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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Why you should not set your picture as Facebook profile picture?

Recently, Facebook has introduced many privacy settings to protect our Facebook account from hackers or unknown people. Many people have set "Friends" for profile photo's privacy setting, and they are still thinking that they are safe, and others can't see the full size picture of our profile picture, if they are not friend of mine. But, time has changed every thing..........

Now, we can get the full size picture of their profile picture even though we are not friend of them. Facebook's logic fails. Facebook needs to find another way to protect the profile picture. Please share this news with others to alert them, to change their profile picture with something else.

You may ask me, How to get the full size picture of others profile pictures?
It is simple, you have to change the picture size values in the image URL of the profile picture.


Did you get what i am saying? No!! Then follow the following steps:

  • Browse Facebook.com
  • Login to it (Login is not necessary, if you know the link of someone's profile)
  • Then open the profile which profile picture is not enlarged.
  • Then copy the locked Image URL(Right click on the image, and select 'Copy Image URL/Location').
  • Paste it in Notepad or Address bar
  • Now you will get the URL like this(Similar to this). 
"https://m.ak.fbcdn.net/profile.ak/hp####-ak-ash4/c96.19.233.233/s160x160/000000_3######8000444_#####9157_n.jpg"

  • Then just remove the s160*160 part in the link or modify the link s160*160 to s720*720. (Marked in Red color) Best option is changing the value as s720*720
  • Then open the URL using browser. Now you will see the full size of the locked profile picture in Facebook.
  • That's it. It is very easy to see the locked profile picture in Facebook.
If you see any error messages then Sorry,Facebook might have changed the setting or disabled it.

You may ask me, why we should not set our original picture as Facebook profile picture?
If you set your original picture as your profile picture then no problem (if the above method is not working). But if the above method is still working then your enemies or 3rd party people (Hackers/ Cheaters/ Fake account creators etc) may take your full size HD quality picture and do illegal works like morphing etc.  So please don't set your picture as profile picture until Facebook fixes this problem or brings new solution.

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