Do you have an iPad, Android tablet, or netbook? Are you glued to your iPhone, Android device, or Blackberry?
Web Watch is going to take a wild guess that you’re not just using those devices for making phone calls or using them exclusively for business.
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By now, you’ve probably gotten used to all the privacy warnings about Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and other social media and online sites.
You’ve certainly heard all the news, even if you haven’t taken the time to actually do anything about it in your own life.
And maybe that’s okay. Maybe it all depends on your personal philosophy about what people can do with your personal information. They say that kids today don’t care as much about keeping things to themselves as their parents did at that same age.
Of course, all that openess could come back to bite those youngsters when they go out to find their first job — but that’s at least 10 years from now, right?
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What browser are you using?
If you answer with anything other than INTERNET EXPLORER version 6, then welcome. You can skip this post entirely and go on to find other, more interesting things that we’ve posted on Web Watch over the years.
In other words, this post is not for you.
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How long could you live without the Internet?
A few months ago, that’s exactly what Paul Miller decided to do with his life.
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They say that everything that you post on the Internet becomes part of the public record, and could affect you down the road if a potential employer decides to do a little social media digging to see whether you really would be a good employee or not.
Sure, some things could be attributed to a little venting in your status updates, but there’s also the possibility of trends emerging that you may not see unless you’re looking at your profile with a fresh set of eyes.
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Without looking, can you tell Web Watch what type of phone you have?
Who made it? What operating system it’s running?
Well, chances are — because Web Watch readers tend to be smarter than the average bear — you can tell us what type of phone you have. You may not get the operating system quite right, and a few of you may not know your phone’s manufacturer.
Well, it ends up that not knowing may put you in the majority.
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Steven Corona is the Chief Tech Officer at Twitpic, according to his website.
So you would think that someone who is that involved with social media — such as the relationship between Twitter and Twitpic, that going even one hour without using any form of social media would be akin to telling a race car driver that he can only walk to work.
So can you do what Steven decided to do? Can you give up all forms of social media for thirty days?
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Web Watch has covered password hacks like the recent ones at LinkedIn, eHarmony, Last.fm, and others.
We’ll start with the standard recommendation: if you’ve been using one of those sites Web Watch just mentioned, please go and change your password immediately. It’s okay… we’ll wait.
And you’re back…
As a reminder, some of the password suggestions we’ve made in the past can be found here:
and there are others.
So since we’ve already talked about the things that you should do to change your password and how to make a nice strong password, the next question to ask is whether the password you’ve selected is actually strong and unique enough to avoid being hacked.
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