Syntactically Correct

Lately I started exploring Facebook dating applications. I know I said I won’t be using Facebook any more, but since Facebook is natural as a dating platform, I decided to give it another shot.

One of those dating-related applications is “Are YOU Interested”. In this application you get to see an image of a person that matches your search criteria and click “YES” (for interested) or “Skip” (to see the next image.) If a person, whose image you clicked “YES”, also clicks “YES” on you, then you are connected by the application.

Let’s say you see a picture you like, but want to know more about that person. Simply right click for the image’s properties. The file name would be something like http://profile.ak.facebook.com/…/n546597033_5173.jpg. Take the part between the ‘n’ and the ‘_’ (in this case 546597033) and put it in a URL as follows: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546597033 (at the time of writing this was not a real profile, so don’t try this one.)

This isn’t a security breach since the person can still have a private profile, but I don’t think the writer of the application meant for this to be done (otherwise a profile link would have been there somewhere.) So if you thought “Are YOU Interested” keeps your profile private, you better make your profile private (like mine, which is set to “friends only”)