How To Make Facebook Profile Pictures Bigger
19 Comments By Tal Siach on August 22nd, 2008 in Web 2.0
When browsing through Facebook profile pictures, the images are usually too small. Would you like to know an easy Facebook trick how to make them bigger, so you can finally recognize an old friend or acquaintance through their limited sized profile picture?
Kind of like Murphy’s Law, after hours of searching for different old friends on Facebook and finally finding some kind of match, you cannot tell if it is really them; all thanks to the tiny profile pictures they selected to post, or a group photo that doesn’t help your search. Now you hesitate whether it is the right person, and you don’t want to just add or send a message to some stranger. It would be great if you could at least enlarge that one single image, so you could make a wiser Facebook friend adding judgment.
Following is the simple Facebook tip for all those small profile pictures and a way to make them a little larger. In case you didn’t know, this really cool and easy trick can enlarge the Facebook profile photos 200%, which could help you arrive at a wiser decision about this potential friend, wouldn’t it?
All that needs to be done is to copy the profile photo image location into a new tab or window in your browser. Once you look at the url you will notice there is the “S” character in the name of the picture, for example: “……/S23939.jpg”. Just change change the letter “s” to the letter “n” and you are good to go.
Besides just looking for friends, next time you browse through Facebook, you can make a better judgment if that certain girl is hot, or for you women, using this simple Facebook trick.
Enjoy!
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August 26th, 2008 at 2:20 am
That’s a very nice trick !
August 26th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Awesome tip, Tal!!
August 26th, 2008 at 2:47 am
would L or B work?
August 26th, 2008 at 2:49 am
you can also use t and q if you need a smaller picture
August 26th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Could someone just make a greasemonkey script for this? It would be very simple. I would do it if I knew how.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Thanks! In addition to this, you can use Boost, a Firefox extension for facebook. It’ll automatically load the larger images and display it when you hover over the image with your mouse, similar to how it’d typically display alt text.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Or if your using firefox just hold Control and roll the mouse wheel up.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Great tip, dude!!
August 26th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I never noticed they did it that way. Thanks.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
now a days facebook put n as prefix to all the images.
if you are using Firefox, just put the mouse over the image, right click on it and say view image. it will automatically increase the size and shows you bigger picture.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Hi Everyone, thank you for all your comments and tips.
@Andres:
with this, you will definitely not be able to recognize people.
@Ariel: I haven’t heard of that. This sounds amazingly simple. Will look into it.
@Monk: True…very simple indeed.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:48 am
i don’t know how to do this trick
beacause i can’t understand this ““S” character in the name of the picture, for example: “……/S23939.jpg”. Just change change the letter “s” to the letter “n” and you are good to go.”
what is that mean ““S” ” ?need help plz
August 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Wow! That is totally great! Thanks!
August 29th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Hi Hazem, thank you for the comment.
When you see the image you would like to enlarge, simply right click it and copy image location. Paste the copied location into a new tab/window.
Within that image location is the letter “s”. In order to make that Facebook pic bigger, just replace that letter “s” with the letter “n”.
You can also look at the images in the post…the large and the small have the same ending for the url, just “S” was replaced with “N”.
Hope it helps
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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September 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hi, I have noticed some facebook users have profile pictures that are larger than others (and I mean permanently) I want to make my profile pic permanently larger. How do I make this happen, please? I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I’m sorry i can’t seem to get it to work?
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October 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi,
I did what it says above; open my profile picture in a new browser; but there is no letter “S” in my picture name that I can change and have a bigger picture?
Would someone can help?