Our Facebook accounts can all be hacked. To avoid this potentially catastrophic situation, it is possible to check the connections to your Facebook account. This consists of checking whether other people have access to your account.
The social network Facebook wants optimal security for its uses. He therefore provided us with many features. One of them is to check the last devices connected to your account. The connection information is as follows:
- The nature of the device used to connect
- the exact time of the connection to the Facebook account
- the approximate location when connecting
This data will allow you to be sure that you are the only user of your account. If you have any doubts about a connection, you can also take some security measures. Among other things, you can change your account password. We wrote an article on how to secure your Facebook account.
Consult the list of connections on your Facebook account
- Please log in to your Facebook account by inserting your login and password
- Go to the »settings and confidentiality« by clicking on the small arrow at the top right
- Then you have to go to the ” settings “. You can get there from this link: facebook settings
- In the new page, on the left of your screen, please click on » Security and Connection “
- There you are. To view all connections to his Facebook account, please click » see more ” in category ” your connections “. This will display the list of devices recently connected to your Facebook account.
Explanation of the login data on Facebook account
On each line we have the following information:
- The name of the device or the nature of the device. So you will know immediately if this is the device you are using.
- the city of connection to your account
- The country of connection
- the ip address of the connection. If you are using a web browser from a computer, you display it by hovering over the place of connection.
- The nature of the web browser used or the mobile application (Messenger, Facebook application)
- Finally, you have the date and time of connection to your account.
Each connection is represented by a computer or telephone icon or a question mark. In the latter case, the device from which the connection is made is not identified.
If you don’t recognize a device, you can disconnect it. To do this, you need to click on the three dots to the right of each row. Then you click on »Logout«.
Check connections from the mobile app
If you are logged into your account from the native Facebook application, here’s how to check your Facebook account connections.
- Open the application and go to » settings and privacy “
- Then go to ” Settings “
- Finally, please click on » security and connection “. You will find the devices connected to your Facebook account.
What to remember, the security of your facebook account is essential. Take the necessary precautions to protect your account. Change your password regularly. To support us, share this article on your various social networks.
