A social media account is worth more to an attacker than it looks. It's not just your photos and messages, a hijacked Facebook account can be used to message your friends with scam links, run fake ads on your card, or serve as a stepping stone into other accounts that use Facebook to log in. That's why the password protecting it deserves the same care as a banking password, not the leftover one you've reused since 2015.
Reuse and phishing, not clever hacking
The two most common ways Facebook accounts get taken over aren't sophisticated hacking; they're password reuse and phishing. Reuse means one breach at some unrelated site hands over your Facebook login too, because you used the same password there, and attackers automate this at scale, testing leaked email-and-password pairs against major platforms within hours of a breach going public. Phishing means a fake login page, often reached through a message from an already-compromised friend, quietly captures your real password when you type it in. A strong, unique password only fully protects you against the first of these, which is why the two need to be handled separately rather than treated as one problem.
Spotting a fake login page
Phishing pages have gotten harder to spot by eye, since a copied login page can look pixel-perfect. The one thing that's genuinely hard to fake is the domain in your browser's address bar. A real Facebook login happens on facebook.com, not a look-alike with an extra word, a different ending, or a misspelling that's easy to miss at a glance, like faceboook.com or facebook-login.net. Before typing your password anywhere, especially after clicking a link from a message, an ad, or an email claiming your account has a problem, check that address bar first. If a link arrived through a message from a friend and asks you to log in to see a video or claim something, treat it with suspicion even if it looks like it came from someone you trust, since a compromised account is often used specifically to send exactly that kind of message to its own contact list.
Two-factor authentication matters as much as the password
Facebook lets you require a code from an authenticator app in addition to your password, and it's the single biggest upgrade you can make after fixing the password itself, since it stops an attacker even if your password does leak somewhere through a breach you had no control over. It's a five-minute setup buried in Settings under Password and Security, then Two-Factor Authentication. An authenticator app is the stronger option where it's offered over SMS codes, since text messages can be intercepted through SIM-swapping, a technique where an attacker convinces your mobile carrier to move your number onto a device they control. Facebook also lets you generate backup codes during setup; save a copy somewhere other than the inbox or notes app tied to the same account, since those backup codes are exactly what gets you back in if you ever lose access to the authenticator app itself.
What actually makes the password weak
When you do change your password, avoid anything built from information visible on your own profile, your name, birthday, kids' names, a pet's name, or your hometown, since these are the first guesses in any manual attempt and often sit in plain view on the profile itself. A randomly generated password removes that risk entirely, because it has no connection to you an attacker could look up or guess. Pairing it with a password manager means you never have to type or remember it, only paste it once and let two-factor authentication handle the rest of the protection from there.
Checking who else can get in
Facebook keeps a list of active sessions under Settings → Password and Security → Where You're Logged In, showing every device and rough location currently signed into your account. It's worth a glance occasionally, since an unfamiliar device or a location you don't recognize is often the clearest sign something's wrong, sometimes clearer than any password-strength issue would ever surface. If you see something you don't recognize, use the "Log Out" option next to that specific session, then change your password immediately afterward, since simply logging a session out doesn't stop someone from logging back in with the same stolen credentials.
Connected apps are a quieter risk
Plenty of third-party apps and games get "Log in with Facebook" access at some point, and a lot of those grants outlive the app itself, sometimes years after you stopped using it. Settings → Apps and Websites shows everything currently connected, and it's worth clearing out anything you don't actively use. A forgotten connection from an app you tried once isn't usually dangerous on its own, but it's one more thing that could be compromised on someone else's end and used to reach back into your account, and there's no upside to leaving access sitting open once you've stopped needing it.
If your account is already compromised
Move fast and in order. Change the password first from a device you trust, since that's the step that locks out anyone using the old one. Then review the active sessions list and log out anything unfamiliar. Enable two-factor authentication once you're back in control, so the same route can't be used again even if the password leaks a second time. If you're locked out entirely and can't log in at all, Facebook's own account recovery flow, reachable from the login page, walks through identity verification to get access back; that process happens on Facebook's platform rather than something this tool can do for you.
The rest of your accounts
Your email is the recovery path behind Facebook and most other accounts, so it deserves the same standard applied here, and often a bit more, covered in the email password guide. For the reasoning behind what makes a password genuinely strong, length and randomness over cleverness, the strong password guide walks through it, and if you'd rather type something memorable than paste a dense string, a passphrase works just as well here as it does anywhere else. If a form asks for an exact length, the 12 and 15 character generator has presets ready, and the main password generator keeps every option, including a strength checker for a password you already use, on one page. For anything outside a login altogether, a router key, a lock code, or a developer token, the WiFi password generator with its matching QR code tool, the PIN generator, and the random string generator each cover a different one of those specifically.