How to View My Facebook Profile As Public: With recent upgrade on user’s Facebook Timeline where Facebook has offered users the ability to release ‘public’ status update, an additional upgrade was added to the features of Facebook and this addition is that you can view your Facebook Timeline as a public user or as any of your specified friends on your Facebook profile so that you can see your profile the way others see it and check out how your security privacy settings function.
This new feature without doubt adds another dimension to our privacy settings. From any angle you see it, you would see this gives users the ability to know which of their posts people see and how their activities (posts, updates e.t.c.) are revealed on Facebook to ensure that you’ve not revealed certain information to the general public that you initially did not envisage.
In today’s article we will show you how to use this function.
Listed below are steps to take in order to view your Facebook Profile as a Public User;
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The next step is to have a look at the area above your Timeline profile. Click the highlighted word ‘public.’
With this, you will now be able to view your whole Facebook Profile as a public user. These includes; status updates, photos, likes etc.
Alternatively, you can type in a friend’s name into the available text box and view your profile the way your profile will appear to that friend.
If you notice a large number of your posts are been shown to the general public, then this gives you an insight that you need to check your privacy settings and update it
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This new feature without doubt adds another dimension to our privacy settings. From any angle you see it, you would see this gives users the ability to know which of their posts people see and how their activities (posts, updates e.t.c.) are revealed on Facebook to ensure that you’ve not revealed certain information to the general public that you initially did not envisage.
In today’s article we will show you how to use this function.
Listed below are steps to take in order to view your Facebook Profile as a Public User;
- Navigate to your Facebook Profile page.
- Click the ‘Icon’ beside the Activity Log Link.
- Click ‘View As…’.
The next step is to have a look at the area above your Timeline profile. Click the highlighted word ‘public.’
With this, you will now be able to view your whole Facebook Profile as a public user. These includes; status updates, photos, likes etc.
Alternatively, you can type in a friend’s name into the available text box and view your profile the way your profile will appear to that friend.
If you notice a large number of your posts are been shown to the general public, then this gives you an insight that you need to check your privacy settings and update it
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This no longer works
ReplyDeleteYes it is no longer there. Anyone know how you can still do this?
ReplyDeleteI'm curious too. I liked to check this on the reg to make sure things were correct. Now it's gone.
ReplyDeleteYes,I am also looking for updated information. Bad move by Facebook to remove or at least hide this function.
ReplyDeleteStill not working.....bummed
ReplyDeleteDoesn't work anymore? Is it hidden somewhere now?
ReplyDeleteI bet Facebook removed it in the interests of companies looking to not hire people based on social media, because Facebook/Zuckerberg has his hand in their pockets and they probably demanded him to do it or else they won't give him money anymore.
ReplyDelete"Navigate to your Facebook Profile page.
ReplyDeleteClick the ‘Icon’ beside the Activity Log Link.
Click ‘View As…’."
As of this date there is currently no "Icon" or way to navigate to the " View As" Oct,24 2018
Not working.
ReplyDeleteKeep pushing us away FB. I used to be on daily now ...it's rarely.
ReplyDeleteI miss the old FB. Stop taking control away from us.
So many changes and you are loosing my interest .
Please help! I want to view my profile as Public! Why did FB get rid of this feature? :(
ReplyDeleteAnnoying
ReplyDeleteVery frustrated that facebook removed this option about 2 months ago. Glad to see that I wasnt the only one who was using it. We should flood fb with messages to please put it back!
ReplyDeletestill not working
ReplyDeletei see nothing as described!! ughhhh
ReplyDeleteWe want the "view as" option back!
ReplyDeletePlease bring back the View As option
ReplyDeleteYes! I kept reading these steps only to find out that it's gone! wrong move :(
ReplyDeleteFB, PUT IT BACK PLEASE...
My suggestion is to create a "fake" account. Do not friend your real account with your fake account, and vice versa. Simply search for your real account from your fake account, and view it. That is how it looks to any other Joe Blow who is not your "friend".
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