Everyone Can Now See Your "Hidden" FB Friend List

So you thought by hiding your friend list in Facebook your girlfriend won’t be able to see how many girls are actually there in your friend list… Wrong!!! Read to find out…

You don’t want your girlfriend to read this….

Many of you would have set the privacy of your friends list as private. But this isn’t enough. A week ago, a new Chrome extension came into the limelight and it claims to reveal the hidden friend list to your friends or even who are not even your friends. I tried out this tool myself and the “Only Me” option to keep your friends list hidden from the world doesn’t work anymore. The issue resides in the Facebook’s mutual-friends feature concept, which has been in controversies in the past, raising privacy concerns.

So How Does This Work???

There’s chorme extension “Facebook Friends Mapper” that you need to download which fools the mutual friends feature of the Facebook and collects the hidden friends’ data of your friends and makes them public for you. Let’s suppose a friend of yours doesn’t share his/her friends list but has few mutual friends with you. THN writes: “If, for example, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg does not share his friends list with the public and neither I am on his friend list. However, I have at least one mutual friend with him. So using Facebook Friends Mapper tool I would be able to see most of his hidden Facebook friends by exploiting the ‘mutual friend’ logical flaw.”

Now How To Use This …

Step 1. To see any friend’s hidden friends list, you need to download and install the “Facebook Friends Mapper” (developed by Alon Kollmann) extension and restart the browser.

Step 2:

Now go to your friend’s profile whom you are wishing to see the hidden friends list. You will be seeing a new (Reveal Friends) option in the friends tab.

Step3:

Click on the Reveal Friends option and you will be able to see all the friends whether they are your mutual friends or not.

Just one condition to meet:

“Facebook user, whose friends list you want to target, must have at least one mutual friend with you, and doesn’t matter if you are friends with him/her or not.”

Facebook Friends Mapper Chrome extension launched just a few days ago, so most of the users are yet unaware about this Facebook Hacking Tool.

You can install and check out the Facebook Friends Mapper Chrome extension for free.

If you are willing to keep your friend list private, then please note that Facebook’s current privacy setting would not help you to resolve the issue. So, we expect a privacy patch from Facebook Security team as soon as possible before this tool goes viral.