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The free secure.me service analyzes your Facebook profile and reports on any problems it finds, including too-public information and negative or harmful posts by your or your friends.

secure.me : Secure.me Summary

The secure.me summary page graphs recent Facebook usage and summarizes the scanner's findings for problems in privacy, profile data, and your network of friends.

secure.me : Scanning Now

During secure.me's manual scan, the display scrolls a picture-wall composed from the Facebook thumbnail images of all your friends.

secure.me : Photos

As part of the secure.me report you can view all photos uploaded to by scanned account and photos uploaded by friends, with an option to highlight photos of the account owner.

secure.me : Biometric Face Recognition

To enable the biometric face recognition feature you feed in a number of photos of yourself, identifying the correct person in the photo if necessary. Thereafter, secure.me can spot photos of you even when they're not tagged.

secure.me : Activities Summary

The summary of all Facebook activities may be more useful if you're using secure.me to track your child's Facebook activity than if you're using it to protect your own account.

secure.me : Privacy Analysis

Secure.me's privacy analysis identifies personal information that might be too visible in your profile. For example, posting your political affiliation "could affect your reputation."

secure.me : Privacy Details

Clicking on a warning item in the privacy analysis page gets a details explanation of why the item in question might be a problem and what you could do to enhance your privacy.

secure.me : Profile Analysis

On the profile analysis page you can view questionable posts, see a breakdown of where posts on your page come from, and view a word cloud of trending topics. There's also a meter that reflects your profile mood, from negative to positive.

secure.me : Profile Mood

Clicking the profile mood meter gets a more detailed explanation, including actions you can take to improve your overall profile mood.

secure.me : Network Analysis

On the network analysis page you can check questionable posts by friends, view a word cloud of trending topics in their posts, and check the mood of your friend network.

secure.me : Questionable Posts

In addition to flagging dangerous links, secure.me will flag posts with offensive or risky language, highlighting the problem words and phrases.

secure.me : Automatic Monitoring

By enabling automatic monitoring you allow secure.me to continuously update its scanned information. If you don't turn this feature on you'll want to manually run a scan at least once per week.

secure.me : Switch Between Features

Secure.me offers three views, the main Facebook security page, a page for notification settings, and a dashboard that lists all the Facebook accounts you're monitoring.

secure.me : Notification Settings

You can see from the notifications page that eventually you'll be able to set daily, weekly, or immediate email notifications in general, or use different notifications for different types of events. At present, though, you're limited to a weekly report.

secure.me : Notification Report

The emailed notification report lists all recent items that might require your attention. Clicking any item opens it in the browser for more detail.

secure.me : Dashboard

You can set secure.me to monitor multiple accounts, perhaps your own and your child's. The dashboard lists all tracked accounts.