5 Ways to Clean Up Our Digital Lives | Avast

5 Ways to Clean Up Our Digital Lives | Avast
Leena Elias, 3 June 2020

With increased time spent indoors, the technology that’s been serving as our lifeline could use a tune up



Spring has always been synonymous with cleaning — warmer weather and longer days work as a stimulant encouraging people to become more active. After months of cooler climates and — more recently, shelter-in-place — there’s no time like the present to tend to those over-cluttered closets, garages, basements, etc. 
This spring is also a particularly good time to spruce up our digital resources. The pandemic has kept us all indoors longer than usual, and the technology that’s been serving as our lifeline to the world outside could use some attention.
After dealing with the junk and the dirt, doing a quick scrub of our accounts and devices can help us operate more efficiently and do a better job protecting ourselves from hacks. Here are five ways to clean up our digital lives. 
Clean out email accounts
While some people manage to stick to a “zero inbox rule,” most of us let emails pile up month after month, year after year. Keeping some emails can be useful. Maybe you’ve stashed an old phone number or family list that’s worth saving. But keeping too many emails can cause problems — particularly if some messages contain personal information, financial details or identifying data. Bogged-down inboxes can not only get in the way of productivity – they can give hackers information you don’t want shared.
If your account is ever hacked, you’ll want to limit your exposure. Take a few minutes and delete all the emails you no longer need, and export the ones you still want either to the cloud or a hard drive. Ema ..

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