Facebook Security Settings! 1

Facebook is quite popular for always changing their Security settings layout. This confuses a lot of people since security settings are one thing which should be easy to understand for an average person. But we are not talking about any normal site. This is Facebook! Where there are a number of things to be considered, and that is why Facebook provides us with a complex looking easy security settings.
If you don’t configure your security settings,
A hacker will come, hack your account and you won’t even know it is hacked. This is the most dangerous type of being hacked. You know someone got access to your account when your password is changed and you can always recover it back.
However here. in this case, you would be using everything nicely without knowing unaware of the fact that, after you log out someone comes in and uses your account.
So let us check Facebook Security Settings, and simplify things so that even a normal internet user can keep his account secure, and if he doesn’t, he would at least know if someone is accessing his account.

1. Change your password.
   You should always change your password. Not once in 3 years, not even once in 2 years and certainly not every year. Change your password every 3 months. Even if you’re hacked, the hacker won’t be able to use your account.
2. HTTPS Connection.
   Always use a http’S’ connection. Http stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. ‘https’ stands for Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
   When you log in, Facebook sends a cookie to you and it is stored on your machine.
   In normal HTTP protocol, anyone can intercept and steal that cookie, and later use it to log in into your account.
   In HTTPS, the Server establishes a connection with the client (Your machine), and only then sends the cookie, so that no one can intercept it. The cookie sent to you can only be received by you.
   

   Use https

    

3. Notifications.
   Turn on your notifications. Many of us have done this, but only for e-mail. Turn on your notifications for Mobile too.
   How many times do you check your emails? Even if you do, that mail stating Unauthorized access to your ‘Facebook account’ would be buried down under various other Facebook emails (About messages, photo tags, comments on post)
   If you’re out somewhere, and you get a text stating somebody accessed your account, you can immediately go and change your password. So TURN ON E-MAIL AND TEXT NOTIFICATIONS.
   

   Turn on notifications.

    

4. App Passwords.
   App passwords are OTP (One – Time – Password) you can use to log into your apps. If you use these, you don’t need to use your Facebook Password for applications. If you’re using various applications like Skype, then put your username, generate a password for Skype here, and use that password to log in to Skype.
   If you have logged in Notifications turned on, you won’t have to wait to receive a code when you use an app password. This will help you skip the login process.
   

   Create app passwords.

    

5. Trusted Contacts.
   This is by far the most innovative feature Facebook has introduced. Suppose your Gmail and Facebook Password is same. If a hacker gains access to your Facebook account, and he changes your E-mail id too, you can still get back your account thanks to trusted contacts. Here you chose 5 friends, if you don’t have access to E-mail id, it will send a mail to any 3 of these contacts that you select. Each of them will get a code, and once you give all 3 codes, You get your account back.
   

   Select your trusted contacts.

    

6. Trusted Browsers.
   When you log in and have notifications turned on, You’ll get a notification if you’re using that browser first time. When you save it, it goes in your Trusted Browsers. next time you can log in easily without anything. But suppose hacker gains access to your account, so he will be using your Facebook account from his browser for the first time. Here you’ll get a notification that someone signed in into your account. If you use a browser regularly, just save it.
   

   Select your trusted browsers.

    

7. Login Review.
   This part will show you your recent log in locations, date, time and browser. Suppose you’re a chrome user, and the hacker has used your account, you can check here when your account has been accessed, and by which browser. If you see Mozilla here at some odd time, you’ll know you have been hacked, and you can change your password.
   

   Logged in settings

    

Timeline Settings.
This is what controls your friend list, wall, and future posts.
You can select who can write on your timeline, who all can see what others wrote on your timeline, and if someone tagged you, it won’t directly come in your timeline. You’ll be asked to check it, it will be shown on your timeline, only if you approve it. This is a powerful tool, and with great power comes great responsibility. So use this wisely, and you’ll always be secured.

Select your timeline settings.

Privacy Settings.
This is pretty much self-explanatory.
There are two thing you need to understand is,

‘Whose messages do I want to filter in my inbox’.
Here when you choose strict filtering, the messages from Unknown people (with whom you don’t have any mutual and who don’t belong in your city/country) are filtered from your inbox and go to ‘Others’. Pretty useful for girls 😀

‘Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline’
When you select No here, if someone googles you, they won’t get you Facebook profile link or pictures.
If it is yes, you’ll show up on Google If somebody googles you.

Select strict filtering.