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Not, Google, but I'm having sort of the same problem with Facebook. My church has a Facebook account that we used to set up our public page years ago. We assign
by jscheel 5y ago
Not, Google, but I'm having sort of the same problem with Facebook. My church has a Facebook account that we used to set up our public page years ago. We assigned editors to the page, then promptly never used that account again. Fast forward to this year, and I need to add a new editor, which only the page admin can do. I reset the password on the church's facebook account (it was lost years ago), but when I log in, it says it doesn't recognize my location and it needs me to get codes from a list of trusted contacts (a list that I'm fairly certain we never set up). When any of those trusted contacts go to the page it lists, Facebook tells them they aren't trusted contacts. I have tried to get Facebook to respond to me in every single possible way. I have gone through all of their help pages, talked to their bot until it said it would forward my message to a human that could help, sent emails to every address I could find, reported the page and account on every form I could, hit up Meta on other social media, and even reached out to Oculus support and offered to buy a headset if I needed one for them to be able to help me get access back to the account. The only response I've gotten is from Oculus telling me they can't do anything. That's it. No other responses at all. I swear it would be easier to answer one of the 37 recruiters that have reached out to me, interviewed for a position, gotten hired, and then fixed it myself.
- Aeolun 5y agoCan you find a facebook engineer on LinkedIn and send them a InMail? Only costs you one month of linkedin plus, or whatever it is called.
- sha256sum 5y agoI understand you are saying this in good faith, but honestly this is bullshit. Is the only way to get a solution to use LinkedIn inmail to solve a login crisis? There are plenty of FB engineers on this site alone. Are you all feeling okay with the work you’ve done?
- nikanj 5y agoThere’s plenty of ways: 1) Get your story on HN front page 2) Get a job at FB, fix issue yourself 3) Install Tinder, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to convince your matches to fix things 4) Buy a 0-day from the dark web, hack into FB and reset the password 5) Become incredibly wealthy, acrue enough FB stock to get a board seat, complain to the CEO
- hetspookjee 5y agoSomeone should sell VPN exit nodes next to BigTech offices so that people can exit their Tinder there and do the (3) connection approach without the drive.
- nathancahill 5y agoHaven't used Tinder in ages, but don't they have a "Travel" option to find matches are a location of your choice?
- tibanne 5y agoAmazing :)
- CRConrad 5y ago> 3) Install Tinder, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to convince your matches to fix things 3 b) Install Grind[e?]r, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to blackmail your matches to fix things (Yeah, it's a good thing that's a lot less blackmail-worthy nowadays. About as serious as what I'm replying to.)
- vasoolibhai 5y agoDoes this work ? Emailing the engineers on LinkedIn ?
- jscheel 5y agoIf it would work, then 100% I would do it in a heartbeat. I posted on Blind looking for help, but just got snarky high-school level comments. Have you had experience reaching out via LinkedIn?
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- Hard_Space 5y agoYou can send a message with a connection request, no Premium required.
- fouc 5y agoWorth it for the story.