Secure your Facebook Account

If you are very much concerned about your privacy of your facebook account then must use this new in-built Facebook privacy tool to prevent hacking of your facebook account. You will get an email or SMS whenever someone else logged into to your facebook account from an unauthorized computer. So that, you can instantly take a prompt action by changing your account password or contact facebook team.
By activating this tool, you are just required to register your computer (from which you access Facebook regularly), and then you will receive an email and SMS notifications whenever your account being accessed from any other unregistered computer.

You can also check the list of all the computers from where your account has been accessed (by you or by hackers) which help you to identify your access and hackers access.

How to activate this tool

Step 1: Login to your account
Step 2: Go to Account Settings

Step 3: Click on Account Security Tab
Step 4: Change No to YES for “Would you like to receive notifications for logins from new devices?” Then “Save.” The feature is turned on.\

Step 5: Register your computer
The settings will be customizable only after registration of your computer. For that, logout from your account and then login again, then you get a screen a message to register your computer

Type the name of the computer which you can remember and choose whether you want Facebook to remember this computer or not. If you access your account through a cyber café or shared work station then don’t check the checkbox

After this facebook starts maintaining the log of your logins through registered and unregistered system and you can also check those logs in Account Security Section.
Whats the catch in this

Facebook is stored by your browser in a library of cookies and if cookies are deleted by any chance then you have to re-register your machine.

One More Security Feature:

In near future, facebook is also planning to introduce one more security feature which will ask some security questions to you like birth date or who was your first date whenever unrecognized and suspicious logins occur and hackers won’t be able to answer these questions.

Even after this good move towards security, it has some limitations:
• Unable to take advantage of this, if accessing facebook through mobile or smart phone
• Account access through cyber café or regular change of IPs will make this tool a useless weapon
• It’s a measure to stop people from clearing their cookies and opt for :Instant Personalization” feature.