Now that your Facebook account is created, type Facebook.com into your web browser and Facebook home page will load. In the area circled with yellow ellipse in the screenshot below you will see two textbox. Here is what to do:
1. In the first textbox, enter your email that you have used to sign up for your Facebook account.
2. In the second textbox, enter the password that you entered while signing up for your Facebook account.
3. Click on the Login button next to the second textbox and viola! “Welcome to the word’s busiest social networking site”
Sometimes you get an error message like the screenshot given below. In that case please read a little further down this article.
One of the most common mistakes is typing in a wrong password. Second common mistake is providing only half of your mail address as we are quite habituated in typing only the user name when we log into our mail. For example, this is your mail id myemail@hotmail.com. We usually enter only the ‘myemail’ part when we log into our mail accounts. In Facebook we need to provide the whole address i.e. myemail@hotmail.com. Also remember to check whether the caps lock on your keyboard is on or not.
If you are not one of the people above, then you must have either forgotten which email or password you used to sign up for your Facebook account. But, don’t worry we will learnt how to get it back.
1. Click on the ‘Forgot your password?’ link just below the login button. A new page will load like the image given below.
2. Next enter the letters and/or numbers provided in the textbox below the image.
3. Enter your full email address that you used while signing up for your Facebook account.
4. Next, click on reset password. A new page like the image given below will load.
5. Now, open a new browser window and go to your the mail account that you provided while making your Facebook account and check for any mail from Facebook.
6. Copy the code provided in your ‘Facebook Password Reset Confirmation’ mail and paste it in the textbox and click on submit button. Alternatively, you can also click on the link given below the confirmation code in your mail.
7. In the next page enter your desired, new password in the first textbox. Confirm it by entering the same password again and click on change password button. The page will look like the image below.
8. You will reach a “Welcome to Facebook, yourname” page, which means you have successfully changed your password and logged in to your Facebook account. Congrats!
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