Do you practice bad tech habits? You might think you don’t. But you do you re-use passwords, fail to back up files or frequently leave your tablet alone and in plain sight? Then you’re doing some of the more significant bad tech habits recently revealed by PCWorld Magazine. If you need to protect your devices and yourself, you’ll study these bad habits and then make changes in your own behavior. It’s the easiest way to protect yourself when computing.
Don’t Become a Target
Your tablets and smartphones are valuable. So don’t make it easy for thieves to grab them. So many people practice the bad tech habit of leaving their devices alone at a coffee shop or restaurant booth while they take off to get refills or another cookie. While they’re gone, thieves can readily snatch their devices off of the table and easily head out of the cafe. Then there are those people that practice the bad habit of staring so intently into their smart phone screens they don’t have any attention for their surroundings. It’s simple for crooks to sneak up next to these preoccupied folks, sock them and then escape with their smart phones or tablets.
Hurting Your Health
Bad tech habits may harm your health, too. Maybe you sit all day long hunched in front your computer. This bad posture can lead to serious back pain. It can also cause carpal tunnel syndrome. The remedy here? Sit up straight, take frequent computing breaks and purchase a comfortable chair that places less strain on your back. When it comes to breaks, another bad tech habit is not taking any. As PCWorld says, your can hurt your eyes, strain your back and blur your thoughts if you insist on spending the entire work day focusing on your computer screen. Make sure you take regular breaks to help keep yourself healthy.
Computing Errors
What will happen if your computer suffers a sudden hard-drive crash? Will you lose your important files? Should you suffer from the bad tech habit of not backing up your files, you probably will. And do you reuse the same passwords frequently at several different Web sites? This tech habit can open you to a world of pain should anyone crack that go-to password. Now, rather than having access to your personal info on one site, this cyber criminal can get access to it on several. Finally, do you disregard the updates that publishers create for the software that you most often use? Don’t. Dismissing these updates can make you vulnerable to hacks and keep you from fully enjoying your software.