Notify When Someone Else Access Your Facebook Account

Isn't it true that you are always aware of your security? It doesn't matter it's your life or your data. Security matters everywhere. So when it comes to social profiles like Facebook, you are much considerate about your information you have fetched into your profile. Would you like if someone hacks your Facebook account and reveal your personal information to the public?

I don't think so, unless you have important and sensitive personal information on your profile. My advice to you is, please don't publish sensitive and most private information online unless you wanna risk them. Anyway, though still you don't have any private information published in your profile, you don't wanna see that anyone else hacks into your profile. Do you?

Catch 'em?

Usually how do we get to know if someone got our login credentials? Well, we don't know until he/she logs in to our account and be stupid enough to spoil our existing information or do something visible to us. It doesn't matter if someone got your login credentials 'cause you have provided your login information deliberately to another, right? But it depends on trust. Anyway what if someone login to your account, but doesn't do anything stupid to suspect that someone has your login credentials? Things can get worse in that way, 'cause you feel safe using Facebook, but you aren't.

Login Notifications

For this matter, Facebook has a way to alert you whenever someone logs in to your Facebook account - Login Notifications. With Facebook Login Notifications enabled, you will receive a notification email or text message whenever an unauthorized login has been tracked by Facebook. The process is quite simple to understand. Facebook saves your devices as trusted devices such as your personal computer, mobile device and whenever a new device other than trusted ones pops in and login to your Facebook account, you will be notified rightaway.

You have to understand that if you login to your Facebook account for an urgent matter through a friend's mobile device, Facebook will notify it as an unauthorized login though you are the one responsible or that log in. The reason is it's not the regular device you use to login to your account and Facebook keeps track of devices you used to login not you personally. Well, it's obvious, right? Just for the record.

Steps:

1. Log in to your Facebook account.

2. Navigate to Account Settings.

3. Click on Security tab on left pane.

4. Now click on Login Notifications setting.

5. You will prompt to select the way you need to receive login notifications - via email, text message or both.

Note: To receive login notification as a text message, you need to have your mobile number added to your Facebook account.

6. Click Save Changes button after selecting your preferred notification options.

Note: You may encounter an error when saving if you use private browsing, clear cookies or have set up your browser to clear browsing data when exit each time. If so, disable such options or use regular browsing mode to activate log in notifications. If it prompts same message over and over, you may need to wait few days, log out and log in to your account again to enable login notifications.

More Information:

* After enabling login notifications, you will have to name your computer or device you use to log in to Facebook in next login. The device will save under Recognized Devices which you won't get any notifications when you login to Facebook through same computer or device next time, unless you clear browser information or use features such as private browsing.

Note: Name your device only it's a trusted device or if you regularly login to Facebook via that device only. Else if you login through shared or public computer, click Cancel when it ask to name your device.

Enjoy :-)