There has been a lot of buzz surrounding Yahoo’s username recycling program that is set to launch this summer.

The self-proclaimed technology company is gearing up to commence the ID turnarounds by tapping what might be an unlikely partner: Facebook.

Now, the world’s largest social network might come across as a strange bedfellow here considering Facebook’s own widely-used identity service and scheme, Facebook Connect.

However, as Bill Mills from the Yahoo Developer Network team explained further in a blog post on Monday, using social networking sites like Facebook can help validate new owners for these unused usernames.

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