How to Enhance Your Facebook Security

 

A lot of people are using social networking sites in order to stay in contact with the people that they love and care for. Your friends, colleagues and peers are always close to you even though they are far away physically - thanks to social networking sites.

 

Facebook is one social network that people are using these days and even though it is helping a lot of people to connect and share every day, it has become a means through which some malicious people are using to access their targets’ information so that they can harm them afterwards.

 

In order to use Facebook for fun and keep connecting with friends safely through the site, you have to ensure that your Facebook settings are perfect because this is the only way everyone else can find you and your information and use it the way they please. Security settings in Facebook are very important and Facebook users need to use them appropriately so that they can safely use and benefit from the social network.

 

How to effectively set Facebook Security Settings

• On your account settings, always ensure that the box under secure browsing is checked because this is the only way that your data and activity in the site will be secured all the time.

• Check login notifications as well so that you will be alerted in case someone tries to access your account from an unrecognized computer or device.

• Group your friends in order to make it easier for you when you are selecting the people that should see certain posts or photos. If you have a group for family for instance, they can access all your photos but colleagues can only access the photos that you really want them to see.

• Prevent people from searching for you by altering the ‘search for you on Facebook’ settings. This way, your name will not pop up in case someone is searching for a person with a similar name as yours. You can only let your friends search for you.

• Uncheck the box next to ‘enable public search’ because this is the setting that will allow people to search you on any search engine like Google and they can also access your information so easily. You have to remain private by all means in order to be safe in these sites. And there is no better way of doing this than avoiding public exposure unless it is really necessary or there aren’t other alternatives for you to explore.

• Keep your information private as well and you can only let your friends in Facebook access it only and not any other person. Do not check the box next to ‘public’ by all means because it will mean that anyone can be able to see your information even though they are not really your friends.

 

Other than Facebook security settings, you have to be careful with the information that you provide as well as the information that you give to your friends as you chat because this too could lead to a breach of security of some sort.

 

Keep in mind that most hackers will disguise themselves as friends to get the information they want from you. As a result, you may not know who is an account hacker and who is not, so be careful all the time even as you are chatting with your Facebook friends.

 

Last but not least, add only the people you know to your list of friends and not any other person that sends a friend request because you may not know their motive for requesting your friendship at Facebook.