How to view your Facebook profile as another user
I always have this question in mind, what would my Facebook profile looks like when viewed by others? Or instead, a specific person? Like Mark Zuckerberg?
Of course, Mark Zuckerberg can view any Facebook profile he wants, even if you set privacy to Yourself Only. He’s the owner of Facebook!
Well, I found that testing the viewing of your profile can be done with using a specific user that you want.
For a start, let’s go through how you’d like to customize your profile settings :
From the menu on the top right, select Account -> Privacy Settings
Select Friends, Tags and Connections:
Double check your privacy settings, or if you’re not changing anything, look for the Preview My Profile… button :
Note that the hyperlink will go to : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=100000686899395
Going to that page actually shows how your profile GENERALLY looks to most people on Facebook.
Because that user is a test user, so like anybody else which is not your friend, they will see very limited information.
Now say you want to know what will your profile display to a particular user?
Get the user profile id, or user name, works both ways, and replace the test user id (100000686899395) in : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=100000686899395 with the user id you want to see.
For example, any one of this:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=markzuckerberg
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?viewas=68310606562
Should I customize a bit and let him see MORE of me?
Guess not. 🙂
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Hey this is cool! Been a Facebook user for more than 2 years now and haven’t read anything about this. Thanks for sharing.