systems

Every so often, as is our lot in life, especially when we’re online more and more, somebody or something out there will try to hack into our accounts.  Email.  Facebook.  Websites.  And a few more others.  The main reason someone or something will try to do this is to obtain your personal information so your identity can be stolen.  Hollywood, of course, put that fear into a lot of us.

A lot of us, though, never think it will happen to their friends, let alone themselves, thinking we are nobody.  We are invisible.  Sure.  How often do I see posts on facebook that the owner didn’t place there?  How often do I see friends getting locked out of their email accounts without their knowledge?  Surely it doesn’t happen everyday but it’s enough.

Enough so that Sunday, as I got home and prepared to write my Mothers Day message to my blog, I find out someone or something tried to breach my yahoo, facebook and google accounts.  Wonderful.  Such inconvenient timing.  Remember how zippy my internet connection is after a certain time window?  Well, I had to spend 60% of that remaining window on resetting my yahoo and facebook passwords.  Then updating Pidgin with them so I can login to the chat networks.

Then I hurriedly typed my message for the mothers in my life and away it goes.  Posting complete.  Then… ooops.  I forgot to tell this here blog of mine that my facebook password’s been updated.  That’s why I don’t have anything, no posts, no wall entries, no status updates for yesterday.

My accounts, though, remain secure and untouched and I’ll explain in the next post.  I just hate the inconvenience and the hassle of the password reset options I have to go through.  Especially when I think about how interconnected my sites are.