​Good Advice for Seniors, and Everyone Else

I was looking for some tech tips for seniors and while perusing, I thought a lot of them were silly. While I am suggesting one CLICK HERE, you’ll see some obvious stuff, and some silly stuff. #7, Avoid Phishing scams.  Yes, and don’t fall down the stairs either. I still did, despite carol’s great advice.

#5 & #6 are on Social Media. I would suggest staying off social media. All social media. The problem isn’t the social media content itself, it’s all the peripheral stuff being shoved at you. The news feeds are too often fake stories used as propaganda from who knows where. I get my news from actual journalists, and I demand my news that way. Otherwise, all you get are opinions and lies, #11.

#1 & #10 have to do with passwords. You should have good passwords, seriously. ‘Password’, should NEVER be your password. Two factor authentication is a good but annoying idea. Still, it’s worthwhile. You need to remember to have the proper email addresses and cell phone numbers for that to work though. Two factor authentication sends a code via email or a text, so you can’t use your landline for that. And if your email changes, then you need to remember to update that. And for goodness sake, have a list of your passwords saved somewhere. You WILL forget them someday.

#13 is Backup your photos. If you pay for Office 365 then you are likely getting your major files backed up to the cloud. You should verify that though. Backing up is a great idea. It means having a SECOND place of storage, on a completely different device, like an external hard drive, or the cloud. Save anything you don’t want to lose. If you don’t care about losing your data, then don’t make a backup. It’s up to you. If you do backup though, make sure it’s actually working.
The article this came from was from the Medicare website, and I thought it was reasonably good. If you have any thoughts on it, by all means, let me know what you think.