Why does mark zuckerberg appear when you type

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Your email address will not be published. Is my Facebook Account Safe? Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Start typing and press enter to search Search …. The code [] is actually a little piece of shorthand code, that tells Facebook to produce the name of the Facebook profile associated with the ID number inside the square bracket — in this case the number 4.

Every Facebook profile and page has a unique ID, so similarly, typing in [] would produce text displaying the name of the Facebook profile associated with the number So Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has an account associated with the number 4 apparently accounts 1, 2 and 3 have been deleted.

Most modern accounts created today will have ID numbers in the millions, since Facebook is obviously very popular now. For many, the little trick — that has been around for years — will work. As soon as you post the [] code, it will change when you post. It seems on certain platforms — mostly desktop — Facebook automatically inserts a space between the and [ symbol when you post the comment, rendering the shorthand code useless, and thus no name appears.

So for example we did a little test on the same photo on Facebook. On Facebook desktop we entered the characters, and a space was inserted and no name was produced. On mobile we did the test, and it worked!

So whether or not the trick works has nothing to do with the security of your account, rather on how you access Facebook. A similar ruse spread a few years back exploiting this trick claiming your cell phone has a name that can be discovered by typing in the last 3 digits of your phone number in place of the number 4 in the code. Of course this was not true. Here's why Facebook will insert Mark Zuckerberg's name into some comments Comments.

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