How to protect your Facebook account from being hacked.

There are two ways to protect your Facebook account:

     Trusted contacts
Trusted contacts is a service provided by Facebook to help users retrieve their account incase it is hacked. If you activate your trusted contacts, even if someone hack your account and change every details there, you will still be able to retrieve it back. Trusted contacts is an avenue where you are at liberty to add up to five of your trusted friends on your Facebook account. When you add these trusted friend, anytime your account is hacked, you simply tell them to generate code from their Facebook for you. You need to enter those codes on your account retrieval page to be able to have access to the account again.


Do not add someone whose account is not protected to your trusted contacts because if the account of that person is hacked along the line, you won't be able to get the code from him/her and if the 3 codes is not complete, Facebook won't retrieve your account for you. Incase any their accounts is hacked along the line, quickly replace the person on your trusted contacts list.



How to activate trusted contacts

  •  Login to your Facebook account.
  •  Click on the 3 dots at the top right corner (Menu bar)
  •  When it drops down, navigate to "settings" and click
  •  Navigate to "Security and login" and click to open
  •  Navigate to "Choose 3 to 5 friends to contact if you get locked out and click to open
  •  If it requires your password, enter your Facebook password and it will take you to the interface where you need to enter your trusted friends. 
  •  All you have to do is to use the search column and enter the exact name of the friend you want to add click on it when the name appears. 

Note: Sometimes, facebook may tell you the name doesn't exist even when you are 100% correct with the name, not to worry, you can search manually by navigating from pages to pages if you so much trust that friend. As soon as you see the name, ok it and it's added.  That's it, anytime your account is hacked, go to Facebook account recovery page, they will ask you to enter a name from your trusted contacts; once you enter it correctly, they will all display. Make your request from there and contact those people to login to their account and send you the code on their notification.




Two-Factor-Authentication

   This is the most secure method that prevents hackers from stealing your account. When you activate it, Facebook will log you out of all other browsers so that you can login again. Once it is activated, whoever tries to login to your account, facebook will send you login code. (Just like bank OTP). Without that code, they can't login. Even if you yourself want to login from a new device, you must enter the code to be able to login.



How to activate Two-Factor-Authentication

  • Login to your Facebook account.
  • Click on the 3 dots at the top right corner (Menu bar)
  • When it drops down, navigate to "settings" and click
  • Navigate to "Security and login" and click to open
  • Navigate to "Use Two-Factor-Authentication and click.
  • It will require for your password. Enter your Facebook password, navigate to "Use Text Messages" and click to open.
  • It will take you to where you need to confirm your phone number. Confirm it and submit.
  • Facebook will send you a verification code to be sure you are the owner of that number. Enter the code and submit. It's done. Two-Factor-Authentication is now ON. Anyone that attempt to login to your account, you will be notified.


     I will recommend you to also turn on the app notification option above the "Use Two-Factor-Authentication" so that you can be notified on Facebook if any one attempt to login to your account. 

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