Facebook Stalking
A few minutes ago, I was procrastinating my essay by Facebook stalking. In a moment of contemplation, I suddenly wondered who Facebook stalks me. Obviously Facebook has every incentive to encourage people to stalk their friends as much as possible to generate advertising revenue. Allowing users to see a list of people that have recently visited their profile would clearly discourage would-be stalkers from browsing so carelessly by depriving them of anonymity.
The more interesting question, however, is how such a feature would change the social dynamic of Facebook. One could envision the mere act of visiting a person's profile assuming a social significance similar to the wallpost. Or perhaps the feature would be relegated to the same level of social triviality as becoming another user's friend on Facebook. At any event, it would almost certainly increase the level of paranoia, which would probably be healthy for most users--and extremely entertaining for me.
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