How Facebook Made Us Crap Our Pants

Written by Stephanie Huynh October 01, 2009

 

 

Admittedly, I am a Facebook stalker…and I’m pretty sure my entire office is as well.  On a slow day, evening, morning, afternoon – okay, anytime of day – I will just browse through my friends’ profiles and pictures.  Sometimes albums will link me out to other people’s profiles whom I’m not even friends with and 20 minutes and six-degrees of separation later, I’m staring at a group of people and I don’t recognize one face.  But I swear that’s not out of the ordinary…

I justify it, I’m just curious, someone/something sparks my attention and I can easily see it with a quick click. 

So when Facebook released its Fan Check – an application that shows one person’s top fans - our office was in an uproar.  What?!  An application that shows the level of activity on people’s profiles?!  “This is going to RUIN me!” “I’m going to have to deactivate my account!” “I’m going to have to leave the country!”  Can you imagine the horror of using the application only to find that someone you’re not even “friends” with is in your top 10 “fans”?  Creepy.

So we played hot potato on who should try this app out, the only way we will know how it works is to do it ourselves.  A million pounds were lifted off our shoulders when we realized that it wasn’t based on page-views as we originally anticipated, but by the level of activity on one’s wall.  Fan check was merely based on the number of posts and comments on your wall and photos.  Phew! 

So those hours and hours of stalking go unscathed!  Let us continue our stalking ways!

In case you were wondering…my top fans were: my sisters, my roommates, my best friends…and our Executive Assistant James…

 

 

 

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