Forget Your Facebook Password? Your “Trusted Friends” Could Help

Facebook is releasing a new method for accessing your account when you lose your password: a little help from “trusted friends.”

The social network says it is testing a new tool in the coming weeks that will let you designate three to five friends you trust. If you forget your password or can’t access your email, Facebook will send your friends a code that they can pass along to you.

We’ve probably all been there: You forget your password and have to go through the “Forget your password?” process of waiting for a new one to arrive by email. Or, if we use Facebook’s comparison, you lock yourself out of your house — and now can go to a friend who has a spare key. Your spare key for Facebook is the code.

The new system doesn’t actually seem more efficient than the usual route if you’ve simply forgotten your password, but if for instance your account has been hacked and you’ve been locked out of your email, this is a new solution. It adds a new layer of security (the feature was announced for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month), too, since your friends can verify your identity more easily than any automated email.

Security firm Sophos points out, though, that a hacker could also remove or change your trusted friends settings and render the feature useless.

To set up “trusted friends,” go to your Security Settings Page (Account > Account Settings > Security), and click on the Trusted Friends section. From there, you can scroll through your friends and choose up to five. (You may not have access to this just yet — this section doesn’t appear in my settings.)


Facebook offers similar, lesser-known security tools as well, like being able to log out of your account remotely and receive a temporary password for accessing public computers.

The social network also announced this week a new option to use different passwords for third-party apps. To set this up, go to Account Settings, and in the Security tab, go to the App Passwords section.

Imam problem na novom fb nekako sam iskljucio da mi se ne vide slike na kojima sam tagovan,a ne znam kako da to vratim sad,znao sam na starom fb al ne znam na novo.Moze li mi neko pomoci oko ovoga?

Trebalo bi da je ovo

to je za stari fb,meni je ovaj najnovij oblik

e kod mene je jos uvek ovaj, taj novi ne znam kakav je jbg

Kada tražiš pomoć onda uploaduješ i sliku da vidimo o čemu se radi i koja je vrsta problema.

pa ja da znam kako da ga resim resio bi sam ne bi slikao pa posalo,prosto i jednostavno nekako sam iskljucio da mi se vide slike na kojima sam tagovan,a sad ne znam kako to da vratiim posto je ovaj fb novi skroz komlikovan.Sta da slikam tu lebati?

Taj novi fb 

Izazivam te

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