Remove Apps That Can Access Your Facebook Information
We all are using Facebook since many years. The Social Media platform has expanded so much in past years that you are not even aware of. Due to which, un-knowingly you have shared so much of your personal information over the internet. I am sure that you much have logged into external apps and services using Facebook credentials which you might not be aware of.
We are so much busy in our day to day life that we ignore such things and let our personal information be on Internet. Consequently, these apps keep on extracting our personal information for their own use.
However, there's a way you could keep a track of all the apps that use your Facebook account details. There is a dedicated section in Facebook's settings page that lists all the apps that you have logged in to, ever since creating the account. From the same page, you can also remove these apps from accessing Facebook account information.
Lets see how this works:
Also, from the 'Apps' page, you can also choose not to receive notification alerts from games and apps. The option is switched on by default. Turning this off puts an end to all the notifications from those annoying apps and games.
For a more granular control, you can choose what information the apps get access to. You simply need to tap to select/deselect the categories. Some of the categories included are Bio, Birthday, Family and relationships, Interested in, Hometown, Current location and more.
If you think this won't affect your privacy, it's worth pointing out that when tapping on the 'Apps' section, Facebook clearly mentions on top saying, "On Facebook, your name, profile picture, cover photo, gender, networks, username and userID are always publicly available to both people and apps."
Cheers!!!
We are so much busy in our day to day life that we ignore such things and let our personal information be on Internet. Consequently, these apps keep on extracting our personal information for their own use.
However, there's a way you could keep a track of all the apps that use your Facebook account details. There is a dedicated section in Facebook's settings page that lists all the apps that you have logged in to, ever since creating the account. From the same page, you can also remove these apps from accessing Facebook account information.
Lets see how this works:
- Log in to your Facebook app and head to Account Setting.
- Click on the Apps option.
- Now, tap on 'Logged in with Facebook' option and a list of all the apps that have access to Facebook will appear right there.
Also, from the 'Apps' page, you can also choose not to receive notification alerts from games and apps. The option is switched on by default. Turning this off puts an end to all the notifications from those annoying apps and games.
For a more granular control, you can choose what information the apps get access to. You simply need to tap to select/deselect the categories. Some of the categories included are Bio, Birthday, Family and relationships, Interested in, Hometown, Current location and more.
If you think this won't affect your privacy, it's worth pointing out that when tapping on the 'Apps' section, Facebook clearly mentions on top saying, "On Facebook, your name, profile picture, cover photo, gender, networks, username and userID are always publicly available to both people and apps."
Cheers!!!
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