Set a Facebook link that leads to your own profile

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Of course, you can also do all sorts of jokes with Facebook. For example, if you want to publish a link as a status update that is always on your own Profile of the person who clicks on him, you can read how to do this here functions.

Create confusion with a Facebook link.
Create confusion with a Facebook link. © Rike / Pixelio

Create amazement with a Facebook link

  • Perhaps you've fallen for it before: You read a status update from one of your Facebookcontacts or in a communication from a person you do not know, only from one of your friends was shared, an ominous report about an initially unspecified person, with the message also a link to the profile of that "eccentric" was attached.
  • If you clicked on the Facebook link, you will certainly be amazed at first or - ever according to what nature the message was - have frightened that now your own profile in front of you appears. Thoughts like "How dare he?" or "What should I have done please?" might have crossed your mind. But only until you noticed that someone had been tricked by you.

How the link leads to your own profile

  1. First of all, while you are currently on any Facebook profile, you can find the basic link structure that you will need from the address bar of your browser. It usually ends with a question mark and the profile's own ID number.
  2. Now remove the question mark or the "id =" in the link address and then press the Enter key. You will be taken to your own Facebook profile. This wrong address has the effect that everything after the "profile.php" position is cut off and people currently logged in to Facebook are instead transferred to their own page.
  3. You can change the ID number as you wish to hide the original profile identity. Finally, copy the address from the navigation bar and post it as a link in a status update.
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  5. You should also add a humorous text that should arouse the curiosity of other Facebook users. For example, write something like: "Well, I don't know what's wrong with some people, but something can't be right with this person!" you will, especially if some have already left your "Like", the people who open this link, for a short, entertaining astonishment care for.

Be on your status update Facebook however not hurtful or insulting, otherwise your fun with the link goes on on your own profile leads, backfires quickly. Alternatively, you can of course write something nice. This is entirely up to your creativity.

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