It’s been almost a year since Facebook launched the Picture Guard feature. At first, only Indians had the opportunity to use this feature, but now Facebook has opened the facility in several countries, including Bangladesh. According to Facebook, they have introduced the feature to protect the profile image of the customers. Many people are using this feature in Bangladesh nowadays. However, the reality is that many people are using it only to get a blue frame in the profile picture without knowing the reason for using the profile picture guard. Again, many may not know about this feature. So let’s find out the details of Facebook profile picture guard.

What is a profile picture guard?

Many women in our subcontinent, including India, do not upload their photos on Facebook for fear of being misused. But Facebook’s policy encourages everyone to use their true identity. To overcome both these crises, Facebook has introduced profile picture guard. Normally no one will be able to open or download your profile picture when you use Guard in your Facebook profile picture. Only small thumbnails can be seen. Although this feature is mostly used by women, the feature is open to all men and women. (And again, these would mean that you have to spend for these processes.

How does Facebook profile picture guard work?

Facebook According to It protects your profile picture in three steps. First, it will not allow anyone to share, download or send your picture to Messenger. Second, in your guarded profile picture Someone who is not your friend Can’t tag anyone. Third, it will attach a blue-framed frame to your profile picture, prompting you to refrain from copying your picture to anyone else. According to Facebook, this reduces the chances of your photo being copied by 75 percent Gives.

How to turn on Facebook profile picture guard?

If you do not use this feature, Facebook will remind you to launch it with various pop-up notifications. If you want, you can go to your Facebook profile and click / tap on the profile picture to turn on this feature from the options. Or directly https://www.facebook.com/?profile_picture_guard=1 On the link or https://m.facebook.com/profile_picture/shield/edit?refid=69 You can also turn on the guard for your current profile picture by visiting the link. For added protection, you can go to your Facebook profile and click / tap on the profile picture, select ‘Add a Design’ from the options and watermark the picture. As a result, even if you take a screenshot of this photo, you can see the watermark there. You can do all this easily on Facebook’s main Android app and mobile browser. Many times you may not get the features in PC or Facebook Lite app.

If you want, you can go to the profile picture option and turn it off again later.

How effective is Facebook profile picture guard?

First of all, this feature does not guarantee 100% privacy for your profile picture. Because it is possible to download your profile picture using different tools or add-ons in different third party browsers like Opera Mini, UC Browser or PC. You can also take screenshots. However, Facebook is working on further development of this tool and this feature has received a good response from the users. Using Facebook Profile Picture Guard can at least give a lot of protection to your profile image inside Facebook. But since the profile picture is public, there is no way to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

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In addition, other photos in your Facebook album will be displayed to users according to privacy settings. But there is no such guard. So your pictures can be passed on to others from other pictures uploaded on Facebook. So, just by turning on the profile picture guard, it will not be possible to secure your photos on Facebook. However, this guard sign is a message that you are aware of the privacy of your photo.

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