Best Ways to Secure your Facebook Account

Security and protection is a necessity in the world of social networking, especially in the post-Timeline era of Facebook. Timeline facilitates access to your profile where your past activities, posts, photos and likes are displayed. Any Facebook user such as your friends, friends of friends, colleagues, employees of your company, your boss, etc can have a glance at your profile. With this Timeline feature, Facebook has brought changes in some other stuff including the security settings. If you are concerned about the visibility of certain things of your profile, then you need to take heed and go through the below discussions. In fact, Facebook’s timeline is an open invitation to a lot of Facebook users but the social network has also provided some ways to get rid of them. Enlisted below are the best ways to secure your Facebook account.

You can have access to the ‘privacy settings’ from a gear icon situated at the upper right corner of your profile or the header bar or next to your name and Home button (See image below). When you click on it, a menu drops down and offers you a number of options from which you need to chose ‘Privacy Settings’ in order to change the security of your profile. Select ‘Timeline and Tagging’ to change what can be seen and by whom on your timeline. With this, you can set the limit of users who can see your timeline to just your ‘friends.’

For security options, Facebooks also introduced its best security setting which is by a simple click you will be able to set your profile in such a way that are able to review all the things that you are tagged into before they are posted on to your Timeline. This implies that your friends will not be able to see any awkward images of your without your knowledge or approval. Well, you will find another gear icon situated next to button ‘Activity Log’ button (see image below) and this icon is a tool that enables you to visualize your profile from the outlook or point of view of your friends and other Facebook users. With this tool, you can check out the things visible on your Timeline and to whom your stuffs are visible.