Browsing a social network before registering is an option that big technology companies do not contemplate, since their only purpose is to obtain new users with whom increase the number of users of the platform, even if they are not accounts that are going to have a regular use within the platform.
Fortunately, if you follow the tricks below, you can browse Facebook without registering, just like you can browse Twitter without registering. The only difference that we find with Twitter is that through Facebook we can access all the information that a profile has published without any limitation beyond what an account requires.
Visiting the public profile
The easiest and fastest method to access a Facebook profile is through the unique address of your profile. Many are the companies that use this platform as their main method of communication between his followers, leaving aside a web page that could give them more visibility if they did things right.
If we know the URL of the company, like facebook.com/danone, we just have to enter it in the search engine of our browser to access it directly. Unlike Twitter, through Facebook we can access all the information published by the company, be it images, videos, publications ...
If it is an individual, it is likely that part of the information you have published on this social network is limited to friends, so we will not be able to access through any method, including those web pages that assure us to be able to do so, since their sole purpose is to obtain our credit card details.
If, in addition, the user's profile is private, we can forget about it, the only option that would allow us to access it is by requesting it directly from the user and praying that admit us to your circle of friends.
Using Google
If we do not know the address of the website of a company or a user, the only method we have at our disposal to find out is through google. To do this, we just have to write the Facebook followed the company name o user in Google. If we do not use Google, we can do this same task in Bing or other search engines.
If no results appear, it is likely that the user has configured their profile so that search engines cannot index your content.
Advantages of creating an account on Facebook
In order to use Facebook, like any other platform, it is necessary create an identity, an identity that allows us to communicate with other people and keep a record in the service. However, there are many users who prefer to avoid creating accounts on each and every one of the platforms that they visit sporadically.
If this is your case and from grapes to pears, you are forced to visit the profile of a company or a person, you should know that it is not mandatory to create an account, with all that this implies at the level of privacy (Facebook is an industrial data vacuum cleaner) since you can use it without an account although with the logical limitations that any platform offers us without creating an identity.
To contact people or companies available on Facebook you need an account. This account also gives us access to the phone number, email, and other data (as long as they are public). A very simple solution that keeps our privacy controlled is to create a fictitious Facebook account.
Thus, we will have access to all profiles of companies and individuals that are public in order to get in touch through other forms of communication. The only real data that we must enter in the registration of a fictitious Facebook account is email, the only method used by the platform to contact us and which, in turn, is our identification within the platform.
Although Facebook also offers us the ability to use our phone number to register, it is not recommended to use it since, if we do not modify the privacy settings of the account, other users will be able to find us on this social network. In addition, if we use the messaging platform Facebook Messenger, it will associate our account on this platform with the Facebook account.
How to create an account on Facebook
- To open an account on Facebook, we must first visit the home page of this platform and click on the button Create new account.
- Then we can invent all the data that you request except, as I have commented above, the email.
- The last step is to access the configuration options of our Facebook account to disable each and every Facebook notification, since otherwise, we can perfectly receive a different email from this platform every day showing us the functions, what we can do, relevant information based on our location.
If you don't just like this platform and want to permanently close the account, in this article we show you the steps to follow to close your Facebook account.
Disadvantages of using Facebook
Facebook is a data vacuum, data that it uses to target the ads with which this free platform subsidizes. If we don't want Mark Zuckerberg's company to know more about us than our own family, the best we can do is not use it.
But in addition, we will also prevent our personal data is leaked in one of the different massive data leaks that Facebook suffers. These are the two main disadvantages that Facebook offers us that we cannot manage in any way.
The rest of the options to maintain our privacy we can modify them at will, how to prevent search engines from indexing our publications and profiles, that they can find us by our name or phone number, suggestions from friends or events ... however that our personal data (phone number and email) can circulate through any Filtering are those that have personally made me stop using this platform in favor of Twitter.