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I know that many people want to deactivate their facebook accounts because of daily issues. It's funny that i also did this two and three times. Here i want to tell you that your account will not be deactivated permanently, and when you login again in your facebook account it will get active automatically. If you deactivates your account, then nobody will be able to see you on facebook entirely. Below are easy steps to deactivate facebook account.

Step 1: Click on the Menu button at the top right of your facebook account's window and select Account Settings Option.

Step 2: From the menu on left of your facebook screen click option of Security.

Step 3: Now click on Deactivate Your Account, and your account is now deactivated successfully.

I hope this article will be useful for you, as no other blog provides detailed information like above. For queries and questions comment on this post. If your account is getting hacked again and again then you should secure facebook account instead of deleting it.

After some reflection, I've decided to delete my account on Facebook. I'd like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I'd like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that I'm not missing anything. In any event, here's my "Top Ten" reasons for why you should join me and many others and delete your account.

Facebook's Terms Of Service are completely one-sided. Let's start with the basics. Facebook's Terms Of Service state that not only do they own your data (section 2.1), but if you don't keep it up to date and accurate (section 4.6), they can terminate your account (section 14). You could argue that the terms are just protecting Facebook's interests, and are not in practice enforced, but in the context of their other activities, this defense is pretty weak. As you'll see, there's no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. Essentially, they see their customers as unpaid employees for crowd-sourcing ad-targeting data.

Facebook's CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior. From the very beginning of Facebook's existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg's ethics. According to BusinessInsider.com, he used Facebook user data to guess email passwords and read personal email in order to discredit his rivals. These allegations, albeit unproven and somewhat dated, nonetheless raise troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the world's largest social network. They're particularly compelling given that Facebook chose to fork over $65M to settle a related lawsuit alleging that Zuckerberg had actually stolen the idea for Facebook.

Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy. Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook's privacy changes last January: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." More recently, in introducing the Open Graph API: "... the default is now social." Essentially, this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, and own that data, but to make it available to everybody. Which would not, by itself, necessarily be unethical, except that ...

Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch. At the same time that they're telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. What this amounts to is a bait-and-switch. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves. This is why Facebook is so much worse than Twitter in this regard: Twitter has made only the simplest (and thus, more credible) privacy claims and their customers know up front that all their tweets are public. It's also why the FTC is getting involved, and people are suing them (and winning).

Original Source:  How To Secure Facebook Account

Each one of us, Facebookers, have heard once or many times that one of our friend’s account has been hacked into. Not only is it troublesome to your friends but can also get annoying for the associated people as the hacker attains access to their information as well.

Following tips can help you increase the security of your account.

1. Enable https:

If you bookmark any social network like Facebook, use HTTPS not HTTP for the URL as it will encode your communication instead of giving a straight access to any intruder.

You will know that the extent of the security is increased when for any new application; you will have to disable this setting first.

2. Online Chat:

The online chat feature isn’t as safe as you think it is. I have no technical proof for mentioning this but using online chat has often led to fake comments to my friends supposedly made by me. Obviously, I never made those comments.

Additionally, scams on Facebook have also been seen by many of us. This might also lead to using the online chat service. Hence, keep your chat offline when not needed.

Disable the chat service by clicking the gear-like button on the right-side of the chat window and going offline from there. You can then close the chat window. You will see “offline” written on the chat tab.

3. Control Permissions Granted to Third Party Apps:

Once you give access of your profile to an app on Facebook, the app is allowed to access your profile whether or not you continue using that application. By going to this link (review your Facebook app permissions ) you may restrict the app from further accessing your profile in the future. The extended list of granted permissions still using your profile may come as a shock to you!

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4. Text Message Notifications:

You can be notified when your account is signed in from a device which not the computer you use or your own mobile phone. Facebook sends you a text message for each such login if is activated in your settings.

To get this service, go to Account Settings and under Security Settings you can manage this setting.

Under Security Settings, go to login approvals followed by login notifications.

You can either select email or text notifications and you will get instantly informed. This will also approve your primary computer and your mobile phone as supported access points.

5. Maintain public and private email addresses:

The given email used to set up a Facebook account should be a different one from the ones used for more sensitive purposes such as a Paypal account.

No matter how annoying, a hacked Facebook email will not be as detrimental as a hacked Paypal account. That could cost you monetarily!

The chances of getting hacked are greatly diminished by a practice of carefully using different email addresses for public and private scenarios and changing the passwords regularly.

Due to its being a public forum, Facebook can be searched for any email address as they are non-redundant to pinpoint a specific person you're looking for. This may have its uses for a friend trying to find you but similarly may be used by hackers for malicious purposes.

The better option is to use different strong (alphanumeric) passwords for a set of varying emails. There are numerous other ways to secure your online activities but the mentioned 5 techniques are the most basic and essential. Specifically used on Facebook as it is the largest online forum and thus the most threat prone.

Original Source: http://techmell.com/facebook-tips/unfriend-irritating-people-facebook

Do you see those friends sprawled all over your news feed who you haven’t talked to in ages and never want to either? Bet you can’t unfriend them because it seems too offensive for them on your behalf. Well, you don’t need to live with this silent suffering. There is a way out for you, yes, you read it right. You can unfriend them from Facebook and it won’t be the usual unfriending ceremony you have been avoiding!

Steps:

1. Keep that person and the updates of that person from invading your newsfeed. It was always under your nose! Just click “x” or the little “v” in front of the update and select “Unsubscribe”. You are done with the job already! 
2. In some cases, hiding from such a person is equally important especially when that friend has an annoying habit of commenting at everything you post and that usually lands you in discomfort. You can’t become invisible in reality no matter how much you want it but you surely can on Facebook. You just need to do some changes with your privacy settings and you can keep that friend from seeing certain parts of your profile. Just two things to do:

Go to your privacy page and click “Customize Settings”.  You will see all the things you can change your settings for. For each of it, click “Customize” from the menu.

In the space provided under “Hide this from”, type the name of that friend and hit Save Setting.

Note that:

Though your friend would not be informed of these settings but they still might find out. How? If you have mutual friends and they comment on your photo, that photo will appear on your mutual friends’ wall but when this friend tries to access that photo then they will be told that they can’t view it. Here, they might wonder why.

If they are being accessibly mean or cause of hurt, then just unfriend them.

Original Source: http://techmell.com/blogging-tips/how-to-add-facebook-comments-box-to-wordpress

Two months ago I added Facebook comment functionality to my web blog and it’s been a hit! Due to the fact that most users are signed in to Facebook on a different tab as they browse the internet it ensures more comments on my posts on WordPress.

In the start I endured lengthy tutorials and various techniques to add this onto my website and even tried plugins for it. After much struggle I’ve concluded that the best way to add Facebook comments on your WordPress site is to use Facebooks’s own comments plugin tool (not a WordPress plugin).

Step 1: Create A Facebook App

Visit the Facebook Applications page and click on Create New App.

Here you will provide your name as YourSite.com Comments and Facebook will provide you with the App ID/API Key and App secret key.

Step 2: Customize Your Facebook Comment Area

Up next is to go to the Facebook Comments code. For now disregard the ‘URL to comment on’ field, it’ll be used later. Simply just choose options for the width, length (number of comments) and color of your Facebook area on your website.

Step 3: Add Facebook Code To Your Header.php Template

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Once you press the ‘Get Code’ button you will be asked for two choices: HTML5 and XBFML (iframe isn’t available for comments).The HTML5 version is recommended.

If you have more than one Facebook apps generated then do take care in differentiating them so as to identify the correct ID in the code for your WordPress site.

The first bit of code should look something like this:

<div id="fb-root"></div>

<script>(function(d, s, id) {

var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];

if (d.getElementById(id)) return;

js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;

js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=YOURAPPLICATIONID";

fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);

}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

Launch header.php template and place the code in right under the tag of “<body>”.Save the template after adding the code

Step 4: Add Facebook Code To Your Comments.php Template

The other bit of code provided by Facebook should look generally like this (may vary on the number of posts specified and the size of the comment area specified):

<div data-href="http://example.com" data-num-posts="2" data-width="500"></div>

The code provided is linked to just one URL so to make the comment box appear on the newest pages we need to modify the source code a bit. This is achieved by replacing:

data-href=”http://example.com”    (Original)

With,

data-href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”     (New)

The amended code should now look like:

<div data-href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" data-num-posts="2" data-width="500"></div>

Now to add this to your comments area you’ll have to place the above code in your comments.php template. Where in the template you place the code depends on where you want the box to show up and whether you wish WordPress or Facebook comments on top of the other.

If you have completed the steps in this tutorial successfully then the Facebook comments should be along your WordPress comments on your website. Enjoy!