The primary email is used for all communications, for instance notifications that someone messaged you or that a user logged in with your account from another computer. If you do not have access to your primary email anymore you will not receive those notifications and communication, unless you change it on Facebook.

Changing Your Facebook Email Address

You can only change your email address on Facebook if you can still log in on Facebook. Sign in as usual and locate the Account link at the top right corner of the screen. Click on Account and then on Account Setting under the Context Menu.

Locate Email under the Settings tab (which is the default tab) and click the Change link on the right of the preference. Your primary email address is listed on that screen.

A menu looking similar to the on shown on the screenshot below should be displayed on the same page when you click on the change button.

All email addresses connected to this Facebook account are listed there. If the other email address that you want to use on Facebook is already listed, select it and click Change Contact Email.

This makes the selected email address your primary email on Facebook.

If the email is not there, enter it under New Contact Email and click the Add New Email button afterwards.

You are asked to enter your Facebook password to confirm the change. If you enter the right password, a confirmation email is send to the new email address. It contains a confirmation link that you need to click on to confirm that you have access to the email address. If clicking does not work copy and paste the link in the email to your web browser and activate it that way.

Facebook sends a second email to the current primary email address. This contains information that a new email address is about to be added to the account. This email contains a link to cancel the operation, so that the new email address is not added to Facebook.

New emails that you add and confirm are not added as the primary email by default. You need to go back to Settings > Email to select the new email address under Contact Email. A click on Change Contact Email opens the password prompt again where you need to enter the Facebook password again to confirm the change.

The selected email should now be displayed as the primary email on Facebook. You can use the Remove links next to all emails but the primary email to delete it from the account. You need to confirm the removal of email addresses with your password.

Many Facebook users do not know that Facebook has an option to notify account owners about logins from other computer systems and mobile devices.

While this does not prevent the other user from logging in it gives the actual account owner information at hand to react immediately to prevent further damages.

Every Facebook user can configure the account to include that notification of unauthorized access.

Here is how you can configure your account. Open the Facebook homepage and log into your account. Click the Account link in the upper right corner of the screen and then account settings in the context menu.

This opens the My Account configuration menu. Locate the Account Security setting under the settings tab.

Click on the change link on the right of Account Security to display the options directly on the same page. The setting reads:

To help keep your Facebook account as safe as possible, we can notify you when your account is accessed from a computer or mobile device that you haven’t used before.

The default value is set to no. Select yes and submit to activate the notifications.

Make sure to log out and in again as you are asked to register the current computer system with Facebook on the next login to the social network.

Please take a moment to register this computer by choosing a name you’ll remember later. You’ll receive a notification confirming that you registered and logged in from here. Please note that if you clear your cookies you may need to reregister this computer.

It is suggested to select Don’t ask me again from this computer if the computer is not a public computer (e.g. library or school).

You will receive email notifications whenever a user logs into your Facebook account from a non-registered computer or from a computer where the don’t ask me again checkbox was not checked. (via Troublefixers)

Pandalabs did release in depth details about a Facebook hacking scam as well. They discovered a website which claimed to hack any Facebook account for $100 payable through Western Union. A user who wants a Facebook account hacked has to register at the website. The Facebook Id of the account that the user wants hacked needs to be entered into the form on the website. A script will then pull the username from that account and mimic a hacking attempt.

It will then ask the user to pay the $100 before the password to the account will be revealed. A user paying the $100 will not get the password to the account. The money is gone as well as it is not possible to get it back once it was send. Veteran Internet users therefor avoid making payments through these money transfer systems.

It is also likely that the login data is recorded and tried on various websites to see if the user did use the same login data on other websites which in the end could mean that the Facebook account of the user who wanted a Facebook account hacked got hacked. Oh, the irony.

Check out our Facebook Login article for pointers on how to avoid falling pray to criminals attacking Facebook.

The standard Face book login page is located on the homepage. There Facebook account owners can log into their Facebook profile by clicking on the login button, and new users can register an account at the social networking site. A mobile page is available as well as a Facebook lite website. The former for mobile users, the latter for users with slow Internet connections.

Login Facebook

The following paragraphs act as a guide for people who have troubles connecting to Facebook.com, who have lost or cannot remember their username, password and email, who have their accounts hacked or who experience other error messages while trying to log into Facebook.

Additional information are available at the following pages:

Facebook Login Page
Analysing Facebook Login Problems

facebook login

A forgot your password link is available on all three pages in case the login password cannot be remembered correctly. The Facebook login username is usually the email address that was used in the signup. Facebook users who want to get rid of all the problems related to logging into the social networking site including forgotten passwords or phishing threats should use a password manager like Last Pass, which is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, for their login. This password manager remembers the username and password, will automatically fill them into the forms at the homepage and even perform the Facebook log in automatically.

Members who are experiencing other problems that are related to the login page or screen might want to try clearing their web browser cache. Another possibility is to use a different web browser if one is available to see if the login problem exists on that web browser as well which would suggest that it is not a browser setting that is responsible for the Facbook login problems the user experiences.

Video Instructions to log into Facebook, Facebook homepage

Facebook Login Tips

• Never follow links that allegedly lead to the Facebook login , always enter the url directly in your web browser to go there.
• Always check the website before you start entering your log in information
• Use a password manager like Last Pass to aid in the login process
• Select a secure password with at least eight digits and a number
• Do not hand out your username or password to anyone
• Change your password the second you suspect the account could be compromised

Facebook Log in Help

If you have lost or cannot remember your Facebook password, go to: Reset Password page and follow the guide there to restore it.

If you do not have access to the email address you signed up with, go to: My login email address is invalid or expired at Facebook to recover it.

If your Facebook account has been hacked, go to: Security, my Facebook account has been hacked.

If you have forgotten your login email address you can try login in with your Facebook account username if you have defined one. You might also ask your friends to look at your profile and retrieve the email address for your. If all else fails go here.

Additional Facebook login information and security tips are available at the Login Helper website.

The troubleshooting guide has shown that face book account holders can face several difficulties when connecting to the social networking site. Some problems are related to technical problems, a blank page or errors on the page for instance, while others are Facebook account related, usually that information such as the email address, username or password are not accepted.

Users who have resolved their log in problems at the site are encouraged to leave a comment to help other users who are experiencing the same login issues.

Updates

January 26, 2011 – Facebook recently announced a new security related option in the user’s account settings that can be used to enable HTTPS on the whole site. HTTPS, a secure encrypted connection between the local computer and the Facebook website, ensures that no one in the same computer network can listen to that traffic. The change has been announced here

Facebook users need to open their Account Settings page where they can check the Secure Browsing checkbox to enable HTTPS for the account.

October 12, 2010 – Facebook has launched two new security features. First, the social networking site has launched one time passwords that can be used to log into Facebook with passwords that are only valid for one time. It works by configuring a mobile phone number in the Facebook account settings and then sending otp to 32665 on your mobile phone if you are in the US. Facebook will reply with a one-time password for the login.

The second addition is the ability to log out remotely. If you have forgotten to log out of Facebook you can do that now even if you are not near the device you logged in with. This is handled under Account Security section of your Account Settings page.

Stay tuned for additional Facebook login and security updates.

It turned out that deactivation really meant that his account was put on ice and that he would be able to activate it again. This makes me wonder why they would send emails to an deactivated account but that is another story. He contacted Facebook support only to find out that they would only delete the account if he removed everything that he did and that left traces at Facebook.

This basically meant that he had to delete every single minifeed item, friend, post, wall writing and all the other traces by hand to make them close his account. This sounds pretty ridiculous to me and lays the burden solely on the user. He found out that there was no other way and did what they requested which finally made them remove his account completely from Facebook.

I do share some of the feelings that Steven has about his personal data on the web. It becomes more and more apparent that everyone wants to know as much as possible about you to be able to make the most profit with that information. Just search for “Steven Mansour” (or any other name) on Google to find out lots of information about him.

I try to use nicknames – different ones – on sites that I use and try to avoid using my real name. I just don’t want someone to be able to find out “things” about me that I do not want them to know. I don’t want my boss – or next company – to make decisions about my future based on what they can find out about me on the Internet.

What is your stance ?