Today in the virtual world we can find innumerable social networks, most of them totally free and easily accessible. In itself, anyone with a good internet signal and a device can access these media. Therefore, being so easy to enter we will not always find good people.
Due to the wide network of users that we come to find on these sites, it is likely, in the worst case, that something will go wrong. These cases have happened to a large number of people. For this reason, many also choose to place their private account.
Undesirable moments such as hate messages, harassment, bullying, teasing and others. They are only a small part of the problems that we can have when entering this course .
Therefore, in the virtual world we must always be careful and take into account what mutual friends we have with some people. But on the other hand, we have to be wary of any situation.
What is the IP address?
Now we can mention the IP address. This is nothing more than a group of numbers that identifies the network of a device and even its location. Through this set of unique and unrepeatable numbers, any terminal is irrefutably distinguished. This is to keep in mind to continue.
When entering a large number of social networks, we may not notice it, but our IP address and therefore also our location is hosted on these . It will not be shown to the naked eye but ways can be found.
In the case of Facebook , being the largest, most recognized and important social network in the world, it has millions of users. These attacks are normally carried out by this web portal.
But, despite the fact that Facebook will not show us the direct IP address of the person who is making you go through a bad time, an important step to follow can be taken into account to be able to locate said user , in this way to make sure if it is only a bad joke or something serious of possible report to the police.
Our first step to verify is to be aware if this person sent us an email or, on the other hand, if their email appears on their personal Facebook profile. The point is that from this we can find your IP easily and simply.
In this case we will have to enter the Outlook or Gmail options to reply to your email, within it we will select the “Show Original” box. Then we will have to locate ourselves in the default search of your respective browser.
From there we will write “X-Originating-IPX” and we will give it a search . Once this step is done, we will find the IP address of this person and we can verify if it is someone we know with a trick or a problem that will require more drastic measures.
How to find our own IP address from Facebook
On the other hand, despite the fact that this social network does not allow us to directly see the IP address of other people, we can see ours easily. also the ID number . But for now, stay with us and we will explain the step by step to follow to get it from Facebook.
- We will have to go to our account or user profile, there we will find different options to choose from.
- We will click on the “account settings” box , this will redirect us directly to a new options panel.
- We will locate “Account Security” and proceed to select it.
- Having already carried out the previous step, we will press the «change» button.
- Again, a new panel of options will be displayed, among this extensive list we will locate the button «location» and then we will click on it.
- Finally, a new portal will be displayed. From there we can view the “recent activity” option which we will select.
- Finally, once the previous step has been executed, we can see the IP address of our respective Facebook account, in some cases we can also directly observe our location.
The world of social networks has huge numbers of people, so it is our duty to be careful with the actions we take while on our computer or device.
