How to delete apps connected to your Facebook account

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• You can easily delete Facebook apps connected to your account, but it can be tedious as you have to delete each app at a time on both a mobile device or a computer.
• Every time you sign into a new app using Facebook, that app becomes linked to your account and your personal information potentially becomes available to third-party companies.
• You might be surprised by how many apps you have tied to your Facebook account, and how they might be slowing down your online experience by constantly interrupting you with updates.
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Facebook is great at all sorts of things, like keeping you in touch with your friend from eighth grade, giving you a place to show off photos from your trip to Georgia, enabling you to chat with your stylist, and sharing news stories of questionable veracity.

Where Facebook falls a bit short is in keeping your personal information private. In fact, sharing your info is rather a large money maker for them, and every time you log into a new app using Facebook, that's exactly what happens. 

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