How to Lock Facebook Profile on Android and iPhone?

Facebook Android and iOS applications allow you to easy to lock your profile from stalkers. Here’s a step-by-step guide for locking Facebook profile:

1. Open the Facebook app and tap on your Profile
2. Now tap on the three-dot menu next to the ‘Add to Story’ section.
3. Here, you will find the ‘Lock Profile’ option. Tap on it and you will be taken to the Lock Profile page.
4. Tap on the ‘Lock Your Profile’ button to confirm.

With this, your Facebook Profile is now locked. You can also choose to unlock it by going through the similar steps mentioned above.

How to Lock Facebook Profile on Website

You can also lock your profile by going to Facebook from your desktop browser. All you need to do is follow these steps:

1. Type facebook.com on your browser and log into your account.
2. Click on your Profile to open it.
3. There you will see the three-dot menu. Tap on it and go to the Lock Profile option.
4. There will be a pop-up message showing you locking your profile works and comes with the Lock Your Profile button at the bottom. Click on it to lock your profile.

5. How to Unlock Your Facebook Profile?

6. Facebook also gives you an option to unlock your profile whenever you want. All you need to do this follow these steps:

   1. Go to the Facebook application on your mobile or facebook.com on your desktop browser.
   2. Click on your Profile section and click on the three-dot menu.
   3. There, you will find Unlock Profile option. Click on it and you will see a pop-up message. Click on Unlock Profile.

   What happens to profile pictures, cover photos and feature photos when the profile is locked?

   Whenever a user locks his/her Facebook profile, only those who are in the friends will be able to tap on the pictures to view them. People who are not on the friends’ list will see a smaller version of the profile picture and cover photo. However, the current profile pictures and cover photos will be visible to everyone, though they cannot open them. Moreover, only friends will be able to tag, comment or like on the profile or cover photo.

   What happens to posts, photos, albums, and more once the Facebook profile is locked?

   When the Facebook profile is locked, all the profile posts, photos, albums, and stories will be only visible to their friends. One can no longer make Public posts from their profile. Same goes with photos, albums, and stories.

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How to download your Facebook account (v2) ? How to backup your full Facebook account data onto your computer ?

Do you have memorial Albums on your Facebook ? Do you write quality Notes and good articles ? Do you upload rare Videos to your Facebook ? Do you ever wonder how to archive your Facebook Messages ?
Here's the answer; download your backup of Photos, Videos & full HTML version of your Facebook data including your Wall Posts & Chat conversations.

Here are the steps (updated for new Facebook Account Settings interface)

From the top right Account Menu, go to Account Settings

Press Download a copy of your Facebook data. at the bottom of the page.

Press the button  Start My Archive 

Confirm this by pressing  Start My Archive 

Then  Okay 

Once you receive an email saying that your download is ready, go to Account Settings again, or follow the link in your email

Press Download a copy of your Facebook data. again.

Type in your password to verify it's your account

And now download your Archive in ZIP file

Hope you make a good use of this...

دي أول بوست أكتبها بالعربي، والسبب إني فكرت في حاجة كدا وأنا بحط بوست بدري عن خاصية جديدة في الفيسبوك لما تعمل مشاركة لرابط. قبل ما أكتب البوست عملت بحث على النت عشان أتأكد إن أنا الوحيد اللي كاتب عنها وفعلا ملقتش حد لحق يكتب قبلي، كنت بدور طبعا بالانجليزي مش بالعربي.
لما عملت البحث فكرت في حاجة.. كل المواضيع التانية اللي أنا كتبت عنها تقريبا لقيت لها مقالات مماثلة بالانجليزي. انا لما فكرت في الأول في البلوج دي فكرت فيها على انها يكون لها قراء من كل حتة عشان كدا اخترت الانجليزي باعتباره أكتر لغة منتشرة على الانترنت. لكني دلوقتي لقيت اني لو عملتها عربي هتكون أحسن عشان ساعتها هكون بكتب في محتوى محدش كتب فيه قبلي وهي مش بس مجرد أخبار الفيس بوك التقنية.. لأ وكمان الحاجات اللي في الموقع نفسه من تغييرات وبرامج وحاجات مهمة للمستخدمين.. انتو ايه رأيكم ؟
أهتم بمحتوى عربي وأكتفي بالقراء العرب؟ ولا أخليه انجليزي ومش مهم التفرد؟
عملت تصويت في شمال الموقع قول رأيك فيه وتحب تقرأ ايه هنا ؟

When I was trying to share a link this morning, that was posted on a group wall, i was surprised with the new sharing options that Facebook added to the popup window.. Facebook made it easier for you to share links, video or photo or normal content with friends, so you don't have to go to friend's profile or a group to share the link... Now you can do all this with One-Click !
Take a look at the images I took for the sharing window

As you can see, the design was modified to get two drop down lists at the top, one for "where to share" and one for "sharing visibility"

Here are the new option to share links:
  - On your own wall
  - On a friend's wall
  - In a group
  - In a private message

Here are the new security options for the visibility of the link:
  - Everyone
  - Friends of Friends and Networks
  - Friends and Networks
  - Friends of Friends
  - Friends Only
  - Customize

As you can see, now it's easier with full-options to share links. I would go vote for this new add, as I was frustrated with the last change they are making to old Groups.. What do you think ?

Facebook will begin archiving all groups created using the older format, in a push to get everyone onto the newer version of the feature.
Some group owners are seeing the following message at the top of the group admin page:

Over the next few months, Facebook will be archiving all groups created using the old groups format. Moving forward, you can create groups using the new groups format, which makes it easy to share with the important groups in your life.

Facebook offers pretty thorough guidance about the forthcoming archiving and upgrades in the site’s help section, fleshed out in three different questions.
The site explains that old groups that get archived will automatically also become available in the new group format. Most of the associated content will remain available in the upgraded version, with some notable exceptions.
The things that won’t make it over are:

- Recent news
- Group officer titles
- The information box under the old group picture
- The group network
- The members of your old group.

Yup, you’ll have to redo your membership list in the new group if you wait for Facebook to do the archive and upgrade for you. The archived version will include:

- Group photos and wall posts
- Group discussion threads, which become wall posts
- The group description, which can be found at the top of the page when you click “see all” members in the new group

Facebook recommends that save backups of their group content before the archiving. Plus, the site wants all businesses using groups to promote themselves to switch to pages instead.
At some point, a link saying “upgrade this group” may appear at the top of the owner’s admin screen — only for old groups, of course. Ones created in the new format won’t go through any of this. And groups that have less activity might not see an upgrade prompt at all.
For now, the messages that readers have said they are seeing come as friendly early alerts, which we appreciate. Putting the word out early seems like a wise move, based on how people reacted to recent upgrades of profiles and pages.
Readers, what do you think about the way Facebook is handling the eventual phasing out of the old groups format?

MEMPHIS, TN - (WMC TV) - It's amazing what a punk in his momma's basement can do with Photoshop.

E-mails are pouring in from folks who've received unsolicited Facebook postings promising exclusive access to alleged photos or videos of the raid and assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

Never mind that President Barack Obama announced the government will NOT release the photos or videos.

The postings contain breathless language about how the footage is "insane" or "crazy." One even includes an alleged picture of Bin Laden's lifeless face -- with the curveball that it came from the BBC, the British news agency.

They're all fake !! The real curveball is what will happen if you click on them or open any of their attachments.

"Just the act of clicking on it can download a virus to your computer and then who knows what they can do with a virus or some other sort of malware," said Randy Hutchinson, President/CEO of the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. "In some cases, they may be asking you to provide some sort of information on the web site you click to, and then they're going to use that to commit some sort of identity theft."

If one of these Bin Laden scams crosses your Facebook page, for goodness sake, do not click on it.

Destroy it -- like we did Bin Laden.

If you ever receive an unsolicited Facebook posting with photos or video allegedly from a news source, STOP & SEARCH THE NEWS SOURCE.

If it says it came from the BBC, don't take it at its word. Go to the BBC's site and search for the content. If you can't find it, you'll know why not.

NEVER CLICK ON UNSOLICITED LINKS, even if they appear to be sent by one of your Facebook or Twitter friends. Chances are, someone hijacked your friend's account to make it look like your friend sent the links.

BEWARE CELEBRATION INVITATIONS ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. Get Tweeted to attend a "Bin Laden is Dead" party? Don't reply! It's bait to unlock your account.

Unless your buddies are Woodward and Bernstein, they're not going to blow the lid off of the secret Bin Laden photos or video.

For more guidance on these types of scams, click here for the BBB's warning: http://www.bbb.org/us/article/bbb-warns-of-online-scams-in-the-wake-of-osamas-death-27130.

Copyright 2011 WMC-TV. All rights reserved.

As an Internet powerhouse, Facebook is now using its girth and influence to try to get a bite out of the daily deals market. With established leaders like Groupon and LivingSocial, Facebook faces fierce competition, but is aiming to provide a differentiated product offering that stays consistent with Facebook's core value of bringing people together. Unlike some of its competitors, who focus on deep discounts, Facebook Deals will focus on group activities that bring people together and the process of sharing them.

The difference between Facebook and other companies who are taking initiatives to establish this trend of "deals" is that Facebook has a much bigger membership base than its competitors. According to Mashable.com, LivingSocial has a membership base of 28 million plus users and Groupon reaches 70 million plus users.

Facebook Deals will begin testing in the San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin and Dallas areas. After opting to receive deals, users in these locations will have a chance to see a list of discounts available in their communities via a link on the left side of their Facebook pages.

Emily C. White, director of local at Facebook, wrote in a recent company blog post that following the success of the trial in these five major cities, Facebook plans to expand Deals to other cities. Deals launched with discounts on wine tastings in Napa Valley, restaurants and children's sleepovers at the California Academy of Sciences.

While Groupon offers many popular individual pampering services, such as massages and yoga classes, White shared a different strategic edge that Facebook plans to take with Deals. "While many Deals on Facebook offer discounts," White said, "it's more important to us that you find interesting experiences around you to do with friends."

Benny Evangelista, a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, shared his insight on Facebook's potential in this market. "With Deals on Facebook," Evangelista said, "the Palo Alto firm could further tap lucrative local advertising revenues using the hot trend popularized by firms like Groupon, which offer daily deals with often deep discount prices for everything from yogurt to wine country excursions."

Ever since Groupon allegedly rejected an offer from Google to buy the company for $6 billion, other websites have jumped into the market, smelling an opportunity for profit. Google even launched its own coupon website, Google Offers. There is now an abundance of websites trying to get a piece of the pie by offering a different kind of twist on the idea of "social shopping."

Because Facebook has so many users, competitors realize its potential to gain market share. The success of these daily deals sites relies on loyal clientele to share the discounts with their friends, a department in which Facebook has an edge with more than 600 million active users.

While daily deals websites rely on their members sharing deals with friends, Debra Aho Williamson, principal social media marketing analyst for the research firm eMarketer Inc., explained to the San Francisco Chronicle why she believes Facebook might have an edge in the deals market. "It weaves the sharing and buying of deals into its social networking platform," Williamson said.

Despite being such a large company, Facebook must find ways to tap into the local scene, and Deals may be the perfect way to do that. "What Facebook is tapping into is the power of friends' recommendations," Williamson said. "Facebook has been wanting to get more into the local markets. Local advertising is really tough to crack if you're a national company."

While Groupon forces members to log in to view a daily deal, Facebook can take advantage of the fact that they don't have to woo customers in; there's already significant traffic to the website regardless of what they choose to do with Deals. This means that the users who have opted in will be exposed to Deals offerings even when not seeking out the service. Facebook also has a competitive advantage with access to user information. User information can be used to direct deals to users their interests. As a marketing tool, this could be extremely effective.

Although Facebook has garnered a lot of attention by entering the daily deals market, its status as a powerhouse company doesn't necessarily equate to success. Twitter made an attempt to enter the daily deals market with its Earlybird Offers last year, but stopped it just two months after launching. Twitter's failed entry shows that no matter how much influence a company has in one market, this does not directly translate to success in other markets. One can't jump to conclusions like, "The early bird always gets the worm"; in Twitter's case, the Earlybird never took flight.