A good habit is to check your security and privacy features once every month or so (or whenever they have updates to the site).
3 Security Features You May Not Have Known About:
- Secure Browsing
- Secure Browsing (https) is an opt-in security feature on Facebook (if you've ever bought anything online, you would have seen https in front of the URL). When you turn this on, your traffic and data (i.e. all of your activity) on Facebook becomes encrypted, making it harder for anyone else to access your information without your permission.
- How to Turn it On
- Go to your Security Settings page (Account > Account Settings > Security)
- Click on the Secure Browsing section
- Check the box provided and save your changes
- Note:
- Some third party apps don't support secure browsing (https), and if you try using it, it may ask you to "Turn off secure browsing." To use this app, simply click Continue and https will be temporarily turned off, but turned back on the next time you log in.
- Login Notifications
- This feature has alerts sent to you each time your account is accessed from a new device.
- How to Turn it On
- Go to your Security Settings page (Account > Account Settings > Security)
- Click on the Login Notifications section
- Check the box next to the type of alerts you'd like to receive and save your changes
- Note: If you want to receive text message alerts, you'll need to add a mobile number to your account.
- Keep Others from Logging Into Your Account
- With Login Approvals, each time you try to access your Facebook account from a new device (e.g. any computer or mobile phone you haven't already named or saved to your Facebook account), you will first have to enter a security code Facebook sends to your mobile phone.
- This keeps others from accessing your Facebook profile if they know your password or left it open on another person's computer. It also keeps hackers from getting into your profile as well.
Further tips on keeping your Facebook Private:
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