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

I should also point out that he did not comment, tag or like any of my pictures or wall posts. Nor did he send me any kind of message.
There was absolutely no direct interaction- only him viewing my page. –  Nicola1983  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 2:57 PM

You could be onto something, but I also think it could be that people show up in the 6 box when they log on to facebook. So it doesn't necessarily mean they're looking at your profile recently, just that they were recently online. And they're showing up in your 6 box because they have looked at your profile in the past. For me, it shows a certain group of people all the time and I think it might just be a group of people who have looked at my page in the past, and facebook just kept track of that group and shows them to me when they come online. I –  Athalia  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 7:09 PM

That's a good point, but looking back he has checked his facebook maybe once a week on my computer to see his messages etc while I was there, but never clicked on my page as there was no real need to. Never during those times when he simply logged on to check messages did he appear in my top 6 box.
I think that recent online activity is certainly a factor in the top six, but I also believe that viewing your page recently is required in order to start showing up in your top 6 friends. Many people I see online facebook, yet never appear in my top friends (which makes sense as they are people who have no real reason to be viewing my page and are more like aquaintances than actual friends.) –  Nicola1983  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 10:44 PM

Ok! I can confirm whtat Nicola1983 said. My crush who keeps appearing on my top 6 this two days has been viewing my account and he told me so. –  Urban  Aug 4th, 2012 at 3:40 PM

Also, my dummy account keeps showing up. I have never viewed my dummy account at all cause there's nothing in it. :p –  Urban  Aug 4th, 2012 at 3:42 PM

@urban but have you viewed his profile in the past? i still think that is a big factor in who shows up in the 6 box. as for your dummy account, might have something to do with the fact that it's from the same IP address as your regular account.

Anyone notice that we mentioned the friends summary box that was at the beginning of every year on timeline (on the previous page), and then a week later facebook completely got rid of it??? –  tiff  Aug 4th, 2012 at 3:53 PM

@Tiff, about my crush...I've stopped viewing his profile for many months. As for the IP thingy, you may be right. However, my dummy account only just showed up for the first time after facebook algorithm reconfiguration (the first one here that had all of us confused). –  Urban  Aug 5th, 2012 at 5:40 AM

Also, this is pretty interesting. My 2nd dummy account that I've never used to visit my main page never showed up at all. –  Urban  Aug 5th, 2012 at 5:47 AM

Yes I saw the friends summary box, it's gone now. I strongly suspect facebook monitor this forum. –  Urban  Aug 5th, 2012 at 6:00 AM

If the 6 box does show people who've viewed you, that makes me even more confused about the 8 box. Because sometimes it randomly shows a couple of people for a while (I haven't interacted with these people and the rest of the 8 box stays the same consistantly), but they don't show up in my 6 box. ??? –  Athalia  Aug 5th, 2012 at 2:13 PM

for me, i'm fairly certain that the 6 box shows people i've viewed the most overall, people i've viewed recently, people i've interacted with most overall, and people i've interacted with recently. –  tiff  Aug 5th, 2012 at 11:23 PM

@tiff: yeah, that could be it actually. I've realized that the people currently showing up in my 6 box are the top 25 people on my keesh list. Now, if the keesh list doesn't factor in people who view me as well, then the 6 box does show people I've viewed/interacted with the most. And the people showing up under the three names in the friend finder, are all in the top 10 of my keesh list.
Now, the 8 box is still really weird to me. As is the top 5 rows of my friends list. –  Athalia  Aug 6th, 2012 at 8:56 AM

I'm still not convinced about it being the people I've viewed most in the 6 box. There always tends to be a couple in there who I never, ever view but I strongly suspect view mine often. In particular a co-worker who asked me out several times before getting the message that I was taken. I have never even looked at his profile except the one time when I first added him, and that was months and months ago. Yet he is very regularly in my top 6 box. I think maybe it's a combination of factors rather than just one particular thing. –  Nicola1983  Aug 7th, 2012 at 2:53 PM

I think the (my) 6 box shows people who I (mutually) interacted a lot in a certain period of time (either through messaging / group chat / events we were both invited or attended) IN THE PAST who has been online RECENTLY (not sure if viewed my profile). (There are people mentioning that those are usually the same as the top list of friends in your chat box and I believe this explains it)
and my 8 box's got those who I've liked/commented on their status or posts thru newsfeed (without going to their profile) + 2-3 random ppl so maybe one way interaction? –  StupidGirl  Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:55 AM

but not everyone I interacted a lot thru commenting/liking on their post or stalking appear in either of the boxes –  StupidGirl  Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:57 AM

Which one is the keesh list again sorry? –  Nicola1983  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 3:05 PM

http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/who-does-facebook-thin... –  ehhhh  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 3:12 PM

i agree, i've looked at certain friends' profiles frequently (multiple times each day) and these friends don't necessarily move up on the keesh list; however, other friends whose profiles i view once every two weeks tend to move up on the list, along with randoms who i don't view, rather than my "frequently viewed" friends' profiles. –  sandman12  Aug 3rd, 2012 at 6:56 PM

in response to your comment on your keesh list- that's interesting how yours updated three times in one day. mine only updates every 4-5 days! it seems pretty dynamic though, and i'm convinced it's people who view your profile more frequently –  sandman12  Aug 4th, 2012 at 3:35 AM

Do you think facebook will change the algorithm IF we figure this out (got it correctly)?
or they'll just let us see what we WISH to see or who we WISH to see –  StupidGirl  Aug 6th, 2012 at 3:35 AM

@ Tiff- I agree about Facebook changing the algorithms when they find out what we notice. For example, my friends who show up when I'm "offline" on the sidebar do not seem to be in the same order as they were a little while ago, which leads me to believe that Facebook has changed the algorithm again... –  sandman12  Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:19 AM

mm, I totally agree with you when you say Fb works out what we want to see, it's how they make us eager to exist in it and use it. So many people seem to have their crush stalking them that it's too suspicious, but it sure makes a difference when you log on your account and feel that certain people may be around and can see you. It's crasy how this network works, considering how people get involved trying to work out what's going on. –  marie  Aug 9th, 2012 at 1:46 PM

I thought this too, I was stalked by a girl I liked, I stopped looking at her shit since 2-3 months (never liked anything from her), and she's still up in my top 6 & my top 8 on 2 of the 3 set I have.
I really don't know what to think, because some things my Facebook show doesn't do the same as other people saying on this page. I'm terribly lost on how Facebook work. Even if the things said on the first 3 pages of this threads was doing exactly the same on my facebook back at the time, it doesn't do the same for me that people are saying lately. –  Jane  Aug 9th, 2012 at 9:06 PM

i think you might need to have mutual interactions first....but I don't know how long it's gonna last if you stop interacting. –  StupidGirl  Aug 13th, 2012 at 8:50 AM

Yes, mutual contact will help play a larger role in who shows up on your timeline. –  Answers  Aug 10th, 2012 at 7:09 AM

I've found, it's much easier to understand what's going on when you don't stalk or view other peoples profiles.

For those who rarely look at other people's profiles, you get a better sense at how facebook is choosing the friends to show up because you know you aren't skewing the results by viewing one person profile more than others.

For those who look at someone's profile / pictures everyday or quite often, it's going mess with who shows up on your profile and facebook will more than likely show you that persons pic more often.

But with all that said, everyone's friends are different and their circumstances are going to be different. In other words, not everyone's profile is the same so, people will draw different conclusions based on how they use facebook and their friends use facebook. –  Answers  Aug 10th, 2012 at 7:23 AM

You got the same situation as me, I really don't know what to think, when I asked if he stalked me, he asked what does it mean (we're french), I told him if he looked at my profile, no more answer. (and I don't know if it means yes or no, since he like to toys with people, but seeing what I lived with him, I guess it's no :)))))) –  Jane  Aug 10th, 2012 at 7:26 PM

i always thought the opposite was true, because i was always within the top 20 rows of my crush's friends page, but sometimes he would drop toward the bottom of mine, even though i would look at his profile pretty consistently once a week. hmm... –  tiff  Aug 10th, 2012 at 10:42 PM

there might be lag and again, I don't think other people's friend lists you see are the same as the ones they see –  StupidGirl  Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:43 AM

nvm...I think I was wrong –  StupidGirl  Aug 18th, 2012 at 4:02 PM

I strongly have to disagree... there's not a chance it's only one sided.   With that said however, one side can and more than likely will play a larger role in who shows up. –  Answers  Aug 11th, 2012 at 3:47 PM

Hi, it's John. (I made a account under Jane, didn't have under John)

I really have to try to put my old crush a lot below, she's actually 1st, I'll try to see if it change anything when she's below top my top 10 friends on the keesh list and if she still keep appearing like crazy.

One last thing I want to add, is when I made my dummy account, & I've checked my keesh list two days after, she had a number like -0,24xxxxxx, yet I only checked her account once with my real one (and spammed my real account with my dummy, and when I spam all my friend's account, it only bump from a very little number for them (like -0,56xx to -0,58xx even with a lot of chatting, looking profile and other stuff). Strange thing too is, after she appeared on my keesh list, the same day, on the dawn, she disappeared, and now she doesn't have reappeared again (it's been one week), yet my keesh list has changed 2 times since then... And on my dummy account, my real account has disappeared from the keesh list since the same day too... (and it was the only account on the keesh list)

Btw, I use two differents browser to use the 2 accounts at the same time, I should check with a proxy if Facebook check the IP to determine the keesh list or other things.

And one very last thing, my dummy account now appear on one of my 3 set of 8 box friends.

Sad things is, I've done a big clean up in my friends list, so I can't test much... –  Jane  Aug 11th, 2012 at 6:01 PM

This is interesting. For me, everyone who shows up in the 6 box I have looked at/liked/commented. Are you sure you didn't view the sister?

Recently I've been paying more attention to the friend finder and the list of suggestions it gives me. I really think there's something there. I provide care to elderly people and for the past few days this one person has been at the top of the friends suggestions. I clicked on this person, went to their friends list and noticed it included someone who has the same last name as one of my clients. I believe my client contacted this family member and mentioned me and this person looked me up. Seeing as this person does the same type of work as I do, it makes sense that they would check up on who works for their family member. And facebook just shows a random person from the friends list of whoever looks at you. That's what makes it so confusing because for me it shows a bunch of people who I have multiple friends in common with. That makes it harder to guess which one of them has been viewing me. I think that's facebooks way of keeping some privacy there. But if you pay attention you can tell who has been viewing you. It's very interesting. –  Athalia  Aug 11th, 2012 at 10:47 PM

Athalia, some friends suggestions are also some of your contacts interacting a lot with them.
I got a friend a suggestion who is always almost on top from the friend I interact the most with (he's actually 2nd on my keesh list because my old crush doesn't seems like to decrease :))
One time, he checked his facebook account on my computer, and forgot to log out, I checked her chat and the friend who was almost always on top of the friends suggestion was the 2nd friends she was talking the most too after me. I checked the log (not to spy what they were saying, just to see if they didn't talk of me or link some of my stuff) to see if it could lead her friend to the top friends suggestion, and actually there was nothing about me. –  Jane  Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:37 PM

That could be, but this person on my list I have no friends in common with. Nothing. Don't know them at all. He only has 12 friends, including the person who I *think* looked at me. –  Athalia  Aug 12th, 2012 at 7:02 AM

Well, I don't understand too, I've got an other case, I have a friend who like a lot of my things, I don't check his things on facebook (he's like 30th on the keesh list on the people I'm friend with), only on msn (we talk a lot on msn) and he's not in my top 5 rows, yet some friends who I restiscted my facebook profile to them 2 months ago, & before I restricted there access, my wall was empty are in my top 5 rows. I can't understand how people who are a little higher than him on the keesh list because I checked some of their things a looooooooong time ago, and who had never something to check on my page can be on my top 5 rows, and still in my 6 friends box... (I even checked their friends list one time, & I'm the last...) –  Jane  Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:52 PM

For me it still shows the same top 8 when viewing through a friend and it still replaces them with a mutual friend if they're on there. –  Athalia  Aug 13th, 2012 at 11:25 AM

my sister and i did comparisons recently and discovered that what you see on the top 8 when you "view as a friend" is different from what they actually see on your top 8 when they view your page... –  tiff  Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:32 PM

also, unrelated, but top 6 is definitely (mostly) who you view. I viewed an old friend's profile twice just now (there is extremely little chance they were looking mine recently too), and 30 minutes later they showed up in my top 6. –  tiff  Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:35 PM

I also did a couple experiments. I viewed someone's page for the first time and he appeared on my top 6 the next day. So based on my experience, top 6 is a combination of who I view and who view me.

Also, this forum has become so long, has anyone figured out why some people are shown onchat list and the list keeps changing everyday for me. My crush is always on top, no. 1 in this case. –  Urban  Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:37 AM

my top 6 is always the same set of friends, for some friends, no matter how often I check their profile, they never show up in the 6 box. –  StupidGirl  Aug 15th, 2012 at 1:42 PM

Yes, that would definitely be possible. Facebook is certainly keeping track of what each User is "using" when they login and access Facebook. This would include mobile devices, computers, web browsers, location, ip address, etc. Any data they can track, more than likely Facebook is keeping track of it, and using it in their algorithm. –  Answers  Aug 16th, 2012 at 8:09 PM

Hey thanks!! I seriously thought i was going mental, been watching this for ages, months, so know the basics and know there's more to it, if i refresh my FB page on mobile the same one person comes up nearly every time, yet never on the laptop, there must be something in this surely, i'm running them next to each other now so cannot be anything else, as the rest of the page runs alongside each other... anyone else? ALSO, if i view a friends page, the friends i see i presume aren't the ones that they see? Is it more a case they are mutual or closest friends we may have rather than the ones that are 'watching' them the closest? Thanks again, bloody obsessive this lol –  Derique  Aug 16th, 2012 at 8:30 PM

Yes, when you view a friends page, it's more than likely going to show you "mutual friends" first, and not people who are viewing/ stalking their page. And yes, you will more likely see a much different set of friends on someone elses page, than the ones they would typically see. –  Answers  Aug 16th, 2012 at 9:46 PM

i'd say of course depends on how much it's used, but for me, daily maximum, can be as low as hours.... i now am sure about this, going back to my questions above, the person in question i'm talking about doesn't log in on PC, however, yesterday they did, once, and i know it, and the only time that person appeared for a while within the 6, yet that person is there nearly every re-fresh on my mobile still, cementing the fact that the mobile device FB differs from the usual online... mental how this could be ignored is beyong me... –  Derique  Aug 18th, 2012 at 9:47 PM

answers i certainly don't have unless you read further back, however, i'm concenrating on the '6', and there's certainly something very high in that in who are viewing you, not you them, in my opinion anyway –  Derique  Aug 18th, 2012 at 11:02 PM

best way is to look into it yourself, do your own 'research' with the information you have yourself, i think then it becomes pretty clear, is in my case anyway... –  Derique  Aug 18th, 2012 at 11:03 PM

I honestly don't know anymore. Recently a guy posted on my wall and asked me about some pictures I had posted when we were hanging out later, but he hasn't show up in the 6 or 8 box and he is at the bottom of my friends list. He obviously looked at my page, but he doesn't show up in the boxes, so I'm thinking it shows who you look at or it's random. Leaning towards random myself right now because I look at his page regularly and he doesn't show up, so.. –  Athalia  Aug 19th, 2012 at 10:48 AM

Yes, that's certainly possible that they have added you to their "Close Friends" list, so they can keep better tabs on you and not miss anything you post. –  Answers  Aug 19th, 2012 at 1:03 PM

I noticed this also! –  nameless  Aug 22nd, 2012 at 11:42 PM

As usual all further research is all the more confusing.

I still have people at the top of my friends list who I know have an eye on me and I've never interacted with them, and only been once on their account, long ago.

Otherwise top 6 definitely shows people recently logged on Fb, wether stalkers or not I'm not sure, but I'd say people we stalk and randoms.

As for the 8, recently those who showed up had recently viewed my account.

So so far I have completely different conclusions from yours,

Considering your point 2, about your girlfriend stalking you and not apearing in your top friends, where do you appear in her top friends ? do you often stalk her ? And do you interact via facebook or not at all ? –  marie  Aug 20th, 2012 at 3:52 PM

i'd say your right it can make a difference, however, the person i'm on about mainly isn't on my close friends list - in fact i have not got any now in that list, and not messaged that person for a month. Not viewed since saturday as i previously said. I can see all that might have a bearing though... remember FB mobile on the iPhone for example is totally differennt to that on PC, depends where they are viewing from... –  Derique  Aug 21st, 2012 at 7:38 AM

for the random girl you stalked as a test -- give it a few days/weeks. i think when facebook resets their algorithm, she'll probably show up. that's what happened for me. –  tiff  Aug 22nd, 2012 at 3:50 AM

*UPDATE*
omg! The random girl I purposely stalked just appeared on my 6-friends list today! I saw her and thought who the "fuck is that"? Cause I constantly get the same pics up there and a different one stands out! Then I visited her profile and realized she was the one I was "stalking" haha! damn! This thing is getting more and more weird! tiff you were correct!

Experiment I'm doing now: I've made a dummy account to stalk my own profile. So far it hasn't appeared on the 6 list. I also had the dummy account add me to his "Close Friends", but I did not add him to my close friends. Nor am I visiting his profile at all. I'll come back here when I have results from this experiment. –  randomname  Aug 24th, 2012 at 5:22 AM

However the random girl's name still does not appear at all when I type her initial letter in the search box. –  randomname  Aug 24th, 2012 at 5:33 AM

*UPDATE #2*
The dummy profile I've made to stalk MYSELF has not appeared on the top 6 or bottom 8 list. Also, the totally random girl I stalked stopped appearing on my top 6 list. (I have stopped stalking her of course for quite some time.) Though, the rest of my 6 list remains exactly the same as it has been since about a month ago, with 1 or 2 additions of people I added recently. –  randomname  Aug 27th, 2012 at 10:04 PM

I have found that it does this with anyone you've recently added. –  Athalia  Aug 25th, 2012 at 3:19 PM

Just checked out the code.

It IS the order of your friends on the chat bar actually, as the code lists this, before providing the value of your friend's fb profile #s in order:

'{"chat_multi_typ_send":1,"chat_sidebar_hovercards"



Now the only question is, what exactly does the values for the chat bar #s take into account anyway? Could it really be friends that interact with you the most that are ordered first, or could it be mutual, etc.? –  nameless  Aug 26th, 2012 at 8:36 AM

Or could it be people you interact with the most.. Hmm. /= –  nameless  Aug 26th, 2012 at 8:38 AM

Sorry for the quad post.

Actually it might not have all your friends in the source code. I have less than 200 friends, but some people who have over 300, are reporting less than 190 are on the source code. –  nameless  Aug 26th, 2012 at 8:43 AM

No we can't drag the the chat list anymore, they blocked it and it's not just a coincidence. Soooo it tells a lot because it was the truth you know.... Facebook people are on this site. They read every little things. –  Stranger  Aug 26th, 2012 at 9:42 AM

Ok this is creepy as f%ck! I tried this and the profiles I got on top 1st of all are consistent with the 25 friends in the 6-friends list. 2nd of all the orders of the profiles I got (he #s I got from the source page, which lead to the profiles)was as follows:
-First were the few people I MUTUALLY interact with a lot! And I mean A LOT.
-Then I got the people who I suspect stalk ME.
-Then the people who I MYSELF stalk. (lol!)
-Then the people whose status updates/photos etc I occasionally like, but I have no mutual interaction with them.
-Then I got the random people, who are on my friends list but with most of whom I have no interaction whatsoever.

The very 1st person was the one I have THE MOST mutual interaction with, the very last person seemed to be THE MOST random person on my friends list. I didn't know who she was or that we were even friends lol!

To sum it all up, NOT random at all. 2nd inference of all the above, facebook know what they're doing to keep us intrigued and have us discuss all these things, constantly go back to our/and our friend's profiles, refresh, go back again and again blah blah blah.... They get the clicks and the traffic and hence more ads and more revenues.... Meanwhile, us-poor users-give it our best effort to find out what's going on and figure out the evil mind games of those evil (but NOT random) algorithms.... –  randomname  Aug 26th, 2012 at 2:55 PM

Actually, you still can drag the chat list, but you need to install "Facebook Messenger for Windows".
The ID list follow the way people appear/disappear in my Messenger for Windows.
And I don't have the same order than in the keesh list. (almost the same, but there's some people not at the same position) –  Jane  Aug 26th, 2012 at 3:00 PM

^^Actually, you don't even have to download fb messenger for windows. I discovered the other day that you if you turn on the chat, and then move it up and down, and then turn it off, is how you can see who is ranked in what place via fb chat. –  nameless  Aug 26th, 2012 at 8:27 PM

What is the background page? The logo on the top of the page? –  unc3ns0r3d  Aug 27th, 2012 at 11:34 AM

@ unc3ns0r3d Just go to your profile(timeline) page and right click on the light blue background. Select "View Page Source" and search for "OrderedFriendsList". The #s you'll get correspond to facebook profiles. If you copy and paste them after "facebook.com/########" (Where ##### > the number) it will lead you to the corresponding profile page. –  randomname  Aug 27th, 2012 at 12:36 PM

@Stranger what do you mean by we can't drag the chatlist anymore? you mean the bar in the middle? I can still drag it, but need to refresh to get a different list –  StupidGirl  Aug 29th, 2012 at 2:20 AM

Yes, the bar in the middle. You can still drag the bar, but it's harder to see the top friends, when you drag the bar up and down. . You now just can't see the position of your top friends, when you drag the bar up and down in offline mode. You have to turn on fb chat, drag the bar up/down, and then turn it off to see your top friends, every time. –  nameless  Aug 29th, 2012 at 6:25 PM

You don't have to constantly look at his page to be considered as a "stalker." If you regualry comment on his posts, that is showing stalker behavior. –  nameless  Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:33 PM

oh, and i appear rather high on her friends list. im at the 3rd or 4th row. –  Jake_hol  Aug 27th, 2012 at 10:42 AM

I'm starting to think it's the other way around, or mutual interactions.

I've noticed that every time you comment, like, or tag someone, they will go up your friends list hours to days later. They will almost always bump up all the way up to my top 5 rows, and this usually lasts for a few days to a week. But some people do stay for a while after, either in the top 5 rows or right under. –  nameless  Aug 29th, 2012 at 4:44 AM

I think certain people staying for longer than a week, may depend on how much you continue to interact with them, including other ways such as page and photo views.

Man, I've been posting here since April.. Far too long. Truth is.. Should we really give a damn if someone is stalking us on fb or not, whether they are our crush or not? It's better just to hit that person up in person or over the phone and start something, then waiting on the sidelines about what could have been, and over analyzing and obsessing about algorithms that constantly change, *many that we might have never been right about in the first place. –  nameless  Aug 29th, 2012 at 4:47 AM

I think somebody needs to test this. While I'm pretty confident that how high people's friends are ontheir friends list is based mainly how much they interact with their friends than vice versa, it would be nice to confirm.

Again like I said before, usually when I comment or like someone's status, they pretty much always suddenly move up to my top 5 rows in my friends list(if they weren't there before), and will stay there for a day or two. Sometimes after that, they will bump down to the next set of friends(for me personally, its rows 6-13), and stay there for a long time, pehaps indefinitely until you interact with another friend more, to bump them down further. However, I'm not 100% sure if friends viewing our page right after we like/comment them, causes the bump to top 5 rows, or if its just our interaction alone. I personally think it's the latter, but this needs to be tested with a fake account.. Like..

Have a fake account, and make a status update with fake account. Then proceed to like or comment on your fake account's status with your original account. However, do not have your fake account interact with your main account in any way, and then go to your main account's friends list, and wait a few hours to a day or two, to see if fake account bumps up in your friends list(especially to top 5 rows) temporarily. If fake account gets bumped up a couple rows, without your fake interacting with your profile in anyway right after, then I think it almost proves that the orientation of your friends on your friends list, is one-sided(aka based on how much you interact with them).

^^this can take as long as a few hours to a couple of days. –  nameless  Aug 30th, 2012 at 8:48 AM

FB user, did you mean to say , "if you find yourself at the bottom of your *friend's friends list, just forget about him/her and move on with your life" or" finding yourself at the bottom of your friends list." aka how you originally typed it? With the latter, that's impossible. You can't see where you are ranked in your own friends list.. Did you mean the former? –  nameless  Aug 30th, 2012 at 8:57 AM

I just want to say that, as far as I can tell, the fact that we are at the bottom of a friend's list does not mean that person does not visit us. I do visit at least half the friends that appear on the bottom of my friend's page, I just have not made my 'presence' known. In fact, some of them I visit more than others that show up in my middle section (I only have 3 sections). –  AB  Aug 30th, 2012 at 12:18 PM

I think one's orientation on a friend's friends list, is more heavily weighed on interactions such as likes, comments, and tags. But I do think that page and photo views might be weighed in as well. Again, I'm not 100% sure if friends list is mutual interaction or mainly just how much you interact with them. I do think it's not a good way to see if friends stalk your profile or not, via their orientation on your friends list.

Like I said before.. Someone who already has a dummy account needs to try what I said last night and report results.. –  nameless  Aug 30th, 2012 at 11:18 PM

I also made the same experiment with my daughter's laptop. Looked him up with my daughter's FB account, my fake account and my own account. The same thing happened - when looking at this profile with my own account I was replaced by this other woman.. Has anybody noticed anything similar ? –  confused  Aug 30th, 2012 at 10:58 AM

Yes. When you visit some friend's timeline you never see yourself in the 8-box or in the 6-box, even if the friend does. –  AB  Aug 30th, 2012 at 12:12 PM

what AB said^^ You'll never be able to see yourself on a friend's top 8 on their timeline, unless you use another account to view your main account

. If a mutual friend says in the #8 position of the top 8 friends, no matter how many times you refresh, then it's actually you on his top 8, from his POV. BTW, check his friends list too. If you're pretty high up on his friends list, then it is almost certainly you. Top 8 friends are taken from the top 5 rows, and the second set of rows down below that(but how many rows that comprise of the second set, after top 5 rows, depends on how many friends you have total). –  nameless  Aug 30th, 2012 at 11:13 PM

How do you do? Pleaaaazzzzzz –  Stranger  Aug 30th, 2012 at 3:40 PM

Go to your facebook profile page -> then right click, and select "View Source" (Alternatively, you can click "Edit" on your browsers menu bar, and then select "View Source") -> then in the HTML code you want to search for "PresencePrivacyInitialData", to do this click on Edit -> Find...

Keep in mind, I tried this and did not come across any noticable matching IDs under "PresencePrivacyInitialData". –  Answers  Aug 30th, 2012 at 4:21 PM

What Answers said. Anon, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't see friend's fb IDs after ["PresencePrivacyInitialData",[]. I see a list of numbers after, but they start off with, m869708_30." I have no idea what they stand for. –  nameless  Aug 30th, 2012 at 11:25 PM

anon -- i think those are people you have blocked on chat. at least it is for me.

it seems if they have a "-1" next to their ID, then you have them blocked. i also have an ID with "1" next to it -- i'm thinking that person blocked me. interesting..... good find! –  tiff  Aug 31st, 2012 at 1:02 AM

i take that back -- the "1" doesn't represent people who have you blocked on chat. –  tiff  Aug 31st, 2012 at 1:13 AM

You're maybe right. But what about unfriend people? I can see them on my keesh list, but not on this one. –  Stranger  Aug 31st, 2012 at 3:11 PM

FB User, I'm not quite sure that your digit assumption is correct, because these numbers are not specific to YOUR list. It's the number that facebook has assigned to each persons profile.

Ps: Interesting observation: Guys try to google and especially "image google" these numbers. You may come across some VERY interesting results in some cases. I have to say, NO privacy whatsoever with facebook....It's kinda scary... –  randomname  Aug 31st, 2012 at 3:33 PM

I'm still very much confused about what you guys are talking about. You guys are talking about the set of numbers that are between ["OrderedFriendsListInitialData",[] and ["PresencePrivacyInitialData",[], right?

This is what I brought up/posted 5 days ago. –  nameless  Aug 31st, 2012 at 8:07 PM

Yeah, I agree that the list doesn't necessarily match one's friendslist or keesh list.

What if...?

-Keesh list is a list of value of who you're interacting/stalking with the most, with a possiblity of some slight mutual interaction. People who mutually set themselves as "family members" will consistentally be high on the keesh list, regardless of how much you view them.
-Friends list is a list of who've you interacted with as of most recently, and on a consistent basis, as well as some mutual interaction in the mix possibly
-chatlist is a list of who's interacting/stalkng with you the most

Nah, it can't be that black and white simple. Or at least not to me.

My opinion on

1. Keesh list. Pretty much everyone I've seen on my keesh list, I'm very confident I interacted with their profile, even once, or if they aren't my friend. I don't recall any random stranger I've never seen before on fb. I do think keesh list is more heavily based on your interactions with friends, than vice versa, but mutually listed family members will be consistentally up there on the list, regardless of how much you interact with them.

2. I definitely think it has to do with recent interactions and how much interaction has been happening with a friend on a regular basis for set amount of days/weeks/months. Just don't know if its mutual, and if it's mutual, how much mutual. I'm still fairly confident now that the orientations of our friends on our friend's list, is based more on our interactions with friends(specifically likes, comments, and tags), than more mutual though, andcertainly don't think it's them stalking us.
3. chat list. I dunno. These are all people I've interacted with some way in the past. Two being ex crushes, with one I don't interact with anymore really, being #5. Don't want to dwell on it. –  nameless  Aug 31st, 2012 at 8:32 PM

triple post again..

People who mutually set themselves as "family members" will consistentally be high on the keesh list, regardless of how much you *interact with them. –  nameless  Aug 31st, 2012 at 8:33 PM

Regarding the 10 to 15 digits - this appears to relate to people who created their own usernames versus those who didn't create one and thus FB assigned them a user name. I kind of verified this comparing my real account and fake account as well as looking at some of the accounts of friends. I wanted to believe there was a distinction between IDs that began with 10000 or 100001, etc, but it appears it is just based upon whether you created your username or waited for FB to assign one to you. –  reMainnaMeless  Sep 3rd, 2012 at 5:04 PM

Yes, I can definitely say private messages over time have a large impact on the 6 friends box, the main friends list, the "orderedfriends" list (found in your profile pages HTML code) and the keesh list.   

The same can probably be said for Chat, but I haven't used chat much, so can't say for sure.

If you think about it, it makes sense.  If you consistently talk to someone over PM or IM, facebook is going to consider you and this person you communicate with closer than most, since this is direct 1 on 1 communication.  This actually may be one of the biggest 'tells' you can give facebook, besides you visiting (stalking) someones profile constantly or a friend stalking your profile. –  Answers  Sep 2nd, 2012 at 2:30 PM

I can confirm the private-msg thing too. I have people constantly showing up on the 6-list, with whom the ONLY communication we've had on fb was private msgs a while ago. I can also confirm that on the 6-list you also get the people YOU stalk. I am the one who did the experiment of stalking the most random friend I had, and she appeared on the 6-box after a few days of fake-stalking. She disappeared for a couple of days, but now she's still constantly there.

I also have the suspicion that u also get on that list the people who stalk you, but I cannot confirm this obviously. Though I see people there with whom I have no fb interaction and who I know have many reasons to stalk me. Anyway, too much analysis for this for now! –  randomname  Sep 2nd, 2012 at 4:40 PM

Thanks for the comments. When I keep refreshing my profile page, It just makes me crazy to see these 2 people (my crush and another woman who is our mutual friend) circulating back and forth in my 6-box at certain times. From what I have read here and experienced myself, if a person keeps showing in your 6-box 3-4 times consecutively when you refresh, it means they are online. As they are not posting/liking anything, my assumption was they are on chat but have hidden it from others. Maybe I am just paranoid :) They are not listed in the top 10 rows of their friends lists and I havent's seen them on each others 8-list either. Their 6-box I cannot be sure about as it doesn't look like the real one when viewed from a fake/non-friend account. So if you are right about that PM and IM should result in a close friendship (being in the 8-box and high in the friend list), I am hopefully wrong about their relationship! –  confused  Sep 2nd, 2012 at 5:30 PM

How often do you interact with him? Page views, photo views, likes and comments?

Liking and commenting on his statuses and pictures will bump him up to your top 5 rows, or the second set of rows after, which is how the top 8 friends are displayed--based on the first 2 set of rows. –  nameless  Sep 5th, 2012 at 7:27 AM

ps: Does anyone have any idea about the people who appear under "Mutual Friends" in the Friend Finder thing? It's a list of 3 friends-and rotates among 9-10 people overall. This list appears to be very consistent over time. For me it shows the 3 guys I mentioned above, the crazy ex-girlfriend of one of them, and the people I interact with A LOT.

Any ideas/experience about this list will be appreciated. I'm very curious. –  randomname  Sep 6th, 2012 at 2:56 PM

It's not a secret rocket science algorithm of some sort. What's the difference between interacting with your crush vs a platonic friendship? Nothing, other than you're focusing more on your crush.

Whoever you interact with the most, mutually, or stalking them, or if you two have lots of things in common(such as likes, as well as well as being tagged in photos), you're going to see them on your friends list, top 6, suggest like page list, friend finder etc.

I feel as FB puts them every page you go, for convenience sake and to "remind you" to interact with them more. –  nameless  Sep 6th, 2012 at 8:24 PM

I have also been wondering about the "Mutual Friends" list. The people on it are basically the same people that are high on my keesh list (3 relatives, my best friend, my crush and a few additional people). I have been observing for several days how the names appear on the list by comparing that to the 6-box by refreshing it several times in a row (the active people show are rotating in the 6-box and when they log in they usually appear a few times in a row in the top left lace). I think it has to do with when these people log in/get active in FB, ie.t he first person on the list is the most recent person to log into FB, And the list goes back to the "history" log in:s with every refresh you make. The list of people has been the same for quite a while for me but it gives to my opinion a pretty good picture of the activity of these people. 3 of the people that appear there were some time ago on my "close friends" list but I have removed them from that list a few weeks ago so I am not sure whether they appear there because of the former close friend status or just because they are interacting with me a lot. –  confused  Sep 7th, 2012 at 9:24 PM

You're not giving any examples? –  nameless  Sep 8th, 2012 at 9:47 PM

@nameless... i gave some examples in next comment. check page 6's 3rd comment –  belogical  Sep 9th, 2012 at 7:01 AM