It’s been a while since we talked about a Facebook issue or failure, which knowledge of its history was beginning to become a hard-to-explain anomaly. However, it seems that everything is back to normal, that the “X days without failure” counter has returned to zero, and that we can therefore stop thinking about the remote possibility that the social network’s engineering teams will eventually manage to solve everything.

There are security issues that reveal our data (and Facebook knows a lot about this type), others that affect the operation of the service, and those that, without directly revealing our personal data, violate our privacy and can put us in a rather uncomfortable situation. And of course, the problem we know today could be exactly the same throughout Facebook’s history worst in this last aspect, that is, in taking out our colours.

If you use Facebook for years or have used it for years, you will surely remember that for quite a long time applications and services became fashionable, which theoretically could find out which users of the social network accessed your profile and, of course, could inform about it. The truth of the matter is that Facebook has never allowed access to such information, so all these suggestions were jokes at best and malicious tools at best. In this regard, it has to be recognized that Facebook has always been successful.

However, the social network today lost one of the few remarkably positive points it had so far. As we can read in WCCFtech, Facebook has a bug that automatically sends friend requests to the profiles we visit. Despite not occurring in all cases, the large number of reports highlighting this situation suggests that it occurs fairly widely.

I will not of course go in to judge what to visit profiles without interacting with them, because the motivation for this can be from the most innocent to the most perverted, but it is true that users have been using the social network for years and trust their privacy when visiting profiles. On some occasions, I thought that these visits were a posteriori converted into friendship recommendations for people whose profiles we visited, but since this can be due to many other reasons, it did not guarantee anything.

But now, many friend requests will be clearly interpreted as alleged stealth visits to profiles, which can lead to the most unpleasant situations. And the worst thing is that at the moment Meta has not said anything about it, so we don’t know if the issue is still active at this moment, if they are already working on it or something like that. In other words: If you’re still a Facebook user, don’t visit the profiles of people you don’t want them to know you’ve been there yet.