Norton Identity Safe Works For Me {and Android Tablet Giveaway}
As a blogger you are given the chance to review loads and loads of products. As I’ve said before it’s important to me for you *my lovely, super-awesome readers* not to feel like everything is a big commercial here so I only accept things that I can truly get behind and that I feel you would like to know about too. Enter Norton Identity Safe.
Since I began blogging my home computer has become my home office. And things have gotten crazy up in here! Usernames and passwords have reproduced like rabbits! Let’s take a quick look.
Pre-blog:
- Bank
- Amazon
- Netflix (which I always and forever forget when I need it)
Nowadays: {In addition to above}
- Blog Email
- Gmail
- Klout
- StumbleUpon
- HootSuite
- Google+
- Foodgawker
- Tastespotting
- Tasteologie
- Dessert Stalking
- PayPal
Look familiar? Honestly I know I’m missing a few…but those are the regular offenders. I am on the lazy side and I usually stick close to the same password with small variations but even that gets me in trouble sometimes. In the beginning weeks of In Katrina’s Kitchen I used my personal email account. BAD decision. If you are going to start a blog please just take the extra 10 minutes to create a separate email account to handle all of your correspondence from. Trust me. I have since gone in and changed almost every login to use my blog information but there are some platforms that can’t be changed. So invariably I spend 5 minutes trying to figure out if my username is my personal email or name, my blog email or name, and what variation of password is required here (numbers and letters? Must use a symbol? Must use a capital letter?). It’s maddening and I often lock myself out of the site- true story.
Needless to say I have really loved using Norton Identity Safe. It has helped me manage my passwords and even credit card information. It helps you fill out forms and credit card information, and it will tell you if a website looks fraudulent. I personally love that it has an app that you can download for your smartphone or tablet so you can truly shop anywhere you want anytime you want and not have to go digging into your purse for your wallet. Can a sister get an amen?! Once you enter your information it locks it away into an online vault. I kind of really like that word vault, don’t you? Much safer than having a document on your computer entitled “passwords.” Ahem.
So, let’s review: Norton Identity Safe is a password manager! Hooray! I installed it in 5 minutes…all by my pretty little self! Hooray! Available for Mac and PC users! Hooray! It’s FREE for you to download, so go give it a test drive! Hooray!
Speaking of free things- Leave a comment on this post sharing a story about a time you forgot or lost a password and you’ll have a chance to win one of five Android Tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2- 10.1-Inch, Wi-Fi) with Norton Mobile Security and Identity Safe installed!!
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161 Comments on “Norton Identity Safe Works For Me {and Android Tablet Giveaway}”
Well….what an idiot!!! This giveaway is C L O S E D and I spent all that time telling you my story!! Oh well, better luck next time!! NOT!!! I never win anything anyway!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🙂
I too have forgotten passwords, mostly due to the fact that you have to have so many. As you said, one for everything stinking thing you do. BUT, my worst one ever has to be the one I forgot/lost, whatever…. for my second favorite thing, next to food, and that was for my music. Yes, I lost my password for all my music and to this date it still hasn’t been resolved.
See, I had had my account so long that the email address it was signed up through didn’t even exist anymore because the company had been sold. However, my account was still linked to it. I called, email, begged, cried, threw a fit and anything else I could think of to try and get my password, but see the problem was that because the IP did not exist anymore there was no way I could prove who I was to my “music” provider so they would not release my password. I have since had to re-purchase ALL my music/videos, and I am talking YEARS worth bunches of $$ worth!! What a bummer, in more ways than one. I will never forget one again and I am going to try the Norton safe right now. Thank you so much for posting the download!! Happy Holidays 🙂
great post thanks for sharing
Most passwords I can eventually get by trial and error, but heaven forbid if I forget my bank or AT&T. They lock you out and you have to go get on the phone with them and sit through the countdown waiting for someone to become available to take your call. They always act like you are a total idiot!
i always forget mine and have to do a reset
I am constantly forgetting passwords. The "forgot password" button is my best friend.
tweet https://twitter.com/buzz8/status/2305024935645757…
I try to make hard passwords but always forget them so have to click on the forgot password button. Then I tried to put them down in code to prompt my memory but that doesn't work.
tweeted: https://twitter.com/KerryBishop/status/2304934707…
At work I have 6 different passwords and I forget at least one of them daily! Wish they would let us just have one password for everything!
The last time my computer crashed I lost hundreds of passwords. I belong to a lot of sites and keeping track is hard. Then I have to email the site and ask for help or wait sometimes for days for them to send me a password.