Facebook query

[drcuriosity]

When someone has a publically-viewable profile, is there any reason Facebook wouldn't be allowing me to look at it when that person turns up in search results? I'm told that other people get little blue clickable links to investigate, but they don't show up for me. On the other hand if I log out, they do show up (yet I can't access them because I'm not logged in).

Quite aside from anything else, I have a couple of friend-requests pending from people who I don't know if I know, and I'd rather find out for certain rather than assuming that it's someone I know just because they know some of the same people as me.

Any thoughts?

(In other news, I'm finally trying to get together all the billable work I've done in the last month and a half so I can actually get paid for it. Man, I'm slack.)

Comments

[jwm.livejournal.com]

So a 'publicly viewable profile' in Farcebook still requires a login to see? Sheesh.

[drcuriosity]

I'm finding myself wondering if the baling wire and duct tape is just a little bit better hidden than it is on MySpace.

[caycos.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, and I'm not sure how this is connected to being 'publicly viewable', people have their profiles set to be viewable by those in their 'network'. For example, I'm in the New Zealand network, which gives me access to a largish number of profiles that people in other networks can't see..

[adrexia.livejournal.com]

Yep, you don't count as public unless you have a facebook.

Also, I understand some profiles are only publicly viewable to others in their own network (i.e your country, university, or whatever). If you don't set a network, you can't see those profiles.

[xyphoid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I do a search, I get something like



Blue names are clicky. There are also black non-clicky names for non-public profiles. Do you get them all in black?

[drcuriosity]

Yep, they're all black. At least, I haven't seen a blue one yet.

[drcuriosity]

Other than people I'm already friends with, that is.

[caycos.livejournal.com]

That's probably because they're in the same network as you. Morbid isn't in the NZ network so he can't view their profiles.

[drcuriosity]

I've found where they keep the networks, now, and a lot of people are showing up who didn't previously. Thanks :-)

[caycos.livejournal.com]

huzzah :)

Btw there are some irc people on my friends list on Facebook if you wanted to feel more popular ;)

[drcuriosity]

I thought I'd leave it for a while to see who I could accumulate with zero effort, then go on a serial adding spree sometime when I'm a bit less busy with other things. So far we're on 73 from LiveJournal and word of mouth alone.