#interdependent account recovery - facebook style

food for thought for an alternate to individual back up schemes...

https://www.facebook.com/help/119897751441086?helpref=faq_content

You can choose friends to be trusted contacts in case you're ever locked out of your Facebook account. After you've chosen your friends, they'll be able to send you a recovery code with a special URL you can use to get back into your account.
To choose your trusted contacts:

Go to your Security and Login Settings
Scroll down to Choose 3 to 5 friends to contact if you get locked out and click Edit
Click Choose friends and follow the on-screen instructions

After you've chosen your trusted contacts, you can always click Edit to change or remove the friends you've chosen.
Learn how to contact your friends when you need help getting back into your account.

@Dan Hassan you'll be pleased to know that @mixmix is way ahead of you

@Dominic : "you'll be pleased to know that @mixmix is way ahead of you"

Half way there dominic ;)

We're cooking something up which as far as I know has not been stitched together in a peer-to-peer system.

@Kieran is off on an island somewhere hacking away at it.

cc: @Kieran

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/introducing-trusted-contacts/10151362774980766/
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-updates/10150335022240766
https://www.facebook.com/help/requestmemorialization
https://www.everplans.com/articles/how-to-close-a-facebook-account-when-someone-dies

^ gathering notes for a presentation to compare to the facebook way