What is a Google account and why is it needed? What is an Internet account and what is it for? How to create an account? How to protect your account from hacking

An account is something Account on the Internet on some resource. To correspond by e-mail, communicate with friends on social networks or make purchases in an online store, you must first there register, in other words - create an account.

At the same time, each service offers to create your own account: Yandex has one, Odnoklassniki has another, Microsoft has a third, and so on.

Usually registration on most services free– in return, companies gain access to statistics Your account, for example, the number of visits, what was typed into the search, with whom you corresponded. Based on this data, advertising is selected from which companies make money. The resource administration is responsible for the non-disclosure of your personal information.

Any account has login(username in the system) and password(the key that allows access to the account).

Many people may know your login. For example, for mail login is at the same time email address. As for the password, only you and no one else should know it.

How to register an account

To register an account, you must first open resource in a browser, application or other accessible method. Find link(usually called " Registration" or " Create an account"), located next to the login data entry fields. Then come up with and enter a unique one (which has not been previously registered) login and as complex as possible password(to make it more difficult for attackers to hack).

Binding can be not only to the login, but also to the postal address or phone number. To create several accounts on one resource, you will need to enter several different email addresses or mobile numbers.

Why fill out your profile?

It is recommended to enter real information if you want your friends and family to be able to find you. This data can be: last name, first name, date of birth, avatar, city of residence, interests, etc., that is, this is kind of yours questionnaire.

This open information, which other users of the resource can access. All this is needed to simplify data filtering, making it easier for you to find the information you need and easier for others to find yours.

Entering a password is not the only way to pass login verification. Sometimes instead of a password they use Token– special usb device, which should be inserted into the computer for authorization (login to your account).

The password can also be replaced biometric data, voice, retina, etc.

To enhance security, sites and services may require something else along with the password. For example, a one-time code that will be sent to you via SMS on your mobile phone or created in a special application.

Stealing this code is difficult and there is no point in it, because it only works once. This type of protection is called two-factor(double) authentication. Yes, you will have to make a little more effort to access your account, but you should keep in mind that the hunt for your credentials can be serious, and therefore such protection is justified.

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New smartphone users often wonder what a phone account is. And some people do not immediately realize that a registered profile makes it convenient and quick to use a number of functions.

What is it?

Simply put, an account is a smartphone user account. For example, for Android it is . With its help, personal data about the owner of the mobile device is saved. All gadget data is synchronized on Google servers, which makes it possible to restore lost data if the smartphone software fails or is lost.

In addition, using the created data profile, access to various applications and mobile services that can be installed on the device is provided.

When you turn on a new Android phone, you are prompted to create an account. You can register a new one or use an existing one, if there is one. Keep in mind that without creating an account, you will not be able to use most Google services.

Thus, to make full use of the resources of your device, it is advisable to register a Gmail email, the login and password of which are used to log in on your smartphone.

Why do you need an account on your device?

Having figured out what an account is in a gadget, you need to set the desired settings. For example, you can put contacts with Google. This will prevent data loss in the future. And all synchronized contacts are available on your smartphone offline.
To use the Android market, you must also connect your registered profile. To make purchases in the market, you will need to link your payment card number. After making a purchase, you can cancel the purchase within 15 minutes.

It is worth noting that you only need to buy any product from the market once from your profile in order to get free access to it when you change your mobile device.

As you can see, for devices running on the Android platform, having a Google profile is mandatory. This will expand the capabilities of the gadget and greatly simplify working with it.

What is an account and why is it needed?

In what cases is it used?

What should an account contain?

The term " account" appeared in the Russian language relatively recently.

This is a word of English origin (English account, translated as “account”), which was originally used to refer to bank accounts.

However, over time, it began to be used in a slightly different area.

What does the word account mean?

Not everyone can give an exact definition of this expression. For example, a regular user of social networks may not even know what an account is. To understand what this term represents, it is necessary to understand what we will now proceed to.

Regardless of how a person visits the Global Network (either using a modem or using a mobile phone), but as a result of these actions an account is created. After all, to log into the Internet, you need user data, which this very account contains.

The account contains all the user's personal data, with which you can visit the Internet. An account can be a login, name, nickname or, say, an email address, which must be entered when visiting a resource or system. For example, to register on a website, you will be asked to enter your email address.

Information that the account contains

The first thing is your email address, as well as your login and password. In some cases, the system may require additional information, such as, for example, phone number, ICQ number, your photo, etc. Such information, as a rule, is not mandatory on many sites, so it may not be specified when registering.

It is simply impossible to log into any social network without having an account. Currently the most widespread social networks are “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki”. These sites are visited daily by millions of users from all over the Runet and beyond.

If you still don’t know what a VKontakte account is, then know that this is a username, and logging into a site under an account means visiting a social network under your name and password.

By the way, here’s how it’s created in !

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Account, profile or are all synonyms of the same concept. If the meaning of one of them is “clear as day” to you, then, in general, it is not necessary to read this publication to the end. However, if questions still remain, I will try to answer them.

Examples of accounts and why are they needed?

In my opinion, the most obvious example of an account that almost all Internet users have is , about which I even wrote a separate article at one time. Moreover, by creating a profile in at least one Google service, you can use its data (login and password) to log in to all others (such as, for example, Social Network, and others).

In RuNet, accounts in Yandex and Mail.ru are equally popular. In all three of these cases, the concept of “creating an account” is tightly connected with receiving a free mailbox (this confused me at first). Actually, your login in this case will be the unique Email address received from them (read about that, and).

But this is specific only to these services, the most reliable of which is certainly Google, because hacking its account when using the mentioned protection is practically impossible.

Where else no need to create an account? Well, that's right - social networks. In fact, without registration you are deprived of all basic capabilities (read about, and). Moreover, a profile on social networks plays, perhaps, the most significant role among all services on the Internet.

It is how other network users evaluate you and recognize you. In addition, the social media interface itself is designed in such a way that, based on the analysis of account data, it shows the materials and advertising blocks that are most interesting to you. You don’t want to watch advertisements that aren’t interesting to you, do you? Therefore, fill out your profile honestly in the areas of your interests and passions.

So, what is an account? In the simplest case, these are the ones you came up with when registering for any service on the Internet. In front of them, we have already talked in some detail and, I hope, you will not repeat my mistakes, which at one time led to the loss and infection of my sites with a virus. I advise you to use my tips for organizing the storage of logins and passwords for all your accounts.

In addition to your login and password, your account may also store other information about you as a user of this service. How voluminous it will be depends mainly on you. You can fill out your profile completely, or you can choose not to do so at all. However, it is worth remembering that guarantee the safety of your personal data(full name, address, bank card details), by and large, no one can (even the one who declares it).

Therefore, I advise you to approach such things very seriously. See for yourself. Let's say that on your profile on social networks you have been very open. It is difficult to use this information directly against you, unless you violated the laws of your country by posting prohibited materials or calling for something illegal.

However, there is such a thing as social engineering (a type of Internet fraud), which uses carelessly left personal data, both in accounts and directly in messages (in social networks, forums, blogs, etc.). Personally, I know of an example where a person was able to steal money from his unhackable WebMoney wallet (it was activated) by skillfully manipulating his gullibility in correspondence.

How to create and delete an account?

How to create an account? Quite simple. As I described above, come up with a login and password (sometimes the service itself gives you the latter, but you will be free to change it later). Oh yes, it was not for nothing that at the beginning of the publication I started talking about services that distribute free mailboxes. You will not be able to create an account without an email in the vast majority of Internet services and sites.

Now, however, we are moving towards a transition to a more secure method of authentication and confirmation of the right to manage your profile (mobile phone number), but Email is still needed and it is most likely impossible to create an account without it. However, you can get a mailbox for free on dozens of services, which will only work for a few days.

I do not recommend specifying your main email when creating accounts. Why? Well, it all explains why the services need your data and mailbox in the first place. Roughly speaking - to send messages that ideally should encourage you to return to them, and to notify you about events that have occurred on the service.

That’s why I advise you to use the “left box” when creating an account, and if the service really hooks you and you stay on it, then the Email can be changed, unlike the login.

Now about how to delete your account? Everything is much more complicated here. To lure you into their networks, the owners of social networks, forums, blogs and other sites place the registration button in the most visible place, mark a large number of fields as mandatory and want to get as much benefit as possible from the profile you created.

They have no reason to let you go free. Therefore, the option to delete an account is very often located in a very inconspicuous place and it is not always possible to find it right away. The easiest way to obtain information about the procedure for deleting a profile is to contact the service’s technical support or the owner of the forum or blog. Most likely they will help you.

Well, if this process takes a long time and you can’t delete your account on your own, then all you have to do is simply turn off notifications from this service or configure them to be included in spam on your email service. In this regard, I like Gmail - it’s enough to mark an email as spam once or twice and you’ll never see them in your inbox again.

In general, the moral of this publication is this: creating an account is always very simple, but deleting it is much more difficult, because in the first case you are acting in the interests of the owners, and in the second - against their policy of retaining users and involving them in the process of filling the service with content, viewing advertising and other important (from the owners’ point of view) things. In general, a trap in its purest form...

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