How to see who’s been snooping on YOU on Facebook, as glitch sends out accidental friend requests 

We’ve all been there — one minute you’re looking through a friend’s Facebook photos, and the next you’re flipping through their cousin’s dog sitter’s vacation photos from two years ago.

Everyone does it right?

But “stalking” on Facebook became potentially much more embarrassing, following a social network outage.

The bug automatically sent friend requests to all profiles people had viewed, prompting users to rush to cancel them as soon as possible.

So how do you see who has been snooping on your profile? Here’s everything you need to know.

A spokesperson for Meta, the company headed by Mark Zuckerberg that runs Facebook, explained the issue The everyday beast.

“We’ve fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent inadvertently,” the spokesperson said.

“We prevented this and apologize for any inconvenience.”

To see who’s been snooping on your profile page, just go to facebook.com/friends.

Here you will see a list of requests, including requests sent by mistake from people spying on your profile.

But prepare to cringe yourself because from here you can also see which profiles you’ve accidentally sent requests to.

Click “Friend Requests” in the left tab followed by “View Send Requests” to view pending requests.

An affected user said ‘it’s the ‘wrong night to browse and stalk my yearbook’

Another posted: “Imagine if you stalked your ex or your enemy and they received a friend request notification”

The bug sent automatic friend requests to every profile people viewed, meaning users rushed to cancel them ASAP

‘See you in another life’: Users were embarrassed by the glitch, which penalized the usual habit of ‘profile snooping’

Fortunately, when you delete a friend request on Facebook, the person who sent you the request won’t get a notification

Bizarre glitches on social media platforms usually occur when engineers make changes or tweaks to the user experience.

Another very humiliating Facebook glitch last year resulted in user feeds being flooded with posts from strangers sharing content on celebrity pages.

For example, memes shared on American rapper Eminem’s official Facebook page appeared on people’s homepages.

The problem appeared to stem from a technical glitch where Facebook’s internal systems were controlling which posts appear in users’ News Feed.