How to protect your Facebook account

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It’s that simple to protect your Facebook account.

Today’s social networks can be ways to scam people. Account takeovers and fake companies selling you products that don’t exist are just a few of the ways criminals can take advantage of you. For this reason, you need to protect your social networks. So today we explain everything you can do to protect your Facebook account.

Keep in mind that this tutorial can be done from your iPhone or iPad, as well as from your Mac or Windows computer. Even if you consider yourself at risk and want to increase your security on Facebook at this time and you only have an Android mobile, you can do that too.

How to protect your Facebook account?

In principle, to protect your Facebook account, you must access it, either through the app or through its website. But what should you do to protect your Facebook account? Simple, you must restrict your Facebook profile to third parties who are not your friends.

What are the benefits of protecting your Facebook account? If you do:

Only your Facebook friends will be able to see your profile picture and full size blanket.
Only your Facebook friends they will be able to see your photos and posts from your profile.
All your old messages will only be seen by your friends. Neither people you don’t know nor friends of your friends will be able to see them.
You will not be able to post public messages.
Only your Facebook friends will be able to see your stories.
If someone tags you in a FB post, that post won’t appear on your Facebook profile until you review and approve it.

In fact, it’s important that you’re very clear about all things Facebook privacy, because that way you’ll be prepared against any hacker who wants to get their hands on your data.

Protect your Facebook profile from the app

To increase the security of your Facebook profile from the application, you must access via your iPhone, iPad or Android mobile. Once there, you must:

Press the button Menu (At the bottom right).
click on your Profile.
Click on the button choice (You can see this because there are three dots “…”).
to push on Privacy Center.
To click See more privacy options.
Click on Subscribers and public content.

Once you are there, you will see an option that says “Public Profile Information”. when is it you have to click on the “Friends” option. Only then will you have managed to protect your account optimally.

Improve the security of your Facebook profile from the PC

If you want to increase the security of your Facebook profile from your computer, you must enter the Facebook site. Once there, you must:

go to your profile.
Click on the options button (You can see this because there are three dots “…”).
to push on Setting.
click on privacy.

When you are in this section you should look at two options: “Your activity” and “How others can find and contact you”. This is where you specify that you want only your friends to see your content.

How to unblock your Facebook profile?

If, on the other hand, you already had your Facebook with maximum protection and now you want to reduce it for your own reasons, yes you can. The only thing you need to keep in mind is where you are going to access your Facebook account from. This is so because you will have to repeat the previous steps, only at the end you will need to change the privacy of your Facebook messages from friends to public.

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