Sunday, May 12, 2013

Facebook friend verification problem solved

       How many of use have faced this problem and were at our wits end by the solution of the same. Facebook has this weird feature of making account holders to recognize people from a list of pictures, and most of the time it so happens that the pictures do not have photos of our friends, but pictures of abstract images. It becomes next to impossible in a situation where the account you have is an account of your business or an account you created just for testing purposes. Social Media Marketers would time and again need to create such accounts for their work. And might have over a thousand friends too, all who are unknown!!
I am sure you have by now tried scanning the internet for concrete answers to this problem, or a solid solution, and found nothing helpful. But there is a way to bypass this. I am not saying that it will be easy to do so. It will be time consuming and patience is needed but it is definitely fool proof method.
First of all you need to learn to take screen shots and save them into jpegs. If you don't know, you can Google it and you will get the solution.
Here are some things to know before making an attempt again(assuming that you have tried and failed already)

  • Facebook uses a very simple algorithm to give you the images. It selects a group of friends from a small pool of friends. So there are high chances that the same pictures might be shown to you in the consecutive attempts.
  • Facebook will show people only from your friend list.
  • Facebook allows 2 skips.
  • There is a very small time window to recognize this so you need to be fast( avoid being fast initially though....read complete document)
Basic Steps:
  1. Ask a friend for help, if you have someone who has you as a friend and you have multiple common friends that would be helpful. As soon as you are asked the list of names to choose from, you can go to your friends' profile and make searches. Do the searches in different tabs and keep the tabs open even after if you have failed.
  2. You can drag the images and do an image search in google, that might give you some options.
  3. There will be some names which will be very unique, so when you do a search from your friends profile you will quickly get the person.
  4. Keep retrying.
The BEST step to do:
  1. Facebook as i said chooses friends from a pool of friends, that means there will be repetitions of the images they show, but then the options will all change except for the one single name which is the real name for that particular profile.Check screenshots below.
 2. The pictures above and below were shown to me at two different attempts to try to login. But there is one more thing common besides those pictures. Notice the names. Only one name is common "Keerthi Sarah". So the profile obviously belongs to her isn't it??


3. The trick here is that from the very first attempt itself make screenshots of the screens you are told to recognize. You get 7 attempts each time including 2 skips. Use them well. Do not hurry in excitement. The goal is to get maximum screen shots as possible. After around 6-7 attempts you will be able your account easily.
4. Sometimes if you identify even 4 people out of 5, Facebook will give you a try again option at the same time, and out of those 5 if you get 4 more, you are good to go.
5.I hope any Facebook developer does not change the algorithm of the same pictures, cos then i will have to think of another way to unlock this.

7 comments:

  1. bro meri id be asii ho gaye hai wo ab open nai ho rahii plzz help me

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  2. Wat if we use the two skips
    Will the account get deleted automatically

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    1. Account does not get deleted. You will not be able to access it, thats all!

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  3. my dear brother my id is problem what can i do?

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