: Showing users who visited their profile is bad? I have been thinking of implementing this feature to my website (not a dating website), but I did some research why Facebook does not use this

@Angela700

The user may feel this as a violation of privacy if the person they are visiting (whatever the purpose may be) know that their profile is being checked out by this user.

It is a good way to keep stalkers in their line with this feature.

But isn't this why Orkut got boring? It depends on the functionality of the site too. You can find this feature on LinkedIn and people do not mind it as LinkedIn is meant for a professional profile. Hence if my profile is visited by some recruiter or a peer, it means something other than stalking. At the same time sites like Facebook and Orkut are meant for a user's personal space. You go to those sites to tell people what you do in your free time, share images of your vacation etc. So if I get notification that some xyz has visited my profile when I actually want to be a person available only to my friends, it may or may not be taken positively by me.

So it depends on what your site is all about.

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@Lengel546

If Facebook ever make it impossible to stalk without warning the stalkees, I bet alot of people stop using Facebook.

It is a function who do more harm than good imo

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