5 Simple Tips to Secure your Facebook Profile
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As we have been seeing in the recent turn of events about some anonymous group threatening to hack into Facebook which has been pretty successful thanks to all the spam that goes viral over this very social network.
Well, your Facebook profile might be the only personal identity that you have online and getting it hacked can be a nightmare for one and all. As a matter of fact, many small businesses rely on Facebook for most of their traffic and thus creating leads. Hence, it becomes of utmost importance to make sure you keep your Facebook profile secured in every possible manner.
Facebook Security Issues
So here are 5 simple tips that you can use to secure your Facebook profile.
Enable Secure HTTPS Connection for your profile
As we all know the general HTTP protocol used for browsing has become pretty outdated and for secure browsing the use of HTTPS is recommended. With HTTPS you are less vulnerable to exploits and brute attacks. With the help of HTTPS Facebook is able to secure its servers and the data transfer becomes completely encrypted.
Use a Strong Authentic Password
I hope you aren’t using “password” as your password, lol. Well, even though it is pretty obvious to use a strong password for their online profiles yet a lot of people neglect it, which makes them vulnerable to account hacks.
To create a strong authentic password, you need to create a password that includes alphabets both in small and capital letters, a few numbers and a couple of special characters. This will make breaking into your password as difficult as it can.
Enable Account Alerts and notifications
Make sure that you enable all alerts and notifications, which are related to your profile access. Thus, even if your Facebook profile has already been hacked, you will instantly get a notification as soon as your Facebook profile is accessed by a third party and you would actually have some time to make your move.
Enable One Time Password Login
A one-time password is a method to authenticate the login process for your Facebook profile. This will make sure that only you can access your Facebook profile.
How this works is that you create a one time password for your recognized devices and thus your Facebook profile can be accessed only via those recognized devices unless you use that one time password again for a new device.
The only way a person can retrieve your one time password is using your cell phone, so that makes it a great choice to protect your Facebook profile from hackers.
Do NOT Click on Spam links or allow spam applications to access your profile
This is one of the most viral form of exploit spreading into Facebook.
Make sure that you avoid clicking on any form of super-interesting links or applications that your friend might share on their Facebook walls.
Using these applications, the spammer gets direct access to your Facebook profile and thus he/she can easily manipulate your Facebook wall with status/image updates.
Well, its best to avoid clicking on any links on your Facebook wall/chat/message unless the link is verified to be safe.
Well, these were some simple yet quick tips that you can use today to save your Facebook profile from hackers and spammers and thus maintain a clean and safe online identity.
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Twitter: AnnCapatino
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Hi Karan,
Wow, these are some great tips for safety. I had not heard about the one time password but I am definitely going to try it. It is a shame that we have to be so protective of these things.
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Twitter: karanlabra
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Well absolutely Louis, just a bit of precaution can really save us from getting phished or rather hacked.
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The only way to avoid viruses on Facebook, “Think before you click.” One more thing about the password, never use password that is visible on your email address or personal details.
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Twitter: karanlabra
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I second that Barn,its people’s negligence that makes them fall for such tricks.
Twitter: bsbhupendra771
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Amazing information,even i don’t aware that my Facebook is not secure, while going through this post i understand that i can secure my Facebook by doing these tips.thanks for sharing
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Twitter: karanlabra
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Nothing amazing here, hehe..:P
but yeah Bhupendra thanks for commenting…:D
Hi,
Good security tips to secure our fb profile which can be prove life of our business and this is the right idea to protect our account from spam we should not add any unknown person in our profile.
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Twitter: Jajodia_Saket
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There are few on my friends, I am fed-up of telling them not to click on SPAM links but they don’t understand and tell I didn’t knew it was SPAM.. That reaction of there makes me really anger on them..!! y these ppl make SPAM??
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Twitter: Content_Money
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Good advice, Karan! I am so sick of getting spammed because of Facebook accounts being hijacked! I will definitely look more into the “one time password,” which is very new to me!
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Twitter: Shyxter
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Thanks for sharing these tips, Karan! I’m a Facebook lover and I really appreciate this kind of information. I am not much of a techie person but I do make sure that my password contains alpha numeric characters. And as much as possible, I change passwords regularly.
Twitter: salman1507
says:
Great tips Karan …
Now-a-days it is must to properly secure our fb profile, Except using OTP I follow all the tips stated. Gonna try OTP for my fb profile
Thanks
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My account has never been hacked and hope to God it will never be. The account login notification and being careful on what links you’re accessing/clicking sure helped.
Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications.
Go to Privacy > Applications, and click the Settings tab and uncheck all the boxes. These settings control what information about you is visible to applications installed by your friends. By default, these are set to visible. This means that your religious, sexual, and political preferences, pictures, etc. are readily available to one of the million worldwide Facebook application developers, each time any of your friends takes a quiz, plays a game, or runs any other Facebook app. This is obviously a Facebook privacy issue.
Twitter: paktelecom
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Hi thanks for sharing these cool tips, I am only worried about spam comments, these days news of virus is also in every blog, your tips can help also to safe from facebook virus attack
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Twitter: karanlabra
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All I would recommend is subscribe to netchunks and keep an eye for any new spam attack that comes up..
cheers!
Hi Karan, I agree with your tips. Password is very important to secure facebook account. And you have given me great information to secure my facebook account. Thanks for these excellent tips.
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I’m glad you liked the post Mohd.
Hi Karan,
nice tips there but also I will like to agree to that strong password condition. If the password is weak then your account is not save.
Twitter: karanlabra
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Absolutely Odesanya…
Thanks for your comment.
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This is very good post and excellent tips. Thanks karan you are suggest some very great tips for safety. I am 100% agree with strong password condition. Because i think password have very important role to secure your Facebook account.
Good post. As our Facebook identities become more and more important to who we are, it is increasingly important to take steps to safeguard and protect it.
Make sure you use a password with numbers and symbols in it. Note it down somewhere on a piece of paper at home if needed and keep it hidden.
Also go through all of Facebook’s security steps such as storing your phone number in case of needing to reset as well as alternate email ID.
-Jean
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