If you have many different accounts on social networks, blogs, mail domains, instant messengers, and so on, you know that remembering passwords from all of them is quite problematic. Of course, you can create a single password for all accounts, but this can be insecure. In addition, it is known that a good password should contain upper and lower case letters, numbers, and preferably punctuation marks. Of course, forgetting such a password is easy enough. What to do if the password is forgotten?
Instructions
Step 1
Many instant messengers - ICQ, Skype, and so on - simply recover forgotten passwords. Follow the link "Forgot your password?" ("Remember password", "Restore password") in the boot window or on the website of your messenger, enter in the appropriate field your username or email address that you specified during registration, as well as words or numbers from the picture (used to protect against network " robots "). Click "Next" - an email will immediately come to your email address, from which you can go to the password recovery page.
Step 2
If you have lost your password for your blog, for example, on Livejournal.com or www.diary.ru, the procedure will be approximately the same: you need to follow the link "Forgot your password?" (or similar), enter your username or email address and, if required, check digits or words from the picture. Next, you will also receive an email with a link to the password recovery page.
Step 3
Recovering a password on social networks is a little more complicated. Since social media users post more personal data than bloggers, administrators take security more seriously. To recover your password, for example, on the website www.vkontakte.ru, your mobile phone number must be linked to your account. After you have followed the link "Can't enter?" on the main page of the site, you will need to enter an email address, check digits and letters, after which a code will be sent to your mobile phone, only by entering which you will be taken to the password recovery page. Therefore, it is very important to attach a valid mobile phone number to your account.
Step 4
When recovering a password from an email, you are usually required to provide an answer to a security question. You indicate this question and the answer to it during registration, so it is important, firstly, not to forget it, and secondly, to indicate information that cannot become known to third parties. Fortunately, there are simpler ways - many email domains recommend specifying some other email address or mobile phone when registering - using these options you can also recover your password if you don't remember it.
