the debate rages on about data security on social media sites and facebook is no exception karan bajaj tells you about some of the platforms less known privacy features that you can enable1 protect your profile pictureyour profile picture is used as a primary tool for identification on social media trouble is anyone can create a fake facebook account using your name and even your actual profile picture to stop this from happening facebook has added a feature called profile picture guard open your facebook profile and click on the current profile picture dont click on update profile picture when the profile picture opens up click on options at the bottom of the image and select turn on profile picture guard a blue shield will appear on your picture and no one will be able to share or download it anymore2 make your friends authenticatorsif facebook detects an unrecognised login or hacking attempt it will lock down your account and you wouldnt be able to access it the process to regain access to your account used to be a long one and complicated one but now facebook allows you to simply choose up to five trusted friends who can help you regain access to your account go to settings security and login choose friends to contact and select at least three people from your friend list if you get locked out these friends can send you verification codes for authentication to help you regain access to your account3 know which devices you useunder settings security and login facebook shows a section called where youre logged in this section lists all the devices laptop phone tablet etc on which you have logged in to your facebook account remove any devices you dont recognise or dont have access to anymore if youre unsure of the status of certain devices we recommend that you use the log out of all sessions option and log in afresh this will ensure no one else has access to your facebook account4 view all your informationwhen you open your facebook account settings you will notice a new menu item on the left your facebook information facebook has consolidated access to all of your information on a single page you can view information about you by category posts photos comments likes etc and download any information you want you can even view and manage your activity log from this page and control which of your activities appear on your friends timelines5 manage your facebook datain the facebook information page you also have a shortcut to manage your data when you access this feature you need to select if you want to manage data on facebook or instagram for facebook you get advanced control on how and where facebook uses any of your data you can manage your location data control contacts uploaded to facebook face recognition setting ad preference and various other features6 control your third party loginthe majority of websites and apps give