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Hi. So I think my girlfriend may have made a facebook profile of a fake person in order to talk to me as another person.
A few years ago I was given a website of someones whose location was supposed to be private. However I was able to find out where they were from becuase of the background information on that website which I am thinking was private. It was like my friend was able to track down the computer that the website was created on and we found out that way (we know the location was right cuz they told us later fwhere they were from).
Anyway, I was wondering if that was possible. It says on the persons facebook that she is from a certain city in our state but is there a way I can go beyond what her profile says and see where it was really made?
I dont want to hear anything bad about my gf or get the advice to break up with her. I also dont want to hear that I should talk to the facebook girl or to my girlfriend to find out myself. I dont want to hear that its a bad idea or illegal (which I dont think it is) to find out where the website (or in this case facebook profile) was actually made. I only want to know HOW to find that information. And in good detail would be great. Im not too good with computers. Thanks.
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It sounds like you looked up the domain name registration details for the site a few years ago.
That is not possible with Facebook. Facebook is it's own site, and the people who use it are just the people who use it, they are registering their name or information with any government agency like you have to do when you own a domain name. So the only information you'll probably find like that is for Facebook's head offices in California...
What you are asking for cannot be done legally, and likely just plain out can't be done at all. It would require accessing parts of Facebook's privately stored information (if they even bother to store anything like that kind of information, which the probably don't do in a way that would be much help to you unless you knew exactly what clues you were looking for...)
Looking up a the person a website's domain name is owned by, which is public information, is totally legal.
Trying to uncover information from a website on one of their users protected by that domain's privacy policy, definitely not legal.
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