Sunday, 6 April 2014

Trusted Contacts - New facebook security to get back your account if get locked out

Its a good move of facebook security team. They just recently released a Trusted Contacts service by which you can get your locked account back. You just have to add 3 to 5 close friends that you can call for help if you ever have trouble accessing your account.

Trusted contacts are friends that can securely help you if you ever have trouble accessing your account.

How to add Trusted Contacts ?

Go to the Security Setting of your account. You can directly click here to open Security Settings.

Facebook Security Settings

Select Trusted Contacts there.

Facebook Trusted Contacts

Now just click on Choose Trusted Contacts and a pop up window will open and ask you to choose trusted contacts.
Choose Trusted Contacts Facebook

Then just choose 3 to 5 trusted contacts by searching your friends. Remember if you remove someone from your trusted list, facebook will notify to the trusted contact about the removing activity.
 Trusted contacts are the contacts which contain very high chances to access or recover your account so only add the trusted ones.

What after adding Trusted Contacts ? 

In future if your facebook account gets locked by any activity, then you can gain access on your account easily by contacting your trusted contacts. Facebook will send a security code to your trusted contacts, and you have to put the code in the account recovery console to recover your account.

Thank you. Keep your account secured.