This list could be really long, but I will try not to get too wordy. I have to admit, sometimes I do dumb things as well. But then doesn't everyone?
One really dumb thing people to is park their expensive cars on the driveway because the garage is full of junk worth maybe a few hundred dollars. Dumb!
If a person drives 20 miles to save 3 cents on a gallon of gas, that's dumb!
Another really dumb thing people do is buy stuff from spam emails. If no one bought anything from spam, before long there wouldn't be much spam. Of course there would still be some unwanted emails from Grouply and so-called social sites, but that is a drop in the bucket compared to the spam we get now.
A really dumb thing people do is sign up for those so-called social sites without knowing or understanding what those sites will do. The part I have a problem with is importing all those users' contacts from their email programs. Yikes, what a spam collectors dream!
The latest dumb thing I did was delete the wrong file from my Documents. It held all my email for Windows Live Mail. I am consoling myself with the fact that that I think Windows Live Mail is buggy anyway, and most of the emails were really not worth hanging onto. I was planning on uninstalling it anyway.
I think I will take it easy today so I won't do anything dumb.
Martha
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Something to Think About (Social Networks)
Never give your email password to one of these sites! While you are signing up, read everything very carefully! Do NOT get in a hurry and just keep clicking 'Next' without reading! This can cause you to send 'invitations' to everyone in your address book and make a lot of folks really mad at you!
If you belong to a Yahoo Group and you give one of these sites the login and password to your email account, this social network (including Facebook) will spam the Yahoo Group and maybe most of the members. This kind of stuff will, of course, get you banned as most folks don't like being spammed, especially the group owner/moderators.
You can join one of these groups without offering up your email security (password). Most if not all have a 'skip this' option.
If you think about it, how do you know what those sites will do with your email password? I know, most of them say they won't store it. That, my friends, may be a big fat lie! If they don't store it, then why do I keep getting reminders in my email that someone has invited me to join them on Facebook! They at least still have all those email addresses so they can spam everyone over and over again all the folks who don't join them on Facebook!
Another thought; who's to say someone who has access to that spammer's delight of a humongous email database might decide to 'cash in' and sell that list?
So if you have foolishly given that social network the login and password so they can access your address book, at least undo the damage and change the password to your email account. And while you are at it, make that password really hard to guess to prevent a scumbag from hacking your email account!
Martha
If you belong to a Yahoo Group and you give one of these sites the login and password to your email account, this social network (including Facebook) will spam the Yahoo Group and maybe most of the members. This kind of stuff will, of course, get you banned as most folks don't like being spammed, especially the group owner/moderators.
You can join one of these groups without offering up your email security (password). Most if not all have a 'skip this' option.
If you think about it, how do you know what those sites will do with your email password? I know, most of them say they won't store it. That, my friends, may be a big fat lie! If they don't store it, then why do I keep getting reminders in my email that someone has invited me to join them on Facebook! They at least still have all those email addresses so they can spam everyone over and over again all the folks who don't join them on Facebook!
Another thought; who's to say someone who has access to that spammer's delight of a humongous email database might decide to 'cash in' and sell that list?
So if you have foolishly given that social network the login and password so they can access your address book, at least undo the damage and change the password to your email account. And while you are at it, make that password really hard to guess to prevent a scumbag from hacking your email account!
Martha
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