In Today’s world we’re all living through the Internet in some form or another and Facebook is like our second home. Facebook is the most widely used social network in the world with more than 600 million users. In this post I will provide you some steps to secure your online presence on Facebook (Facebook Security).
Analyze your settings
The very first step is to check your privacy settings so that you can have an idea about your current settings. In the upper right corner, click on the “Account” dropdown and select “privacy Settings”. If you have never accessed these particular settings before, you will see Facebook “recommended” settings by default. These default Facebook settings will reveal everything about you to the outside world i.e your photos, bio, family and relationship are all open to the world.
It’s time to change them once and for all.
How To Customize Your Facebook Privacy Settings : Facebook Tips
In order to customize your privacy you have to choose between Public, Friends and Custom. For each item, you have four choices i.e. Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends only and only Me. It’s upon you what information you really want to keep private and what’s not.
How To Approve Tags before they’re published
This new feature added by Facebook lets you approve the tagged photos and posts. Now no one can tag you in any photos without your approval.
To turn on this feature go to Account->Privacy Settings and select Profile and Tagging. Click on Edit next to Profile and Tagging and you will see a prompt window which will tell you to turn on the settings. Now if someone tags you in a status, photo or a place the post will appear in the Pending approval section on your profile.
How To Customize Your Privacy Setting For Albums and Photos : Facebook Tips
Your Images are the most important assets for you and just imagine if everyone get exposed to them. You always want to share your images with the people you know and keep them away from strangers.
To edit privacy settings of photo albums Go to your profile and click on photo section and click see all. Using audience selector tool under each album you can control who can see your photos.
How To Change Your Subscriber Settings.
If you keep your subscriber search on then anyone can subscribe to your public posts and they can produce some inappropriate content on your wall. You don’t want to ruin your wall and public presence. So it’s a best idea to turn off subscriber search once and for all.
Go to Account Settings > Subscribers, and uncheck the “allow subscribers” box.
How To Limit the posts by others on your timeline.
You can limit the number of people from viewing what others have posted on your wall.
Go to your privacy setting page; select “Edit Settings” located next to “How you connect.” Now select the drop down menu of the last item i.e. “Who can see posts by others on your timeline?” and choose “Custom.”
You will find a box under “Hide this from,” just type the names of the people or the lists that you want to hide or keep away from viewing posts from others on your wall. Now click save changes.
Last but not the least please enable secure browsing in your security settings which is located in Account Settings.
These are some very basic steps to strengthen your security on Facebook ( Facebook Security ). If you know something more and new about these settings then please do share them in comment section below.
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Every new and old Facebook user should be given Facebook privacy test, then only their accounts will be secure 🙂
I think you are right because a novice user might not know enough about Facebook Security. Thanks for your valuable comment.
Nice tutorial. One more thing There is an option in facebook in which you need to register your system. When you enable the option then when you log into your facebook account then it asks you to enter the device name and as you enter a device name it sends a notification to your phone that this devices logged into your system. This can be helpful and saves you from getting hacked many times.
Thanks Atish for sharing this important security tip.
Nice article clearly explained each and every things there were few points that were new to me and well presented article
Thanks for liking my post Arsh.
Wow! Nice tutorial, Ayush. I think we should chose a strong Password too in order to secure our Facebook Account. And I believe that Securing Facebook Accounts is indeed necessary to do so because Our facebook Account are connected to our commercial and professional lives and purposes.
Thanks for the awesome post and I hope my face account would also be safe for long times. 😀
Yes, you are right Saykam. Secure password should be the first priority. Thanks for liking my post.
No doubt nice tips but I am already familiar with this functionality but it’s really helpful for newbies Facebook user.
I have written this post keeping in mind the beginners and novice users. Thanks Rizwan.
Hi Ayush, You came up with a great tutorial. I think securing facebook Account is indeed important for every person. As even I have to do all important things using Facebook Accounts only and talk to my clients and make all kinds of important and confident deals there. Your tips would help me to secure my account, at least. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thanks Debasis, feel great that you like my post.
I use approval of tags. very useful for me in controlling what goes on my wall/
This is a great( read very very helpful) post. Now-a-days facebook has become privacy killing media. And it is really important for us to protect our account. Thanks for those tips. I loved reading the article.
Thanks
Most of the facebook users are worried about the security features provided by the facebook. Its a fact that facebook account could be easily hacked if users didn’t takes proper security actions.