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Want to secure your social info? Facebook shows you how

  • April 3, 2015
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By Sharon Gaudin
 
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Facebook releases 11 new guides to help you secure your account.

 
Facebook today launched 11 interactive guides and how-tos to help users secure their social information.
The new guides, which can be found on the Facebook Privacy Basics site, are designed to help users understand the best ways to create a strong password, how to handle suspicious messages and what to do if someone takes over the user's account.
Available in 40 languages, the guides also touch on how the world's largest social network responds to government requests for user information and the steps Facebook takes to protect your information.
"Since last November, millions of people have visited Facebook Privacy Basics, a dedicated resource that gives people a simpler way to find and use our privacy controls," wrote Melissa Luu-Van, a Facebook product manager, in a blog post. "After seeing how interested people are in material like this, we discovered that they also had questions about our security tools."
 
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nic
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  • April 3, 2015
11?  I think that's way too complicated for the average user.

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  • April 3, 2015
Facebook never makes anthing easy

Jasper_The_Rasper
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This reminds me of the cartoon from Darknet.org