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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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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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Were you one of the lucky ones who decided to buy Facebook stock on opening day?
Lucky, only if you also sold it immediately. If you decided to take a long approach of buy-and-hold, you’re probably cursing the banks and others that drove the IPO price as high as it did.
So it ends up that right now, Facebook doesn’t have a lot of fans. For financial reasons, due to the rapidly declining stock price. For personal reasons, by posting a legally-meaningless “you don’t have rights to access my profile” status update.
Look – it’s quite easy. If you hate everything about Facebook — just stop using it. Life marched on for years without Facebook, and life will continue to exist for you once you stop using it.
People who will only be your friend online and not IRL (that’s “in real life”) were not really your friends. People who beg you to play Words with Friends with them but turn their noses up at playing a real-world game of Scrabble are not those you’d want to play against anyway.
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Face it – everyone can be a little bit of a douchebag once in a while.
It may not always be seen in public, but it can happen.
And it doesn’t really matter if you say “douche”, “douchebag”, “bouchedag” or some other variation. A douche is a douche, no matter what you call it.
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Web Watch has been around for quite a number of years now, having presented our faithful readers with thousands of websites, videos, news articles, and other tidbits of helpful information along the way.
And with that type of success online, we’re also subjected to having our content stolen.
It’s true — and we’ve had to file cease & desist notices to a number of websites that copied our original content and presented it as their own.
Silly rabbit – just because it’s posted on the Internet doesn’t mean that it’s free for the taking.
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