Facebook announced a new security feature that will allow users to check if they are logged into their accounts on a different computer and log out of it remotely.
This feature will enhance user control over their accounts and curb abuse of Facebook accounts as many people tend to forget to log off after using Facebook through friends cell phones and laptops or even on public computers. Doing so is risky especially on public computers, because users leave their accounts open for abuse by whoever happens to visit Facebook next on that system.
This new security feature, as usual, will be rolled out gradually and once live, users will be able to access it through the “Account Security” section of the ‘Account Settings’ page. Users will be able to see what devices are logged into their account and remotely log off their active accounts.
(Source: Facebook)
Facebook says in a blog post:
There, you’ll see all of your active sessions along with information about each one. That information includes the login time, device name if you’ve previously named it through our login notifications feature, the approximate location of the login based on IP address, and browser and operating system.
In the unlikely case that someone accesses your account without your permission, you can shut down the unauthorized login before resetting your password and taking other steps to secure your account and computer.
Stay tuned for more news on this new security feature from Facebook.
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Will someone please tell me exactly where to go and tell me what to do to remove this remote logout from my account. Yes!!!! it is safe but, I get so frustrated that this is considered as time consuming to meeeeeeeeeee… I know this sounds so silly but, from time to time I do ask family members to log into my account then, they come back saying they don’t know what to do because they don’t understand that all they have to do is type in my name or where ever they are using the computer. I didn’t really realize what I had done when I got this option many months ago. So, please tell me how to remove this from my security. I sure would appreciate it so much and thank you.