Locked out of Your Facebook Account?
Facebook Security Check | Get to Know Your Friends
By Jae Smith

Facebook is on the leading-edge of technology. It has surpassed Google and has set forth features and new standards for the next-gen platform for creating your brand, networking and getting higher exposure. Although this is a great advent for the marketing and internet industries, there are times when I hear the buzz in the air about the love-hate relationship that many have with Facebook. Since I have experienced a few frustrations myself, I empathized with those frustrations and thought that perhaps we could explore a particular area: Facebook security.

One day, I got a brilliant idea to hire a page admin for my Facebook business page. Since I had the opportunity of her employ, I figured that I would have her do some work on my profile too. Since she was located in another state, I sent her my login criteria. At once, Facebook bots locked me out simultaneously along with the page admin.

In order to regain access to my Facebook account that I had arduously slaved over and adorned; I went through Facebook’s rigorous security check process in order to prove ownership of the account.

Play by play, Facebook would present a friend that was randomly chosen among 2500 friends, and would expect a match of the picture with a name. God forbid there would be more than one person in the photo because Facebook requirement was recognition with uncanny accuracy with no chance for error or Facebook would reinitiate the security process all over again after an hour’s wait. The first batch of friends could be forgotten as there will be a start of a new line-up of friends Facebook will now present.

By the time I got through the end of the security check process, Facebook took me to my wall posts to verify who had made a comment. Facebook forced me to identify metric reports from my fan page to verify some information there. In a long series of matching one friend after the other with their photo, there was over 35 matches that I had to make with absolute precision without re-triggering the process. It was a hair-raising, brain-numbing, tedious experience combined with a bit of slow-smoldering frustration. But finally, after enduring Facebook’s Nazi-styled security check, relief readily ensued for I had retrieved access to my account.

In this horrific scenario, doing a search in Facebook helped tremendously in having the capability of selecting the correct match. This major headache cures nothing and only succeeds to agitate the user because there was still access to query a friends search for those who had public search enabled in their Facebook profile privacy settings. It is not a complete security measure when there is a suspect security breach or compromise.

Rationale:

Don’t allow login access to your Facebook profile. Page admins are just that, page admins for your business page.

Study your friends. Get to know them. Interact with them as much as possible. Get in the habit of reading their wall and creating activity on their profile. If Facebook happens to block you, having some memorization of details concerning your friends will be the only way account ownership can be proved.

If it becomes necessary to endure a freeze-out process, go to Facebook site and do a search for the name by which you must make a match. The photo and partial profile results should return in the Facebook “engine” for lack of a better term. Sometimes, you will have access to the Info or Wall of the profile Facebook will quiz you on. This should give you clues to answering ALL of the questions with amazing accuracy as demanded by the Facebook security check process.

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Toast to your succes!

Yours,

Jae Smith