How to Lockdown Facebook Privacy

Knowing someone can actually invade your privacy is not something we enjoy. That makes us feel insecure. Now, that will lead to an actual stress. Facebook has become a part of our life. It keeps our friends closer. Especially for the lazy us, an app like this is a boon. Be with friends, do nothing, yet be busy. That being said, privacy becomes an obvious issue with talented hackers around. The days have come where hackers pass time hacking profiles. No professionalism found! Even Mark Zuckerberg is no exception from this intent. However, since always the good wins, there is way you can lock down facebook privacy. Let us know more on how to lock facebook profile.

You do not have to search for a how to lock facebook app kind of statements anymore. Click on the drop down menu at the top right corner of your page. You will find the settings option there or just visit https://www.facebook.com/settings.

General Settings

The very first option you might see is this. What you can do here is provide a dedicated email address. By that, we did not mean providing the email id that is connected to your bank account or something. That way you are opening yourself up to the danger itself. Create a general email id and keep the notifications coming. You can find options like clicking to get notifications when a person out of your friend list tags you and so on. Click on every option you might possibly want. Enable the two factor authentication service. Give a strong password. Having your name as a password is equal to not having a password. Let it be a unique one.

Security And Login

Here is where you can find if you have logged in to your account in any other devices. Usually, check this and logout of other possible devices instead of the one you are using. If you do not recognize a login, report and immediately change the password.

Privacy Settings and Tools

You can change your personal preferences like who can find you and who can send friend requests to you. One more important thing is to keep friends with mutual friends as the selected option for the question who can send you friend requests.

Hide your friendlist from a public show and limit your audience for the posts you make.

Timeline And Tagging

Remove “the anyone can tag” privacy. Click the right options to inspect every tag that is going to be visible.

Blocking

When some fake profile is annoying you, you do not have to explain them or fight or anything, report the profile and block it. You can make use of the restriction list if you think only a few friends need to see your posts.

If you wish to know how to lock facebook account temporarily, you can deactivate your account and state the reason that you will come back in a particular time. This might as well distract people who are trying to ruin your privacy.