As of March 13, 2010, almost 400,000 people have signed up for: NOW YOU CAN SEE EVERY 1 WHO VIEWS YOUR PROFILE!!
Why?
The questionable instructions include:
change your privacy settings – to what? to give access to this amateurish production?
Invite at least 50 of your Friends to This Event to Confirm your Membership – oh, you mean, impose on your Facebook friends? If 50 friends sign up for this, that’s 50 invitations I get! Please, my friends, I’d rather you didn’t.
Amid halting english – “it’s possible to see who….spying you” and “every 1″ – the amateurish instructions links to whosee.me which is actually a sign-up page for the feboz toolbar.
And what is Feboz? Although it claims to be a social networking site, nothing coborates it. There’s no Wikipedia entry. Their Facebook Fan page offers no information other than a link to their website.
It could be a somewhat unscrupulous attempt to sign up users, or worse, a serious security threat which could lead to identity theft, financial losses or unauthorized use of your personal information.
Almost 400,000 people (and growing) are willing to take their chances and sign up just to find out who’s viewing their profile? Why?
Facebook, have you checked these guys out? If anyone has information that I’m missing, I’d love to hear it.
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Why are people willingly giving up their privacy and endangering that of their friends? This is just inviting trouble. Don’t fall for it!!!
I totally get the narcissism that a friend mentioned on Facebook, but you’re right A.J., at the risk of exposing one’s info (and others) to unknown entities?
nice post. i also signup for feboz. its a social network. i saw the event which you Show. you make a good print screen but you miss something in the picture which was
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Note: After clicking on Attending Please Invite atleast 50 of your Friends to This Event to Confirm your Membership.
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* Its works with feboz only
** You can signup with toolbar ( Toolbar is used only for signup and make easy to use network. Toolbar has no connection with above mentioned feature )
This is cleared in Event that this app only works with Feboz. and about personal information it only ask for your name email address age same like other social networks do. so how can you say feboz will be a security theft. and i saw this Post i contact feboz staff by mailing on admin@feboz.com and ask them about this app and i got this reply
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Dear User,
You can see Who views your Feboz Profile on Feboz Only. This apps only Works with Feboz. To Enable This option Please Login to your feboz profile. Than on your setting option Click on Privacy Option, Now you can see an option of Show Profile Views, Check this option and save. Now this feature is Enabled on your Profile. Now on your user home page’s right column you can see a box named “Profile Stats” if you got any profile views you will see an option of “Who Viewed My Profile?” click on it and than you can see who viewed your Feboz profile. Thanks for using Feboz,
Thanks
Feboz Staff
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well i search on google and bing i dont understand why people are saying bad things about Feboz. i check each and everything on feboz. even i scan feboz toolbar which got no virus and nothing it only contain feboz options.
i hope this will be helpful for everyone
Thanks for your comment, Alex. I provided a link to the full ad in my post. Questions and concerns remain about the intent of the advertisement and it’s legitimacy.
Good point Tim. I didn’t even think of the potential legal issues involved.
Thanks, Fred! The ethical and legal issues around third party applications that affect such a significant percentage of users is compounded, I think by Facebook’s lack of any meaningful response.
am trying to get this thing going and can’t view who has been checking on my profile. what am i doing wrong? have installed feboz
Lorraine, sorry for the late response. I never signed up for this program since it seemed quite suspect. Third party programs can often compromise the security and privacy with your Facebook account
whi sees my profile
Thanks to Alex for confirming that feboz is crap. His poor English matches the crap in the screen shot! So you set up a phishing site, and then you surf the Net looking for references, and then you pretend to be just another user and defend it. What a devious plan! Oh wait…no it isn’t…it’s incredibly simplistic, idiotic and has been done umpteen times.
Yeah, John, that was a bit transparent and lacking integrity
Hey, I am a member of Feboz. I am using it from the start. i dont found anything wrong in Feboz. its Safe. also got real features like color profile and who view my profile. i am amazed by seeing all these blogs against feboz. but i think you should all 1st check feboz than write something against it.
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