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Realistically, we all know that when we sign up a Facebook account if we link it to an email address that is the easiest way to recover an account if the event of a forgotten password.

If you haven't logged into the account or the email address long enough that the email address domain expired. Then that's poor planning and isn't necessarily a problem with Facebook. I'd say most of my online accounts that don't have 2FA would be difficult to reset passwords for if I lost access to my email account.

If I signed up to a Facebook account and put my dogs name on it, how would Facebook ever know who human the owner is?



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