Stalkscan Reveals All the Information You Can Search on Facebook
Internet: Facebook’s privacy tools are notoriously complex and constantly changing . Stalkscan is a third-party tool that can find and highlight any publicly (or visible to you) information for a specific profile.
Update: As noted by readers, Stalkscan uses Facebook’s built-in search, which means you will have access to any information available on your own profile, even if it’s not publicly available. This makes self-auditing difficult. If you want to be careful, you can create a second account ( Facebook does not approve of this practice , but it is not impossible) and use search to reveal your information. Or go to your profile and click View As to see how he looks in the public eye. Although this method does not offer a search.
Despite its eerie name, Stalkscan can show you what information people might already be looking for. To get started, you need a complete link to the person’s profile. Enter your profile url in the search box and the site will provide you with quick links to many searches such as photos, videos, or likes of that person. If you’re looking for yourself, you’ll see private photos that are only visible to you and whoever you’ve shared with, but it’s still a handy way to know what people might be looking for.
While it sounds intimidating, all of this information comes from public Facebook searches or your own privacy settings. In other words, if you go to Facebook right now and search for “Photos of [X person]”, you will get the same results as if you clicked on the “Pictures” link on Stalkscan. You will see only those photos that are available in the privacy settings. So, if you are looking for a profile of someone you are not friends with, your results will be very limited. If you are looking for yourself, you will see your own photos.
This is very useful if you want to know what your friends see about you. I tried it on my profile and found photos that I don’t remember for a long time. I was then able to make sure they all match my preferred privacy settings. Many posts were made before Facebook gave you the option to restrict posts individually, so this is a good way to filter them out. It also gives you links to search terms that you might not have thought to hide, such as future events or places you’ve been tagged. If you’ve never checked your public information on Facebook, this is a good place to start.