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Ironically, fb_id is one of the big missing pieces in the personal datadump that Facebook users can now download.

It is trivial to identify. If you don't have a vanity URL, it is in your profile URL.

How do you find it if you do have a vanity URL?

View source on your profile page and search for profile.php?id=

Right after that will be your id.

(There are other ways as well, but this is a pretty easy way)

as linked below, http://www.rabidgremlin.com/fbprivacy/ will give your FB id.

http://graph.facebook.com/<user_id>;

It's trivial to find out your own, sure, but Facebook handed out ids for every friend of the game users.

Facebook is so Microsoft.

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