默认情况下，Facebook会公开其大部分用户信息。担心自己的在线隐私的人选择将他们的个人资料设为私密(make their profiles private)，以限制其他人可以在他们的Facebook页面上看到的内容。
不幸的是，即使您打算创建一个匿名 Facebook 帐户(create an anonymous Facebook account)，其他人仍然可以通过其他方式查看您的用户信息。在本文中，您将了解其他Facebook用户可以利用哪些策略和漏洞来访问某人的私人Facebook帐户，以及如何保护您的个人信息。
私人 Facebook 个人资料的工作原理
私人Facebook个人资料是您在不与帐户所有者成为朋友的情况下无法访问的个人资料。如果您不在他们的好友列表中，您将看不到任何用户信息、他们的帖子、他们的Facebook好友，甚至可能看不到他们的Facebook个人资料图片。
如果某人在Facebook 上(Facebook)的个人资料是私密的，这意味着他们会花时间检查其隐私设置并关闭任何将其个人详细信息暴露给陌生人的选项。这些设置包括将您的Facebook好友列表设为私有、阻止搜索引擎在搜索结果中显示您的Facebook帐户、将您的Facebook帖子设为私有、将您的个人资料照片设为私有等等。
虽然这不会让您完全匿名，但它肯定有助于限制可以访问和使用您的个人信息的人的圈子。
您始终可以在任何Facebook个人资料（私人或公开）上看到的内容包括他们的用户名、个人资料图片的小版本（如果他们有的话）以及您在Facebook 上(Facebook)拥有的任何共同好友。
如何查看私人 Facebook 个人资料(Private Facebook Profiles)
可悲的是，即使您将Facebook帐户设置为私密，有恶意的人仍然可以访问您的私人信息。Facebook因其安全和隐私丑闻而臭名昭著，而且并非没有原因。
尽管该公司声称一直在努力确保您的私人数据保持私密性，但仍有几种解决方法可以让其他人看到您锁定的Facebook个人资料。了解它们可以帮助您了解如何保护自己免受黑客、大量收集用户信息的数据经纪人以及其他Facebook用户不必要的关注。
以下是查看Facebook(Facebook)私人资料
的最流行方法。
方法一：谷歌索引
有些人不必查看您的私人资料即可访问您隐藏的照片或个人数据。如果您对隐私设置不小心，他们可以在Google上找到您的大部分私人信息。入侵者可以利用称为谷歌(Google)索引的过程——分析网站 ( Facebook ) 上的内容以将其包含在搜索算法中。基本上(Basically)，谷歌会在(Google)Facebook 上(Facebook)找到任何关于你的公开信息并在线显示。
要使用Google查找有关(Google)Facebook用户的信息，您只需将他们的姓名放入Google搜索中，并将Facebook包含在您的查询中以缩小搜索范围。然后，谷歌(Google)会向你提供它在Facebook 上(Facebook)找到的关于该人的所有信息，这些信息已设置为公开。
如何击败它：您可以通过调整您的Facebook隐私设置轻松限制Facebook允许与Google共享的信息。(Google)为此，请在您的Android或 iPhone上打开Facebook应用，选择设置(Settings)和隐私 >设置(Settings)。
向下滚动(Scroll)，直到您看到受众和可见性，然后选择人们如何找到和联系您。在您希望Facebook以外的搜索引擎链接到您的个人资料下选择否？您还可以在Facebook的浏览器版本中编辑这些设置。
此更改需要时间才能生效，搜索引擎不会立即停止链接到您的个人资料。但是，如果您想消除陌生人在Google上找到您的用户个人资料信息的风险，最好尽快禁用此设置。
方法二：发送好友请求
在Facebook 上(Facebook)查看某人的私人资料最简单的方法之一就是向用户发送好友请求。默认情况下，如果您是某人的朋友，您可以查看他们的私人Facebook帐户。
发送请求后，您所能做的就是等待他们接受。发生这种情况时，您可以从他们的“关于”部分、他们的故事、状态更新、新旧帖子、标记照片等中查看信息。
但是，如果用户不接受您的好友请求，您也无能为力。如果没有成为朋友，您将无法查看他们的Facebook个人资料，并且无法确定您要等多久才能等到帐户所有者回复您朋友的请求。他们甚至有可能根本不会回应，因为Facebook允许用户忽略好友请求。
如果他们拒绝了您的好友请求，并且您怀疑原因是您的身份，您也可以尝试从虚假的Facebook(Facebook)个人资料发送好友请求。如果您不想透露您的真实Facebook ID，您可以创建一个虚假的Facebook个人资料并使用它与您的目标成为朋友。如果这也失败了，您将不得不使用另一种解决方法从目标的私人档案中查看私人 Facebook 照片和其他信息。(private Facebook photos)
如何打败它：避免让陌生人进入您的私人Facebook空间的一个简单策略是永远不要接受来自您不认识的人的随机好友请求。如果您不密切关注您的Facebook好友列表，并且那里有很多朋友，这将变得更加困难。
锁定您帐户的人可能会使用与您的帐户相关联的其他帐户（例如TikTok或Instagram帐户）上的信息，让您相信他们是您以前认识的人，例如失散多年的学校朋友或以前的同事工作场所。
方法三：社会工程学
当前两种方法失败时，用户可以尝试进入Facebook私人帐户的第三件事是社交工程。Facebook隐私设置有一个可以利用的漏洞——当用户激活隐私模式时，他们可能会选择不使其完全隐私，而是限制朋友圈之外的人访问。
这样做时，他们可能会选择允许访问“朋友的朋友”。这意味着如果您和目标人有共同的朋友，您将能够看到目标的Facebook个人资料，即使它被设置为私人。
只有一个共同的朋友就足以让这种方法发挥作用。如果您没有，您可以尝试向他们的一位朋友发送朋友请求。另一个可能阻止您的因素是目标用户是否也隐藏了他们的朋友列表(friends list hidden)。在这种情况下，您可以尝试使用其他社交媒体平台在Facebook(Facebook)之外搜索他们的朋友，尽管这可能需要一段时间。
如何击败它：这个很容易被击败。第一步：限制您在Facebook 上(Facebook)的好友列表。为此，请在您的计算机上打开网络浏览器并启动Facebook。然后按照路径设置(Settings)和Privacy > Settings > Privacy > How人们如何找到和联系你，然后选择谁可以看到你的朋友列表选项旁边的正确选项。
在移动应用程序（iOS 和Android）中，路径略有不同：设置(Settings)和隐私 >Settings > Audience和可见性> How人们如何找到和联系你 > 谁可以看到你的朋友列表。为了获得最大的隐私，请选择“仅限(Only)我”选项，您将是唯一可以看到您的朋友列表的人。
第二步：将您所有的社交媒体帐户设为私有(make all of your social media accounts private)。这包括Instagram、Snapchat、TikTok、Twitter、LinkedIn和任何其他可能包含您的个人信息的社交媒体平台。
方法四：使用第三方应用
不幸的是，即使您遵循了所有预防措施并将您的帐户设为Facebook允许的私密帐户，人们仍可能使用第三方工具访问您的个人信息。
使用间谍软件和Facebook个人资料查看器工具，人们可以访问您的隐藏图片、个人资料信息、私人帖子等。某些间谍软件(Certain Spyware)应用程序甚至可以提供对您的Messenger聊天的访问权限。
但是，为了使大多数这些应用程序正常工作，必须将它们安装到您的设备（智能手机或计算机）上。这意味着除非有人直接访问您的小工具或诱使您下载和安装恶意应用程序，否则您的私人数据应该是安全的。最重要的是，这些间谍应用程序中的大多数都需要付费订阅。如果他们所追求的只是您隐藏的一些 Facebook 图片，仅此一项就可以阻止某些人。
如何击败它：没有积极的方法可以阻止这种情况的发生。同时，您可以通过使用密码管理器(using a password manager)和恶意软件扫描程序(malware scanner)来加强您帐户的安全性。
现在是（再次(Again)）离开Facebook的好(Good)时机(Time)吗？
Facebook 是一场安全和隐私灾难，保护您的数据的最终方法是永久删除您的 Facebook 帐户(delete your Facebook account)。如果您还没有准备好与Facebook告别，您可以尝试停用您的帐户(deactivating your account)。给它几个星期或几个月的时间，看看你是否可以在没有Facebook的情况下生活，然后再完全切断联系。
How to View Private Profiles on Facebook
By default, Facebook makes most of its users’ іnformation public. Peoрle who arе concerned about their online prіvacy choose tо make their profiles private to limit what others can see on their Facebook page.
Unfortunately, even if you set out to create an anonymous Facebook account, there are still ways others can use to view your user information. In this article, you’ll learn about the tactics and loopholes that other Facebook users can exploit to get access to someone’s private Facebook account, as well as what to do to protect your personal information.
How Private Facebook Profile Works
A private Facebook profile is one you cannot access without being friends with the account’s owner. If you’re not on their friends’ list, you won’t be able to see any user information, their posts, their Facebook friends, and you might not even see their Facebook profile picture.
If someone’s profile on Facebook is private, that means they took the time to go through their privacy settings and switch off any options that exposed their personal details to strangers. These settings include making your Facebook friends list private, preventing search engines from displaying your Facebook account in search results, making your Facebook posts private, making your profile photo private, and more.
While this doesn’t make you completely anonymous, it certainly helps to limit the circle of people who can access and use your personal information.
Things that you can always see on any Facebook profile (private or public) include their username, a small version of their profile picture (if they have one), and any mutual friends that you have on Facebook.
How to View Private Facebook Profiles
Sadly, people with malicious intentions can still access your private information even when you’ve set your Facebook account to private. Facebook’s notorious for its security and privacy scandals, and not without a reason.
Even though the company claims to be constantly working on making sure your private data remains private, there are several workarounds that allow other people to see into your locked Facebook profile. Knowing about them can help you understand how to protect yourself from hackers, data brokers that bulk-collect user information, and unwanted attention from other Facebook users.
Here are the most popular methods to view a Facebook private profile.
Method One: Google Indexing
Some people don’t have to see into your private profile to access your hidden photos or personal data. If you’re not careful with your privacy settings, they can find most of your private information on Google. The intruder can take advantage of a process called Google indexing – analyzing content on a website (Facebook) to include it in search algorithms. Basically, Google finds any information about you on Facebook that’s set to public and displays it online.
All you have to do to find information about a Facebook user using Google is to put their name in Google search and include Facebook in your inquiry to narrow down the search. Google will then give you all the information it finds about the person on Facebook that’s been set to public.
How to beat it: You can easily restrict the information that Facebook’s allowed to share with Google by tweaking your Facebook privacy settings. To do that, open the Facebook app on your Android or iPhone, select Settings & privacy > Settings.
Scroll down until you see Audience and visibility and select How people find and contact you. Under Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile select No? You can also edit these settings in the browser version of Facebook.
This change takes time to take effect, and search engines won’t stop linking to your profile immediately. However, if you want to eliminate the risk of strangers finding your user profile information on Google, it’s best to disable this setting as soon as possible.
Method Two: Send a Friend Request
One of the easiest things to do to see into someone’s private profile on Facebook is sending the user a friend request. By default, if you are friends with someone, you can view their private Facebook account.
After you send the request, all you can do is wait for them to accept it. When that happens, you can view the information from their About section, their Stories, status updates, new and old posts, tagged photos and more.
However, if the user doesn’t accept your friend request, there’s not much else you can do. You can’t view their Facebook profile without being friends, and there’s no way to tell how long you’ll wait until the account owner responds to your friend’s request. There’s even a chance they won’t respond to it at all, as Facebook allows users to ignore friend requests.
If they decline your friend request, and you suspect the reason being your identity, you can also try sending a friend request from a fake Facebook profile. In case you don’t want to reveal your real Facebook ID, you can create a fake Facebook profile and use that to become friends with your target. If this fails as well, you’ll have to use another workaround to view private Facebook photos and other information from your target’s private profile.
How to beat it: A simple strategy to avoid letting a stranger into your private Facebook space is to never accept random friend requests from people you don’t know. This becomes more difficult if you don’t monitor your Facebook friend’s list closely, and have many friends there.
The person targeting your account may use information found on other accounts linked to yours (like TikTok or Instagram account), to make you believe they’re someone you’ve met before, like a long-lost school friend or a colleague from a previous workplace.
Method Three: Social Engineering
When the first two methods fail, the third thing a user can try to get into a private account on Facebook is social engineering. Facebook privacy settings have a loophole that you can exploit – when a user activates private mode, they might choose not to make it completely private but restrict the access from people outside of their friends circle.
While doing so, they might choose to allow access to “friends of friends”. That means that if you and the targeted person have a mutual friend, you’ll be able to see the target’s Facebook profile, even if it’s set to private.
Having just one mutual friend is enough for this method to work. If you don’t have any, you can try sending a friend request to one of their friends. Another factor that can stop you is if the targeted user has their friends list hidden as well. In that case, you may try searching for their friends outside Facebook using other social media platforms, although that can take a while.
How to beat it: This one’s easy to beat. Step one: restrict your friends list on Facebook. To do that, open a web browser on your computer and launch Facebook. Then follow the path Settings & Privacy > Settings > Privacy > How people can find and contact you, then select the right option next to the Who can see your friends list option.
In the mobile app (iOS and Android), the path’s a little different: Settings & privacy > Settings > Audience and visibility > How people find and contact you > Who can see your friends list. For maximum privacy, choose the Only me option, and you’ll be the only person who can see your friends list.
Step two: make all of your social media accounts private. This includes Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, and any other social media platforms that might contain your personal information.
Method Four: Use Third-party Apps
Unfortunately, even after you follow all the precautions and make your account as private as Facebook allows it, people may still access your personal information using a third-party tool.
Using spyware and Facebook profile viewer tools, people can access your hidden pictures, profile info, private posts, and more. Certain Spyware apps can even provide access to your Messenger chats.
However, in order for most of these apps to work, they have to be installed onto your device (smartphone or computer). That means that unless someone has direct access to your gadgets or tricks you into downloading and installing a malicious app, your private data should be safe. On top of that, most of these spying apps require paid subscriptions. That alone can stop some people if all they’re after are a few of your hidden Facebook pictures.
How to beat it: There’s no active way to stop this from happening. At the same time, you can strengthen the security of your accounts by using a password manager, and a malware scanner.
Is it (Again) Time to Leave Facebook for Good?
Facebook’s a security and privacy disaster, and an ultimate way to protect your data is to delete your Facebook account for good. If you’re not quite ready to kiss Facebook goodbye, you can try deactivating your account instead. Give it a few weeks or months, and see if you can live without Facebook before cutting the ties completely.
