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Cloud

What is the cloud? The cloud is an online database where you can upload information from multiple devices and have that information then available for every device. I feel after the all the news stories about hacked cloud accounts that what we have in our cloud accounts should not be things we wish to keep private. But things we find useful and necessary to have across multiple devices.
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Social Media

Social Media Wow, we are just flooded with so may options for social media. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Snapchat to name a few. People are in such a rush to show the world who they are and what they are doing that the market for social media has skyrocketed over the last few years. That has been helped by the rise in apps for these sites. Facebook has two apps associated with it and each one of the others I mentioned also has their own apps. This makes the sharing of personal information all the more easier on the go. So what do social media sites get out of having free accounts. Wouldn't they make millions of dollars from the exclusivity of their media? They probably would but they also took into account that if their media was free they could make millions of the apps they provided for their users and it also increases the amount of people who would want an account.

Internet Safety

Internet Safety Internet Safety... Whenever I think about it I always rather doubt if you really can be safe on the internet. It feels like there are so many ways for outsider to invade our privacy and steal our information or accounts. There are ways however that I have learned and have used in my everyday life to prevent this stealing of information.  My information should not be public knowledge and neither should my server be. I find that it is smarter to input my financial and private information on a server that I own like at home. This lowers the chance that my information can be looked at and stolen.  Another way is to create passwords that are more than idiot-proof. Feel free to make them as complicated and as silly as you want but just make sure that you can either remember them or they are written down in a safe place where you know where to look for them.  I find it also a good precaution to not have my private information on my phone. My phone is some...