In today`s era the massive online social networking places like Facebook, WeChat and WhatsApp, etc where are different-different working background peoples including students linked/connected to each other through a social networking media, and sharing of our thought, picture, videos with our family and friends. The main motive of this study is to highlight the default privacy setting and security of Facebook is breach due to the fake account, fake news and third parties on these sites. Facebook is a virtual online meeting space for the world where a huge volume of information is shared. Every second user of Facebook doesn`t have any knowledge about privacy setting. Privacy matter is strongly related to third parties to access Facebook user information. The risk with this platform is that it may fall within the wrong hands and people become a victim of hacking, identify theft, cyberstalking, child soliciting, and Abuse, etc.

Social media, Hacking, Facebook, Fake Account, cyberstalking

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