In this lecture, I would like to show you how can you find the user ID of any Facebook account?
A user ID is a unique identifier that gets generated when you create a Facebook account, and the reason
why a user ID is going to be very important is because if the target has changed their username and
their display name, and they have deleted all of their post and removed all of their information from
their Facebook profile, then it's going to be difficult to search for this person again.
But if you have the user ID, you can still find this account because they cannot change this ID.
So even if they change all the information on their account, you will still be able to track the account.
There is a manual way that you can use to find the user ID, and there is a service that you can use
that will find the ID for you.
So to do this, I'm going to the Facebook profile of my target.
And then I'm going to a blank area and right click and then view page source.
And then I'm going to search for user ID as you can see here.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
And here we have located the word user ID.
And here you can see the user ID of my target.
So let me come back to the profile in case I have the user ID.
And this person has changed all of their information on their profile, then I just can go to the URL
and say facebook.com slash and then the ID, and this will redirect me to the person's Facebook profile.
So I'm going to add the user ID to my notes just in case they have changed their information.
Next I would like to show you how can you utilize this user ID to find the creation date of a Facebook
profile?
Now there is someone who spent a lot of time analyzing Facebook user IDs and came to the conclusion
that Facebook uses ranges to create Facebook IDs.
And here we have the table, and we can see that all the accounts that were created in 2009 has or start
with this number and ends with this number.
And in our case we have the number or the user ID of Rishi Kabra 100000 and then 244, which is within
this range.
And this is how we can assume that he created his account in 2009.
So let's go to Rishi Kabra Facebook profile and go to photos.
And what I'm going to do right now is to look at the first picture he posted on his profile.
So here is the last picture.
And if I clicked on it, we can see that it was in 2011.
So my assumption is that he created his account in 2009, and he posted his first picture in 2011.
Now let me show you the automatic method to find the user ID of any Facebook profile.
All you have to do is just to copy the URL of their Facebook profile and go to a website called Finded
fb.com, and then you want to pass the user URL in here and then click on Find Numeric ID.
And as you can see this is the same ID that we have got before.
The next thing that I would like to show you is how you can save his friends list.
Now there are many Chrome and Firefox extensions that you can use that will automate this for you,
but the problem is that Facebook will detect this and block your account.
And we don't want this.
So instead I'm just going to show you the manual method to copy their friend list.
So the first thing you want to do is you want to scroll all the way down until all the friends are displayed.
So you can just hold the space key on your keyboard, and this will scroll the page down.
Now I'm not going to save the one k friends, or what I'm going to do is to save the friends that are
in his current city, which is Kolkata.
So here we have these friends, only these.
So all I have to do is just to select the text and scroll down all the way down until here and say copy.
Then you want to open Excel on your computer and select a certain cell.
I'm going to select the first cell and then say paste.
And we have here a list of his friends along with the description.
Now what if you want to only see his friends without the description.
So in this case I'm going to click on the first field and then go to data and then click on filter.
And now I'm going to click on this arrow and say Filter by color.
And then select this color.
And now we have a list of the friends along with the URL.
So whenever you click on this name then it will open their Facebook profile.
Now please make sure to save your target's friend list, because you might utilize it in the future.
To import Facebook friends to notion.
All you have to do is just to create a new page by clicking on add a page, and after you create a page,
I'm going to call it Friend List.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
And next you want to go to the Excel file where your friend list are.
And then I'm going to click on the A to select all friends in this column.
And then I'll say Ctrl C to copy.
And then I'm going to go and open a word document an empty word document.
And then I'm going to paste the friend list.
And now we have all the friends in a word document.
Now I'm going to save this file on my desktop.
And I will go to notion.
And I'm going to import a word document.
And then I'm going to select the file that I have just saved and say open.
And then I'm going to wait until it's done.
And as you can see now we have all the friend list.
So here are the online accounts of Rishi Kamara.
We can see that we have gathered many online accounts.
And we have also gathered his email address that we found in a document on Google.
And I have added the source URL and I have embedded the PDF file just in case it got removed from Google.
And if you want to embed a PDF file, just click right here and then type slash and then PDF, and then
click on PDF.
And then you want to choose the file that you want to upload.
I'm going to select it and then say open.
And now my PDF file has been uploaded.
And if I want to download it in the future, I can just click on the download icon and it will be downloaded.
So even if the document was removed from Google or any search engine, you will still be able to access
it because you have it in your notes.
And here are the information that we gathered from his Facebook profile.
We can see his Facebook profile URL, his user ID, his profile picture, his relatives and his birthday
and the source that verified to us that he was born in 1st of December 1995.
And in a real life scenario, if you are presenting this as an evidence to a court, then you need to
download the picture of the post and take a screenshot when this was taken and the URL of this post.
And here we have the information that he posted on, or he has on his Facebook profile that he is a
product manager at Plenti and his other social media accounts.
And here I have his friends list.
So if I click on here, I can see his friends list.
All of them.
The one k friends.