Months ago I customized my privacy settings so that some of my Facebook friends wouldn't be able to see my future posts. Yet, one friend I specifically put under "don't share this with" category liked the picture I posted yesterday. How is it possible? First off, we have no friends in common. The picture was on my timeline and it was not shared by anyone.
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To be honest, if you aren't sure if you are in violation or not the best thing to do would be to contact Facebook directly.
If you have confirmation directly from Facebook then you are in a pretty good position should anyone wish to complain or contend your privacy procedures.
Facebook has designed apps to act this way
It's a long standing bug that has been this way for quite some time https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/164888633588257
You are going to have to click through to your friend's Twitter profile and grab the link
It should look like this
https://twitter.com/#!/Drake/status/195337215600111616
And appear on Facebook as,
Hopefully a better application will come around that can be clever with this bug.
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Best Answer
Apart from what's already mentioned in the comments, it is possible that you have a friend tagged in the photo and he saw it because the photo appeared on the friend's timeline.