If someone is hacking your Facebook account from a strange computer, then Facebook has the ability to notify you via email or SMS.

Set Up The Facebook Hacking Notification

To get the security notification operating go to “My Account”:

Account Settings

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Click on the settings tab:

Click The Settings Tab

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Click on “Yes” to receive notifications:

Facebook Security

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Once this is submitted you need to log out of your Facebook account and then log back in. As you log back in you will be asked to register the computer you are on.

Register your computer:

Register Your Computer

You can receive security notifications by email or by SMS. If you receive a notification and you are not aware of the new access to your account then log in and change your password right away. And then notify Facebook

Dropped Cookies Require Re-Register

If your PC drops cookies for any reason you may need to re-register your computer. Facebook may also ask you some security questions to get into your account.

Facebook  made significant changes to their design a couple of weeks ago. The top bar is better organized to make moving around the website easier. The methods of uploading pictures has improved.

But one of the major changes they made you may not pick up on.

Facebook has been accused of selling our privacy again!

Again, Facebook has been accused of revealing personal information to marketers. But you can make some changes to your privacy settings to help minimize your exposure. Jeff Elder has written instructions on his blog site that will step you through the process.

There is also an issue in question concerning the ability of your friends being able to see what applications and games  you have been using. Do you want your friends to know the apps you are using? I don’t! They are working on this problem…

Click here to go Jeff’s site and step through his instructions to minimize your exposure.

Thanks for reading. Comments and feedback are appreciated.

I hope this helps you improve your social media missions. For those who want to get involved but don’t have the time or the staff to do so, I am available for hire. Please contact me.

Huck Huckabee
BusinessAndSocialMedia.com
huck@businessandsocialmedia.com
704-438-2910

My blog is blocked

When I set up this blog site a problem presented itself within days of my first posting. My AVG virus software posted a warning that it had “detected active threats on this page”. I went back and forth with my hosting service and we could not find items that we thought could be “threats”. I had just started the site, so I decided to remove it from the host and start over.

I began the site the second time with a generic page that was the default on the hosting service. I uploaded nothing. A few days later I tried to access the site and got the same warning. So I sent a support request to my hosting service and said, “you must have a problem on your end, everything that is on the web originated from your material”. But, they were unable to recreate the error. I gave the matter some thought and decided to try to contact AVG, my virus protection service.

An quicker and easier way to get service

Like so many large companies, AVG makes it a little hard to get in contact with an individual. So after spending over fifteen minutes on their site I decided to try to solve the problem on Facebook. I looked up AVG on Facebook and became a “fan” on their page. That allowed me to post a message to their wall. So in a short post I stated my problem. And then moved on to other things that I had to do.

Within a few hours I checked my iPhone and saw that there was a response to my post. A service rep had responded to my post. She gave me an email address and asked that I contact her. So I did. The next morning an email was waiting for me that explained there was an error at AVG and it had been taken care of. Later that day I went to a computer with AVG protection and pulled up this site. And there it was. No warnings, no problems and ready to start blogging.

How’s this for a coincidence?

Facebook helped me solve my problem. And here I have presented it as my first blog on my businessandfacebook.com blog site!