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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More Traffic! Could You Use Some?


Application chosen for this post are based on my personal view of their usefulness and my personal usage, so be sure to experiment as nothing should be taken for granted! Original Source

Notes

Notes is a superb application and one of the absolutely MUST have if you write to a blog or two, And here is the reason why:

1. It allows you to basically subscribe to your own RSS Feed and will automatically import it to your profile each time a new post was made!
2. Every time a new post imported as Note – all your friends will get a notification that a new status update is made on your profile – increase your branding!




Blog Networks

Blog Networks application allows you to claim your own blog and have it appear within the main Blog Networks interface. But how and where you will appear directly depends on your popularity!

More people subscribe to your blog – more popular it is seen and higher position you can get. Subscribing to blogs is very simple and it ads them to your profile. See image below and if you like my blog - Subscribe To My Blog!

Blogvote

Blogvote is a very simple application that does one thing – allows people to vote on blogs. Obviously your blog popularity will be determined by the score and probably number of votes. So – do vote, good or bad, either way appreciated!






Twitter

Twitter application is great in one perspective – it ties very popular micro-blog network that is currently all the rage and allows you to post status update directly from Twitter. Basically – every time you make an update in Twitter – it will be imported as your new status in Facebook and also gives you an opportunity to post directly from Facebook to the Twitter.

Friend Feed

Friend Feed is a swiss army knife of the the aggregation. Once you have setup your profile under the Friend Feed service properly – you can aggregate your actions and content from multiple sources into one location. And facebook app allows you t import all of that into your Facebook Profile!

Better yet, it allows you to see all the actions of your friends! In one single location, as long as they took the time to configure their profile. This is an app that will become the future of social interaction!

Talk about visibility! See an example below





Ping.fm

Ping.fm application allows you to do actions such as status update from Ping.fm application. This one is a MUST for every WordPress blogger and I have already explained why and how in my post on social influence and will not be repeating myself.

All I can add here is that by not using this service you are loosing out!



SubmbleUpon

And last but by no means least is StumbleUpon app. Every action you take via Stumble Upon bar is posted to your Facebook profile and shared with your friends! As you can see below – many of my own friends using this tool and falling behind is simply not an option.

StumbleUpon has a potential of generating to your blog massive amounts of traffic when you don’t abuse the system and Facebook app simplifies the process!



 Conclusion

As I have stated in the beginning of this post – it is not mean to be an All Inclusive list of the Facebook Applications but rather those that help you as a blogger to get traffic and recognition and have proven to work for me – in one way or another.

And that reason is what makes them in my opinion 7 Facebook Apps Every Blogger Must Have