how someone you are not friends with on FB, don't message or ANYTHING STILL ends up having the rankings go up and down? We don't have any mutual friends and we have no pictures on FB together We weren't public on FB.
Jan 13th, 2013 at 2:59 AM
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UMMM, did anyone else's Keesh list just totally turn all F**ked up! Mine is messed up! It has a totally new order and includes names I've searched for AGES ago, and aren't even on my friends list at the top of the list! WTF? –  Clueless  Jan 14th, 2013 at 10:33 PM


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anyone know why the list is different when you turn off secure browsing? with secure browsing turned on the list reads on set of numbers and when it is turned off, it reads a different set of numbers.
Jan 15th, 2013 at 12:23 AM
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Yep, my Keesh list just went nuts too. Same thing, now includes folks I searched for months ago who has since disappeared from the list. And is also includes many names that I know I did not search or look at profiles. And the numbers went from like -3 down to like -0.53. We know the Keesh does reset periodically so it will be interesting to see what happens. Unless FB is finally onto the Keesh thing and has total reworked the coding.

BTW, I look at my Keesh list every day, and copy/paste the findings into a word document. Have been doing this for months. I unfriended my crush in November, he still stays in the top 5 on my list.
Jan 15th, 2013 at 4:28 PM
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I want the old keesh list back, hopefully this list goes away soon...
Jan 16th, 2013 at 8:15 PM
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Same comments here on the Keesh list update. Same here, I see some people's names whose profiles I visited in October roughly. Most strangely, my list contains one name with whom I connected in mid-December and for sure had no interactions via other people before that. A truly weird mix in time! A lot of names are missing, most frequent interactions are in the middle of the list, and there are a lot of strangers in the list.
Jan 16th, 2013 at 9:13 PM
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I notice it is based on (1) people you most regularly [Comment, Like, Message], (2) Friends visiting your page or you (or they) are clicking on items related to each other (3) or they have you in their Close Friends List or a Family List if you do not interact with them.
Jan 18th, 2013 at 5:14 PM
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So, i'm also very interested in this subject. Small 6-friends box became my nightmare haha. I wanted to figure out whats the reason these 6 people appeare. I really hoped these are people who stalk us. There's one guy I have crush on, he appeare in small box all the time and I really hoped he check up one me. He isn't very active on fb, he just collects friends but doesn't comment anything, neither likes anything. We didn't have any interactions at all. While ago I just checked his profile maybe 4 times. Since then he appears in my small box. I hoped he checked my profile that's why he appears in my friends list. But I wanted be sure and did little experiment. I found one who is acyually unactive on fb, doesn't post, coment, etc. I went on his profile and refreshed site 15 times. He didn't appear in small box. Weird :/ Ok, I didn't give up, I found 2 other friends, who I'm also certain don't check up on me, but are active on fb. I went to their profiles but didn't refresh sites, just went thru pics, I did it 4 times during day. Guess what! Those 2 friends started appear in my small friends list. Coincidence? Of course not! I'm now sure as hell, Fb stores info about us, whos profiles we visit and put them in magic 6 friends box. Check it out and you will see :D
Jan 19th, 2013 at 5:10 PM
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Sorry tequila, I believe that's disinformation, and is contrary to what the majority here are reporting.

Your English is also a little too 'pigeon'.
Jan 20th, 2013 at 3:41 PM
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Guys can you please share your experience with the 3 friends (3 at a time, rotating among 10 or something friends) in Friend Finder ("Find Friends")?

Are the friends on YOUR list the people you stalk? Or mainly the ones you interact with a lot and/or your potential "Stalkers"?

Up until a few days ago it was my close friends and 1-2 people who I Suspect stalk me. But there was an interesting addition of a person I kinda stalk lately. Confused. –  randomname  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 3:57 AM
note: There's a great chance this person is stalking me as well lately. I'd love to hear others' experience with this list, because it got me confused. –  randomname  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 4:02 AM
@randomname
mutual friends "3" has more or less stayed the same, couple new names due to recent interaction "chat" but thats it. could be possible facebook thinks since youre so interested in this person you will also be interested in their friends? who knows, i know a few names in there must be friends who check up on me but i never look or interact "they recently moved away quite far for a year". it seems if they are rated high in my chat list they will make it onto "3" along with some random people –  anonamoose  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 7:01 AM
@ Grint....Lol. Facebook people are there. I don't believe a word in what you said Tequila.... In fact, I believe the contrary. Thank youuuu. –  BlackSky  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 7:12 PM


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Last week my appeared in my 8 box quite often and disappears after a while. I am sure he had visited my profile based on other non FB interactions I had with him. I visited his profile only once last week (the day before I talked to him in a non fb chat) and I thought he was showing up in my 8 box just because of my 'one time' visit to his profile.

This week, for last 4 days I am stalking him like crazy and I know he is out of town and busy and wont have time to check fb ( he might check fb through his mobile though). He still is not showing up in my 8 box. But I checked his profile ( through a dummy account) and surprisingly, I am in his 8 box and another surprise is I am showing up quite often and disappear after some time. ( like, his appearance in my 8 box for a while and then disappears last week).

So, do you guys think he might have visited my profile last week ?
Jan 22nd, 2013 at 4:12 PM
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I have answered above about the 8-list, so I Will just quote myself:

"8-Friends list:
-People I have a lot of mutual interaction with
-People whose stuff I recently liked (but they did not like mine) make it there right away and stay for a bit.
-A couple of people with whom I used to interact a lot, but haven't interacted with in any way for months.

Interesting observation: People I stalk and potential stalkers of me, do NOT appear in the 8-list. Actually for months now I've NEVER seen someone on my 8-box with who I have not interacted with. That is, people whose stuff I have not liked or people with whom I do not chat etc do NOT make it in the 8-list."

In other words, I don't think one-sided stalking either by him or by you would suffice to make them appear in the 8-box. I've figured that it must be public interaction (mutual or one-sided) that counts a lot for someone to make it there. –  randomname  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 8:12 PM
@randomname
i dont fully believe in what you say about the 8box.
mutual interaction yes, People whose stuff I recently liked (but they did not like mine) make it there right away and stay for a bit yes, A couple of people with whom I used to interact a lot, but haven't interacted with in any way for months yes. but it seems so much more interesting than that. for example, people who i do not visit at all or like their content make my 8 box "although they are good friends of mine" but here is a interesting thing that happend to me a few weeks ago.
my private 8 box was stuck in the bottom right with a picture of a girl i know, and im pretty sure she has a crush on me. so i decide to unsubscribe from her, it didnt take her off my list! so i tried to aquientence her, and what do you know i got her off of it. but guess who took the bottom right spot and was now stuck there? my crush. so i thought "thats interesting" now i try to do this to my crush, guess who took her spot? her best friend, "who never ever ever makes it on my 8box" maybe it took my personal viewing maybe it took mutual but nontheless it was interesting. –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 2:38 AM
@FBuser
i've had times where my crush has shown up out of the blue without me seeing them for a long time on my 8box after spending a evening with them, ive also had them shoot up my chat list now too. here is another interesting story.
there is this girl i was working on, who was a long time girlfriend with this guy i knew. she recently started liking stuff on my facebook, and guess who startied showing up in my 8box? not the girl, but her ex from a long time ago. they broke up around 2 years ago and it was on bad terms, "they are also no longer facebook friends" maybe he noticed her name on my facebook and was creeping me to see if i was going to start dating her? i never look comment or have any interaction other than real life once in a blue moon with this guy. –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 2:45 AM
also a person below the first 19 rows of your friends list should not show up in your 8box. but if they do, it is possible they were viewing your profile! –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 3:02 AM
@anonamoose This is actually very interesting. I've never had that thing where a friend is "stuck" at the bottom right box of the 8-friends, but I've seen quite a few people mention it here. Don't know the meaning for sure, but based on this conversation , that box must actually be a stalker revealing thing. When people here started figuring it out, fb changed it and no one got it anymore. I'm curious as to how you're still getting it! –  randomname  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 5:48 AM
@randomname
happend for a few weeks on and off in the middle of december and early january, i think i know why it happens but incase facebook is watching i shouldnt say why. its nothing you can really manually do. BUT its showing some cool stuff. same with that stupid box that showed like 12 people for your close friends suggestion, i thought there was something to that too. but its gone for now at least. i dont see much promise in the 6 box, of mutual friendsx3. i did find the old mutual friends list and that was interesting if you look up friendship history with someone and click mutual friends you can find the old list there. but that stuck box, and orderedfriendslist are the best things we got going now. –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 7:37 AM
but honestly, facebook hasent had anything interesting happen for about 10-11 days now. orderedfriendslist has slowed down with people only moving a spot or two up or down. no new faces in 8 box except for a new person who i just recently liked and commented on their wall, just gotta wait until a update i suppose. –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 8:12 AM
@ anomamoose wow! Interesting update after my last comment! Just got that stuck friend thing on the bottom right of my 8-box as well. He's a guy I interact with a lot through private messages and we also have little public interaction. (a few likes here and there). But I know for sure he "stalks" me a lot, because he has admitted that he has a huge crush on me for months now . wow! It's like fb monitors this conversation closely or this is a hell of a coincidence.

On a side note, putting people in the acquaintance list and/or unsubscribing from them does NOT remove them from the 8-box for me. –  randomname  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 10:41 AM


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I really hope they change the Keesh system to the old one, no it is more difficult to find the people you talk/stalk on fb because there are are a lot of “randoms” thrown in there etc. The new fb ranking is just a mess….
Jan 22nd, 2013 at 7:38 PM
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Yeah, the Keesh list went random for me too. Useless now. Can't figure out how this order was chosen and what it means and many totally random names that I've never heard of before are thrown in there too. –  randomname  Jan 22nd, 2013 at 8:09 PM
my new order makes a ton of sense to me, its actually people that ive been looking at. with a few extra people i met at the end of this year that makes me believe facebook wants me to interact with this top group because of mutual interaction. these people were pretty relevent in my life for around mid november-early jan. –  anonamoose  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 8:19 AM
Yes, and it is also very annoying when you are on fb and try to search for your friends in the search bar because "random" people you searched for months ago come up instead... –  fbpro  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 1:41 PM


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The order of my orderedfriend list makes no sense to me at all. There are tons of girls I just know, but never interact with. No liking, no chat, nothing. So I guess it must be people who are looking at my page.
The keesh list is now really just people I've been looking for. Or better searching for by typing in their name. So that makes perfect sense.
The 6 box; I don't what to think about that. There is a guy I barely know showing up all the time. He is also on the friend finder, but not in the 8 box. Is he just online or stalking me like crazy?
Jan 23rd, 2013 at 9:06 AM
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8 box doesnt show your stalkers or d ppl u stalke.....i went through so many experiments....8 box didnt worked for me....it is very complicated, i cudnt figure d algorithm
i think 6 box, chat list, mutual frnd finder( sometimes) has the hidden stalker data ( but you must have more or less interaction with that person)
i know some guy who are interested on me bt i dont care at all abt them, even dont c their updates properly...they r never on my 6,8 box or anywhere.
Jan 23rd, 2013 at 1:05 PM
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The six box definitely lists some of your stalkers. I have 3 girls regularly appear on mine daily. 1. Is my ex, who I know is still after me (she took the breakup hard). We have a maybe half a dozen mutual friends but don't interact at all (never check her page) and haven't for a year or two (we still talk every week other on the phone - friends). 2. Is a girl from school, like, way back. We have two mutual friends, although admittedly I did have a drunken FB encounter with her last year and possibly led her on via msgs, but that was ONE night and maybe two dozen msgs. No 'likes' or comments between the two whatsoever, never check her profile. 3. Is the kicker, a girl I know from the real world, no mutual friends no contact whatsoever on fb. She is nice and I have checked her page on occasion, but definitely a lot less than I have others who have never appeared in the box, we have zero mutual friends. 4. Is a wild card. Again no mutual friends, can't even remember how she got added (she is local to me though). But I stalk the hell out of her page and chat now and then. Apart from that its a few family members and friends - but people I would expect to have a passing interest (as I do with them).

Just to make clear, I have about 125 friends. Some people with whom I have more mutual friends (30+) and have lots of fb contact with, never appear.

This isn't rocket science. There is without a shadow of a doubt something going on, and ask yourself why wouldn't there be? It's a multi-billion dollar business with the most social beings we know of at its very core. Of course they have a team of psychologists and other like minded professionals advising them. It could be argued that this side of FB is absolutely more important that the front end/ software side of things, especially going forward.

It's cool to have a nice life, big house and lots of travel etc etc, but from a primeval point of view we are placed here to make more of us, nothing else - that makes partnering an essential part of our make-up. That won't be changing anytime soon.
Jan 23rd, 2013 at 4:11 PM
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* I listed 3 because I didn't think the 4th would count in this argument as I stalk her page every once in a while. And this may sound slightly narcissistic but there is every chance she does check my page out (she's nice but of a 'lower standard' then I would usually pursue).

**There's a fifth, a girl who lives over the back from me, lots of mutual friends but no contact on here - in fact I even restrict her view owing to the close proximity to my house (I would prefer immediate residential neighbours not knowing my business). She is kinda hot though, but I have to see her maybe 4 times a week so that would make things difficult everything went pear shaped so I steer well clear.

***I am obviously only talking about the 6 friend box here; the 8 friend box is a completely different kettle of fish probably best described by Randoname above. –  Steve101  Jan 23rd, 2013 at 4:38 PM


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The Keesh list is complete riddle at the moment...
Jan 23rd, 2013 at 8:02 PM
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Also, if you watch what sponsored stories show up as soon as you post something. try refreshing, as soon as you post vids, or pictures. The stories show of a guy who is in the lower right of my 8box. when I refresh, after posting something, an ad that says what he likes shows up.
Jan 24th, 2013 at 9:37 AM
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I've noticed something familiar, everytime I update my status a sponsored story of a guy shows up that pretends to ignore me, but on the other hand checks every single step. Even friends of mine. Its super weird.
In the UK are no people stuck in the 8 box. But on the mobile device the lower right person on the 6 box could be someone who just checked up on you. Reason to believe that; a couple of ex working pals showed up right after I added my new work place. SO? Coincidence??
Another thing is the close friends suggestions. How the h*** is it determined?
Jan 24th, 2013 at 10:48 AM
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Yesterday I got the "stuck" friend at the bottom right of my 8 box for the 1st time. (I got it RIGHT after I told someone here that I've never had a stuck friend there, even though I've heard other people talk about it). Since then, I also noticed another change. My 8 friends used to change a couple of times withing the day. Now it's the same group of 8 people-1 stuck at the bottom right and 7 rotating among the rest of the boxes.

However my roommate's 8-box is still normal (meaning NO stuck friend at the bottom right and the group of 8 people changing within the day)

How about you guys? Do you get that stuck friend thing, or is your 8-box still normal? –  randomname  Jan 25th, 2013 at 2:09 PM


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Well my 6 box list definetely shows people that profile I visited recently. I thought it swohn my stalkers butI think that is not the case. As for 8 box the same thing.
Jan 25th, 2013 at 5:25 PM
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I'm glad someone mentioned the sponsored stories and the person being stuck in the 8th box. There is someone from my past that I haven't spoke to at all in over 8 months. There were a few tagged pics before and messages but not many compared to other people. this person was not number 1 on the old keesh list, but somewhere between 2-5. anyway, I don't use facebook much or post many things. but when I do, this person shows up in the sponsored stories ALOT. this person also is the only one ever to be stuck in the lower right in the 8 friend box. it does that from time to time ever since i started the timeline back in august and we haven't communicated in anyway since and i don't even view that person profile anymore. Another thing, last week I noticed that i didn't see anymore of this person and found out that she had deactivated facebook. now, a few days ago the lower right person was stuck on some girl that i haven't seen or spoke to in over 10 years. NEVER any facebook interaction at all. not even profile or photo visits.
Jan 25th, 2013 at 5:59 PM
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The person stuck in the 8th box, is not your biggest stalker. It is based on who YOU stalk. Last May it had two persons stuck in there, the 8:th box YOUR biggest stalker 7:th box: who YOU stalk the most. If you go to a persons fb who has a person stuck in it, it will show a different person for different people. If you are friends with that person it will show the ones from your mutual friend list with the highest keesh rate on your list. That person will pop in there. If you are not friends with that person on fb, or do not have any mutual friends, it will show a totally random person. Often a person with K starting as the first letter in the last name. This because K is in the middle of the Alfabeth, a total random person. Trust me. –  fbpro  Jan 25th, 2013 at 10:55 PM
I am not saying that this person is stalking me. i just don't get it. I thought it was the way that you have explained but it doesn't seem that way. I am referring to when i view my own profile that sometimes the 8th spot is stuck on this person. This person deactivated her account and the 8 spot was stuck the other day again but this time with someone that i didn't even know that i was friends with on Facebook, so no interaction. and I know that when i view a friends profile and I am in the 8 friends box that some mutual friend would be stuck in that 8th spot. I thought it was someone that was highest on the keesh list. but that isn't true. because this person was like number 3. and when i view a friends profile that has the same friends that are number 1 and 2 on my keesh list.....it does not show them. it shows this same person that is was is number 3 on the list.... –  adam0705  Jan 26th, 2013 at 1:08 AM
im with adam, although the stuck person in the 8 box is usually in the top 6 of the keesh list, its not following the order exactly. say you look at a friends profile, and the person who would normally be stuck in the spot is already showing, it should show the next mutual friend with the highest keesh rating according to you right? well it doesnt for me, it picks a differnt girl who im quite sure has a crush on me. shes also 6 on the keesh. also the normal girl who shows up is 2'nd on keesh. if its my own profile were the person is stuck it follows the same order. as long as the friends im looking at have the same mutual friends, i think my test has some merrit. –  anonamoose  Jan 26th, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Im completely agree with fbpro,!!!!
Nice observation,! –  belogical  Jan 29th, 2013 at 12:58 PM
The person stuck in the 8th box is a someone I don't stalk AT ALL.... It's not people I stalk. The other day it was my sister. I don't look at her profile, but we interact a lot. –  BlackSky  Jan 29th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Agree with adam and anonamoose –  BlackSky  Jan 29th, 2013 at 2:01 PM
I just wanted to add to this again. The keesh list updated again yesterday and the person that is always stuck in the lower right box (either on my profile or when I go to a mutual friends profile) is 13th on the keesh list now. However if I go to a friends profile...She is the only one that gets stuck in the lower right box...NO one else, EVER. If 13 out of the top 15 on my Keesh list are mutual friends with the friend's profile that I am viewing, Why would it pick her instead of anyone of the 12 with the higher (negative) keesh value?? –  adam0705  Jan 30th, 2013 at 5:49 AM


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That guy above who said that most of the people in the 8box have a letter close to K makes sense and I just noticed that the people in my 8 box that ppl's names there currently start with F-K-K-L-L-M-P, so yeah, lots of middle alphabet letters. I do prefer the stalker theories as those make *more* sense. I believe it could also indicate people who click on some of the links you have just posted.

I'm surprised as to why no one here has mentioned the order on the Friends list and how that always changes, and mostly, why. Again, those names correlate to the ones in the 8 box, but not always. I'd assume the higher they are up, the most recently they've interacted with your page ....

Also, the download for the Keesh list does not work for me. Can anyone please provide me with a link (assuming the keesh list works fine?).

Thanks guys! Great discussion! I love catching up on all the findings...
Jan 27th, 2013 at 4:24 AM
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Stuck friend gone for me and the 8 friends started rotating normally again.

@Jude the keesh list doesn't work on Chrome. Try using Firefox –  randomname  Jan 29th, 2013 at 1:35 AM


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@randomname It won't work for me in Firefox nor Safari either. Help? What am I doing wrong?
Jan 29th, 2013 at 2:38 AM
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Some people here have noticed that the keesh sometimes doesn't work with private browsing (the "https") If you turn off private browsing it might work. I don't know exactly how you turn it off, but it's probably in the privacy settings of your facebook account. You can try that. –  randomname  Jan 29th, 2013 at 2:48 AM


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There is this guy friend of mine I kind of like that im trying to find out if he looks at my profile

I added him in october he has liked alot of my posts and commented a few times and ive maybe liked 3 of his and poked him and liked his profile pic

-hes in my top 6 a few times a day,i notice sometimes when I refresh he will be in the top right then left then randomly placed around

-he will be on my top 8 all day about every other day.sometimes I will refresh and he will stay on bottom left,bottom right and second from right.

-find friends mutual friends group of 3 he is on there along with family and 2 highly interacted friends

Any ideas?
Jan 29th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
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drop him a hint that your really need a coffee or something casual next time you talk to him and see if he asks you out. if he doesnt, hes not that into being with you atm if he does he is. trust me its alot better than playing this facebook game. –  anonamoose  Jan 30th, 2013 at 5:09 AM


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I still don't know what to think about friend finder. Max be, may be not.
Jan 29th, 2013 at 7:43 PM
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i did find the old mutual friends list and that was interesting if you look up friendship history with someone and click mutual friends you can find the old list there. but that stuck box, and orderedfriendslist are the best things we got going now.
@ anonamoose... what is so interesting whit the old mutual friends list? The order maybe?
Jan 30th, 2013 at 12:05 PM
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I just looked into this and guess what....the stuck friend is the first one on each of the mutual friends friendship page. when I go to each one, the order is the same. I don't know why this person is the first one. we never did communicate through facebook that much and it has been around 8 months since any communication at all. and NO I do not stalk this person. she is down to around 10-15 on the keesh list., but the others in the mutual friend list on the friendship page makes since. I still interact with them and have for a long time. –  adam0705  Jan 30th, 2013 at 5:15 PM


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Where are all your crush appears in your total friends list and whats your position in their list.. That also will give an idea.
Jan 30th, 2013 at 5:13 PM
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Ok.. just now saw that my crush appears in my 8 box and I am in his 8 box.. not sure what it means..
Jan 31st, 2013 at 1:59 AM
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I was noticing, that if I am looking at my crush on another website, while logged into facebook, that it would take him being in the 8-box, into account. it turns out, he has been watching my every activity on youtube. I haven't been checking out his profile on neither youtube, nor facebook. what I realize is, he is liking vids, in relation to vids that I have seen and liked. So if I liked a vid about overseas, he would hours later like a vid, based on his interest, which are politics, with some sort of name summing up to those that I have seen hours before. I check all of this out, with the newsfeed on youtube. if i click on his username, that would take into account that I just looked him up. I have not done anything to actually click on him, with youtube, and he is stuck on the 8-box, for third night in a row. I'm sorry if this gets in the way of those who keeps saying that this is random, and the baloney, that keeps coming out as soon as people figure out things, but I know why he shows up too. It is because he wants me to talk to him... –  Blue  Jan 31st, 2013 at 2:53 AM


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There is this one woman that i always check out her photos and facebook. I look at her profile A LOT. I then checked my profile and she was on my 8 friend list box but the last one. The thing is i then refreshed my facebook page multiple times and i noticed she was on the 8th one... the bottom left all 8 times. However... the other 7 ppl i have on there... they were all the same when i refreshed my facebook... HOWEVER... they change every single time in space. Such as if its like this

H is who i stalk. The other 7 ppl... one of them is family. Two others are close friends. However... the other
4- 5... i never spoke to them in a while. One of them i didn't evne know so well but all i did was add his request when he sent it to me.

a, b, c, d
e, f, g, h

It would then go

c, f, e, g,
d, b, a, h


But basically H... the person who i stalk was always in that same spot!

I read someone mentoined that the person on the 7th and 8th profile could be the ones you are stalking or the one that is stalking you? Is that true?

The thing is when i look at my top 6 friends and refresh them... they would change over and over again. It was no where like the 8 friend list. Thoughts on this? My crush would also appear on it but the thing is almost everyone on my facebook list was appearing on it.

Also, when i clicked on her profile and looked at her friend list. I noticed that her top 8 friends were always the same ppl when i refreshed it multiple times. However her friend list on top 6 did change everytime. The only difference was we have a mutal friend and that person always appeared as number 1. I'm never ever in her top 8 friend list though. Thoughts on this?

I"m curious but does anyone else notice the person they stalk and look a lot on facebook always appear like on a certain spot in their 8 friend list like mine?
Feb 2nd, 2013 at 12:08 AM
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What is considered as heavy stalking? Checking out all her pics? Status updates? Is she rather active, like posting a lot of stuff or just every now and then a photo from a family birthday?
Cause a girl a like a lot more than I should was visiting me (she is from another country) and now she stucks in the 8spot too. Don't know what to do, cause right now we are just friends. She recently broke up with her boyfriend. Asking myself the whole time if its too early to make a move. –  Ari  Feb 2nd, 2013 at 1:06 PM
@ Ari...Do you look at her profile too? You said that she was visiting you, so it could be mutual. That's why she is there now. –  BlackSky  Feb 3rd, 2013 at 8:20 AM


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Okay so i just logged into my account again and my crush is longer there anymore in the top 8 friend anymore. Does anyone know why this is the case?
Feb 2nd, 2013 at 12:41 AM
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I have been observing this on my Timeline for a few months now. I can't claim this to be 100% accurate but almost. Every time I interact with a friend (post on their wall, PM, comment on a post of theirs), I see them show up almost immediately on the bigger box of 8 friends. This depends on how many times I have interacted with that person in the past. If I have interacted with them before, I see them much quicker on the list of 8. If not, they might take a couple of days to show up.

As for the box of 6, it's still hard to tell exactly what's going on. There are some obvious people that are showing up there because we are both interacting with each other a lot on FB. I'm not perplexed about those peeps!
I look at plenty of acquaintance friends' profiles (along with their pics and status updates) but we have few friends in common and we never interact with each other. Those friends don't show up in the box of 6. This is one piece of the puzzle that tells me it's possible the people showing up in the 6 are NOT the people YOU are looking at.
But if I look at someone's profile with a lot of common friends but who I have no interaction with (other than a once-in-a-blue-moon post or checking out their profile sporadically), they will show up there. The interesting thing is that they will show up for maybe a day or two. Then they vanish.

But I have noticed some of these same people showing up again for much longer periods of time. After I have long stopped looking at their profile, the are showing up in the 6 over and over again when I refresh the page. I have purposely mildly "stalked" a couple of people to test this whole thing out. So then if I'm not checking them out and I'm not interacting at all with them, why are they showing up there now over and over?
There used to be two guys who I knew for a fact had a crush on me who were always showing up there at one time. I never ever looked at their profiles. They were obviously showing up in the 6 because they were checking me out.

Hard to know exactly what's happening now because I have occasionally looked at the profiles of some of the peeps that are showing on my 6 these days.
Any insight? Is my almost-proved theory accurate? :)
Feb 4th, 2013 at 10:38 PM
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I've got the exact same observations with Meow.. –  randomname  Feb 6th, 2013 at 1:47 AM


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It's definetely not random and it's not a mutual friends thing, 9 times out of 10 mine shows the same 4 people and they're people I talk to all the time, but never on Facebook so I think it's a recently viewed type of thing
Feb 6th, 2013 at 8:56 PM
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Interesting discovery: Anyone here play "Candy Crush Saga" or any other game in which you must request life from friends on FB? I play CCS on an app via my phone. I ran out of life and the game prompted me to connect to FB and send messages to my friends to request "life" for the game. There was a SPECIFIC list of people that popped up to send requests to - which is to say, it wasn't my entire list of friends (about 20 people). Thing is, many of the people on the list do NOT play CCS. The list was NOT alphabetical and in fact, the first person on the list is a guy who frequently shows up in my 6 box (did at one point show up in the 8 box, but hasn't recently), but who I have had next to zero contact with openly (or through messaging - two messages way back in August, but nothing since then) on FB. I have checked his profile on occassion and we have many mutual friends and are in a group together. He IS in the top five of my ordered friend's list and is in the top five people on my chat list (which I still think is correlated to the ordered friend's list...). Hmmmmm......Just thought that was interesting!
Feb 7th, 2013 at 10:10 PM
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Sooo. My crush still is in my 8box, but I'am highly doubting that girl is checking me out. This week was her birthday and she even closed her wall for her not close friends, but not for all. A girl friend of hers postet something birthday related on her wall. It would have been a great chance to reach out to her without looking like a complete nutbag, but if I say happy birthday now though it is to late I look like a crazy stalker. There was not even the slightest hint on fb that it was her birthday, except if you would creep around her page trying to figure this out.
In her complete friendlist I am super low between ppl she never interact with in public. No sign of me in her 6 or 8 box of me. No message. Nothing.
My conclusion to all this, she really don't care. The only reason she is in my 8box is that I was on her page all the time, and to admit I even stalked the girl that postet on her wall, her guy friend from highschool and a couple of other friends she interacts with.
Mystery solved top 6 and 8 cause of my actions towards her, not the opposite. –  Ari  Feb 8th, 2013 at 7:59 AM
Ari - don't think the "mystery is solved"....not that I want to encourage your stalking tendencies (lol), but not one person that is currently in my 8 box is a person that I have EVER "stalked". As a matter of fact, I could probably count on both hands how many times I've visited these peoples' pages collectively. What I CAN confirm is that I have experienced something similar to "randomname"...I commented on a friend's post recently - a friend in which I have never previously had any interaction with on FB. Later that day, he showed up in my 8 box. I've never stalked him or even looked at his page. Some of the other people in my 8 box are people I'm in a group with and/or recently talked to on FB (either through liking posts, comments, etc...).

The six box is still a mystery to me as well. What I do believe without a shadow of a doubt (at least in MY case) is that there is a level of mutality involved in the 6 box. Most of the people that show up in my six box are those identified as "family members" and those who I have had mutual contact with either through posting, liking or viewing. Now...the viewing thing I'm only assuming...my rationale with this is based on this guy whose page I occassionally visit, but whom I have virtually no public interaction with. My rationale is, why would every other person in my six box be based on mutuality of some kind but this ONE person not? Just seems odd that the algorithim would change for ONE person. That's why I think the six box is based on some level of mutuality (either through identifying family members or "close friends", liking posts, viewings, etc...). –  Marilyn  Feb 8th, 2013 at 3:29 PM


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What was it before that we said about the friend who is stuck in the last spot of the 8 box? Did we say that it is the person that stalks you?
I finally have a friend who happens to be "stuck" there and it is my crush!
Feb 8th, 2013 at 6:16 PM
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Well, my crush isn't stuck in the 8th spot anymore. They just rotate like nothing even happened. I wonder what it means...
Feb 9th, 2013 at 12:36 AM
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I noticed something similar, my crush isn't anymore in the 8 spot nor in the top 6,close friends suggestion, friend finder. Its like she is vanished.
I guess fb finally fixed it.Just the ppl you interact with the most are shown to you. –  Ari  Feb 11th, 2013 at 12:05 PM


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No, Facebook does not provide a functionality that enables you to track who is viewing your timeline, or parts of your timeline, such as your photos.

Source: Facebook help center
http://www.facebook.com/help/210896588933875/
Feb 10th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
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rahul obviously never investigated on this matter because they say the exact same thing as anyone who says this shit, after people may be on to anything as far as why people show up. The help center is not going to reveal jack diddily, to anyone...
Feb 11th, 2013 at 8:01 PM
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Is it just me or have there been more and more "friends" stuck in the bottom right box of the list of 8 friends on the timeline? Earlier this week it was my crush, a day or two after it was my best friend (who may also stalk me), and now it is a classmate (who I do not think stalks me at all).

What indeed is the meaning behind the stuck friend in the 8 box?
Feb 12th, 2013 at 10:15 PM
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Well it seems it is only based on who is active now. It has nothing to do with who checks your profile. Today my friend showed up and I havent checked his profile and he hasnt mine - i even phoned him to check it. Last time we chatted on fb was in January. It works like that in my opinion:

interaction+who is online=shows in your 6 box
Feb 14th, 2013 at 7:33 PM
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tadesu I agree that being online is ONE factor that counts when it comes to the 6 box. Also interaction. But definitely not the only one(s). Many other factors are taken into account obviously.

Another thing I noticed is that every time someone adds me as a friend and I accept, they immediately start appearing in the 6 box for a few days after I accept. I don't know whether it is because (naturally) when someone adds you for the 1st time they will most likely go through your page a lot and check stuff, or for some other reason. Most of them disappear after a while, but a couple of them made it there for good. 1 with whom I interact a lot and another one, with whom I do not interact a lot, but I know has a crush on me. We've sent a few messages though, and I've liked some of his statuses so this could count as "interaction"/ Though I have A LOT more interaction with people who never appear there.

That's my update for now.
Feb 16th, 2013 at 3:37 AM
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Update from me, top 8 is gone for good. Top 6 is in my case now based on interaction and online status. But another awkward thing just happend. I added a new friend and the complete newsfeed like the first dozen updates are just from his last trip and stuff, but there is this one update of my crush right inbetween where she was sharing an article about something. The real crazy thing is, another friend of mine shared the same and norhing showed up.

It's super –  Ari  Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:09 AM


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What is more important now , the place I have in my crush friends list, or the place he has in mine? I didn't look at his profiie since october, but it was his birthday on monday. I was curious so I just looked 4 times, and now I'm higher on his list. Coincidence? One side viewing can make someone move higher on the friends list or it has to be mutual? I'm a bit lost because I look at my friends profile more often and I don't move like that on their list.
Feb 20th, 2013 at 9:15 AM
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