Not Getting Facebook Notifications

If you're having troubles with your Facebook notifications recently, i.e. getting updates and also teams from people you don't understand, then you're not alone-- lots of people began whining regarding it since last Sunday, June 19. Fortunately, I've located a solution to it. Information after the dive.

Not Getting Facebook Notifications

I was doing my usual early morning regimen last Sunday (June 19) when I discovered something strange concerning my Facebook account: I'm obtaining notices from individuals I don't understand. A lot more particularly, I'm getting 'likes' and also comments from status updates and also links that I didn't publish, and also updates from teams I did not sign up with.

The Solution

This got me to considering my Facebook settings, as well as caught the solution just as I was searching mine: it's a problem with just how my Account Protection was set up. * headpalm *.

I swiftly posted a solution to my Posterous and currently I'm copying it below for all to see (with [modifies]:

1. Go to Account Setup >> Account Task.

2. From the Account Activity area, you'll locate that the different computer systems as well as areas that are presently accessing your FB account. [You can see this from the tab 'Likewise Active'. It needs to be showing places and also gadgets that you are not acquainted with.]
3. End each of the sessions [on 'Additionally Active'] by clicking the 'End' [switch]

4. Afterwards make certain to examine 'Secure Searching' (so you'll get on HTTPS, a lot more safe) and 'Login Notifications' (so you'll be informed if somebody else is going to your account.) [Merely said, checking these options will make accessing your Facebook account extra safe and secure.]
5. After following these actions, you should get this:.

Be sure to transform your passwords after. Note additionally that with these settings, you need to attest each and every device that will certainly access your account. That shows up in a display when you try to access your account via your mobile phones.

Final Ideas.

[Upgraded June 29, 2011] I understand there are still mysteries to be fixed but the culprit right here really is, well, my laziness: I need to have inspected those security setups prior to. With all the existing goings-on about hacking and such, I should have double-checked my accounts so that I could least protect them from breach. I actually do not recognize for sure it this was associated keeping that, but at the very least I can rest very easy that I've found a solution for it.

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