5 Tips to secure your Facebook account

Facebook is one of the top accessed website in the world and most popular social networking website. I'm sure many of you who are reading this, must be spending hours of time everyday on Facebook.

Nothing could be worse than losing your own Facebook account or some one getting access to your Facebook account and misusing it.

But now that there are reports of Facebook accounts being hacked I'm sharing five tips which will help you to keep your Facebook login safe and secure.

1. Enable HTTPS login:

Recently Facebook brought HTTPS enabled login and this is first step to your Facebook account settings > security. To enable this feature, go to edit account settings and under account security enable secure browsing (In older version of facebook). And in new version it is simple, just click on "Secure Browsing" as shown in above pic and mark on "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible"

2. Facebook device login

This is one of the best feature which will make sure that you will get notified whenever your account is compromised. Whenever your account will be logged in from a new device, you will be receiving an email for the same. To enable this feature, go to account settings > Account security and enable features which says 'When a new computer or mobile device logs into this account'(In older version of facebook). And in new version it is simple, just click on "Login Notifications" as shown in above pic and mark on "Email/Text message/Both".

3. Strong and complex password

 One simple way to get into someone's account is by using hit and trial method for password. Brute force are usually useless these days because of complex security measures taken by Facebook. But if I know you as an individual, I may try to try couple of passwords like your girlfriend's name, your birth date and so on. Most of the time this works. If you wish to be secure your Facebook and other account, you should try using a complex password. More over by changing your password every month and using different password for different account will surely help.

4. Keeping your computer secure

The first place which hackers will target will always be your computer. We have already shared how to keep yourself safe and secure while surfing internet. But let me repeat myself once again, you should be keeping your OS up to date along with Antivirus. If you are tech savvy, I would recommend using any firewall (Comodo is one which I use and recommend) and a Trojan remover.

5. Avoid Facebook spam applications

If you are active user on Facebook, you must have seen spam in the form of Facebook applications like Mark Zuckerberg official announcement and so on. Try not to use any Facebook application if you have not read its review. These days most of such spam applications will spam your friend wall, will ask you to fill a survey or else they will add random people into your account. You can go to application setting page and see which all applications have access to your Facebook account. Disable those which you are not using.

Obviously  there are more tips which will help you to keep yourself safe and secure but following above five you will lower down the possibilities of losing your Facebook account to hackers.