Facebook photos of you not showing

Privacy settings govern most of what you can or cannot see on Facebook, including pictures. Each Facebook user configures privacy settings for individual photos and albums to determine who will have access to them. If you can't see a person's photos, you are probably not on the list of people approved to view the photos. Other times, browser display problems can be the cause of photo display errors.

Privacy Settings

The audience selector tool includes options such as "Public," "Friends" and "Only Me" to control who can see albums and individual posts. You can see albums and individual photos with a "Public" or "Friends" privacy setting. Anyone on Facebook can view public photos. You won't be able to see photos customized with the "Only Me" privacy setting because they are restricted from everyone except the people who posted them.

Browser Problems

In some cases, Facebook photo display problems can be attributed to your browser. If your browser is running into display and loading problems, albums may appear blank. An individual image may also fail to load. Browser problems leading to Facebook photo display issues vary with different users and browsers. Refreshing the browser is a simple process that can reload content that cannot be displayed. Browser cache can also play a role in Facebook photo display problems. If you haven't cleared your browser's cache and history in a while, deleting saved information can solve photo display problems.

Facebook Friends

If you are not friends with someone on Facebook, you may not be able to see his pictures, especially if his photo and timeline settings have been configured to hide content from anyone other than friends. Every Facebook user has access to the audience selector tool to control what can or cannot be seen. If you open a Facebook timeline for a person who is not on your friends list, you may or may not be able to see his photos depending on his photo privacy settings. If the person's photo privacy settings are set to anything other than "Public," you must be friends to view each other's photos.

Groups

You might not be able to see the photos in a group if you don't have a membership, depending on the group's privacy settings. Groups, especially secret groups, require memberships to view the photos posted by members of the group. On the other hand, open groups are visible to anyone, which means that you can see photos other members have posted without joining. In a closed group, anyone can see the group and who's in it, but only members can view photos. If a group is privatized or closed, you must join to see other people's photos.

References

• Facebook: How Do I Control Who Sees Posts And Photos That I'm Tagged In On My Timeline?
• Facebook: How Do I Edit The Privacy Settings For My Photo Albums
• Facebook: Audience Selector

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Kefa Olang has been writing articles online since April 2009. He has been published in the "Celebration of Young Poets" and has an associate degree in communication and media arts from Dutchess Community College, and a bachelor's degree in broadcasting and mass communication from the State University of New York, Oswego.

I can see my tagged photos, but my friends can't see them from their accounts. Privacy settings are attached...they look right to me. Any idea what could cause this? from facebook

Facebook remains the biggest social media platform we have today. With over 2.7 billion monthly active users (MAUs), Facebook is an absolute must for every brand and every social media user.

With that many users, it is only expected that a little glitch or outage will affect millions of users across the globe.

This is exactly what is happening right now as the giant social media platform is seemingly glitching out or down altogether for millions of users across various regions in the world.

On Twitter, #FacebookDown is trending worldwide with users complaining of issues loading images on the platform.

Are Facebook pictures/photos in posts not loading for anyone else? #facebookdown
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Alright what’s with Facebook not allowing me to click on pictures individually.
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is facebook not letting anybody else click on pictures.
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According to those affected, Facebook won’t let them view photos on the platform. This, as per the many reports doing rounds, happens when attempting to view or open individual photos shared by friends.

Others note that not even logging out of the platform and back in fixes the issue for them. And the fact that they can log out and back in suggests this has nothing to do with their internet connection.

If anything, especially if the magnitude of reports on the web is anything to go by, this indeed is a widespread issue that needs Facebook’s attention to fix.

Of course, there are a few suggested workarounds that should help affected users get back to viewing their exes’ photos, their aunties, and cat photos.

A troubleshooting page on the Facebook site offers this advice: “If you can’t see photos on Facebook and you’re seeing black boxes, empty boxes or broken images instead, you can try updating your browser.

“For videos, You can try updating your internet browser and installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. If that doesn’t work, please use the “Report a Problem” link on your account to let us know more about what you’re seeing when you try to view a video.”

As of this writing, we are yet to hear from Facebook if this is an issue on their end and when there will be a fix for the problem.

But as you’d expect, we shall continue to keep an eye on this and update you guys as and when we get more info so stay tuned to PiunikaWeb.

Update 1 (June 04)

In case images are still not loading in Facebook, then you may want to try out some of the generic troubleshooting steps that may fix the issue for you. The first of which would be to restart your computer or phone.

If that does not work, clear the browser’s cache and cookies or delete the cache and data from the app on your smartphone. Further, if you’ve got a VPN enabled, we’d suggest disabling it and trying to log in to Facebook again.

Also make sure that your browser isn’t blocking images on Facebook. To do this in Google Chrome, click on the ‘lock’ icon that appears in the URL/address bar when you’re on Facebook. Then select ‘Site settings’ and enable Images in case it’d disabled.

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