Facebook has become one of the leading social media platform with hundreds of millions of users. A lot of people and businesses depend on the giant social media for their daily transactions. This means that the security of information on Facebook should be a thing of concern to the owners of the company as it rakes in millions of dollars for them. At the moment, Facebook is vulnerable to local hackers who use phishing schemes to attack uninformed account holders. The moment these people get a hold of your login details, they swiftly change the phone number, the email address, the account name and the user name of the account thereby leaving you (the original account owner) unable to access the account again. They go as far as deleting all images on the account and uploading strange ones so that even your mutual friends will not know who the account owner is. The account will now appear on your friends’ page as a new account. They mostly use foreign names so that the gullible ones can initiate conversations with them on their own. That is why you will suddenly notice one strange name on your friends list (e.g. Larry Mark, John Briggs etc) with images of a white man and many mutual friends. Place a video call to them and see them run from answering it because it will reveal their identity.
I think Facebook should introduce a permanent user id that cannot be changed by the user. This id should be used to uniquely identify each account and should serve as the major account recovery technique.
Secondly, the first phone number and email address that was registered on the account should not be completely erasable, it should be changeable but still be used as a recovery mechanism when the need arises.
This way, when the hacker gains access to the account, he can be kicked out as soon as the real owner contacts Facebook.
This will also reduce the number of persons that open Facebook accounts on a daily basis because most persons choose not to fight for their accounts when hacked, they just create another one thereby duplicating accounts.
Meanwhile we can enlighten persons around us to be weary of using guesable passwords for both emails and facebook.
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