It ’s 2:30am . You ’re unsighted inebriated and desperately trying to lumber into your FB account on your phone — ya know , to see if that hottie from the last saloon Friended you yet — but your damn beer sausage finger’s breadth insert the amiss countersign one too many time . What ’s a dipsomaniac to do ?
Under a new program that Facebook announced today , you ’ll be able to impute three to five “ Trusted Friends ” particular codes that will grant you prompt reentry to your account if you ’re locked out . surely , you could just perform a parole reset , but that ’s take on you have admittance to your email — not potential on account of those sausage balloon finger or the double vision .
In addition , Facebook also announced App Passwords . The programme reportedly will cut program - specific passwords for logging into third - party program , similar to Google Authenticator ’s exclusive - manipulation word feature . It is expected to roll out in the next few weeks . [ FacebookviaTechCrunch – Top fine art good manners ofalpturk33 / Shutterstock ]
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