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How to Remove or Delete Facebook Applications

How to Remove or Delete Facebook Applications

With so many malicious apps(applications) on Facebook, you may have unknowingly installed or given these applications access to your Facebook account. These malicious applications can post links on your Facebook Wall or your friends' Facebook Walls to malicious websites that can infect your computer and steal your username, password, credit card, and other personal information.

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Here is an easy way to view all your Facebook applications and remove the ones that you are not familiar with:

  1. Ensure that you are logged into your Facebook account.
  2. Click here to go to your Facebook account settings

    The link will take you to the Facebook application settings page and list all the applications that you have given access to your account (see image below). If you are not logged into Facebook, you will be redirected to the login page; just login to continue.

    Facebook Application Settings

  3. Move your mouse over the application and click the "X" or "Remove" button when it appears, to delete the application (see image above). Once the application is removed, it will not have access to your Facebook account anymore.

Remember that malicious applications can use popular names like “YouTube”, “CNN”, and “MSN” to trick you into believing that they are legitimate.

I recommend that you remove all the applications if you are not sure which ones are legitimate.

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Jul 23, 2018 at 8:17 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

I have message “Your Account is Temporarily Locked” and that is the only page I get if I go to FB.com or my app. I can’t get to anything else. How do I get Facebook people to fix it.

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Jul 23, 2018 at 8:44 PM by
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If your account is also temporarily locked, you must follow the instructions described below to unlock your profile:

On your favorite browser, open www.facebook.com.

On the homepage that opens up, input account details to login.

On the security page that opens up, select Get help from friends.

On the trusted contacts page that opens up, select few friends who you know in person and who are directly in contact with you.

Once done, click on Continue.

Once you do so, Facebook will send a security code to all the friends who you have just selected.

After this, your task will be to contact those friends, and request them to send you the code that they have received from Facebook.

Once you gather all the codes from your friends, you can use the code to unlock your Facebook account.

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Jan 29, 2017 at 5:43 AM by
How to Remove or Delete Facebook Applications
an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

What about man putting picture of men have kids on facebook that they can see and putting thing on facebook about his s*x thing that he has done and kids are on his facebook page horrible picture of men bits.

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Dec 15, 2016 at 7:23 AM by
How to Remove or Delete Facebook Applications
an anonymous user from: Kenora District, Ontario, Canada

By accident I hit on "I hate trudeau & I smoke w**d " how do I get them off my Facebook page?

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Dec 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM by
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Click here for instructions.

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Sep 15, 2016 at 2:07 AM by
How to Remove or Delete Facebook Applications
an anonymous user from: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

What is the thing about winning things like motor cars or other stuff on Facebook? Is that legal?

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