The new Account center of Facebook, a section that will reach the mobile applications of Facebook, Instagram and Messenger will help to improve the management of different aspects that affect what they have called connected experiences. For example, the way in which the content published on one or more platforms is replicated or other aspects such as the payment data associated with the Facebook Pay service. We tell you what you should know if you use their platforms.
What is Facebook Account Center
Account center It is a tool that will be gradually deployed in the different applications owned by Facebook. It seeks to facilitate the management of all those aspects that interest users with a user account on Facebook, Instagram and/or Messenger.
In this way, from a single place you can control connected experiences and avoid having to repetitively enter personal data or go from one platform to another to publish the same content.
Yes, options that are partly already available, but their settings are not synchronized. So that for certain actions you would have to go around changing each app individually. To which it can be a bit cumbersome depending on the type of user or profile.
Controls and settings available in Account Center
If you decide to use Account center You will have access to different options that facilitate the control of the connected experiences. Although it is also true that depending on the country where you are, you may or may not have certain features enabled. For example, Facebook Pay which for now will only be available to US users and later, not in this first display of the new section.
Therefore, leaving that detail of Facebook Pay, which will be useful if you pay through the service and do not want to enter card data over and over again to configure each application, these are the controls that all users of Facebook will access. Facebook services and its new Account Center.
To begin with, from the Account Center you can activate or deactivate any connected experience between the different Facebook social networks. Thus being able to control where the stories and posts that you do from a platform. For example, post a story on Instagram and have it also seen on Facebook or vice versa.
He too single sign-on, an option that allows an easier start and recovery of accounts or other adjustments such as synchronizing your profile information or the photograph that you will use to show yourself to other users.
This last option is very interesting because the possibility of using different profile names is still offered if you wish, but by activating this option you can save time if you are present on several networks. An ideal feature for brands, influencer accounts, etc. And if by any chance it stops interesting, you just have to deactivate the automatic synchronization.
Account Center and Privacy
If you wonder how Account Center affects privacy of your data, the answer is that it does not affect anything. Or rather, it doesn't matter if you synchronize your accounts and settings, automate the publication of content, etc., because Facebook will continue to collect the same data as it is right now and that you can check on your Facebook privacy website.
Therefore, the good and bad that platforms such as Instagram, Facebook or Messenger can bring will remain the same.