You are just as safe as your friends are

You are just as safe as your friends are. With so much information you are sharing with them, it will be good to educate them about security. Here are few tips for securing your logins:

• Use different passwords for different sites, its a pretty obvious security risk to use same password everywhere . If you are not good at remembering passwords then at least divide sites in different groups, use one password for each group. You can group sites based on their content, how much you use them or anything.

• Do not create accounts on every site you see. If you just a bit of info and not really require an account there, you can use 'Bugmenot : http://www.bugmenot.com/'. It provides free public accounts at various websites.

• Don't use obvious passwords, at least use those which are only obvious to you. e.g. don't use your ex or current's gf/bf name as password, use the name of place where you first kissed, dont use your birth-date, use some date which is only significant to you.

• Check before you login. Check the domain name of the site you are logging in, beware of phishing. And before sharing your login credentials with every other site, check if it can be trusted.

• Don't write your password down, or at least don't write it where anyone else can find it. Use online or offline password managers.

• While browsing from public areas, try to use your own browser from flash drive, you can find portable version of almost every browser, just google it.

• If your computer is infected with virus/trojan, first cure it before connecting it to internet.