Facebook Letting Users Designate 'Guardian Angel' Friends To Restore Locked Accounts
Social networking giant Facebook said on Thursday that it is testing a feature that will allow users to designate certain friends as ‘guardian angels’ entrusted with helping the user to recover a locked or hijacked account. The company, which has already experimented with forms of “social authentication,” such as using photos of Facebook friends to help users prove they are the rightful owners of locked accounts, said in a blog post that it is testing a feature allowing users to designate “three to five” of their Facebook friends to receive a recovery code in the event that they are locked out of their account. Friends who receive the code can pass it along to the account holder, providing a way for them to get back into their account.
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