Some simple Facebook security rules (which could actually be applied to any online site:
1) Don't use your prime email address as your facebook logon id.
Many applications will or can access your profile information to be able to send you emails. Using the same email address for facebook as you use for ebay, paypal, internet banking etc is leaving the door open for ID theft and online fraud. It's easy enough to set up another hotmail address or similar for these sorts of sites, keeping your main address for the useful stuff.
2) Don't use the same password for Facebook as you do for other more important sites
Same reasons as above, if something can steal or change your password, they'll start trying to log into other sites (eg paypal etc) using the stolen email address and if they're succesful they'll spend your money.
3) Don't have an obvious password.
Pretty obvious really. But you'd be surprised how many people have "password" as their password. changing some letters for numbers is good ... "me4tl04f" is better than "meatloaf", but it's not as good (that is it's easier to guess) as the "consonant vowel consonant number consonant vowel consonant number" combination (eg cog3wet7) for even more obscurity remove the first number and double it (eg cogwet4mikdop9) that's virtually uncrackable, although harder to remember.
4) Change your password now and again.
Yes ok, so you've got to try and remember it, but it's an added measure, certainly if you think there's something dodgy going on then change all your passwords, and never store them on your PC .. .that is never let IE or Firefox autocomplete your logins.
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