7th Week
Today in class, we learned the importance of online security. The content that will all collect and create online is both grand and often sensitive information. We discussed whether or not we each personally archive or back up information from our online matter and devices. We asked about email, contacts, and social media content. Personally, I do not archive emails because I try to keep my inbox as clear as possible so that I can focus on what is time sensitive and important. I didn’t even know that you could archive many of the things we discussed like social media. I guess since I was aware of the ability to do so that that social media is one thing that I don’t archive. Now, in regards to backing up and saving our online information I believe that I save the important things. For example, I am very careful to keep all of my personal and professional contacts of record and saved successfully. This is because once I lost all of my contacts and it is just a hassle to collect them all from each individual person.
Later, we discussed online security and passwords. We learned the importance of not using personal information not only for the actual password but also the security questions. For instance, nowadays it can be relatively easy to retrieve information like a person’s mother’s maiden name, with services and outlets like ancestory.com and Google. Personally, I have a few different passwords that are completely random words that I change with numbers and symbols. I never discuss or share them with anywhere and also they are not written anywhere accessible. However, in regards to the security questions I have answered them before but that is solely out of their necessity to successfully create a password for certain accounts. All in all, I learned a lot of important everyday information from this class meeting.
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