How to Find Your Original Facebook ID Number

Photography is my passion but making money doing it is a lot of work. I spend a lot of time and effort getting my photography out there for future clients to see while trying to stay at the forefront of my existing clients mind. I do this by running ads, handing out business cards, leveraging Facebook, having contests, and spending a lot of time making sure my website and web ranking is as good as I can make it. It is a never-ending process but it is part of running a successful photography business.

The website takes a lot of this time between updates, blog posts, new photos, and behind the scenes coding. I find myself constantly looking for my Facebook numeric id for plugins I use on my WordPress website. Many social sharing plugins require your original Facebook id but many people have at one time or another changed their original numeric Facebook id to something else, like their name. This can only be done once and once done, finding the original can be a pain. The problem is that whatever you changed it too does not work for these plugins. I have found myself searching Google more than once trying to find out how to find my original id. There are a few different ways, one is by clicking on one of your own photos and looking at the last number in the address bar. This number will be on all of your photos.

Here is the easiest way. Go to http://graph.facebook.com/”your account” . So for example, my Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/travis.dewitz . If I enter travis.dewitz here like this –  http://graph.facebook.com/travis.dewitz and go there, it will tell me my original Facebook id along with some other information which looks like this below. My original id was 547734972.

{ "id": "547734972", "name": "Travis Dewitz", "first_name": "Travis", "last_name": "Dewitz", "link":

"http://www.facebook.com/travis.dewitz", "username": "travis.dewitz", "gender": "male", "locale": "en_US" }

If you go to http://www.facebook.com/547734972  you will end up at the same place as http://www.facebook.com/travis.dewitz  .

Hopefully this will help some of you out down the road on your own website when you need to find your Facebook id.

Update:

Here is an even easier way to get your Facebok ID. Well, maybe not easier as the other way is very easy but this site is very clean and very slick.

http://findmyfacebookid.com/

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