Facebook is one of most widely used Social Network and it seems like most likely everyone who is online is having an account with this service. Now that everyone is having a account, it seems like the number of attacks being happening on these accounts is also increasing hence its important to ensure the security of the accounts.
Strengthen Your Security – You can reach a “High” Account Control level by completing the following actions:
- Add and confirm a second email address
- Confirm a mobile number
- Answer a security question
Step 1 : Email Address
You need to update your account security by adding another email address to ensure that if you loose your primary email address you can still recover it through the second email address you have added in your account. To set this click on this link.
Your contact email must always be a valid address. Please enter an email address and facebook will send you a verification code. You can have multiple email addresses on your account, making it easier for people to find you.
Step 2 : Facebook Mobile
In the second step you need to enter your mobile phone number and signup with Facebook mobile service to ensure that you can login to your account back in case you get issues with it. Click on Mobile Phone > + Sign up for Facebook mobile.
You will asked to select the country and the network carrier following which you could you would get a confirmation code on your mobile. If that does not work you will have to send a Text message with the letter F to 9232232665 (92FACEBOOK).
Step 3 : Security Question
The final step would be updating your security information in the form of adding a security question and answer. You will be shown with a list of different questions out of which you need to select one and then proceed with the save and continue option to set it.
Once all the options are set your account is secured and you can enjoy all the facebook features without any worry about being hacked. Do share this article with your facebook friends and help them stay secured and informed
They might be thinking of not to follow ‘gmail’s’ security policy and to stay unique but it’s worth following…and one more thing…if any body sent a friend request to us, FB must allow us to check the entire profile of the person as we can for our normal friends. It’s like the sender already wants to be in friends with u….and then what’s the reason for FB in hiding his profile??? If we dismiss his request then they can always hide…right
I think it that was like that a few years ago; or at least for messages: if you received an email from someone not in your friends list, you could check their profile I think it for was a week. Don’t know why is not that way anymore.
I still feel these steps are similar to what we see when creating a google account. But the phone verification process is one of the best ones. Security question thing that is done through the browser, still can’t be called the safest thing but the mobile verification finally took the facebook account security to the next level.
There has been lot of critics on Facebook leaking users Data to any third party. I don’t know whether its strategy or truth. Yeah finally its a good thing that Facebook has come up with certains like Google Account has during signup, this will surely enhance the security levels and still I feel it should be more secured.
what is that 92FACEBOOK
explain the term please
its the official mobile number that facebook uses, its quite interesting:
They made the number by series that we follow in mobile phones while getting any number in dictionary mode you can say:
1 = none
2 = A, B, C
3 = D, E, F
4 = G, H, I
5 = J, K, L
6 = M, N, O
7 = P, Q, R, S
8 = T, U, V
9 = W, X, Y, Z
0 = none