How to See Hidden Friend List of someone on Facebook

No wonder Facebook is the biggest social network as of today with over a billion of users across the world, and Facebook is getting smarter and smarter day by day, it get updates around in every month,Facebook updates security and privacy for user’s profile, one of the privacy feature added by Facebook lately is to hide your friend list even from your friends. If you hide your friend list then your friend will be able to see mutual friends only, also if someone hides their friend list same thing applies to you.

sometimes you may need to check someone’s hidden friend list because you are looking for someone but not able to find them, maybe they are friend with your friend but you can’t see hidden friend list because your friend’s friend list is set to private.
So if you want to see someone’s hidden friend list then you need to perform a Graph Search of Facebook, if you and target profile has at least 1 friend in common then Graph Search will help you to find hidden friends of target profile, does it sound Complex? Not to worry here is a Google Chrome Extension which does perform the Graph search for you.

Uncover / See Hidden Friend List of  your friend on Facebook

To reveal Someone’s private friend list on Facebook, you need to follow these steps-

1. Go to this Link and Add Facebook Friend Mapper Extension to your Google Chrome Browser.

2. After adding this Extension, reload the Facebook and you will get a new tab on Facebook profile of your friend named “Reveal Friends“

3 . All you need to do is Click on Reveal Friends and it will start scanning for their private friend list, it may take time depending on how long their friend list is.

4. After scanning it will show you the Facebook IDs of all their friends in a pop-up window like this-

Now you can go through their friend list and look for the friend you are searching for, it does not show their name in search result so you have to guess that friend by looking at Facebook IDs.

Note that this is Google Chrome extension so you need to have google chrome installed, also you and target profile must have at least 1 friend in common i,e 1 mutual friend requires for this extension to work.

How Facebook Friend Mapper Extension Works? OR See Hidden Friend List Manually

As mentioned above this extension perform a Graph Search on Facebook by taking your friends’ Facebook ID and one of your Mutual Friend’s Facebook ID as –

www.facebook.com/TARGET_FRIENDS_ACCOUNT_ID

www.facebook.com/MUTUAL_FRIENDS_ACCOUNT_ID

with both user’s ID insert them to single URL which looks like –

www.facebook.com/TARGET_FRIENDS_ACCOUNT_ID/friends?and=MUTUAL_FRIENDS_ACCOUNT_ID

With this search it shows you, common friends of them, it may result in few friends, after getting one or more friend by this search, again it perform a graph search between Friend’s Facebook ID and the new found Facebook IDs, it goes many time and results in the list of private friends of your friend.

Manually it is hard to perform above task so to automate this process a script is written in the form .