Facebook is still one of the main targets of spammers, scammers, and cyber criminals to find and fool people.
Average Internet users are still have no idea and have no knowledge of the risk of using social media sites like Facebook. So, if you are not careful enough, you could be the next victim of spam messages, threats messages, deception and bullying.
Bad things that can happen in the real world, also can occur in the cyber world.
It is even more egregious, because the Internet nature that is public and any information can be known by many people in a short time.
Easy Tips To Stop Facebook Spam
Here are 5 tips for you to avoid and reduce / stop Facebook spam
1. Never Write / Show Your Email Address and Phone Number
Never write / show your personal email address and phone number on your Facebook profile. I recommend you to create a special email for business purpose that is separate from your personal email and you can write it on Facebook
The same thing applied to your phone number. You should get a phone number for business purpose that separate from your personal number. But if you only have 1 email and 1 phone number, then I suggest you to NOT write them up.
2. Never Play Any Games With Your Primary Account
Do you play games on Facebook? Yes, I am too. But the more games you are playing, then the more spam from these games are adorning your wall and your message.
In the beginning when you play games, you probably will not feel disturbed for the game's posts and invites that appears in your profile and news feeds. But over time, it would be very annoying and also damaging the look of your profile and news feed. Why? Because these games applications can perform dozens of wall posts and news feed updates per day.
Can you imagine if your friend or family or even your boss saw your profile with full of games posts?Therefore, I suggest you to create another Facebook account with another email address that is separate from your personal one if you want to play some games on Facebook.
Just create a new email in Yahoo or Gmail and register new account on Facebook with that email address. So the spam from games is only on your game account, not on your personal account.
3. Never Confirm Any Suspicious Friend Request
Got many friend requests and about to confirm all? For the known friends, it's ok. But if you don't know the person, do not confirm them yet. I suggest you to view their profile first and do not confirm (or rather choose ignore) if there are any of 2 things below on their account :
- Photo of sexy woman in the profile picture.
Did you know that it is easy for the spammers, scammers and cyber criminals to create dozens of Facebook accounts with photos of sexy women or pictures of women with underwear as bait, so you confirm their friend request?
Did you know that it is easy for the spammers, scammers and cyber criminals to create dozens of Facebook accounts with photos of sexy women or pictures of women with underwear as bait, so you confirm their friend request?
- Little to no information on their profile
Have you ever seen a Facebook profile which only contains "Interested In", "Sex", and "Relationship Status" before you confirm them as your friend?
Have you ever seen a Facebook profile which only contains "Interested In", "Sex", and "Relationship Status" before you confirm them as your friend?
Well, with profile like this, there is a chance that they are spammer. You might want to confirm the friend request to see their full info. If you still see the same or no additional info on the profile, just click "Unfriend" at the bottom of left sidebar to prevent any unwanted things.
4. Change Your Privacy Settings
If you have not ever change it, I suggest you to do it immediately, so you can control what and who can access certain information. This is how to change Facebook privacy setting
5. Leave Any Groups, Remove Any Apps, and Unlike Any Fan Page That Send You Spam.
If you get a lot of spam on the wall and / or in inbox, investigate whether the spam is from groups, fan pages or apps. If a group or a fan page send messages or did many wall posts that do not fit with the topic (ie: fan page about wedding, but you are sent a message about the MLM), then most likely it's a spammer.
Leave any groups, remove any apps, and unlike any fan page that send you spam.
1. Go to Account - Privacy Settings.
At the bottom left there's section named "Apps and Websites". Click "Edit your Settings", then click "Edit Settings" under the "Apps you use." Remove anything that you think spammy.
At the bottom left there's section named "Apps and Websites". Click "Edit your Settings", then click "Edit Settings" under the "Apps you use." Remove anything that you think spammy.
If this is your main account, then you might want to consider remove any games that send you a lot of spam. But it's should be better to remove all games in your main account and do tips #2 above.
2. Go to Account - Edit Friends and leave any group that send you spam.
3. Finally, go to your profile and look at "Activities and Interests" section. Review all things in there. All fan page you like is in "Other". So if you think there is any spammy fan page, then just unlike it.
Conclusion
You may be asked whether the above 5 tips to stop Facebook spam are effective? Well, it is certain that the 5 tips above at most can reduce Facebook spam on your main account up to 70%. But spam is always there and it's almost impossible to eliminate them 100%.
Well if you know any other ways, please drop your comment below and I will add / update my tips and give you a credit. Thank you 
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