Facebook is said to be the largest social network worldwide with more than 2.41 Billion users on a global scale. Indeed Facebook is a great social media platform for us and has brought many features that help us but the real problem arises when it involves the security of your account and your personal data.

Apart from serving us with social media delicacy, Facebook is running a huge ad network.

This network of ads is directly or indirectly connected to the users. They need our data to find information that will help them understand our choices. Facebook can track the websites you have visited and collect customers data shared by marketing partners.

Facebook tracks all user’s activity, as the location is mostly turned on in your device. They know what we eat, where we go, who are we spending time with and almost every activity we do in our life. 

Facebook’s SSL encryption is there to reduce the chance of a page or account being hacked bu still our data is vulnerable. 

But still, a few privacy watchdogs agree that Facebook is listening to our conversations. We can’t stop Facebook from collecting our data, as it is a part of the program. If you delete your account, it will reduce the data collection but will not be that helpful. Even if Facebook is perfectly taking security prevention measures, an external threat always remains.

So, its better to preventive than deleting your Facebook account.

Here we have figured out 5 ways by which you can keep your personal data safe from Facebook.

How to Keep Your Personal Data Safe from Facebook: 5 ways you can do it

Keeping your personal data safe is your responsibility. These virtual houses of data can be important and useful for Big companies as the Digital marketing world is constantly evolving.

If you want to go through some moderation and enhance your personal data security, then follow the points lined below.

#1 Set Up Login Notification and Turn on Approvals

Facebook usually sends a notification if someone else tries to access your account form an unknown computer or other devices. You can enable this option to receive a warning from Facebook if someone has gained unauthorized access to your account by hacking.

To secure it, Go to privacy settings and click on the Security option.

When the Window shows up, you have to press on the “Edit” button which is just beside “Login” notifications and select from the options whether to get security alert or not via messages and push notifications

Once you choose, click on “Save Changes”.

Another login feature which keeps more importance is to turn on Login approvals

When you access your Facebook account using different or unknown browsers, you can enable Facebook to send a code. This code will help you to log in from unknown browser.

In order to set up Login Approval You have to click on “Get Started” and Facebook will guide you to do the rest.

Avoid login from unknown browsers,this will lessen your need to use code and increase the difficulty for hackers to get in your account. 

# 2  Avoid Third-Party Applications

This has been a major issue for the last 4 years. According to a report Facebook transfers loads of data to third-party organizations. Facebook has recently changed the method for a third party using our data. 

If you want to change this by yourself go through the lines below

Go to the ‘Settings’ page and you will see “Apps and Websites” in the left bar.  

Here you will find those third-party applications you have visited, using Facebook-Log in.

From here you can delete specific third party-apps and limit the information they can get form your account.

If you want to eliminate all access form the third party apps, go to the ‘Preference’ section and you will find the “Apps, website and games” option.

Then select the “Edit” option to cut off thir-party access to your account.

# 3 Change and Protect Your Password

After all the data breaches and hacks being reported from all over the world, almost everyone is aware to keep changing passwords whenever possible. But there are many who don’t change passwords often and there are a few who rarely stay active.

A small tip could help you out here. Try not to use the same passwords for 2 different websites or platforms. No matter how protective you are about your passwords, a website you use regularly can easily be hacked a modern-day hacker. 

Any online web platform you use on a daily basis especially Facebook, you must change your login passwords at least once or twice a week. This can prevent hackers from hacking into your account and steal your personal data.

Sometimes it is a little tough to keep on changing passwords because we are attached to more than 5 social platforms and keeping a track of all the credential is hectic and confusing.

You could keep the track of your credential using a Note or could use a free password management program to keep these things simple.

# 4 Keep your Privacy Settings safe

In many cases, it has been noticed, that when we share posts on Facebook we often forget to change the privacy settings and make things public. There are a billion of strangers on Facebook and no one knows, how 1 could become harmful for you.

If you only want your friends to see your post, then go to the “Setting” menu on the top right and click on “Privacy Setting”. Once the secondary window comes up click on the “Privacy” icon.

A small window will appear “Privacy Setting and Tools”. From here you can control who you want your post to reach or whom to keep away from your posts.

Just go to “Who can see your future posts?” and a drop-down will appear giving you a few options to chose from. Selecting friends is the best option.

# 5 Modify your page’s Admin

Companies gather page admins periodically because they fail to delete old pages. 

If you are running a business facebook admin pages, granting authorization to trustworthy members would be a good decision.

Giving administrative power to an individual can increase a little risk, as it is totally associated with your business. An admin can make new posts and delete previous ones.

If an individual wants to create a bad image about your business he can do it by harmful activities.

It would be best for companies to integrate Facebook admin rules in their HR policy. If a person is not any more engaged with your company, just remove them from admin authority.

Never compromise your company’s image.

Summing Up

We have discussed 5 ways to keep your data safe from Facebook and going well with the practices would help you out in the long run. Relying completely on Facebook when it comes to security hasn’t been so effective as we have witnessed several data breaches in the past few years. Why not take this responsibility by ourselves and make our personal data safe.