Facebook being one of the famous social networking site has many privacy settings that can be set by the users. One such setting is the hiding of friends list. Recently a tool has been released that can be used to find the hidden friends list.
Hiding friends list is one such feature used by many users to maintain privacy. But it can be revealed by the Facebook's mutual-friends feature concept, which can raise privacy problem.
A free chrome extension has been released named "#Facebook Friends Mapper" which can expose a lot more than just mutual friends.
Usually Facebook users may still be able to see part of the hidden friends list and that is more than just mutual friends.
Lets have a look at the working of the extension. It leverages the Mutual Friends feature of the social networking site to crawl ans expose the hidden friends list.
The only condition that has to meet is that the friend whom you want to crawl should have atleast one mutual friend. To execute the tool do the following
1. Install Facebook Friends Mapper extension from Chrome Web Store.
2. Open Facebook profile of the user who is the target.
3. The user can find 'Reveal Friends' options on Friends tab.
4. Click on Reveal Friends.
In order to evade the tool and make the friend list more secure there is no privacy option available yet and Facebook is expected to reveal such privacy setting that can be used to prevent this kind of hacking.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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