How to secure your Facebook account

Facebook best social sharing network and most loved by today's young generation for sharing and exploring the world. Though Fb provides best security to protect their information and their account many are not making use of it. And One cannot easily crack fb password , here it one of the plus point.

Hove ever this going to be high risk in a way , especially for girls [Even boys can mange , they wont mind if the info floats online].

Why we need to secure our account ?

Fb , become a passion and every one filling out their information with real images and keeping their account as public. You would have noticed that there will be a group every where waiting to get the info of someone and misusing it. You should never allow them to gain access over you , so check out how to secure your account & staying away from hackers

Choosing Password
Staying away from phishing
Using fb security

Block unwanted sites

Choosing Password

Choosing password is first and foremost thing , not only for facebook it for all services which you are using Online. Always use special characters + cap + numbers. When ever some one tries to crack password , brute attack is first thing. so if we are using mixed password it will take more time , that is your password will become more stronger.

But don't worry about password cracking in facebook , it is not easily possible for every one so simply make your password stronger by mixed characters.

Staying Away from phishing

The term phishing in simple word can be defined as the fraudulent practice of sending spam links and revealing the passwords & credit card numbers online. Here it comes the hackers use smarter way to get your password using phishing method.

When some one sends links in facebook or mail before clicking over it check out the sender id and the destination id. Such has if you find some thing wrong like .tk .cn never click over it and enter your login details. Always check out the domain name so you can get whether it is trusted or not.

Even sometimes , some spam pages post some links of videos of adult content or magic, hacking , exploit .. when you click over, it will ask you to install some thing in name of "Flash player" here the hacking tool is injected in your system and it starts to record and send all your information to hacker. So avoid such things in facebook.

Facebook Securities

Here fb allows you to enable some features to make your account more secure . So login to your account and navigate to security tab http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security

Secure Browsing :

This option enable secure browser by promoting the user to save the default browser. This wont give that much effect

Login Notification :

Just enable this option , where it give your two options One is Email & other is Mobile . Enabling this option will notify the user of registered mobile or email when some one logs into your account. So by this way you can get to know when ever some one log in to your account without your knowledge.

Active Sessions :

This is one of the best security provided by facebook, using this option you can find recent login sessions and from where your account beeing logged in. If you find any suspecious activity here click on "End Activity" this will make that expire and logs out [Some time you will forget to logout from cyber zone or in friends house]