How to see all photos of someone on facebook without being friends

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If youre not on their friends list, you wont be able to see any user information, their posts, their Facebook friends, and you might not even see their Facebook profile picture.

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The Secret To Viewing Anyones Private Facebook Photographs
Step by Step Instructions to Create Link to Anyones Private Facebook Photos
If you Just Want their Facebook ID Number ...
How can you see someones pictures on Facebook if they are not your friend?
How do you see all of someones pics on their Facebook without adding them?
Can you see someone's Facebook posts without being friends?
How can I view private Facebook pictures?

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This wikiHow teaches you how to browse the available photos of somebody who's not your friend on Facebook. If you're not friends with a user, you can only see their photos with privacy settings that are set to "Public" or "Friends of Friends."

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Open Facebook. You can use an internet browser such as Chrome or Safari to open www.facebook.com or use the mobile Facebook app on iPhone or Android.
- If you aren't automatically signed into Facebook, enter your email address or phone number and your password to log in.
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Go to the Profile page of the person whose photos you want to see. You can click on their name on your News Feed, find them in the friends list of a friend of yours, or use the Search field at the top of your screen to search their name.
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Click or tap Photos. This button will be next to About and Friends on the tabs panel below their cover photo. This tab will show you all of their photos they've uploaded with "Public" privacy settings.
- If you have a person in your friends list who's Facebook friends with this user, you will see their photos that are set to "Friends of friends" as well as their Public photos.
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Click or tap Albums. Photos will open up to a grid of all photos available for you to view. The Albums tab will let you browse this person's Profile Pictures, Timeline Photos, Cover Photos, and other available photo albums.

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Facebook considers user privacy one of their major priorities. If you know a person and you want to see all of their photos, you can add them as a friend from their profile. If they accept your friend request, you will see all of their photos that they've made available to "Friends."
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1. Open Facebook.
2. Go to the Profile page of somebody who's not your friend.
3. Click or tap Photos.
4. Click or tap Albums.

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On Facebook, when a person uploads a new photo to their account, they can elect to make the newly uploaded photo private. What this means is that only someone who is that persons friend can view these photos. But the private photos are usually the best and most revealing ones they have so wouldn't it be great if you could easily view all of these private photos, for any person on Facebook?

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The Secret To Viewing Anyones Private Facebook Photographs

The trick to this lies within a hacking term called url manipulation. To view anyones private FB photos you need two things:

Their Facebook account NUMBERIC ID. This is a unique, long (about 15 digits) number that Facebook assigns to every Facebook account holder. It is sort of a license plate for each member. In order to direct people to proper locations on their website this number is used frequently by the Facebook web page code. Unfortunately this is not public information and this is the way Facebook wants it but there is an easy way around this. View the html source code of the persons profile page.
The special url/or web address that you will plug this unique ID number into that tricks Facebook into thinking you are their friend. As such, they let you access all the private photos!.

Step by Step Instructions to Create Link to Anyones Private Facebook Photos

Follow these simple step by step instructions:

❶ Make sure you are logged out of Facebook. My suggestion would be to just use a different web browser that you normally do not use because, although you do not need to be their friend to view their private photos, you do have be logged in to Facebook to view them. To create the link to their private photos, using these instructions, you need to be logged out.

❷ Go to the main or home page of the person, on Facebook, who you want to view their private photos. This will be a url that looks something like or .

❸ You will see a page that looks like the image below. It will be a teaser of that persons Facebook profile along with prompts to log in or create a Facebook account to see their whole profile.

How To View Facebook Private Photos Photo Facebook Profile Page without Login.

❹ Make sure your mouse is NOT on any part of the page that is hyper-linked (you will know this because the cursor becomes a hand if its over a link, otherwise, it is an arrow).

❺ Press the right mouse button. This will bring up the web browsers pop up context menu. The exact wording varies slightly, depending on your browser, but click the menu item that says View Source. This will show you the source code of that persons Facebook page.

How To View Facebook Private Photos Photo Login Source Code.

❻ Press CTRL+A on your keyboard to select all of the html code and then CTRL+C to copy it to your clipboard.

❼ Click on the textbox below and press CTRL+V to paste all of the html code into the textbox. Then press the Create Link to View All Their Private Photos button. The text below that reads Link to Facebook User Private Photos Will Appear Here will turn into a hyper-link to the page that has all their private photos, that you can click to view, without having to be their friend.

Note: there will be a lot of source code to process so please wait about 10 seconds for the souce code to appear after pasting.
Link to Facebook User Private Photos Will Appear Here

If you Just Want their Facebook ID Number ...

If you want to get anyones ID number on Facebook, the easiest route is to just use this free tool to Get a Persons Facebook ID Number.

How can you see someones pictures on Facebook if they are not your friend?

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Open Facebook..

Go to the Profile page of somebody who's not your friend..

Click or tap Photos..

Click or tap Albums..

How do you see all of someones pics on their Facebook without adding them?

Try Third-Party Viewer Apps PictureMate is a Chrome extension that lets you find pictures of anyone on Facebook. It's a great tool when you want to view photos of someone privately. At the click of a button, you can find any user's pictures, even if someone else uploaded them.

Can you see someone's Facebook posts without being friends?

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.

How can I view private Facebook pictures?

If you have a private album on Facebook, you can access it from your profile. Tap in the top right of Facebook, then tap your name. Scroll down and tap Photos. Tap the album you'd like to view.