How Do I Pick Friends To Recover My Account

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Answer #1: Posted by tiffanya on July 5th, 2014 7:23 AM

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If you're locked out of your account, you can use trusted contactsto get access to your account. If you have trusted contacts set up:

Click Forgot your password? and find your account.
Follow the instructions to use your trusted contacts to get back into your account.
You'll receive a set of instructions that includes a URL. The URL contains a special security code that only your trusted contacts can access. Call your friends and give them the URL so that they can open the link and give the security code to you.
Use the security codes from your friends to access your account.

Please be sure to call your friends or talk to them in person. If your account was hacked, the hacker could have access to your emails as well.

TRUSTED CONTACTS

Trusted contacts are friends you can reach out to if you ever need help getting into your Facebook account (ex: you forget your Facebook password and can’t get into your email account to reset it).

After you set up trusted contacts, next time you can't get into your account your trusted contacts can access special, one-time security codes from Facebook via a URL. You can then call your friends to get the security codes and use those codes to access your account.

To add trusted contacts to your account:

Go to your Security Settings
Click on the Trusted Contacts section
Click Choose Trusted Contacts
Choose 3-5 friends and confirm your choices

To edit or remove trusted contacts from your account, follow steps 1 through 3 and click Edit next to your trusted contacts.

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