Check Your Facebook Security

Whether you’re new to Facebook or have been on the platform since the beginning, it’s time to check your Facebook security. Because of the large number of users (2.8 billion), Facebook is a hacker’s playground. (They love to make fake accounts as we talked about in my post, Fake Facebook Account.) Checking your security will help keep you from being bullied!

Where To Start

I’ve created a YouTube video which shows you the complete security-checking process. (You’ll find the video at the end of this post. Until you have a chance to view the full video, I want to get you started in this post. Facebook has a built-in Privacy Checkup feature and I want you to use it. I’m going to post screenshots of the steps you should take. I’m using the Facebook App for iPhone. The Android FB App is very similar. On the web, the same steps I use here are also available just in a slightly different location.

Check Your Facebook Security With These Steps

Normally, when you open the FB App, you’ll be on your Home page. From there, you should follow these steps shown in this gallery. (You should go through slides 1-5. Tapping each slide on the app will reveal a caption. On the web, just moving your curser over the picture will do the same thing.)

Facebook Home page with arrow pointing to the three horizontal lines in the lower right-hand corner. — On the Home page, click on the 3 horizontal lines at the bottom right.

Screenshot of the Facebook Menu page with an arrow pointing to scroll down — Scroll down on the Menu page.

Screenshot of the lower half of the Facebook Menu page with Privacy and Security circled — Find and tap on Settings & Privacy

Screenshot of the word Privacy circled which lies under the Privacy and Settings option in Facebook — Under Settings & Privacy, tap on Settings

Screenshot of the Facebook Privacy Checkup option — Now you've reached the Privacy Checkup feature!

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Using The Facebook Security Checkup

Now that you’ve reached the FB Security Checkup feature, follow these steps:

Screenshot of the Facebook Privacy Checkup opening page. — This is the Privacy Checkup's opening page. I suggest you start with the first option - Who can see what you share.

Screenshot of the Facebook "Who can see what you share" wizard start page. — This is the first page of the "Who can see what you share" wizard. It will walk you through your profile information, posts and stories and blocking. Not shown in this picture is the NEXT button at the bottom of the screen.

This is the Profile Information which show who can see certain features of your profile.

Screenshot of the Choose Audience page in the Facebook Privacy Checkup feature. — If you tapped on one of the drop-down menus on the previous step of the wizard, you'd see this audience page. You can select who see a feature by using this page.

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Now that I’ve gotten you started, continue with all the wizards you found in the Privacy Checkup feature. Or, you can just complete your security, privacy and notification check by watching the full video:

Where To Start

Check Your Facebook Security With These Steps

Using The Facebook Security Checkup

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