Using Social Logins

Create a social-linked account

Using one of the social icons just below, you may (a) create a new Life Love Illusion account linked to your social network identity or (b) after logging out from an existing account, link it to a social network. We recommend that you first read the the “What you should know” section of this page.

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What you should know about social linking

There are pros and cons for connecting to Life Love Illusion with your login from a social network like Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn. This page describes some things to think about, along with how to manage a connection between our site and these various social networks.

Pros and cons

Some things to be clear on up front: We at Life Love Illusion do not in any way track your social network activity. We cannot (and don’t want to) post to your social feed. Social connect is merely a convenience for logging in to our site.

Some things in favor of it: Logging in via a social network means you have one less login username and password to remember. Also, if you comment on Life Love Illusion articles, friends may feel more welcome here seeing your social network profile picture. If you want to share a link to one of our articles, you are already logged in so it’s easy.

Some things against it: Although Life Love Illusion does not track your activity or feed any data to a social network, the social network does learn a little more about your activities outside of their site. They likely have already gathered much information on you from other websites that do feed them information.

Make and manage a social connection

If you’re ready to make a social connection, we have some notes below that may help — including if you want to later disconnect the social network from Life Love Illusion. Below you’ll find information on connecting and disconnecting with:

Note that, although we periodically review the instructions below, the social networks can change their processes at any time, so your mileage may vary…

Facebook

These instructions assume you are using the Facebook website; the Facebook mobile app will work differently. Connecting to Facebook works like this:

  1. On our Login page or on the sidebar, click the Facebook social icon.
  2. Log in to your Facebook id — if you are already logged in, it will skip this step.
  3. Facebook will present a page with the Life Love Illusion logo.
  4. Click the button “Continue as [your Facebook name]”
  5. Facebook will connect your account and direct you back to Life Love Illusion (this sometimes takes a minute).

To disconnect your Facebook account:

  1. First go to our Social Unlink page and disconnect your Life Love Illusion account from Facebook.
  2. Login to Facebook, then click the little triangle icon at the far upper right of the web page — this should pop up a menu.
  3. Select “Settings” — this should take you to a Facebook page with “General Account Settings” at the top.
  4. On the left side, click on “Apps and Websites” — this should display a page with tabs for active, expired, and removed connections (if you are currently logged into Facebook on this browser, you may be able to skip the Facebook steps above and get directly to this page by clicking here).
  5. If your Facebook account is linked to Life Love Illusion, you should see an “Apps and Websites” line with our site’s name (if you have a long list of connected sites, you may have to use the “Search Apps and Websites” box to find it).
  6. On the Life Love Illusion line, click the checkbox at the right, then click the blue “Remove” button at the top of the list, then click the blue “Remove” button in the dialog box that pops up.
  7. Alternately, you may click it the “View and edit” link to see more details about your Facebook-LLI link. The dialog box that pops up will also have a blue “Remove” button.

Google

These instructions assume you are using Google’s website; a Google mobile app will work differently. Connecting to Google works like this:

  1. On our Login page or on the sidebar, click the Google social icon.
  2. Log in to your Google id — if you are already logged in, it will skip this step.
  3. Google will present a page with your Google id and a link to “continue to lifeloveillusion.com.”
  4. Click the link to “continue to lifeloveillusion.com.”
  5. Google will connect your account and direct you back to Life Love Illusion (this sometimes takes a minute).

To disconnect your Google account:

  • First go to our Social Unlink page and disconnect your Life Love Illusion account from Google.
  • Login to your Google account
  • Be sure you are on a Google page (e.g., the google.com search page), then click your profile icon, which should be in the upper right corner of the page.
  • Click on “Manage your Google Account”
  • In the menu on the left, click on “Security”
  • Scroll down the page to the section “Signing in to other sites”
  • Click on “Signing in with Google” (if you are currently logged into Google on this browser, you may be able to skip the Google steps above and get directly to this page by clicking here).
  • If your Google account is linked to Life Love Illusion, you should see a “Signing in with Google” line with our site’s name. Click it to expand the line to show details about your Google-LLI link.
  • Click the blue “Remove Access” button to disconnect, then click “OK” on the dialog that pops up.

LinkedIn

These instructions assume you are using LinkedIn’s website; LinkedIn’s mobile app will work differently. Connecting to LinkedIn works like this:

  1. On our Login page or on the sidebar, click the LinkedIn social icon.
  2. Log in to your Linked id — it may do this even if you are already logged in.
  3. LinkedIn will present a page with your LinkedIn profile picture and the Life Love Illusion logo for you to approve making the connection between the two.
  4. Click “Allow”
  5. LinkedIn will connect your account and direct you back to Life Love Illusion (this sometimes takes a minute).

To disconnect your LinkedIn account:

  • First go to our Social Unlink page and disconnect your Life Love Illusion account from LinkedIn.
  • Login to LinkedIn, then click the little triangle just below your profile picture near the upper right of the page.
  • Click “Settings & Privacy” on the menu that pops down.
  • Click on the “Account” tab towards the left of the page.
  • Page down to find and click the “Permitted Services” line underneath the “Partners and Services” heading (if you are currently logged into LinkedIn on this browser, you may be able to skip the LinkedIn steps above and get directly to this page by clicking here).
  • If your LinkedIn account is connected to Life Love Illusion, you should see a “LifeLoveIllusion” line in the list.
  • Click the “Remove” link in blue text to the right of our site’s name — it will immediately remove the connection (i.e., it will not provide a confirmation dialog box).