Be it any site especially social networking ones, there are going to be visitors that do have good intentions. It particularly applies to Twitter and Facebook as these are the places where you harvest info and hackers are ready to take the advantage of it.

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Well, you do not have to just sit there and watch your security being breached. There are plenty of ways to protect your profile. It easy to remember if you have one password for all your social network accounts but remember if this one password is found out then all your accounts can be hacked. So it is not advisable to have same password for all accounts.

So, how do you protect your Facebook account then? Here is how you do it.

  •  Your Facebook settings need to be adjusted. Facebook has some powerful settings, so take advantage of these settings.
  • Go through the Facebook privacy guide. You will find details that you would not have known all by yourself. It guides you by telling which things to not make private and which ones to keep private. For example your name, sex, profile photo cannot be kept private. On the other hand your photos, posts etc can be customized.
  • Don’t add a random person as your friend. If you do not know the person, if he or she is a stranger then decline the friend request. Even if they are a friend of someone you are friends with it does not make them trustworthy.
  •  You can choose have only limited friends on your profile. That is if you are not comfortable with sharing your personal info with certain people then you do not have to. Such people can only view a basic version of your profile.
  • Do not enable the options that you do not use. If you are using Facebook for just communication with past and present people that you know, then there is no use of keeping everything accessible. Remember you can always reopen them when necessary.

 

So, it is utterly important you protect your Facebook account from falling into the wrong hands. Do all that you can to safeguard it from changing your settings to maintaining a strong password, to not accept any random person who sends you a friend request. All these play an important role in the protection of your Facebook account.