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How can I view my profile from someone else's account?

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If you log into their account you can. Maybe ask your family or close friends to log into their account and look at your profile.

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How can I stop someone from accessing my private messages?

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No one can access your private messages without logging into your account. Don't share your login information with anyone else.

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How do I stop someone from copying or sharing my posted photos?

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Keep your photos private. There are privacy settings that can be used if you do not want certain people seeing your profile. Change the privacy settings to "friends only" so that nobody except people you trust are able to see your content.

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Why would someone change a public profile to private? It contained many photos and videos.

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The most likely reason is because it contained personal content and the account holder didn't want strangers seeing this. Since there are so many people on Facebook, people are often unaware that anyone can find a public profile no matter what.

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What happens if you see a private profile and you are not invited?

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You won't be able to see anything unless you send them a friend request. Some people disable friend requests, so you can't ever see them at all.

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How do I know what privacy settings I should choose for my photos?

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First, think about whether or not you are okay with anyone seeing the photos, and who exactly the subjects of the photos are. Photos that are really personal should be visible only to friends or yourself. Also, think about people like siblings or teachers who can cause trouble with possibly sensitive photos. Ask yourself: "Would I want them seeing this and showing it to everyone I know?" You can choose individual privacy settings for each photo in place of having your entire profile being private.

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Why do some private profiles have an option to send a friend request, while others have no friend request button at all?

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The option to disable friend requests is varied. A user can choose to either only allow mutuals (friends of their friends) or allow anyone to send friend requests (regardless of their profile's visibility). So if you are not friends with any of that user's friends, you cannot send them a friend request.

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How can I make the features stay forever?

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They will stay forever unless you manually change the settings. Don't leave your account logged-in and open where someone can mess with it.

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