Title: Getting wrong user ID?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Getting wrong user ID?

 *  [Nico Gauthier-Pin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlaspf/)
 * (@nlaspf)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wrong-user-id/)
 * When associating the WordPress account with a Facebook account (at the end of
   the profile settings on WP) I’m encountering the following error.
 * Once associated, it shows a _Connected profile_ and a link to my FB profile. 
   The URL of the link is my FB profile, but the text is an ID number, 17 digits
   long. That same ID number is used on the _property=”fb:profile\_id”_ and _property
   =”fb:admins”_ OG tags.
 * The Object Debugger shows an error with those tags:
 * _Object at URL ‘XXXXXXX’ of type ‘article’ is invalid because the given value‘
   YYYYYYY’ for property ‘fb:admins’ could not be parsed as type ‘fbid’._
 * (YYYYYYY is the 17 digit number mentioned before).
 * If I get my user ID from [http://graph.facebook.com/USERNAME](http://graph.facebook.com/USERNAME),
   the ID I see there is completely different, only a 9 digit number.
 * Am I doing anything wrong, or is the plugin getting the wrong ID#?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/)

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 *  [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/)
 * (@steveatty)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wrong-user-id/#post-5035606)
 * If it is a recently created app then it will be using V2 of the Facebook Graph
   API which uses application specific user IDs i.e. they are NOT real facebook 
   IDs, they are unique to that application/user combination.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wrong-user-id/#post-5035606)
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