How To Secure Your Facebook Account:
- Always Use Facebook In https mode:
The first and fore most thing you have to do is that turn on secure browsing in your Facebook account by changing http mode to https mode.To read about http and https check article Difference between http and https. To enable secure browsing in your Facebook account just head to Account settings from drop down menu and then go to Security tab at left side and enable Secure Browsing from the top option.
We all know that we should use a strong password online
in any service to stay safe, more the password is strong more it is
secure but we do not use strong password because we are too lazy and
such password is also hard to remember also. We the humans generally
awake by our first mistake only and by facing the consequences of our
mistakes. So, to avoid any future harm always use mixture
of characters, symbols, numbers and special symbols in your Facebook or
any other online service password. Never use the same password for two
or more online services. Avoid using of your personal info, dictionary
words, repeated characters in your password.
- Enable Text & Email Notification:
This is the second most important step to Secure Facebook.
By enabling this option you will get notification when a new user logs
in to your account from any PC OR mobile that haven’t used before
through SMS on your registered mobile and email id, you have added to
your Facebook account. That’s why Facebook confirms the device when you
log in to your account and you can add that device/PC to authorized device
by just saving it. So, always save your Home computer or your personal
mob Not the PC in cafe because if someone try to hack your account then
you will not notified about it. It’s the second option in the Security tabjust after the Secure Browsing just enable both Text and Email.
- Remove Unwanted Application:
The third most
important step to remove unwanted applications from your Facebook
profile. People are gone crazy behind these SPAM applications like Your
Nick name, whom you married, when you will die , who views your profile
blah blah. Let me tell you one thing, these applications are not
authenticated by Facebook, if any application is authenticated then
Facebook officially launches that for users and these are spam
applications that steals personal data from users profile and use them
in many surveys etc. A hacker can easily hack your account by sending
requests from these type of applications to use your personal info such
as email id etc. and can hack your account. So, better to remove all
unwanted applications by going to Account settings –>Apps tab in left sidebar and hit the ‘X’ button and confirm to remove. So, remove those that are of no use to you from there.
Many online spammers already targeted Facebook to harvest your personal information. So it is better to Read first Facebook Privacy Guidelines and according to your preferences adjust your privacy setting to protect from online theft and also secure your Facebook account.
And before leaving privacy settings after changing your Facebook
privacy don’t forget to check How your profile look to others to By
checking in View Profile As and entering your any Facebook friend
name to confirm you not omitted any mistake in setting privacy. In new
Facebook timeline, you can get this by clicking the gear menu after
Update Info in your profile. You can also like Facebook Privacy to get latest updates from them. Read Controlling information on New Facebook Timeline to get an idea to keep privacy on new timeline.
- Never And Ever Click On External link:
Never click on the external link that is being
sent to you by anyone may be the source reputable, especially that is
sent in messages like recharge you mob free, attractive offers, and the
links that requires you to provide immediately log in and password to
continue even you are already logged in. Even nowadays many spams are
there on Facebook that automatically send links in chat like: Hey now we can video chat or
something like this, many during chatting. So never ever click on these
type of suspicious links from logged in your Facebook account.
- Think Before Adding Someone:
Yeah, you should think before adding someone to your
Facebook profile as friend, may be he/she wants your personal
information, as your personal info is hidden your generally for public
and only friends can see that. So after adding he/she can easily grab
your info. So, make your privacy too stronger or never add any stranger
or a person whose profile looking something odd and suspicious.
- Remove Spammy links from your profile ASAP:
If any of your friends is a victim of SPAM and is posting some spammy links on
your profile actually he/she is not posting them manually on your or
others’ profile, but it automatically gets posted as he/she is
victimized by clicking on spam links. So now, what you can do is that
remove that spam links from your profile As Soon As Possible to protect
your profile and others too, because they may also click on that link.
- Be sure where you are giving your Passwords:
Always make sure that you are logging in from a genuine Facebook site with the Facebook.com domain and also make sure URL starting from Https if you have enabled it. Because many phishers make site like Facebook to grab your login info. such as faecbook.com
- Never Show your Facebook Email ID On Your Profile:
This is my personal view that you shouldn’t show your
Facebook Email Id from that you use to log in. Because if that id gets
hacked once your Facebook account can be easily hacked, or at least
never change it to Public so that everyone can see it. And Any spammers
can collect it and can use it for sending SPAM emails. So, it is
better to hide your email id from Facebook account. If anyone wants
to contact then, they can contact by Facebook messages OR you can show
any other email id instead of your Facebook id to contact you.
When you forget to sign out from a public computer or any device, just head to your Account Settings>>Security Tab>>Recognized Device>>Remove the particular device. Now, your account is automatically logged out.
Always keep updated your PC, device, Antivirus to latest
updates. Keep updating your Browsers, drivers too. If you don’t want to
keep Windows Update On, then manually update it once a week, As keeping
it on reduces the bandwidth of internet and it keeps checking the
update.
- Never Share Your Security Questions:
Last but not the least, never share your security question with
others because Facebook allows only one time to update them and that is
during sign up to Facebook. Security questions are needed when your account gets hacked to verify theownership of
the account. This tip is shared by one of our Reader, as you can see in
comments. You also can suggest any tip that you know and which we may
not have mentioned it in this post.
- Update your Security Information:
You Should update your Facebook security information that is helpful in the case when you lose access to your account. So go to Update Security Information,
Continue with your password and add two email and one mobile if you
haven’t add it yet OR review the given info if it’s correct And check
whether can you access the given email id there. If not update it with
other email id.
If you think your Facebook Account got hacked, immediately report it at Secure Facebook. Or can Direct Email At privacy@facebook.com.
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