By Felix Ker on May 23, 2010

If you haven’t read about the new security feature of facebook, you can actually have a feature turned on and you will be updated when someone, somewhere logs into your facebook account. Here’s the steps:

  1. Login to your account using the actual web. Not the mobile or touch site.
  2. On the top-right corner, click on the “Account” drop down and go into “Account Settings”
  3. Scroll down till you see “Account Security” and click on it to show options.
  4. Switch “Would you like to receive notifications for logins from new devices?” to “Yes” and Save.

So when ever some strangers log into your facebook, you will get an email notifying you of this activity. Thus it’s not advisible to have the same password for your email and facebook.

Overly secure? Facebook couldn’t recognize that I was using the same computer, one week later.

Have you encountered any problems with this feature?

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