If you're having problems with your Facebook notices recently, i.e. obtaining updates and groups from individuals you do not understand, after that you're not the only one-- great deals of individuals began complaining regarding it because last Sunday, June 19. Luckily, I've found a remedy to it. Details after the jump.
Facebook Notifications Not Working
I was doing my typical morning regimen last Sunday (June 19) when I found something strange regarding my Facebook account: I'm obtaining notices from individuals I do not recognize. Extra especially, I'm getting 'suches as' and comments from condition updates and links that I didn't upload, as well as updates from groups I did not sign up with.
The Solution
This obtained me to thinking about my Facebook setups, and also hit upon the remedy just as I was surfing mine: it's a problem with exactly how my Account Security was established. * headpalm *.
I promptly uploaded a service to my Posterous as well as currently I'm duplicating it below for all to see (with [modifies]:
1. Go to Account Settings >> Account Task.
2. From the Account Task area, you'll locate that the different computer systems and also places that are currently accessing your FB account. [You can see this from the tab 'Also Energetic'. It should be showing places as well as tools that you are not aware of.]
3. End each of the sessions [on 'Also Energetic'] by clicking the 'End' [button]
4. After that make sure to examine 'Secure Browsing' (so you'll be on HTTPS, far more safe) and also 'Login Notifications' (so you'll be alerted if somebody else is logging on your account.) [Just said, examining these options will make accessing your Facebook account extra protected.]
5. After adhering to these steps, you should get this:.
Be sure to alter your passwords after. Keep in mind additionally that with these settings, you need to attest each and every device that will certainly access your account. That turns up in a screen when you attempt to access your account through your mobile devices.
Last Ideas.
[Updated June 29, 2011] I recognize there are still secrets to be resolved however the culprit below truly is, well, my negligence: I must have inspected those protection setups prior to. With all the present goings-on concerning hacking and such, I need to have double-checked my accounts so that I might least shield them from breach. I really don't understand for certain it this was related keeping that, yet a minimum of I could rest simple that I've done something about it.
