Protect Your Facebook Fanpage From Hackers

Feb. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- You can protect your Facebook Fanpage from being hacked.  Although it does not stop the page from being hacked it will allow you to reclaim your administrator rights to the page when the hackers have deleted you.  It is important to make sure your page is protected in this way because it is extremely difficult to get anyone at Facebook to return the page to their rightful owners.  We’ve created a video to walk you through the process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5zp443lek



Steps To Protect Your Facebook Fanpage From Hackers

1. Setup a fake profile on Facebook (use an email address that is not already used for Facebook)
2. Log out of the fake account and login to your Facebook account that has administrator privileges on the page or pages that you would like to protect.
3. Click the ‘Account’ Button in the upper right of the screen.
4. Click on ‘Use Facebook As Page’ option.
5. Click ‘Switch’ next the the Fanpage that you would like to protect.
6. Click ‘Edit Page’ button on the right side of the screen.
7. On the left side of the next screen click ‘Manage Admins.’
8. In the ‘Specify an email address’ box enter the email of the fake account you created in step one and click ‘Save Changes.’
9. Log out of Facebook and then Log in as the fake account.
10. You should have received notice that you were made an admin of the fanpage.
11. Under ‘Account’ at the top right corner click ‘Account Settings.’
12. Under ‘My Account’ & ‘Settings’ go to Deactivate Account and click ‘deactivate.’
13. Walk through the deactivation process and now your fake profile will be hidden and will not show as an administrator on the protected page.
14. To reactivate the account all you have to do is login with the same email and password that you used to set up the account.
15. If your Page was hacked: Reactivate fake profile, type the name of the page in the search bar, and then remove the hacker as administrator for the page. (And report them to Facebook).
16. You can use your fake account to protect multiple pages, just make sure the account is deactivated to protect the page!

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