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Facebook, the earth'due south biggest social network, has been prime state for people to do their stalking capabilities for years.

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Whether you discover yourself tardily at night scrolling around the profile of an ex or you take decided you want to see the pictures from your barber'due south holiday to Greece in 2010, about people honey a adept stem on Facebook.

Facebook allows its hundreds or millions of users to search, stalk, creep and savor the full telescopic the social network offers.

This is you lot and all your friends stalking each other (Movie: Getty)

One of the main novelties surrounding Facebook is the anonymity of your stalking abilities.

However, rumours circulating on the world wide web had people worried that what they thought was innocent bearding stalking really had a consequence.

A rather embarrassing one.

The idea that if you lot viewed someone's profile on Facebook your name would come up up in their People Yous May Know section was doing the rounds, and information technology has people in hysterics regularly.

The rumours are virtually likely non truthful, and as Facebook has asserted multiple times that people do not know who views their profile.

Facebook states on their website that: 'Facebook doesn't let people rail who views their profile.'

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There are likewise apps you tin can sign upwardly to or even purchase to run across who is viewing your personal private profile but they cannot, in fact, provide the functionality they promise and Facebook says: 'Tertiary-party apps also can't provide this functionality. If yous come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please study the app.'

The respond is no, someone cannot tell if you have been looking at their Facebook and finish being paranoid, throw caution to the wind and stalk to your heart'due south desire.

Facebook did, nevertheless, introduce Facebook Stories this year and y'all tin can see who views those posts and ho has viewed your Facebook story, much like Instagram and Snapchat versions of the feature.

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