Secure your Social Media With 2FA
We all carry identification of one kind or another to prove that we are who we say we are. How do we prove that when we are online? A password isn’t enough, they’re the fake ID’s of our time. Now you need multi factor authentication (2FA) to prove your online identity. While 2FA seems daunting, it really isn’t. In fact, it’s pretty easy to secure your social media with 2FA. This also ensures a baseline level of cybersecurity in your daily life.
Securing Facebook
The example we are going to use is Facebook, but most platforms will work in a similar fashion.
- Find the menu of your app, website, and get into the settings.
- On Facebook, it’s the black downward-pointing arrow.
- Then click on Settings.
- From here, on the upper left side of your screen, find Security and Login.
- Click that and scroll down until you find Two Factor Authentication.
- Click on the edit button on the right side to start the process of turning it on.
Facebook will ask you to decide which method you’d like to use for your 2 Factor Authentication. If you’re already using Microsoft/Google Authenticator or Duo, you can choose that option. Microsoft and Google Authenticators are free apps, and you can download them from the Play Store or App Store. You can also use the plain old SMS option, but that is no longer a best practice.
If you have chosen the App option, you’ll enroll your device by scanning a QR code. The app will issue you a code, which you plug into Facebook, and you’re secured. If you opted for SMS, they SMS you a code that you typed in.
Either way you have secured your social media with 2FA. Whichever method you decide on, you’re now much safer from hackers on Social Media. Hopefully, today will be the last time I see someone post that they have been hacked.
