Believe it or not but there are thousands of Facebook accounts being hacked on a daily basis. Most of the cases are due to the use of poor passwords and handling by users. There are however a number of ways to secure your Facebook account and making your privacy setting tight is, for me, definitely the best choice. But if you feel that everyone should see your photos and wall updates then at least you can do all or some of the following things mentioned below.
1. HTTPS Connection
Https is the best secure way to access any site on web, facebook recently rolled out HTPPS features that allow you to access facebook securely. Your data will be as secure as the information sent is encrypted so it is difficult for hackers to hack your password.
2. Delete All Login Information
Forget to sign out your account? No problem, now you able to view all login information inside Facebook account. It’s easy to end all those activities in a click. But it is advisable to sign out from your account after accessing it from Public computers.
3. Facebook Login Notifications
Activating these features you will be directed to save your computer or device name which you are usually use to access facebook. By doing this it will save your ip address, desired computer name etc., for future reference.
After that whenever you access facebook it will alerts with the information of Computer name, date, time of login and ip address of the computer via mail and SMS that makes you easy to identify your latest activities. This will ensure your account safety from hackers.
4. One Time Password (OTP)
You must be very careful in accessing your Facebook account from outside home so it is advised to turn on “one time password” features in your account. It’s as simple as abc to activate the features, just text OPT to 32665 from your mobile phone (U.S only), within a few minutes you will receive a temporary password to your Facebook account that will expire within 20 minutes.
To enjoy this facility you need to get verified your mobile number with your facebook account.
5. Approving Your Logins
It’s a high security features for your account safety, once you activated this feature you will asked to enter secret PIN number which you will get in your mobile phone every time you login into facebook account. Only matched case will allows to access the account otherwise its very tough to login to your account.
If you ask me it is not preferable to activate this option because these two major reason.
- You need your mobile phone all the time whenever you access the account to receive PIN number.
- Many times PIN number will deliver very late due to n/w problems and sometimes it may be lost. In such cases you need to wait for some minutes to access your account. So think twice before activating.
Hope all those tips will be useful for you to safeguard your account from hackers, if you have any other things to share please let us know in comments.
Author bio - This is a guest post by Ron Davis. A freelance blogger and a passionate social media marketer, who is currently working on the site Gravity forms discount where you can buy gravity forms at 40% off.
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Nishadha
January 11, 2012 at 3:10 am
Wow these are some super ways to protect your Facebook account, although some of them seem a bit over the top
Meridith
January 11, 2012 at 5:07 am
Yes Hacking is a crime. It should not been done at all. They can press charges and get you banned form the site as the very least. Depending on the severity and how far they push it you can get into serious legal trouble.
Megan
January 11, 2012 at 5:58 am
Facebook being the most popular social networking site, more than half of the world’s population use it. This makes it equally risky for the security related issues. Hackers are the most active people on Facebook. To prevent Facebook accounts from this hackers is the need of the time. Your suggestions for this are million dollar worth! Thanks for posting such useful post!
Dan Keller
January 12, 2012 at 1:01 am
I never really thought about protecting my Facebook account as I always thought this was Facebook’s responsibility not mine. Every now and then I change my password but that is really the extent of it. Good suggestions though.
Jack
January 12, 2012 at 7:43 am
By experiencing this attack it made me to stay more alert till today. But it becomes very difficult to be alert all the time. All the fun when using social networking sites by staying alert for all the time is lost. But by using your suggestions it can still be avoided. Out of these https features which facebook has provided is the most effective I guess.
Emilia
January 12, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Changing to using HTTPS for my own administrative purposes was actually one of the first moves I made after setting up my account.
bilal
January 12, 2012 at 4:08 pm
IT IS REALLY GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT THIS ,YOUR POST IS VERY HELPFUL I’LL SURELY APPLY IT TO PREVENT HACKING
Peter Lee
January 13, 2012 at 2:46 am
Many of my friends’ FB account got hacked because they didn’t use strong passwords. While all 5 tips mentioned above are important, regularly updating/changing your password is also vital. Just remember to use a strong password.
TracyAnn0312
January 13, 2012 at 5:57 am
This might be a good way to prevent hacking your profile. My mobile phone was always been connected to my Facebook profile. In case that someone open my account, I can easily know! Thanks for the list. Very helpful to others as well!
Ellie
January 13, 2012 at 9:32 am
Hi Ron. Thanks for showing us all how to protect our Facebook accounts from being hacked. A friend of my had her Facebook account violated and it turned out to be an embarrassing mess.
I intend to implement your 5 steps immediately.
Ellie
Danny
January 13, 2012 at 9:51 am
Another strategy is to get as many people to join facebook as possible. The more people there are the smaller the chance that you get picked 😛
But seriously, this hacking happens way too much. It is probably never going to stop. These hackers are just too smart, they will figure out a way sooner or later.
Too bad they are wasting their smarts on something like hacking.
sinddy
January 13, 2012 at 1:43 pm
thank for share this is good to protect my account
Saksham Talwar
May 5, 2012 at 9:52 am
HTTPS security protocol really matters the most. It’s a symbol of trust, I’ve heard it can be faked, what do you think?
Jimmy
August 9, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Facebook is not what I thought it would be. I can’t seem to make the account go away. Can a facebook account be eliminated totally?
samuel
August 29, 2012 at 8:35 am
these tips here has been helpful in protecting my Facebook account against been hacked and i just want to say thanks 🙂
Vin DiCarlo
May 8, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Thank You for share this tips however one of my facebook account has been hacked!! is there any ways to recover?
shailesh puri
April 5, 2014 at 10:25 am
Nice article with helpfull info….Despite the protection considerations that have troubled Facebook for years, most of the people still connect with their friends and family using Facebook and new members keep on sign up….hackers will steal our identities and that is simply with the visible data which we purposely reveal through our public Facebook profile…there are some tips for protect yourself from hackers like Hide your email address from your profile and use the special email id for your Facebook account, Choose difficult security question rather than pet names, favorite place, favorite food…Always use private browsing mode, Don’t show your personal information to all. The less information you share with Facebook, the more difficult to hack your account for hackers…………..thanks for sharing