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Picking a good password is important. “Tigger” is not a good password.

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A recent study has been released that took a look at over 32 million passwords that were published onto the Internet after a hacker broke into the ROCKYOU.COM website.

This is the first time that a password study of this magnitude was able to be performed, but it did confirm a few things about users and the passwords they choose:  PEOPLE ARE NOT PICKING SECURE PASSWORDS FOR THEIR ONLINE ACCOUNTS.

The most common password found online is typically 12345, although the ROCKYOU data had the most common password being 123456, with nearly 1 percent of the ROCKYOU users being that uncreative.  Go figure – that extra digit made it that much harder to hack into the critical ROCKYOU website. 

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When will people learn what NOT to share on Facebook? Some things we just don’t want to know.

LAMEHere at Web Watch, we’ve already covered that 99% of what people post on Twitter or on Facebook is useless, lame fluff.  Sure, there are some good posts now and then that contain important information to those who follow along, but let’s face it – the general public really doesn’t have anything worthwhile to share with the rest of the world.

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The 12 Most Annoying Facebook Users

Here’s an update to a Web Watch posting from a few months ago on 10 Ways To Be a Facebook Offender.

It seems that CNN has taken that idea and twisted it around a little bit, releasing their own list of 12 MOST ANNOYING FACEBOOK USERS.  Perhaps you can recognize yourself or one of your friends in these descriptions:

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Are you a FACEBOOK OFFENDER?

If you fall into one of these 10 CATEGORIES, THEN YOU JUST MAY BE A FACEBOOK OFFENDER.

So if you’re on Facebook, don’t be one of these people.