EEEK! I've been hacked!
This video shows you what to do if your social media has been hacked and how to create a safer password!
In most cases of social media hacking, changing your password is all that it takes. However, with the very invasive type that changes your email or phone number, making it impossible to change your password, you need to find the email sent to you by the social media platform.
The email you’ll be looking for is the one that asks if you intended to change your email and/or password. Rather than holding things in limbo until you say "yes," they assume if you ignored that email you are approving changes. That's why you have to find it and click the option that states that you did not intend to change anything. That should help you get control back.
Moving forward, don’t ignore the emails from your social media platforms. It usually takes just a minute to tell if it’s asking you if you approve some activity.
How to create a more secure password:
Pick a song lyric, write it in a notebook: Jumping Jack Flash It’s A Gas Gas Gas
Write the first letter of each word: JJFIAGGG
Make some upper and some lower case: JJFiaggg and change a letter for a number: JJF8aggg
Write this password in a notebook. Next we will add alternatives that some sites require:
Need an extra symbol? Write it in the notebook: JJF8aggg^
Use the password for different accounts but include their name or initials so that you are not using the same password everywhere: JJF8aggg^Twitter or JJF8aggg^Email
Passwords and logins can “make a grown man cry” so your notes will be your friend. Remember that ideally, you should change this password every 90 days. (Every time you get a haircut?!)
I change mine every time I get a new tube of toothpaste. They both help me keep a smile on my face. 😊