From making friends online to sharing pictures and videos with your loved ones, social media has become an integral part of our lives.
Digital literacy is gradually booming in India. With the advent of social media platforms, people are spending more and more time online. From making friends online to sharing pictures and videos with your loved ones, social media has become an integral part of our lives.
One such example is Facebook, which has a large user base and people of all age groups use the social media platform. But often people misuse your personal information or pictures for malicious or illegal purposes. So, to keep yourself safe, do these five things on Facebook.
1. Lock your profile to outsiders
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This feature allows a user to lock their profile on Facebook. After locking your profile, anyone who is not your friend on Facebook will not be able to see your any photos and posts on your timeline. This also locks yours profile from friends of friends and prevents people from seeing even your profile picture.
2. Choose what you want on your Facebook timeline
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This Facebook feature allows you to choose if the posts you are tagged in appear on your timeline. Using the ‘Timeline Review’ feature you can manage which posts you want to be displayed on your timeline.
3. Choose audience for your Facebook timeline
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This feature lets you share things on Facebook with the audience of your choice. Whether a user shares a post or a photo or updates their status on Facebook, they can select who gets to view the changes with the help of the ‘Audience Selector’ tool. With this tool, the user can choose to share their updates with ‘Everyone’ or just your ‘Friends’ or even a customised audience.
4. Two-factor Authentication and keeping track of unrecognised logins
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This feature is crucial to ensure the safety of your account and that it is not accessed by anyone else. You should NEVER share your password with anyone and ‘Two-factor Authentication’ is an extra layer of security. Apart from that, you should enable ‘Unrecognised Login Alerts’ to know about any unauthorised login.
5. Manage your activity to archive or delete your old posts
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The ‘Manage Acitivity’ helps you to archive or delete old posts. The posts which are sent to trash will be there for 30 days before getting automatically deleted. If you wish to restore these posts you can do so before 30 days are up.
