Facebook Hacks

Want to find out who is not your Facebook friend yet. It’s easy to list your friends but harder to remember which members you have pinged, poked, and messaged if you do a lot of that.

Amit Agarwal has a great tip that will help you reveal the list of people who can see your limited Facebook profile. Basically, it’s the under Privacy settings in the “Poke, Message, and Friend Request” section labeled “People Who Can See Your Profile”. So if you poke lots of members but forget exactly who they all are, here’s how to find those individuals who didn’t poke you back or befriend you in response.

Amit’s also got a neat trick for finding out when someone removes you from their friends list on Facebook (sad day). You need to install a Facebook app called Unfriender, he says, which does pretty much what its name would suggest.

One the Digital Inspiration site, you can also learn how to export your Facebook contacts to an external program, such as GMail or Outlook. This process is not officially supported, but then isn’t that what hacks are all about? However, should you use the app he suggests, Profilicious, you do so at your own risk, because it could contravene Facebook’s terms of service and lose you your account if you’re caught. You have been warned.

Back with legal, check out Internet Duct Tape which has a whole post on how to configure your privacy settings on Facebook. College v2 also has a pile of Facebook hacks that use the fabulous Greasemonkey system for Firefox to change the appearance and functionality of Facebook without messing with your actual Profile or settings on the site.

Meanwhile ReadWriteWeb discusses an official app coming from the developers of Facebook that will help reduce app overload.

So, if you didn’t lose your Facebook account already, let me know how you get on with these Facebook hacks.

UPDATE: 2008-03-20 - Facebook updated its privacy controls this week and within days security flaws had been found