Is there a way to view a private Myspace/Facebook profile w/o being someone's friend?

Nothing on the internet is “private”.

teh haxxorz.

There used to be online tools to do this, at least for MySpace, but MySpace has since upgraded their security to prevent this. However, there are always people who know how to get in the back door, so there’s always that chance, or that someone got around the new security measures and there’s a new tool.

Maybe someone you know has a crush on you and keeps checking your page? :)

The only way that I can think of, is if you have a friend who just happens to be friends with this person. I believe that that is the only way.

How do you know a hacker/a prankster is viewing your profile? Maybe it’s someone that likes you….

They can’t and if someone claims to be able then they are deceiving you. It is quite easy to start a “bogus” account, friend someone, check them out and then “un-friend” them. Most of the friend count obsessed little twits will friend anyone who asks them. Who really has friends that number in the thousands?

I have no knowledge of MySpace.

Facebook, however, is not private by default. You have to enable all the security and privacy settings you want. Otherwise, some information is available to everyone, and other information is available to “friends and friends of friends”.

And of course, if you post something on someone else‘s wall/status/photo/whatever, then your post becomes visible to whomever that person has enabled to see their stuff.

Create a quiz or poll application and get them or one of their friends to take it.
http://apps.facebook.com/aclunc_privacy_quiz/?ref=mf

What is it with all the stalkers on here?

@avvooooooo well… we’re mostly just stalkers that stalk stalkers…. we kind of cancel ourselves out really.

This is at least the second “how do you access private info on a social site” question this week.

Like “private information” isn’t a clue?

there was one a couple weeks ago about hacking passwords too.

and a while back there was one about whether or not it was ok to read your partner’s email/facebook pms lol. I think I see a progression here…

@ABoyNamedBoobs03: Yeah there have been quite a few about sharing internet stuff with your partner!
@BBSDTfamily: What’s going on exactly? Maybe we can give you something more specific.

Basically someone is messaging me and referring to specific things about my life, and I don’t think I know them

@BBSDTfamily: Scary! Are they specific things that could be learned from reading your facebook profile, or are they more personal than that?

I think it is things maybe they assume from the information on my profile page. Some of it is on there, and then some of it isn’t. Some of it’s creepy, like “You’re so ugly when you’re asleep” and there are no pictures of me sleeping. I think that’s just extra creep factor they’re making up.

You can block them. Then you don’t have to worry about messages.

If you are a member of a network on facebook, other people can see that network, join it, and see your profile.

@Gunter Ahhh good point!

That is a good point, a great one—only if you have your profile set to viewable by “my friends and my network”. The question is, do you?

@La_chica_gomela Oh. No. Crap back to square one…