When we visit websites, quite often we are required to create an account to access certain features; most often they want your email address as the user name. It is very common for folks to use their own email address and password when doing this because it is easy to remember but this is really not a good practice. Not saying you have done this but a way to do this better is to use one or more of the following:
1) (Minimum. Use a completely different password than the one you use for your email account.
2) (Good but a little more work.) Use an Alias instead of your real email address. You can login to your webmail panel and add an Alias such as My_Webs that points to MyRealName@MyDomain.com
You can create as many of these aliases as you need and point them to your real email address. Then use those aliases to login to websites with your unique passwords. If you start seeing SPAM coming to those alias addresses, you can simply go into the web panel and delete the alias and create another one.
3) (Best, even I don’t do this religiously but quite often.) Use a completely different password for EACH site you visit. This may sound hard but you can do something like:
a) Pick a password that is strange but easy for you to remember, like M1d0g3# then,
b) For each site such as Facebook, add two or more characters to the end like M1d0g3#_FB, etc., for Google, make it M1d0g3#_GGL and so on. This way, you have a common password with a slight difference that is easy to remember. Make up your own unique codes.
