As someone who is constantly paranoid, I do not play around with my privacy when it comes to social media. I also do not think it's smart for others to leave their accounts open for anyone on their to look at and gain information. In the past week, I have learned that I still not have been putting up as large of a guard as I first thought, though. All of my accounts are protected by password, as is my cellphone, and my accounts have been set with all of the privacy settings that only allow friends of mine to see them, and I am quite choosy with who I allow to "follow" or "become friends" with me. I also do not save my card information to anything or click on random links to suspicious websites. I have even been to the point where I had a serious talk with my grandma so that she would not tag herself in my posts on Facebook anymore because she is prone to hacks as she does not deny any of her friend requests and naively believes everyone is good. As for me, I am suspicious of every person I don't immediately recognize on the Internet. In the last few days, I have taken even further measures and gotten creative with my passwords, ensuring that each is unique from any other site that I am signed up on. I feel like everyone needs to take these measures to protect themselves, even though most of these things do provide quicker access and can be beneficial. Personally, having to memorize a few extra passwords and take out my debit card when I want to make a purchase are definitely worth not taking the risk of getting hacked and having all of my information stolen. In this day and age, people are capable of things that some of us could never imagine, and although it is sad, we, as a society, need to be more leery and less trusting of people we don't know.