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Comment by dmd | Hacker News Reader

I deal with a lot of high school students. To them, Facebook is identity. Email is throwaway.

OK, so how do you deal with a world where:

  - Many people never abandon their primary identity email.
  - But many other people often abandon their email identity.
  - You don't want to use a social network as the gatekeeper to *your* site.
  - You don't want to have human support for password resets.

Sekrit questions/answers along the lines of your first car's maiden name? Those can be forgotten just as easily as usernames for login.

wow, this is so interesting.... i cant even fathom that. getting old i guess

Don't you log into Facebook with an email address?

Sure, but the Facebook login is just "any e-mail address"; it doesn't really mean something for your account. You can add more e-mail addresses to your account, and all of them are allowed to be used to log in; the same, incidentally, is true of Google accounts.

You don't have to. You can use a username.

They still have username@facebook.com as a stable email address.

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