3 Ways To Secure Your Facebook Account

3 Ways To Better Secure Your Facebook Account

Secure FB Acc by Ghost HeX

1. Keep your posts, photos, and biographical information out of public view It’s always prudent to keep your posts out of the public eye – posts you make publicly can reveal lots of juicy details about your life, friends, and family that are a goldmine for someone with less-than-kind purposes.
Make sure to check this privacy setting every time you post, as it tends to like to default back to “Public”!
If you’re not sure if your previous Facebook updates (including statuses and photos) are friends-only or not, you can limit all previous activity pretty easily. Here’s how: When logged in on a desktop computer: Click the padlock icon at the upper right and then click “See more settings” at the bottom of the menu. Via the Facebook mobile app: Click “More” at the bottom right of the screen, scroll down to “Privacy Shortcuts,” and then hit “More settings” at the bottom and then “Privacy.” Now you’ll want to select “Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of friends or Public.”
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Clicking “Limit Old Posts” will make everything you’ve posted in the past visible only to your friends. Facebook will give you a somewhat scary-sounding disclaimer that this one-click change is permanent and can’t be undone, but it’s one of the best moves you can make to secure your account!

2. Restrict how you appear in search or who can send you a friend request
With Facebook being as massive as it is, you want to make it as hard as possible for spammers (of which there are many on Facebook!) to find you. To do that, you want to prevent them from even adding you in the first place.
Make sure the only people who can add you, search for you or message you are people you either already know, or at least are known by your friends. You can control this in the Privacy settings.
When logged in on a desktop computer: Click the padlock icon at the upper right and then click “See more settings” at the bottom of the menu. Via the Facebook mobile app: Click “More” at the bottom right of the screen, scroll down to “Privacy Shortcuts,” and then hit “More settings” at the bottom and then “Privacy.”

3. Set up login alerts and – if you’re comfortable giving Facebook your mobile number – login approvals When logged in on a desktop computer: Click the padlock icon at the upper right and then click “See more settings” at the bottom of the menu. On the left hand side, choose “Security” Via the Facebook mobile app: Click “More” at the bottom right of the screen, scroll down to “Settings,” and then hit “Account settings”. Then click “”Security.” You’ll see an option to enable Login Alerts, which means Facebook will send you a notification if it sees someone trying to log in from a browser or device it hasn’t seen you use before.
Regards, Ghost HeX