{"id":12372,"date":"2010-09-07T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-adds-remote-logout\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:49","slug":"facebook-adds-remote-logout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-adds-remote-logout\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adds remote logout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/5-reasons-why-i-deleted-my-facebook-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom&#8217;s bailed out<\/a>, lots of us are still dedicated Facebook users. There&#8217;s nothing worse, however, than having a quick peek at your news feed from a friend&#8217;s computer only to realize 5 hours later that you never logged out. Even though most friends aren&#8217;t the malicious type, we&#8217;ve all seen enough Facebook fails to know that logging out is VERY important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/07-09-2010-10-44-03.png\" alt=\"07-09-2010-10-44-03.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be pleased to hear, then, that Facebook has added a handy <strong>remote logout feature<\/strong> for all users. Just head over to <strong>Settings &gt; Account Settings &gt; Account Security<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll see a new option: <strong>Account Activity<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re logged in on more than one computer, you&#8217;ll see the evidence here. You should be able to judge by the location and device type what login you are looking at, and if your computers have names, they&#8217;ll be extra easy to identify. If you see a login that&#8217;s not what you want or expect, hit <strong>end activity<\/strong> and your Facebook account will be safe from any &#8220;hilarious&#8221; jokes your friends can throw at you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Tom&#8217;s bailed out, lots of us are still dedicated Facebook users. There&#8217;s nothing worse, however, than having a quick peek at your news feed from a friend&#8217;s computer only to realize 5 hours later that you never logged out. Even though most friends aren&#8217;t the malicious type, we&#8217;ve all seen enough Facebook fails &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-adds-remote-logout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook adds remote logout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334768,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions\/334768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}