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Live Chat with anyone on Facebook (even non friends)
Messed around a bit and i found something really interesting.
You can chat live with anyone at facebook even people you are not connected.
You can even see when the other party is typing and read your message.
First find his facebook id. You can do it at http://findmyfacebookid.com/ or any other service.
http://www.facebook.com/othelis ---> id= 699313289
Open you browser's console at facebook and type
Chat.openTab(id) eg. Chat.openTab(699313289)
You can live chat with strangers and non friends now and get notified when they read your message!
- HugoDias 14y agoHoly crap, it really works
- whynoprogress 14y agoIt works !
- samwillis 14y agoInteresting... Chat with Mark Zuckerberg: javascript:Chat.openTab(4)
- why-el 14y agoThis is not surprising because Facebook treats chat and messages as the same. They both end up in the same thread. So as you can send a message to anybody, you can "chat" with anybody. Whatever you wrote will be received in their inbox as a regular message. I am not sure what happens with people who choose not to receive messages from the public though.
- nickbarnwell 14y agoThis is no different than navigating to that person's page and clicking on the 'Message' button. It's not a vulnerability.
- tomasien 14y agoNoooo Chat and Messaging are the same thing, and you've always been able to message strangers. Just go to their profile and hit "message".
- weakwire 14y agocan you see when they receive the message and when there are typing? Also it appears on the main chat window?
- kidh0 14y agoFacebook id number 1, 2 and 3 do not exists.
- patorjk 14y agoYou can also get someone's Facebook ID via this URL: http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here
- gansai 14y agohttp://findmyfacebookid.com/ http://findmyfacebookid.com/ is a way to find real human users of facebook and currently using facebook.
- weakwire 14y agohttp://findmyfacebookid.com http://findmyfacebookid.com is just a mean to get fb id. http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here is the official way to to that
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoOuch. I can't help but think that somewhere at Facebook there's a huge fire-drill going on right now.
- Justsignedup 14y agoYeah it's called "oh look, a HN article, whatever ignore it, we'll fix it next year, and nobody will give a shit"
- objclxt 14y agoI am wondering why the OP decided to post it here, rather than try and get a bug bounty (edit: assuming it's a genuine issue, seems like maybe it isn't). It would probably be worth a fair amount...certainly a few thousand at least. Facebook are normally pretty happy for you to disclose after they fix it, so you can still get the PR...
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoAfter I commented, I flagged the post. I'm not comfortable with this being on HN. FB should have a chance to fix it. On the plus side, the entire thing may just be a misunderstanding. Other commenters are pointing out that it doesn't really live message them if you're not friends, just regular messages them -- which you could do anyway. It's just the UI appears that you are live messaging. We'll see. But you're right -- very odd to post that here with a reward being easily available.
- weakwire 14y agoConfirming it's the default behavior. After some googling this call is known on the internet. It's just a shortcut to the original(quite hidden) behavior. Check comments below with "FacebookChatRoulette". It's interesting how easy and automated can be to send a msg to anyone. So that raises some concerns. Definetly not a bug ..
- adkatrit 14y agoFacebook IM Roulette Chat.openTab(Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000000))
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- kevincennis 14y agoChat.openTab(~~(Math.random() * 1e8))
- habosa 14y agohttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-20-people-to-sign-up-for-facebook-2011-5?op=1 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-20-people-to-sign-u... Here are some fun people you can chat with. I felt kinda bad bugging Zuck with a message but how could I resist?
- msoad 14y agoI have two Facebook accounts that are complete strangers to each other. When I sent a message from one to the other one, message didn't pop up. It was in "Others" section of my account inbox. So it's basically a normal message that you can send to anyone now. Even Zuck
- spleeder 14y agoI think it has already been fixed. It's not working for me anymore. Too bad, I was having fun.
- Peroni 14y agoGo to the users page and click 'message'. It's the exact same thing.
- Mithorium 14y agoThis isn't news. Chat and messaging are one and the same. You can message anyone, and you can migrate conversations arbitrarily between the chat and message UI, or even both at the same time. If you message someone who you don't have good reason to message, facebook will classify it as spam and send it to their "other" box.
- vicky_rockstar 14y agoOops it worked for me...!
- anirban24in 14y agoZukerBerg would be getting more money for getting hits for this bullshit too....why would he want to debug it???