It’s not that I’m paranoid, but I am worried that my roommate might have figured out my Facebook password and I want to change it ASAP. How do I change my Facebook password?
No reason to feel paranoid. In fact, it’s a good practice to change your passwords with regularity and, heck, I know that if I’m getting lazy I can end up with the same password for all of my dozens of different accounts, which is about as bad as security can be because if one is compromised, then they all are. Not good.
Of course, you know not to write passwords down, right? A good reason to come up with a strategy for creating passwords that are both secure, unguessable, and easily remembered. A standard trick is to think of a sentence and then use the first letter of each word in the sentence, like “my girlfriend is hot hot hot!”, which becomes “mgihhh!” Not a great password (needs at least a digit or two) but it’s a lot better than “maria”!
Another strategy you can use is to replace vowels with digits, so the above might have the ‘i’ replaced with a ‘1’, becoming “mg1hhh!”. Better. Now, make the first letter capitalized and you’ve got a pretty decent password that’s easy for you to remember, but just about impossible to guess: Mg1hhh! (or, even better: Mg1h3!. Get it?)
Okay, so now that you have a great new password in mind, how do you actually change it on Facebook?
Look on the top right and you’ll see:
Click on ‘Account Settings’, as I show, and in the middle of a lot of other options, you’ll see:
That’s it! Now, click on “change” and you’ll see this suddenly appear:
Enter your old password (to ensure someone else doesn’t change your password while you’re going to the bathroom or otherwise distracted!) and your new, super-secure password, twice. Click on “Change Password” and…
Score! Done! Now, about that roommate situation…
I’d also like to let you know that I have quite a bit of Facebook help here on the site and that I also have an Ask Dave Taylor Facebook Fan Page that I invite you to join.
After I changed my password on facebook my format changed why
I changed my password and when I got back to Facebook the format was different why
it said that it send a code to MY PHONE AND I NEVER GOTTHE CODE
plse help me
I can’t help individuals change, update or restore Facebook account access, Matthew. You’ll need to go through the standard Facebook paths for that, even if they take a while to complete…
i WANT TO CHANGE MY FACEBOOK PASSWORD
hi!…what can i do.to chance my password!..but i cannot remember my password old!!!
plss!!!can u help me
I CHANGE A PASSWORD IN FACEBOOK BECAUSE MY PASSWORD IS ERROR
my Facebook account is hacked and hi change my password . so i want change my password . i tray to many time to enter code and now Facebook say tide to change my password . so please help me
to who it may concern please delete my facebook account,i tryed to but had trouble deleting my account from facebook.thankyou for your help DANIEL KAISER
I want to change my facebook password
some knows my password
my comment is to change the new password of facebooks, becuase the old password is easily know other person so i need the new
Smby changd ma fcebk password n I wnt 2 login with it si I don’t know how,is there any1 who cn help?
I don’t have a comment, mine is rather a question. I have a HTC EVO. I downloaded the Facebook HTC app (there is already a Facebook app that was already on this phone). I recently deleted the HTC download….so now I only have the FB app that came.with phone. I’m sure if u have a FB page…regardless of which FB app, the password should be the same. Ok, the password I use for the desktop was the same for the HTC app…however, when I enter my password for the app that came with my phone…I get a message saying its the wrong password….I have reset the password I don’t know how many times….I keep getting the same message. This is very frustrating…I cant even send pictures to my FB page bc of this password issue…I can’t even find the HTC FB app to redownload….help please!!!
iwant to change my password because i put on the one i have the results are always”your password is invalid ” what’s wrong?
posted by dorah at july 12 2012 12:09 pm
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i wont to change my password on my facebook
i wont to changed my password on my facebook
i want to change my password
i wnt to chanege my password rite nw
pls. help me
Please advise me who to change my password on email mentioned above. Pleas me as soon as possible. I am very thankfull to you in this regard.
thank u for it
I want to change my password now pls
wow…i like this change my password facebook..iwant to change my paword facebook but not..my facebook password not open..many friend want to chat me…. want to open my facebook!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok how can someone get on my profile and change my password?? now i can’t even log in my facebook because it is saying you have changed it when i have not and it is saying that the password i am useing is an old one.
I followed the directions to change my password for my facebook page, but it didn’t work. I was able to use my password to access the page, but when I hit change password after I used the password and input the new one twice, it said the password I used to get on was incorrect. What do I do now?
how can i change my email password for facebook
my facebook id is not open but no menten option why like that…………..??????????
i would like to know if theres a way to change my personal info on facebook mobile and if theres instant messaging on facebook mobile?
I need to know who to change my Facebook EMAIL ADDRESS…. from oakwood@ttn.net to doh.twn@msa.hinet.net
Not my password — my EMAIL ADDRESS.
I keep getting instructions how to change my password.
I don’t want to change my password;
Iwant to change my EMAIL ADDRESS.
Easy does it, Donald. We’re not Facebook nor can we alter or change your account. Take a deep breath, then let’s see if we can figure out how to fix things…
Now, try this:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=748#!/help/?faq=13614
For the THIRD time!!!
I need to know who to change my Facebook EMAIL ADDRESS.
Not my password — my EMAIL ADDRESS.
I keep getting instructions how to change my password.
I don’t want to change my password;
Iwant to change my EMAIL ADDRESS.
What part of EMAIL ADDRESS don’t you understand???!!!
i want to change my password on facebook mobile phone
I want to change my Facebook password only and do not have access to my e-mail
cool tutorial. thanks for share.