Facebook Account Settings (Notification, Subscribers, Apps)

Notifications

Recent Notifications:  Here you can see what Facebook is getting your attention with.   This is where you can find out how much Facebook annoys your or if you like it how much it keeps you informed.   So here you will see all the Likes, the Comments, people who have commented or liked something after you on another post or on your own post.  You can see what sends you more or less notifications and limit it down to what you would like to be notified about.  

Subscribers 

Here you will allow Subscribers which are people who can see what you post publicly with out being your friend as set by your restrictions. 

I dont see why you would unless you are a public figure.  Here you can set up what the public can see who are not exactly your friend they just keep tabs on you.  Like I said, unless your are super cool in the Cyberspace or a public figure I don't see the need for this.  

Apps 

This is a good place to check once in a while.  You will see what applications on Facebook or otherwise permission to work with your account.  So you can see many things here.  If you gave Bejeweled Blitz or Hanging with Friends permission to your page its here, and you can take that permission away.  If you gave Instagram or Dropbox permission it is here and you can take it away.  If its something you have not used in months and will not use again delete it.  If you see something weird, delete it and change your password.  This is a good place to keep an eye on things.

Facebook Account Settings (Security)

Security Question:  Here you select from a preset set of questions.  Remember If you pick something like Grandfathers occupation you can lie about it.  Say he was the president.  This will make it so that you and only you can answer this question and verify that it is you.

Secure Browsing: Check this box.  It makes it so that you will access Facebook with more security.  After you check this you will have https:// instead of http:// in the URL.  So if you see that you are in a http:// something is wrong.

Login Notifications:  You can be contacted via email or text or push notification.  This notification will let you know when someone has accessed your account.  So if you have not logged in for three days and your at work and cant log in and you get an email from Facebook that someone has logged into your account.  You will be prompted when you log into your account to say where it is that you are logging into from.  You can add or remove locations that have logged in to have access to your account.  This is a helpful tool that I use.

-Login Approvals:  You can create a more secure logon.  It will also delay your log on.  When you put in your username and password it will bring you to a verification window.  You then will receive a verification code by the means you set up.  While this is a great tool you need to keep in mind the worst case scenarios.  if it is sent via text and you get a new phone and phone number you wont get the code.  Or if you have it sent via email and you are unable to get into that account you will not be able to log in.  This can give you a headache quickly.  You have to find what works for you.

App Passwords:  You can set up passwords for the use with the different apps you use in Facebook.  You can set them to increase security but know that this will decrease the level of connivence of using them.

Recognized Devices:  If you have set up other security features this is where you can see what and who has permission to access your accounts.  You can see names of the devices and the dates they logged into your account.  You can remove devices that were used that maybe you just used one time and do not want to have continued access.

Active Sessions:  Here you can see all the sessions created.  Each time Facebook is accessed with your username and password it is logged here.  So you can see if someone has used your account with out your permission.

Facebook Account Settings (General)

On the main Facebook page where you view your wall at the top right above the adds you will see a down arrow next to the home block.  Click the down arrow and you will see Account Settings.  Click here and we will begin.

So the first selection is General.

-Name: This is where you can change your name.  In a situation where you got married or divorced. 

-Username:  Facebook allows you to select a username that you can use for people to find you better like Facebook.com/noobsec for instance.

-Email: Here is where you can change which email account you would like associated with your account.  You can also set up a Facebook email address as well.

-Password: This is where you can change your password.  It also tells you the last time that you changed your password.

-Network:  Here is where you can add networks

-Linked Accounts:  Here is where you can link another account to your Facebook account.  Be careful here.  If you don’t need to be logged in every time you log into something else then do not set this up.

-Language:  You can change what language Facebook is displayed in.