{"id":87877,"date":"2016-04-13T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87877"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:59:53","slug":"facebook-wants-to-get-rid-of-usernames-and-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-wants-to-get-rid-of-usernames-and-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook wants to get rid of usernames and passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the F8<\/strong> (Facebook Developer Conference<\/strong>) earlier this week, the company announced the launch of Account Kit<\/strong> \u2013 a tool which app developers can use to allow their users to register to their services\/platform using an email<\/strong> or phone number<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Could this mean the end for usernames and passwords?<\/p>\n

Account Kit <\/strong>is designed in order to offer developers an easy way for users to create accounts without having to log into their Facebook account. It\u2019s simple: the app sends a confirmation code to the registered email address or phone number that was first introduced when the user created the account.<\/p>\n

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Although we\u2019re sure that Facebook<\/strong> prefers users to use their login<\/strong> when registering with other applications, however Account Kit<\/strong> reduces that tedious feeling we get when we have to create a new account for a new app. So how does Facebook<\/strong> benefit from this? Well, basically it encourages developers to work more using their tools and platforms.<\/p>\n

Account Kit<\/strong> is now available for iOS, Android , standard web and mobile web.<\/p>\n

Source: Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the F8 (Facebook Developer Conference) earlier this week, the company announced the launch of Account Kit \u2013 a tool which app developers can use to allow their users to register to their services\/platform using an email or phone number. Could this mean the end for usernames and passwords? Account Kit is designed in order … Continue reading “Facebook wants to get rid of usernames and passwords”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329073,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87877\/revisions\/329073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87877"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87877"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87877"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}