Lost my Facebook account for 3 days because of a quiz app

I clicked on one of those 'what 90s movie character are you' quizzes last Tuesday, just for fun on a slow afternoon. Next thing I know, my account was posting spam links to all my friends and I got locked out. Spent two whole days going through Facebook's recovery system before I got it back. Has anyone else had a dumb little quiz or game app cause this kind of trouble?

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parker_jones505d ago

Wait, did the quiz ask you to give it permission before you took it?

claireo675d ago

Oh yeah permissions are a huge part of it but honestly even if you say no to all the extras sometimes they still find a way. I had the same thing happen with a little astrology app on my old account like two years ago and it got into my friends list and started sending weird messages to everyone. The worst part was Facebooks recovery system kept asking me to verify my identity with a code sent to my email but I couldnt get into my email because the app had changed my password too. It took me calling my phone provider to get a new sim card and resetting everything from scratch. So yeah it's not always just about clicking yes to permissions sometimes these things are just sneaky.