The help of your friend can also be taken when you forget your Facebook password. Your friends can help you with recovering your Facebook account if you have forgotten your password.
Now let us have a look at how to recover Facebook password through friends. This can be done by setting up trusted contacts. The method of recovery is:
You need to sign up Facebook in a web browser. You can add 3-5 trusted contacts to help you recover the account by generating a recovery code so that you can reset your password.
Hit on the menu that is at the top right corner of Facebook in the blue bar.
Then, you have to click on the settings towards the bottom of the menu.
You have to then click on the “Security and Login” located at the top of the left column.
Next, you have to choose the friends whom you want to contact. It is present at the top of the page under the header named “Recommended”.
There will be the appearance of the pop up that contains the details about how to use Trusted Contacts.
The next step is to choose your friends of which you want to take the help.
In order to choose your friends, start typing the name of your friends. A list of matching friends will appear where you have to click on the correct friend so that you can add them to the list.
5 contacts can be added in total. Now selected friends are added in your trusted contacts list which can be edited any time.
Now coming on the Facebook password recovery process, you can text or email the link to each of your trusted contacts and ask them to open it. Once they are logged in, they will be notified to send you a code that is necessary to reset your account and get back in your account. Once you enter the code given by each of the contacts and click continue, you will get back into your account.
