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

i have a dummy account too and use it visit my main account everyday, but it didnt make it at all, probably i didnt do it enough. And another interesting thing i found is that last week i started talking with one of my fb friends i havent talked to for ages, and while i was talking to him, i kept refreshing my own page, interestingly his photo showed up immediately in my 6 box. and i asked him did he visit my profile just now, he said no. so i guess the fb chat must be one of the important factors. the next day his face still showed up a lot the whole day, and the third day it start not showing up that much. Same thing happend yesterday, i talked to anotehr girl who i havent talked for ages, and right after that her face showed up in my 6 box and still showing up a lot today. btw the guys face only shows up once with 10 times refreshing now.

the thing that make me feel insterested is those people who i neither talked to nor visited their profile at all, they still showed up a lot everyday i refresh my profile. so if its like what you said below, the visit can surely be a factor, and think about the frequency of profile visiting( the times how my friends showed up in my 6), i wanna know are these people who show up all the time are visiting my profile in a regular basis? if yes, i will be really happy coz my crush is one of those people, and i havent been visited his profile for like 4 month coz i really wanna move on.

For the 15 person in the friends see all section, i consider those people are who have the most interaction with you since you have your facebook. because in mine, one of these 15 people are my best friends old account, i had so many interaction with that account, but she stopped using it for at least 6 months, so it cant be recent interaction. and her new profile shows up a lot in both my 6 and 8 box but the old one never even once appeared.

in conclusion, 6 and 8 box are more recently and the 15 people are people who you have interaction with for a long term. but honestly im not intersted in the 8 box any more after fb changed its algorithm of it. but i believe the 6 box is stil the same algorithm. –  amy  May 21st, 2012 at 2:20 PM

Yes, I do believe the 6 box is still the same algorithm as the same few persons keep showing up. It is always that same few, including my crush though it has been two months since I've last talked to him on facebook. And that only time was just a change of 3-4 sentences.

And I do agree that top 6 also consist of people who you have chatted on fb quite abit, cos I have two or three friends whom I recently chatted VERY frequently on fb (like almost once every 2 nights) and they appeared on my top 6, and they are still there now.

Besides, I too have friends whom I have never interacted before appearing in my top 6...which makes me wonder why as I hardly visit their profiles. The only reason I can guess is that they are visiting mine and they have a reason to do so (one of them likes me :\ , ex bf's current gf, close colleague of mine but we always talk using the office messenger, nv on fb nor will I visit his profile).. Unless fb is damn smart to know our private lives. haha. –  threemilesdown  May 21st, 2012 at 3:58 PM

There's this girl I put her on acquaintance and that's after fb reset the algorithm, she has since disappeared from my top 8.

Her mug was there at first even after I put her on acquaintance list. Took a day or two for her to disappear.

Tiff, if you see this, what's the update on your side (acquaintance wise). –  Urban  May 22nd, 2012 at 1:43 AM

I know on my earlier post I mentioned that it didn't work anymore..but it still works for me here. Just wait a few days. –  Urban  May 22nd, 2012 at 1:45 AM

urban -- i have a few people i put on both acquaintance AND restricted lists, but they're still in the top 8 box. ugh. maybe i will wait a week and see if they disappear. –  tiff  May 22nd, 2012 at 1:52 AM

What about taking friends off of acquaintance and restricted lists.. Do they go back to top 8 and 6(if they were originally there before putting them on aq and rest list)? –  nameless  May 22nd, 2012 at 6:28 AM

Tiff,
I think wait a few more days and see what happen. I also did not hover over/ click on her site at all, sort of like "protesting" against anything that's related to her. –  Urban  May 22nd, 2012 at 8:40 AM

the 10 people from mutual friends are your top 10 friends when you rank your 6 box (using brendan's method that he posted a while back) –  tiff  May 22nd, 2012 at 12:37 AM

You got that wrong , I think . The top 15 are the people who have been checking out your profile the MOST recently .. AND when they dont anymore , they move down the list. Because I know that they are some people that I dont interact with much , yet they check my profile a lot because they know me in some manner. –  mase  May 22nd, 2012 at 1:07 AM

i'm not sure about top 15 -- i checked my friend's profile right before they updated the friends list last week, but i'm not on her top 15... i wish the friends list got updated more frequently.. –  tiff  May 22nd, 2012 at 1:55 AM

my top 6 on my phone is similar to my top 6 on my laptop, but the 6 on the phone only rotates 15 friends whereas the regular site rotates 25 friends.

most of the top 6 on my phone come from my top 25 friends on my laptop, but it's curious that a friend who is ranked very high on the list and who i've had a lot of interaction does not show up on my phone.

there are only 2 people on my phone top 6 that aren't on my laptop top 6, but they are within the 26-50 rankings.

so yeah, i don't get it. just hoping my info will be useful for someone to figure out... –  tiff  May 23rd, 2012 at 6:13 AM

are you talking about the "unsubscribe from x friend" and "unsubscribe from x friend's status updates?" –  nameless  May 25th, 2012 at 2:12 AM

it doesn't work.. if you remove a few more friends on your top 8 from news feed, they come back into the rotation. and sometimes the most RANDOM people ever start showing up on your top 8.

ugh why can't we figure this out? i swear the people at fb read this site.... –  tiff  May 25th, 2012 at 2:46 AM

ps urban and nameless -- it's been 4 days and the people i put under acquaintances are still on my top 8 rotation... –  tiff  May 25th, 2012 at 2:47 AM

@tiff:

Yeah, same here. I put 2 people who showed up on my top 8 on aquaintences, and they still show up.

Prior to that, before top 8 got changed a few weeks back, I unsubscribed from my crush, and she didn't budge from the #7 position. She doesn't show up anymore on my top 8 after the change.. But she continued to show up on my top 6 (below the cover photo), until I put her on my aquaintence list about a week ago. –  nameless  May 25th, 2012 at 4:06 AM

Tiff, nameless,

I think fb monitor this site and keep changing algorithm too.

The ppl I put on acquaintance returned to my top 8 briefly. Those who commented on my photo this two days appeared on top 8. There is this megastar on my top 8 I swear he did not look at my page but he is always there. Getting confusing. –  Urban  May 25th, 2012 at 10:47 AM

I went to view all friends. Some ppl have no pictures on profiles and when you click on them the page go back to all friends, it doesn't go anywhere, what does that mean? –  Urban  May 25th, 2012 at 10:36 AM

@urban. Its friends who have their accounts closed/frozen. –  nameless  May 26th, 2012 at 6:55 AM

i think top 8 is a mix of people who view you the most, people you view the most, and some randoms thrown it. makes no sense otherwise.

the friends page, on the other hand definitely shows people who have viewed you profile recently. the order of my friends page just changed yesterday, and my first 30 rows are definitely people who have viewed my page recently (the first 5 rows are people who view my page the most, for the most part).

i know it definitely has to do with page views because i have one fb friend who likes/comments on almost all of my statuses immediately when i post them (so obviously liking them from news feed, not from being on my page). i've never liked any of her statuses or interacted with her in any way, and she shows up toward the bottom of my friends list of over 700, whereas other people who have liked/commented my statuses (recently, but much less often than she does, maybe only once in a few months) show up in the first 30 rows, maybe even in the first 10 rows... so i think friends page is the best indication of who has looked at your profile most recently. –  tiff  May 27th, 2012 at 5:22 PM

The friends page will typically list friends who are considered "closer" to you towards the top, but it still randomizes the order of certain close friends who may end up much farther down, towards the bottom. So the friends page listing still has a random aspect to the order, just like the 6 friends box and will change every so often. –  Answers  May 27th, 2012 at 9:43 PM

the friends page doesn't update very often, maybe every week or two, so just because your fake accounts viewed your profile doesn't mean that they'll immediately show up at the top. keep an eye out for when your friend pages order changes. –  tiff  May 27th, 2012 at 10:02 PM

BTW my top 6 box and my friends page both updated yesterday... –  tiff  May 28th, 2012 at 3:19 PM

@tiff:

My top 6 box is showing 2 new faces but I'm not sure if they are temps or here to stay (it does that sometimes), but my friends list is still showing the same people.
BTW one of the 2 new people on my 6-box (showed up today) is listed among the last rows in my friends page. Also one of the people that show up on my top 5 rows in friends page doesn't show up on my 6-box (he did a couple of weeks ago).

I'm thinking my friends page is in dire need of updating. –  AB  May 29th, 2012 at 8:17 AM

wtf is "keesh" list? –  nameless  May 30th, 2012 at 4:48 AM

I believe that the keesh list takes everything in account:

-profiles you visit (my crush is the #1, and he has a value of -4,01, which I believe is very high, considering the next one which is -1,58)

-people who visit your profile (because I have people in my keesh list that I don't know and I'm sure I never visited their page)

-family is highly ranked (for me #2,#3 and #4, which is everyone I have added as family. I don't believe it's because they see my profile. I don't see theirs too and we never had any sort of interaction, not even tagged photos or messages... In fact I liked 2 or 3 status and shared a video from one of them and he is still #3 instead of #2 which is a cousin that doesn't even come to fb very often... dunno about this...)

-photos of people you're tagged with or that tag you (there's this friend of a friend I met once at a party and I added her the day after because she posted our photos and then she tagged me in about 10 photos. She's considerably high ranked although I only have view her profile the day I added her).

- interactions by messages are also taken into account.

So, my rank is basically: my crush, everyone I have listed as family, people I have interacted with the most and below that comes everyone else, I can't say exactly in what criteria it is based on because I don't remember how often I interact with them.

What I'm trying to do is stop looking at my crush profile for a good time to see if the rank lowers or not. And I'm going to start looking everyday to one of my lowest ranked to see if he gets higher in the list.

Three cheers for the people who read this until here. I'm sorry for the long talk. –  metalChocobo  May 29th, 2012 at 9:16 AM

@metalChocobo i would love for the keesh list to be two-sided, but i've been tracking it for a while now and i'm still not convinced. i think it takes into account not only people whose profiles you view but also hover over on news feed/ticker. i rarely do on anyone's profile but do like or hover over quite a few things on news feed/ticker and those people show up higher on my keesh list.

as for the people on the keesh list who aren't your friends, i've found that they tend to be friends of friends (usually your top friends). i think this list is what facebook uses to order your search results when you type a letter into the box -- friends first, then friends of close friends, friends of not so close friends, and then strangers. –  tiff  May 29th, 2012 at 5:15 PM

I just compared a today's keesh list to one I took 2 weeks ago and found it very interesting. The first 5 places remain the same but their scores changed radically. My mom is in the 1st place and she went from a 0.99 to a 2.9 (not weird because we interact a lot), my crush is number 2 on the list and although I only visited his page twice in the 2 week span and absolutely no more interaction, he went from a 0.96 to a 1.90 - doubled the score. i compare this to my aunt who is in the 3th spot and coincidently I also visited her profile 2 time and I know she visited my timeline a few times, and she went up from a 0.95 to a 1.7. So... interesting.
As for my other friends, some went up and some went down. Ex: One went down even though we liked one item each (no visits) and another went slightly up (0.04) while we exchanged a few likes. –  AB  May 29th, 2012 at 9:00 PM

I just looked at the keesh list, and I would have to agree with you metalchocobo about profile interactions. There are some people in my keesh list that are in my top 10, that I don't view/interact with very often (2 cousins). I also agree that it takes messages and other forms of messages into account as well. I also agree with Tiff, that mouseovers probably count also.

I'm very shocked though.. It has pretty much listed every person's profile I've ever looked at (including non friends), for what seems at least for a year now. It's.. incredibly embarrassing. A

My crush who I'm trying to move on--(we almost dated)has a staggering value of -7.829562890625!!I admit that i FB stalked her like crazy before I added her (from last year's spring to end of fall), and even when we added, I did look at her profile everyday.. Though about 2 months ago I stopped looking at her profile from a regular basis, and would go a week without looking. Not sure how often she looks at my profile.

#2 and #3 are around -2.5ish(everyone after is -1.9 and lower).. 2 is a female friend that I chat/message with occasionally and view her statuses occasionally via live status update, and #3 is an ex crush that I don't view profiles with that often, but occasionally when out of boredom.

Its interesting to note #1-3 list were consistentally in my #7 and #8 box in my top 8 about 2 months ago, back before fb changed it! My crush never budged from the #7 spot and #8 changed almost daily between my friend and ex crush.

I am gonna print screen my keesh list and try my best not to interact with at least the top 10 on that list, and see how the numbers change after a week or so! –  nameless  May 30th, 2012 at 6:50 AM

Also, at least ALL the top 28 or so people on my keesh list have shown up at my top 6(the one below the cover photo) at some point on a regular basis. 32, 33, 34 also show up on my top 6.

#4, 6 and 7 are listed as family members on my FB.. Not sure how often they view my profile, or if they're automatically get rated high on the list because of that. I hardly interact with 6 and 7(cousins), and 4 is my sister, which I may occasionally mouse over to read her status updates. Not that often though. –  nameless  May 30th, 2012 at 7:05 AM

Sorry for the 3rd message in a row:

To everyone that has a dummy account and has viewed their keesh list. Stalk your main profile with your dummy account on a regular basis(but DO NOT view their profile or hover over their status updates--hell don't make any status updates with dummy account), and see if they climb up the list. Also try to have a friend look at your profile often too..

This is the sure way, IMO, to see if the keesh list is two sided (tracks how often people interact with you). –  nameless  May 30th, 2012 at 7:19 AM

@nameless:
I'm also making regular print screens of my keesh list to see if there are any changes ;)

Yesterday morning I stopped viewing my crush profile (I even put him under Acquaintances) and today he's still #1 but the value lowered from 4,01 to 3,96. But I also started viewing a friend's profile whose value was 0,0001 and it still remains the same (I went there 5 times during the day and even liked two of her photos).

Another thing I noticed is that my keesh list values are slightly different and even some ranks change depending on what computer I log in. I don't know the meaning of this or if it happens to anyone else. –  metalChocobo  May 30th, 2012 at 9:36 AM

My values keeps on going down as the days go by.

Girl I liked is now around -6.00, and I view her page a few times a week. –  nameless  Jun 23rd, 2012 at 7:27 AM

lol..im thinking the same. What's keesh list ? –  Urban  May 30th, 2012 at 12:49 AM

I'm pretty sure the "Keesh" list that is being referred to is bookmarklet JSON script from the site thekeesh.com here: http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/who-does-facebook-thin... –  Answers  May 30th, 2012 at 5:32 AM

yes i remember that now. I'm going to create my keesh list and see what happen. –  Urban  May 30th, 2012 at 6:20 AM

my keesh list and top 8 just updated tonight... –  tiff  May 31st, 2012 at 12:50 AM

How often does the keesh list update? This morning I had the exact same results as 2 days ago. –  AB  May 31st, 2012 at 9:10 AM

i think it updates at different times for people. also, if you look at your keesh list from two different computers, they will be different. someone from the keesh page comments said your list can be anywhere from two days to two weeks old. i know mine right now is two days old though because i purposely commented on/liked statuses of people i don't communicate with on fb 2-3 days ago and they are in the top 30 of my list now. –  tiff  May 31st, 2012 at 3:31 PM

sometimes it'll update in a week, sometimes it won't update for a month. i don't know how/when fb decides to update it, it's so random. –  tiff  May 31st, 2012 at 4:14 PM

The keesh list of my main a/c is not working while my dummy a/c is working. My main a/c has created a username. Don't know whether it matters. Does anyone know?? –  trident  May 31st, 2012 at 4:23 PM

@trident No having a username won't matter. You should try using a different browser (i.e. Chrome). –  Answers  May 31st, 2012 at 4:37 PM

I mainly use firefox to see my keesh list, but I recently tried chrome also.. Same numbers for both. –  nameless  May 31st, 2012 at 4:50 PM

over the past few days, my top 6 has changed to people that I interact with/view/chat with most recently. my top 8, on the other hand, has changed more to who has viewed me recently. –  tiff  Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:54 AM

do you look at his profile regularly? –  tiff  Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:19 AM

he showed up in your top 8? –  nameless  Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:58 AM

Ok, this happens to mine as well. Ever since FB changed the algorithm, my dummy account hardly show up the 6 and 8. It used to show up a lot before they change algorithm. –  Urban  Jun 1st, 2012 at 3:00 AM

or maybe i have to use dummy account to visit my main page more. Will update. –  Urban  Jun 1st, 2012 at 3:12 AM

Mine disappear if I put them under acquaintances or move all acquaintances to friends. I think it deppends on how many friends they have to pass. –  AB  Jun 1st, 2012 at 8:47 AM

My crush called me the other day and now he's on top 8. Ahhhh... –  Urban  Jun 1st, 2012 at 2:10 PM

putting him on restricted won't take him off top 6 -- you have to put him under acquaintances. –  tiff  Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:25 PM

Left side? Don't you mean right side?

It probably has to do with interactions between you and a person. Though I get some random people I hardly ever interact with, that occasionally show up. –  nameless  Jun 2nd, 2012 at 5:19 AM

@nameless, on my laptop when i minimize the chat sidebar on the right side of the screen (without going offline) there is a grid of profile pics that appear on the left side of the screen, under the "Friends on Chat" search bar. Mine appear to be mostly those who I've chatted with on fb chat recently, but I also have one or two who pop up towards the top left of the grid thing, and I haven't viewed their profiles recently so it leads me to believe that they have viewed my profile –  sandman12  Jun 16th, 2012 at 6:06 AM

i've noticed this too! one is definitely 'newer' than the other -- it shows people that i've interacted with in the past few week. i don't know if it's because i've 'liked' their posts or because they possibly viewed my profile after i 'liked' their posts though... –  tiff  Jun 3rd, 2012 at 1:32 AM

ok i ranked my newer top 6 1-50 using brendan's method, and it definitely seems to be made up of people whose profiles you've viewed, statuses you've liked, or statuses you've hovered over recently.
i purposely viewed the profiles of a few people who i haven't had any fb contact with in YEARS like two days ago, and they showed up on my rankings today (in the 26-50 spots, but that would make sense since 1-25 are people i interact with on a pretty normal basis). –  tiff  Jun 3rd, 2012 at 3:45 AM

Well, that was temporary. FB is still showing me 2 sets for the top 8, but everything else has apparently gone back to normal. –  AB  Jun 3rd, 2012 at 6:32 PM

And now it's back to giving me 2 sets of friends for both boxes.

I did notice that the 2 sets dot the 8-friend box always have 2 people in common and that the 'newer' set for the 6-friend box shows me 5 of my most recent visits (including my 2 newest friends), but leaves out my fake account that I also visited in this time frame.

Could this mean that the 5 people have also visited me, since I know my fake account has not?

On the other hand, my other fake account has visited me often and has not shown up. Could it be because I did not visit it?

I don't want to have mutual interaction with my fake accounts at this point because I'm trying to measure the effect of one-sided visits on the keesh list.

On a side note, I have noted that the fake account that visits me often has moved up a few spots on the top 50 while the one I visit often is staying put in the last spot (I only have 48 friends, so my top 50 covers everyone.) I've also noticed that visiting a profile and refreshing several times does not have the effect of several visits. I think it only counts as one visit. –  AB  Jun 5th, 2012 at 8:46 AM

AB i don't think it means the 5 people have also visited you necessarily, but it might. i've been experimenting by visiting people that i haven't had any interaction with in years (on fb or in real life or anything) and they have been showing up on my top 6 a day or two after i visit their page. there is extremely little chance that they have visited my page also.

i do think other people's visits affect your top 6, but i've noticed that people i visit will show up in rank 1-25 (what actually shows up on your fb page) whereas people who visit you tend to show up in rank 26-50.

one thing i've discovered recently is that if you go to your friends page (with all your friends), the first 5 rows of friends are made up of the people who look at/interact with you most. however, there will always be 2-4 people who switch out daily, and the new people who pop up are i think people who viewed your page in the last day or two.
i've been keeping my fb activity to a minimum and will just 'like' the statuses of 3-4 different friends per day that i don't interact with much at all, and usually 2-3 of them show up at the top of my friends page the next day while the 3rd or 4th friend stays in their old spot. i think the difference is those 2-3 friends visit my profile after i 'like' their statuses while the others don't. –  tiff  Jun 5th, 2012 at 2:15 PM

It's interesting that you mention that, Tiff.


I have my crush on my aquaintence list, as I'm trying to move on. I noticed on my friends list, she's usually somewhere from the 22nd to 28th row down. However, last week, I commented on her FB, and in that same day, she jumped 10 rows up. I'm sure she she looked at my profile. After that day, she dropped down to her usual rows. But since I noticed the friends list 1-2 weeks ago, she was never in the top 5 rows.

Makes me wonder if mutual interactions between both parties, will bump a friend up a row on the friends list or not. –  nameless  Jun 6th, 2012 at 2:54 AM

nameless -- i think the whole friends who have looked at your profile all of a sudden get bumped to the top 5 rows thing is a recent change with facebook, so maybe try it again in a few days by commenting on her page and see if she moves up to your top 5. it's only been like that for me for a week or so. also, those people tend to drop down off the top 5 pretty quickly i've found, which makes sense because most of my top 5 rows are made up of people that i've interacted with A LOT over the years. –  tiff  Jun 6th, 2012 at 4:01 AM

i 'liked' someone's photo tonight and they IMMEDIATELY showed up on all three different sets of top 8 friends (why i have three, i have no idea) and also in the top 5 rows of my friends list. i don't get it... –  tiff  Jun 7th, 2012 at 1:53 AM

values for my keesh lists (after staying the same for 4 days), have gone down with everyone. Especially my crush.. from 7.83 to 7.28. I didn't look at her profile directly (have her under aquaintences), but did comment once. And I feel pretty confident that she checked out my profiel, because she went 10 rows up than she usually does in my friends list, for a day (before going back down again).

I'm actually very interested on how FB handles "recommended pages." You know, likes your FB friends that facebook suggests to like back. Sometimes my crush shows very often, sometimes not much at all. I wonder if its completely random(or maybe based on keesh list values) or if it could be based on recent profile views or something. –  nameless  Jun 5th, 2012 at 1:39 AM

By recent profile views, I mean them looking at my profile.


I know a few months back, sometimes when you looked at someone's profile, and go back to the home page after, fb would give you a ton of suggestions to like some of their pages. I don't think this is the case anymore.

I wonder if the frequency of a certain friend's recommended pages showing up, could possibly be increased, when they are logged in FB. –  nameless  Jun 5th, 2012 at 1:43 AM

My keesh list has been exactly the same for 1 week now. I'm hoping it will update soon.
Could this mean that it doesn't have that much traffic, I post something new almost every day. –  AB  Jun 5th, 2012 at 8:32 AM

scratch that. For some reason my values for the list just reverted back to the values from 4 days ago. –  nameless  Jun 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM

my keesh list updates everyday, i have been recorded them fro 4 days, n then i will be off for holiday for a month, will see what happened after a whole month not checking and logging in fb. gonna be fun haha:) –  amy  Jun 5th, 2012 at 1:04 PM

my keesh list updated tonight but it seems like an older list. my crush is two spots above one of my friends who i've been interacting with every single day for like 2 weeks. we write on each other's walls all the time too. i've only looked at my crush's profile twice and we have no interaction. weird. –  tiff  Jun 7th, 2012 at 1:52 AM

Okay, so my keesh list changed yesterday but I'm not sure if it was an update or just some sort of reset, because EVERYBODY went down, regardless of how much interaction there was. What's up with that? –  AB  Jun 7th, 2012 at 7:52 AM

@nameless:

about the suggested friends that appear on the right side when you visit some friend that doesn't have timeline yet, i believe that those are people with whom you may have some other friends in common or sometimes they're just random.

as for the friends photos that appear on the same right side when you open a friend's photo album I'm not sure.

To me, most of the times, the first photos that appear are always from my crush (which is still #1 on keesh list) and if I keep refreshing it starts to show photos of people that use to appear in my 6 box.

But if I am viewing an album from a friend that's tagged with me in a lot of photos, on the right side it tends to appear first other photos someone else posted where we're both tagged. And when I refresh a couple of times (after all of our photos showed) come the photos of my crush and then of everyone else that usually appear on my 6box. –  metalChocobo  Jun 7th, 2012 at 2:07 PM

My entire keesh list has gone down again. I really don't get it. I can't find any correlation with my activity or that of my friends.

Any ideas? –  AB  Jun 8th, 2012 at 7:53 PM

Same here. It keeps going down for me also. Though its only updated twice since I tried it last week for the first time. –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 7:57 AM

What? Keesh list? –  nameless  Jun 6th, 2012 at 2:40 AM

Are they showing up as question marks when shown on the top 6, or just when you go through your friends list? If its the latter at least, those friends with question marks who's profiles aren't clickable, closed their accounts.

I also noticed just recently that facebook is counting friends with closed accounts as part of your over amount of friends. I used to have 165-167 friends, and now its 185, because they're being counted now. –  nameless  Jun 8th, 2012 at 6:01 PM

they question marks are showing up ONLY in the 6 box. everywhere else like the friends list their profile pic is there. the question mark is just for 8 friends and only in the 6 box. –  anon  Jun 8th, 2012 at 9:53 PM

that's possible.. –  jan  Jun 9th, 2012 at 2:57 AM

Sounds plausible.


I noticed something about the friends list, which makes me believe that some of the people on there go up in rows, the more you interact with their fb such as liking/commenting on their statuses.

I hardly view my crush's fb, and since putting her on aquaintances, I don't feel like i need to. But when I commented and liked her status last week, she immediately shot up +10 rows on my friends list(she's usually at rows 22-28, and now she's at rows 10-15ish). It lasted for a few hours/rest of the day. Then after, she went back to her usual placement (rows 22-28).

However, just 5 minutes ago, I liked a status of hers, and AGAIN, her icon on my friends list, immediately shot up from row 22-28 to row 10-15ish.

So I don't know what this means.. I think the more people you interact with, the more higher they are on your rows. But I've also noticed people that I don't interact with(maybe a few times a month), whom sometimes i don't even see their statuses throughout the day, are consistentally placed in my top 8 or in my top 5 rows. So I'm guessing they stalk me.

My crush never showed up on my top 8 though. –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 8:06 AM

^^by never, I mean since 2 months ago when FB changed the algorithm on the top 8(back when teh #7 and #8 spots<--particularly the #7, never switched with another person. And #7 was my crush) –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 8:09 AM

I don't know how much she's stalking me, but i'm sure she looks from time to time. Like I said before though, for the past 2 months since the algorithm change, she hasn't showed up in my top 8 since. And we've had a falling out since 2 months ago also.

Viewing her page didn't make her raise in my top friends list, but liking and commented did, so I'm guessing it had more weight. It could be mutual also. If she looks at my profile reguarly, and I don't interact much back (or vice versa) I'm guessing her position won't change on my friends list. But if its mutual between both of us, it could happen make a big impact I think. I dunno. –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 8:27 AM

My apologies for the quad post. If this site let me edit my posts to add more insight, I would. >_>

Anyway, I noticed she's now between rows 6 to 12 when I refresh. If its like last time, I'm guessing it's going to revert back to the row she was originally in. I'll report back if i notice this. –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 8:59 AM

For me, there are a few on my top 6 that I've never visited their sites.
There's a very famous person on my top 8, I don't think he stalk me. –  Urban  Jun 9th, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Yeah I don't think the top 8 are your stalkers.

To me, it's just sort of random between people I often interact with (by messages, like statuses or tagged in photos). Never noticed anyone showing up that I never interacted with.

There are lots of people in my top 6 that never appeared in my top 8 since this new algorithm and with whom i never interacted or viewed their page.

I don't see my crush profile that often now, since I put him on and off under acquaintances everytime I want to know what he's been doing (pretty much of a stalker huh?) Anyways, when I remove him from that list he still shows up in the top 6.

I think this has been already discussed above... I believe that the last viewers of your profile appear on the first set of 6 when you open your timeline in the first time you log in.

Plus, I think facebook determined a specific interval of time between the moment your friends visited your page and the moment you log in and see your timeline to display that set of 6 friends.

Minutes ago, I logged in and went to my timeline. My crush appeard in the first set of 6. Then I put him under acquaintaces and I saw he had been logged in 40 minutes ago watching a video. There's a chance he viewed my profile. I had thought about this before, because friday the same thing happened and when I saw my profile later in the day, maybe 5-6hours later I had to refresh about 5 times for his photo to show up.

I don't know... it might be a coincidence... perhaps it'd be easier for anyone with a fake account to try this and see if the 6-box display is dependant on how much time passes since someone last-viewed your profile. Or maybe with other interactions, idk... –  metalChocobo  Jun 9th, 2012 at 3:35 PM

top 6 is definitely NOT who is viewing your profile -- it's whose profiles you a viewing the most. i have over 800 friends on fb and there is no way the same 25 of them keep viewing my profile all the time.
also, if you start viewing a random friend's profile (i did this with three people over a couple of days), they will pop up on your top 6 (or at least your 1-50 ranking if you rank them). –  tiff  Jun 9th, 2012 at 4:18 PM

I definitely also agree also that friends on the top 6 show up based on who you interact. It could also be mutual as well.

I dunno.

I think we're all over analyzing this a bit much. I kind of just want to throw in the towel and give it a rest. –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 10:01 PM

I *also agree with TIff when on the idea that friends on the top 6 show up based on who you interact with. Lots of people who's profile I looked at for a while, started showing on my top 6. It could also be mutual as well.

Top 8 I still don't know. Could be a mix of random or stalkers I think.. Definitely getting some people on my top 5 rows in my friends, and on my top 8, that I hardly ever interact with.


BTW anyone mind testing out my theory also.. About liking someone's status/commening on them, and seeing if they rise up on your friends' list(mainly for people under row 5 and beyond)?

I dunno.

I *also think we're all over analyzing this a bit much. I kind of just want to throw in the towel and give it a rest. /= –  nameless  Jun 9th, 2012 at 10:04 PM

5 days later since I initially posted the comment...

My crush randomly shows up on my #6-13 rows, every time I refresh, on my friends list, and hasn't been back to rows 22-28 since. This was almost immediately ever since I liked a status comment of hers(june 8?). And before this, about a week before, I commented and liked another status update of hers--but that time she only got bumped up and stayed in rows 12-18 for one day, until going back to rows 22-28.. –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 9:56 AM

Don't you mean top 8 on the right of people's timeline profiles? –  nameless  Jun 10th, 2012 at 6:33 AM

For you maybe....NOT, for me.

The Keesh list is very interresting. It's been 1 month and a half, since I stopped stalking my crush.( no comments, likes...) He's still number one on mine, and it gets updated every day. His number sometimes goes down. But if I look at the list hours later, or even the next day, ranking suddenly increase. Why? I don't even look at his profile anymore...It doesn't make sense. For me, the list keeps a track of mutual views.
Here is an exemple, of what I'm talking about:

- 06/06/12: -4.18661961914062
- 06/07/12 : -4.1364708496094
- 06/08/12 : -3.9125584960937
The same day
-06/09/12 : -4.1603270507812
-4.0130968261719
-4.0615282226562
So.... He was number 1 on my chat bar, then goes down to number 3 during 2 weeks. And now, he is number 1 again! –  Stranger  Jun 10th, 2012 at 7:43 AM

I can't drag mine... –  Urban  Jun 10th, 2012 at 10:50 AM

I'm under Firefox, and it works. But it doesn't work under safari, on Mac for exemple. I don't know for Chrome or Explorer –  Stranger  Jun 10th, 2012 at 11:17 AM

I had to drag the line up first and then down. My crush is 2 . (Yay!) But if I drag it up and then down again, he changes position. He can go from 2nd to 4th, for example.How does that work? –  nix  Jun 10th, 2012 at 3:26 PM

First of all, sorry for the mistakes, I'm french. I really don't know. Maybe you have to go down slowly.... Last week my crush was number 4. I think he's looking at me, because everytime I log in ,as you said, without clicking anything, I can see his lovely face... He's number 1 on my chat bar, search bar, keesh list.

He doesn't show up on my top 8 anymore, but he's still on my 6. –  Stranger  Jun 10th, 2012 at 5:08 PM

Woah, this is pretty interesting find.

And it should work with Chrome at least, as I'm using chrome now. My er.. "crush" is #2, though she is the 2nd highest on my keesh list.

BTW, am I the only dude posting here? I'm guessing everyone here is female (or homosexual male), and I'm the only hetereo dude here? :P –  nameless  Jun 10th, 2012 at 7:17 PM

You know what...? Now I'm starting to think that this could have a lot to do with how often/how many times you've chatted/messaged the person.

My top 5 people on the chat bar, I've probably chatted/messaged them the most. –  nameless  Jun 12th, 2012 at 5:02 AM

Not for me,I've only chatted with 2 of them.... –  Stranger  Jun 13th, 2012 at 6:07 PM

I'm using safari atm. I'm gonna see if it works on firefox. –  Urban  Jun 17th, 2012 at 4:12 PM

Not necessairly crushing on you, but interested in your profile at least for sure.. heh.

AS for the top 6, I personally don't know what to think, other than that its probably mutual. Usually if I see someone's profile overtime/interact, they'll show up on my top 6 eventually. Every now and then, I'll get someone I don't expect, but I'm not sure if its random or if they are interacting with my profile. –  nameless  Jun 10th, 2012 at 7:19 PM

Hey Nix,
So sorry I just saw this! Ya that's what I think, keep things simple. But recently things have gotten a little complicated and crazy too, seems that facebook is somehow driving us insane with their constant tweak of this and that. –  Urban  Jun 28th, 2012 at 4:57 PM

It's nothing special.

A lot of theories suggested by people here, including m e, haven oted that the more you interact with someone (profile viewing, liking/commenting, etc), the more likely they'll show up in your cycled top 6(if they haven't before). –  nameless  Jun 11th, 2012 at 5:02 AM

Any feedback? I unsubscribed from her news feed months ago but her keesh list number appears to go up and down in the week I've been checking. –  Matt901  Jun 13th, 2012 at 3:37 PM

^^how often do you interact with her profile? –  nameless  Jun 13th, 2012 at 7:27 PM

I haven't viewed it since early May, and even then only a handful of times. Before that I intentionally had zero interaction for a month and a half, no views or comments/messages. I've been tagged and had much interaction with a lot of other friends since then. Thanks for the help! –  Matt901  Jun 13th, 2012 at 7:51 PM

@ Yes,

what is your take on....under Find Friends the 3 Mutual Friends that appear? –  anon  Jun 11th, 2012 at 11:20 PM

"I believe that the top 8 are slightly random but do include friends who you would regularly interact with with a couple of randoms thrown in, I don't think it has much to do with profile views at all"
Agree, for me too –  Stranger  Jun 12th, 2012 at 10:03 AM

@anon, for me the friends that appear under the Find Friends option are those who appear often on my top 6 and are very high up on my keesh list so I assume that also has to do with profile views as the people that I talk to the most often on chat don't appear as frequently as those I assume would possibly check my timeline now and again :) –  Yes  Jun 12th, 2012 at 1:23 PM

i think Yes has got it. my crush appears daily in my top 6, number 1 on the pull down chat thing, and on the first page of "find friends" under "mutual friends". but he won't answer my text! :P –  nix  Jun 12th, 2012 at 8:12 PM

Nix, how much have you messages/online chatted with your crush? I feel as if the top 5 people are weighted more on that.. Just wanting to see if it applies to other people as well. –  nameless  Jun 12th, 2012 at 9:03 PM

On the chat list, my top 3 are people that I message the most (my childhood best friend, my brother, and my crush) at the very top is 1 closed account and there is 1 complete stalker who I've never contacted at all other than accepting his friend request. He had a romantic interest in me before. Today my brother is #1 (under closed account) and I think he visited my timeline the most yesterday because he spent alot of time on my page clicking around. We were trying to get him to find a picture on my profile that was restricted. He left 1 comment when he saw the photo. My brother and I didn't message on FB at all, we communicated by text on our phones. HTH –  nix  Jun 13th, 2012 at 1:28 PM

I have to say I don't use the facebook chat that much.

To me, usually my top 3 on the chat list when I drag the chat bar is my friend D, then my crush, and then comes MV. I gave myself the work to count the messages I've exchanged with them. With D it was 112, but in like twenty different times, with my crush over 120 messages but only in six different times, and with MV it's also about 110 messages but we've been talking regurlaly, like once every week or so, and our interactions only started about a month and a half ago.

So, i don't think it's about the number of messages. I don’t think it’s about regular chatting either. Today I chatted with MV and after a while she passed from third to second and then to first when I was dragging the bar but then why is still my crush appearing on top 3 of the chat list if the last time we’ve spoken on fb was in march? I also used to chat a lot with other friend, we have over 130 messages and we stopped talking in the end of February , but he doesn’t even appear on my chat list at all (the only thing I noticed was that he went down some rows on the "friends on chat" list on the left side, but my crush still appears on the 1st row #2 when online).

So I don’t know… maybe it has something to do with profile visits. I know my friend D (who’s in top of the chat list) checks my profile a lot because we’re tagged in a lot of photos and he comments some of my posts. I rarely check his profile. With MV it’s the same, sometimes she even posts on my timeline, but I think the only time I checked her profile was when I added her 2 years ago and maybe on her birthday. My crush never commented or liked my posts or photos and I stopped seeing his profile.

Something I also noticed: no one listed as my family ever appears on my chat list as opposite of what happens on the keesh list and the on 6 friend box and I don’t think it’s because I never messaged them because there are loads of people on my chat list that I never spoke with. –  metalChocobo  Jun 13th, 2012 at 2:51 PM

Maybe its a combination of someone you chatted with AND keesh list perhaps?


Other than that.. Last time I messaged the girl I like was in February. We exchanged like 20 messages or so from Dec - Feb. But she is still #1 on my keesh list, with a value 3X as much as #2 person on keesh. Though my keesh list is dropping almost daily, including for her.. And while I don't visit her profile everyday, I have a couple times in the past few days, as well as clicking and reading comments and likes via acquaintance list. –  nameless  Jun 13th, 2012 at 7:36 PM

How often have you talked to them in person? –  nameless  Jun 12th, 2012 at 9:02 PM

What about the top 10 friends in mutual friend finder? –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 2:43 AM

Yeah, we've already confirmed that friends see your top 6/top 8 differently than you do on your own profile, about 2 months ago.

How many people cycle through your top 6. There should be about 25.. I haven't had a 2 way connection via pm with people more than like 6 people out of the top 25. –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 9:22 AM

Yes, I believe you are right about the private messages. PRIVATE messages between friends seem to be weighted heavily in the algorithm. –  Answers  Jun 14th, 2012 at 3:40 PM

Umm... Okay. This is really weird. This is starting to be like the top 8 algorithm all over again. I just refreshed my profile page several times, and I just noticed that my crush stays in the top 8 position, while the other 7 people randomly change positions per refresh.

i don't know what's going on. I only viewed her profile like once or twice today, and 3 times the other day. And as soon as I put her back on the aquaintance list, #2 friend on keesh list (girl I talk to occasionally, mainly via chat/pm) replaces her.. And when I refresh every time, her position as #8, doesn't budge either!

Can anybody confirm this also??

I –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 9:29 AM

ANOTHER UPDATE:

WOW HOLY CRAP..

Here's what i just did right now.

1. I Put crush on acquaintance list(note: she is #1 on keesh list), and she got replaced by #2 friend(the one I pm with occasionally). Again, as I said before, every time I refresh, #2 friend on keesh list now keeps on showing up on the #8 spot, just like my crush did
2. I put #2 friend on aquaintance list, and she got replaced by my #3 person on my keesh list (again, every time I refresh, this person also doesn't budge from #8 spot).
3. I put #3 on my aquaintance list... I expect #4 person to replace #3 on keesh list.. But I realize that #4 person is already a part of the top 8 that randomly changes spots with the other 6 people in the #1-7 rank on the top 8. So, instead it actually skips #5 and #6 on keesh list and goes to #8 on my keesh list, which is a girl who crushes on me. I don't view her profile that often, though we have messaged and interacted on each other's profiles a couple times over a few months span.
4. As soon as I replace this girl(#8 on my keesh list), she gets replaced by a guy who is #7 on my keesh list. I'm pretty confused at this point to why it would go backward.. I mean I just checked the keesh list 10 minutes ago.. Perhaps my keesh list values have changed but not updated?


*Please note:
*that every time I go down and replace #1-8 on keesh list on the 8th position on the top 8,, the previous person who is higher on the keesh list, I still put them in the aquaintance list, and the current person who replaces said person, stays in #8 slot in top 8, no matter how many times I refresh my profile.
*4, 5, and 6 on keesh list don't show up, and they happen to be my sister (who as I said before, is already on the top 8, but randomly changes positions per refresh), and 2 female cousins. ALL 3 are listed as family members on my FB btw!


Finally.. Having 4-5 people on my keesh list on the aquaintance list from this experiment, when I take a high keesh list # person out of the aquaintance list(such as #1 on keesh list) and someone else (#7 on keesh list example) who was on aquaintance, #1 on keesh list automatically retake the # 8 spot on the top 8. –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 9:49 AM

*#4, 5, and 6 on keesh list din't show up on the #8 spot(or at all. minus #4 who was already a part of the top 8) –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 9:51 AM

another update:


I keep going down the list, putting #1, #2, #3, #8, and now #7 on my aquaintance list.
As soon as I put #7, he gets replaced by #6, who gets replaced by #5, who then gets replaced by #10(#9 is already in my top 8.. my brother. Again, #4 is also already in my top 8--sister).
#10 gets replaced by #12.... Who then gets replaced by... #21! 21 then gets replaced by #11, who gets replaced by #14, who gets replaced by #16(#15 is someone who isn't even my fb friend).#16 then gets replaced by #20.

At this point.. I give up. Seems really random. I thought it would be based off the keesh list in descending order, but now I really don't know.. Because it starts jumping all over the place after #4. I don't know what this means.. The order those people come to fill in that #8 slot.. They could be the people who view my profile the most in descending order.. But if that's the case.. That still leaves room to wonder what the keesh list itself is based on.. If its based on the individual's profile/interactions on people's keesh list, or the other way around.. Or mutual. –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Random, with 190 friends? Certainly not. Think, why do fb change their algorithm so often, if it's only random. What do they fear, really? Now, I can't tell for sure what it's going on, but for me It is not. –  Stranger  Jun 14th, 2012 at 12:31 PM

By random, I mean it seems kind of random on who they are replacing people with, every time I put someone on aquaintance list, who showed up on the 8th slot. I mean, not entirely random, since it seems to be like the top 20 people on my keesh list. But the order is random. Not completely descending.

I just don't know what to make of it.. Or hell, how the other 7 show up on my top 8 also in general.


P.S. Actually, I think this happened to me a few days ago. I remember #3 on my keesh list occupying #8 slot for a few days. I didn't really pay attention, but now I seem to remember. –  nameless  Jun 14th, 2012 at 5:04 PM

It is indeed very interesting. Mine hasn't changed yet. I'll report when I notice something ;) –  metalChocobo  Jun 14th, 2012 at 5:43 PM

@namless -- it's not random. it's based on your 1-25 ranking of your top 6 (if you do the ranking by the method someone mentioned a while back). it'll be similar to your keesh list but not based off it.

my top 8 is still random though, hasn't changed back to the previous algorithm like yours seems to have. –  tiff  Jun 14th, 2012 at 8:52 PM

I think you're right... –  nameless  Jun 15th, 2012 at 2:56 AM

I just noticed now that my crush is no longer on the #8 spot on my top 8, let alone on my top 8 anymore. Recently, I've been checking her fb occasionally (like 2-3 times a day), and the last time she posted on her fb(I think) was on Thursday. I think at that time, that's when I noticed she was higher on my keesh list on my chrome and explorer account(but not for firefox). Though most of my friends on my keesh list have been dropping down steadily, incuding her. –  nameless  Jun 18th, 2012 at 2:00 AM

Something that really annoys me (this was mentioned by somebody else on this page.. By Tiff or chocobo I think?), is that each of my internet browsers have different values of my keesh list. Some are differences as high as .5 even.. –  nameless  Jun 18th, 2012 at 4:02 AM

Ok, it's happening again. She's on my 8th slot on my top 8 friends list again, and isn't budging. I noticed this, yesterday afternoon. –  nameless  Jun 23rd, 2012 at 7:55 AM

Even stranger;;; About 3 hours after my last post^, she showed up in my top 8, but not on my 8 slot(change positions whjle refreshing). When I woke up 7 hours later, she's stuck on my 8th slot again.

She never showed up in my top 8 at a random positon. People noted before, perhaps she looked at my profile recently last night, which could have made her show up in a random position? –  nameless  Jun 23rd, 2012 at 6:08 PM

Today I just asked myself the same thing.

I was surprised with my values today because most of them rose up a lot. On wednesday I saw some photos of a friend only by the news feed (never went to his profile but I clicked on the photos to enlarge though ) and I was regularly viewing them to see new comments. I noticed today that all the people that were tagged on those photos rose up on the keesh list EVEN without me looking at their profiles or having any other kind of interaction with them.

So I suppose it takes about 3/4 days to update (I think this has been discussed above already).

Another thing: how long do you think the 6 box friends takes to update?

If that's based mostly (if not only) on profiles you visit and other interactions I believe mine took about 15 days to update. I know this because sadly a friend of mine died a couple of weeks ago and akwardly everyone started posting goodbye notes on his profile, so I've seen his page like 10 times a day over 5 days and he never showed up on my 6 box until now (and he's there almost everytime I refresh). The same goes with a friend I started to talk with again because of his death. But they're values on the keesh list remain lower (when I say lower I mean placed over 20 below than people I never interact to).

However, it still shows a lot of friends I don't remember to interact with. –  metalChocobo  Jun 15th, 2012 at 5:13 PM

Well, another boring update, its not just that he is rising up in my friendlist. I am also pretty high in his. Soo where does that come from? Maybe the friendlist takes other rankings between friends in account. So when you are stalking his or her friends as well that leeds to another skyhigh ranking?!?
On the other hand; profile updates and instant rises? Its more than weird. –  julie  Jun 15th, 2012 at 6:55 PM

Its getting weirder; I emptied the cache and what happend. He rose up. Now he is a little below my best friend. SO basicly that means my best friend is stalking me aswell? And how does a friend of mine can rise up, when she is on holiday with no internet access at all. And she is gone for probably two weeks now. And honestly why the hell should one my best friends stalking me during her holidays, I guess she got much better things to do. –  julie  Jun 15th, 2012 at 7:24 PM

My keesh list seems to be doing exactly the opposite. It appears to have lost the ability to take others actions into account. The ones that went up today (since the last update from a week ago) were the ones whose stuff I liked or visited and the new ones that showed up on my 6-friend over the since the last update ()these I visited weeks ago but are only showing up now). I have two friends, who happen to be #1 and #3 on the list, that commented on a lot of my photos this week and their score went down.
I don't get it!

BTW, where do we stand on the people on the chat list? And I don't mean the method described above because that doesn't work for me ( I think it's because I don't have the ticker, I can't drag any lines). I have people that I've interacted more and messaged more than some of the people there. –  AB  Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:03 PM

Keesh list over -1 with no visits from you're side the last couple of months? I would say thats a great chance. –  julie  Jun 15th, 2012 at 9:31 PM

my keesh list hasn't updated for a week...does anyone else's take that long to update? –  sandman12  Jun 16th, 2012 at 6:09 AM

@random: I think their frequency on the top 6 might be influenced by how high they are on the keeshlist... Otherwise, you're only focusing on them when they show up.

Maybe the best thing you can do is refresh a couple dozen times and see how often they show up maybe. I dunno. –  nameless  Jun 16th, 2012 at 3:58 PM

Is it just me, or has the algorithm for top 8 changed again?

Instead of top 8 being changed 1-2 times a day, for me--it seems like 1-2 out of the 8 people are replaced/cycled per day. –  nameless  Jun 21st, 2012 at 8:15 AM

is this a new feature? my iphone app still shows the box of 6... –  tiff  Jun 23rd, 2012 at 3:19 PM

Maybe its just me, but I'm starting to really notice stuff on the top 8 as well as the top 5(via friends list) rows as well. They seem to be changing much more frequently now.

I liked 5 people's statuses earlier today, and within a few hours, 2 of them showed up at my top 8(most of my top 8 cycled most people out previously as well), and in my top 5 rows in the friend list, ALL 5 now have shown up on my top 5 rows friends list. Out of the 5 people, only one person interacted with me back for sure(she posted on my wall).

I don't know what this means.. I know chocobo (or Tiff) mentioned a few weeks back about people who recently viewed your profile--show up in your top 5 rows, so that might be it. Either that, or maybe it is dependent on my interaction.. I dunno.

But this whole day, my top 8 changed like 3-4 different times. –  nameless  Jun 24th, 2012 at 3:46 AM

Yeah... I think I have at least 3 different sets of top 8... –  nameless  Jun 24th, 2012 at 9:22 AM

Actually, the last sentence you posted is not true. I confirmed this by creating two facebook profiles and adding them as friends to eachother. (the second facebook profile was obviously fake I just used a picture of some girl on the internet and made up a profile)

So here's what I found out:

When one person views your profile, THEY DO NOT SHOW UP IN YOUR 6BOX. Nope. So its confirmed, that 6box DOES NOT TELL YOU DIRECTLY WHO HAS VIEWED YOUR PROFILE RECENTLY.

Okay, lets call them "Profile 1(my real one)" and "Profile 2(my fake one)"

Profile 2 VIEWS Profile 1. Nothing happens.
Profile 1 VIEWS Profile 2. Nothing happens.
Profile 1 VIEWS the PICTURES of Profile 2. Nothing happens.
Profile 2 VIEWS the PICTURES of Profile 1. SOMETHING HAPPENS- the profiles appear on eachothers 6box things!!

When both profiles MUTUALLY view each others photos, they appear in the 6box.

It's all based on MUTUAL views. You'll never be able to tell when someone views your profile, but you will be able to tell when you BOTH view EACHOTHERS profiles.

CASE CLOSED.

Also, just in case you were wondering- I did this test in a timed envrionment and did not interact with any other of my fb friends during the test. After the mutual profiles were viewed, the profile pictures began appearing on the timeline in roughly 2 minutes. –  kt  Jun 24th, 2012 at 7:29 PM

kt -- 6 box is definitely not based on mutual views. if you view someone consistently they will show up in your 6 box (i did this with a fb friend i barely know/have never interacted with). also, people whose statuses i've liked will sometimes show up on my 6 box, but even though i like their statuses i've never viewed their profiles. –  tiff  Jun 24th, 2012 at 11:10 PM

Ok, that may be true- but I've PROVED my "Mutual views" theory by creating a *fake facebook profile* and adding it as my friend and testing this theory of mutual views. Mutual views are DEFINITELY an influence on who appears in the 6box.

But I do agree with you too- if you view someone consistently (OR if you view all their PHOTOS consistently) they will show up in the box as well.

And I already said that about the statuses in a previous post. –  kt  Jun 24th, 2012 at 11:19 PM

no i still think the friends have to do with who have viewed your profile. it's not just mutual views. the person viewing your profile will show up repeatedly after he or she has viewed your profile. –  sandman12  Jun 25th, 2012 at 4:18 AM

Yes, I thought that too originally- but I also tested that theory and it doesn't work.
Before I tested the mutual views theory- I tested my other theory, which was what you claim- if THEY view your profile repeatedly, they will show up on YOUR 6box.

So, what I did- after making both profiles friends to eachother, I logged into the second profile and REPEATEDLY VIEWED my first profile. My first profile DID NOT VIEW the second profile, not even once. After REPEATEDLY VIEWING my first profile with my second profile, I logged out of the account. I then waited a minute and logged into my first profile. I refreshed repeatedly, constantly checking my 6box and the second profile DID NOT show up at all.

I thought that perhaps the algorithm needed some time to react, so I waited 1 hour and refreshed my profile again, still no sign of the second profile appearing in the 6box. I waited for another hour and tried again, and still no sign.

Then, I logged into my second profile and repeated the process, except this time I viewed ALL the PHOTOS AND entire profile of the first profile. Once again, after logging into my first profile- the second profile still DID NOT show up in my 6box.

Then, I logged into my first profile and VIEWED the SECOND profile. This was the FIRST time I viewed the second profile.

BAM! The second profile appeared in my 6box, I didn't even have to wait.

In conclusion, it is based on mutual views. If someone views your profile a million times, they will not appear in your 6box- unless you view their profile at least once beforehand. –  kt  Jun 25th, 2012 at 5:23 PM

What's your opinion on top 8? –  nameless  Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:19 AM