These quizzes and such seem like a lot of fun, but you’re giving them access to a lot of information, and this can be detrimental. That’s how it can show you things like “Who is your zombie apocalypse team?” with photos of your friends! This means that it not only pulls your information into their application, but it can share your FRIENDS’ information with their application, too. (If you have reason to suspect an App of malicious activity, you may also choose to “Report App”.)Īvoid connecting Apps to your Facebook AccountĪnything that requires you to “Log in with Facebook”, whether for a quiz, a funny status generator, etc., is connecting to your account. Scroll down to the very bottom of the App page and tap “Remove App”. You may choose to disable this option as well, since this allows your friends to share information about you with some applications.)ĥ) From the listing of Apps, you can see which apps are “Sharing with Public”, “Sharing with Friends”, etc… Select the App you want to remove by tapping on it.Ħ) Once you’ve selected an App, you can see everything that the App has permission to do. (Also of note on this screen is the “Apps others use” option. Tap “Account Settings”.ģ) Scroll down through all of the Account Settings to find and tap “Apps”.Ĥ) On the Apps screen, tap the “Logged in with Facebook” button to see which apps are connected. Scroll down through all the options and then tap “Settings”.Ģ) Another menu will appear. This will log you out of the apps and remove their ability to post on your behalf.ġ) While logged in to the Facebook App on your mobile device, tap the “More” icon in the bottom menu bar. REMOVE all unwanted/unknown apps connected to your account by clicking the X on the right side of each one. You can also see what each App has permission to do (post for you publicly, post just to your friends, not post at all, etc.).ģ) Hover over an app to see the option to remove it. Once in the Apps screen you can see all the Apps connected to your account. Remove Unwanted Apps from your Facebook Account DESKTOP versionġ) While logged in to Facebook, view Facebook Account Settings by clicking the DOWN arrow in the top right corner, and select Settings from the drop-down menu.Ģ) Click “ Apps” in the settings menu on the left:
If this is the case, the fix for it is to remove those apps from your Facebook account.
These apps include quiz sites, “What’s my personality type?” site, etc… I haven’t seen these specific things mentioned, myself, but they are likely being caused by 3rd party apps that those accounts are connected to through Facebook. There have been several postings indicating that and liked things like this: How having sex activities can improve your health. These articles are sexual in nature, and there are some other ones about re-incarnation and other stuff. In the last 2 days I’ve been notified several times by friends that Facebook seems to be liking things for them, things that they themselves did not like, post, or even see.įacebook says I’ve been liking a lot of different articles, and I just want to say that I’m not the one liking these things. I didn’t like that, but Facebook says I did!