Question

Protect your Facebook account: How to secure your data

Answer 1

Add secure password and mobile number
Remove old devices and apps
Collapse Facebook search
Stay in control of your history
Let friends help you
Do not appear in advertisements

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Would you like to protect your Facebook profile from hackers or change your privacy settings? Then check out this article..

Your Facebook profile should be protected from possible misuse. Hackers could spread viruses or spam through your Facebook profile. In addition, professional burglar gangs have specialized in determining locations and places of residence from social media data in order to then break into the empty apartment. We'll show you how to make things as difficult as possible for criminals. You will also receive a few tips on how you can better protect your privacy. The links in this article will take you to the relevant Facebook pages, where you can make the changes directly. To do this, you have to be logged into Facebook.

• Add secure password and mobile number
• Remove old devices and apps
• Collapse Facebook search
• Stay in control of your history
• Do not appear in advertisements
• Let friends help you

Add secure password and mobile number

• Choose a secure password for your Facebook account. You can find out what a secure password looks like in this article.
  
• Also add your mobile phone number to your account so that you can be notified there in an emergency. You can do that for the old Facebook design here , if you are using the new Facebook design, take this link .

Remove old devices and apps

• Log out : You may have used your Facebook account on a friend's computer, at work or even on a public PC. There is then the possibility that you are still logged into Facebook and that unauthorized persons can log in. Here you can see the devices on which you are permanently logged into Facebook. You can log them out individually or remove them all at once under " Log out of all sessions ".
  
• Stop apps from accessing your account information : If you log into apps like Spotify or Twitter with your Facebook account, you allow them access to your Facebook account information. In this overview you can see which apps you have given access to your account or your account information. You can remove access there again. Detailed instructions on how to delete app shortcuts from Facebook can be found here.

Collapse Facebook search

• By default, anyone who searches for it can find your Facebook Page. For example, your e-mail address with which you set up the account or your telephone number is sufficient. In addition, your profile will also be displayed in all search engines. You can change this in the privacy settings .
  
• Change the items "Who can search for you using the email address you provided?" and "Who can search for you using the phone number you provided?" on " friends ". In this way you prevent a data profile from being created for you based on your e-mail address or telephone number. If you no longer want your Facebook profile to be found in search engines outside of Google, you have to remove the check mark in the bottom section . This will make it harder for strangers to find your Facebook profile.

Your privacy page should now look like this:

Stay in control of your history

• In the timeline and flagging settings, you can control who can write on your timeline and what flagging you allow on photos or in posts.
  
• Change the "Who can post on your timeline?" the target audience to " friends ". This will prevent spam from third parties.
  
• If you want to keep track of markings on photos or in posts and want to determine yourself which markings you allow, you should set the history check to " Activated ". You should also change the image verification to " Enabled " here as well.
  
• You can also restrict the visibility of chronicle articles in which you have been marked. Set the options under "Who can see posts you have been tagged in in your timeline?" and "You can add people to the audience of a post that you've been tagged in." to " Friends " or " Custom ". In this way, you can hide posts from the public in which you have already been tagged.

For good protection, your timeline and flag settings should look like this (the old Facebook design above, the new Facebook design below):

Let friends help you

If you have problems logging in, you can select 3 to 5 friends here , who will receive a code in this case. You can use these codes to regain access to your Facebook account. Just click the link above and then follow the instructions.

Do not appear in advertisements

If your account remains in the default settings, you automatically consent to the use of your profile picture for Facebook advertisements ("Sponsored Stories"). For example, if you like a product, your Facebook contacts may see it. Click here and then go to " Nobody " to revoke your consent. As the portal t3n reported in 2014, the so-called "Sponsored Stories" no longer exist on Facebook.

In this article we will explain to you how you can remove even more traces of data from Facebook..

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