The new Facebook Account Center , 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 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 repeatedly 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 for certain actions you would have to change in each app individually. Which 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 the Account Center, you will have access to different options that facilitate the control of connected experiences. Although it is also true that depending on the country where you are you may or may not have certain features enabled. Like, for example, Facebook Pay, which for now will only be available to users in the United States and later, not in this first deployment of the new section.
Therefore, leaving that Facebook Pay detail, which will be useful if you pay through the service and do not want to go around entering card data over and over again to be configured in each application, these are the controls that all users of Facebook services and your 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 publications you make from a platform will be shared. For example, post a story on Instagram and have it also be seen on Facebook or vice versa.
Also single sign-on , an option that allows easier account startup and recovery or other settings such as synchronizing your profile information or the photo that you will use to show yourself to other users.
This last option is very interesting because it continues to offer the possibility of using different profile names if you wish, but activating this option can save time if you are present in 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 the privacy of your data, the answer is that it does not affect anything. Or rather, it does not matter that you synchronize your accounts and settings, automate the publication of content, etc., because Facebook will continue to collect the same data as right now and that you can consult on its Faebook privacy website.
Therefore, the good and the bad that platforms such as Instagram, Facebook or Messenger can contribute will remain the same.