I worked on a local social network for a while and it also worked like this, even more blatantly (we had a built-in function that made us see the profile of an

I worked on a local social network for a while and it also worked like this, even more blatantly (we had a built-in function that made us see the profile of an user exactly the way they saw it, to check bug reports and such). There were some not very nice consequences; I remember a case where a few guys gathered around a computer when someone was looking at a hot girl's private photos (there was nothing revealing, just close pictures and such). EDIT: someone has mentioned auditing; I remember that yes, we audited who did what. Frankly, I thought everyone assumed that this worked as that, at least in the technical circles.