How to Add Some Extra Security on Facebook Accounts

With the rate at which Facebook is growing these days and with the nature of activities that take place on Facebook including Business dealings, Educational platform, survey and so on, it's a good idea to throw in some additional layers of security on your Facebook account to prevent you from hackers and lose of sensitive information. Maybe, you shouldn't be worried that someone will break into your account and start "liking" some crazy web articles, but you should be concerned that someone could get in and use those sensitive information attached to your profile to steal your identity.

This article will put us through three crucial things to do to add some extra security to your Facebook account.

Add Some Extra Security 

Follow this guide as we put you through the three crucial things you can do to protect yourself, and your data and funny enough these things are located in our profile. Just navigate to settings and you'll find under Settings, Security and Login, then click on Setting Up Extra Security. From here, you can choose any of the extra security features below

1) Enable two-factor authentication.A good idea to implement on all your Facebook accounts and other social network accounts. This simply means if anyone wants to access your account on a new device, they'll also need access to your phone and that’s you included. If you wish to log in from someone else’s phone.

2) Enable alerts about unrecognized logins. If somebody does manage to log-in to your account from an unrecognized device or browser, Facebook will let you know. Then you can quickly sign into your account and end such individual’s session.

3) Tell Facebook some trusted contacts if you get locked out. Trusted Contacts are your Facebook friends (you'll need to choose between three and five) who can securely help you regain access to your account let’s take for instance you forget your password, lose your mobile device, or a nefarious person breaks in and decides to lock you out. Then you can use one of your trusted contact to get you out of the situation. And note, you can always change your contacts later.
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