In Facebook says that "one will be able to nominate three to five 'trusted' friends who can help you if you have a problem accessing your account - if, for instance, someone else has changed its password and locked you out of your email account.
The idea is that if you need to login to Facebook but can't access your email account, Facebook will send codes to your friends that they can pass on to you.
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology consultant at Sophos said, "None of your friends on their own has enough information to access your account, as they are only sent a single code. But, of course, if your "trusted" friends turned out to be untrustworthy and banded together they would - between them - be able to access your account. So you best be sure that you keep a close eye on who your trusted friends are (especially if you're prone to falling out, or they think practical jokes are amusing), and be pretty confident that they are taking their own computer security seriously."
Another new announcement is App Passwords - meaning that one will no longer have to log into Facebook apps with the same credentials that he uses for his Facebook account. It's certainly a good idea not to use Facebook password with anybody other than Facebook.
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