Facebook allows you to make your account private so that you personal information and your posts are only visible to your friends. But, there can be n number of reasons to access a private account. It can be to keep an eye on cheating spouse or girlfriend, keeping up with whereabouts of your children or any other reason. Ethical or unethical, moral or immoral, how you are gonna go with that?

There are two methods to view a private Facebook profile. These methods can also let you know if someone has blocked you or not.

Method 1.

• Log out of your account.
• Search for the person on Facebook’s search bar.
• You can enter the exact username of the person and you will be able to see the profile.
• You can also enter the name of the person, but you will have to scroll through hundreds or sometimes even thousands of profiles from search results to find the desired person.

Method 2.

• Log out of your account.
• Enter URL of the user’s profile in the address bar of your browser.
• The URL of the profile will be in this format: facebook.com/username, For instance, you want to look in to Himanshu Shukla’s profile, you need to enter facebook.com/himanshu.shukla77. (It is important for you to know the exact username of the person to follow this method)
• Hit enter.
• The profile will be visible in front of you. You can visit their profile and also know if someone has blocked you on Facebook.

If the profile appears following this method, then the profile exists which means you have been blocked by the user. If the profile does not appear, then the profile has been deactivated from Facebook.

Method 3.

• Search for the person’s name on Google search along with adding Facebook after it. For example, search Himanshu Shukla Facebook and identify the person you are looking for from multiple search results.
  Click on the search result and you will be able to see the profile of person.
• Try the above methods and do let us know if it proved effective. If you are facing any problem or have queries regarding the same drop it in the comments section below.

If you know any other method to view blocked or private Facebook profiles, drop them in the comments section below.