Live Chat with anyone on Facebook (even non friends)

62 pointsby weakwire13 anni fa34 comments

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!

17 comments

Mithorium13 anni fa

This 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.

anirban24in13 anni fa

ZukerBerg would be getting more money for getting hits for this bullshit too....why would he want to debug it???

vicky_rockstar13 anni fa

Oops it worked for me...!

HugoDias13 anni fa

Holy crap, it really works

weakwire13 anni fa

yeap!

HugoDias13 anni fa

But don't work like it should. The chat only appears to the addressee if he opens a chat box to chat with you ..

weakwire13 anni fa

In my case it opens instantly..

webosb13 anni fa

works for me. it requires a valid id.

whynoprogress13 anni fa

samwillis13 anni fa

Interesting...

Chat with Mark Zuckerberg:

  javascript:Chat.openTab(4)

joezhou13 anni fa

haha, pls do it and report back

jchung13 anni fa

Did you?

why-el13 anni fa

This 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.

nickbarnwell13 anni fa

This is no different than navigating to that person's page and clicking on the 'Message' button. It's not a vulnerability.

weakwire13 anni fa

You can see when is typing or if he/she read your message

codecurve13 anni fa

After you send a message, you can select open in chat from the actions drop down.

tomasien13 anni fa

Noooo Chat and Messaging are the same thing, and you've always been able to message strangers. Just go to their profile and hit "message".

weakwire13 anni fa

can you see when they receive the message and when there are typing? Also it appears on the main chat window?

kidh013 anni fa

Facebook id number 1, 2 and 3 do not exists.

msoad13 anni fa

Because Mark deleted them after he made sure his POSTs are working

tantalor13 anni fa

Probably some protected super-user accounts.

patorjk13 anni fa

You can also get someone's Facebook ID via this URL: http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here

gansai13 anni fa

http://findmyfacebookid.com/ is a way to find real human users of facebook and currently using facebook.

weakwire13 anni fa

http://findmyfacebookid.com is just a mean to get fb id. http://graph.facebook.com/user_name_here is the official way to to that

DanielBMarkham13 anni fa

Ouch.

I can't help but think that somewhere at Facebook there's a huge fire-drill going on right now.

objclxt13 anni fa

I 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...

DanielBMarkham13 anni fa

After 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.

weakwire13 anni fa

Confirming 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 ..

Justsignedup13 anni fa

Yeah it's called "oh look, a HN article, whatever ignore it, we'll fix it next year, and nobody will give a shit"

adkatrit13 anni fa

Facebook IM Roulette

Chat.openTab(Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000000))

kevincennis13 anni fa

Chat.openTab(~~(Math.random() * 1e8))

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habosa13 anni fa

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?

msoad13 anni fa

I 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

spleeder13 anni fa

I think it has already been fixed. It's not working for me anymore. Too bad, I was having fun.

Peroni13 anni fa

Go to the users page and click 'message'. It's the exact same thing.