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Clearly something is not right, so I decide to view the profiles of all those who clicked the ads.

Whoa, what? Advertisers can see my Facebook profile if I click their link? Talk about oversharing...



No, they can't. This is a small page so he just assumed all new likes came from advertising.

Page owners can see who likes them, and if your info is public they can view them as any other fb user.


I'm thinking he might have conflated two points: you can see the demographic breakdowns of people who click various ads, and the list of people who 'like' your page is, of course, public.


They can see a list of people that like they page. They can only see the information you've made public on your Facebook profile just like anybody else who is on Facebook but not on your friends list.


Agreed, this is really what jumped out at me. I had no idea.


Without wishing to be rude, have you not been paying attention? This is what facebook /does/.


First, there's two other comments that would say otherwise. Can anyone definitively say whether this is true or not? I'm curious as well.

Second, your question doesn't add to the discussion (thus a downvote). Mind your manners please.


I work with fb ads, there is no way to get any information from people who click on your ads apart from the fact they fit the demographics you set on the ad.




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