Top 8 Tech Myths You should Not Believe!! Myth Smashers!!

     Technology is progressing leaps and bounds and so are myths. Myths are always popping out of some or the other misleading thing people hear or read. Then the same is followed by many others and eventually it’s the right thing to be done. Some of these myths terminate quickly and are not actually harming you or your device. But, some myths actually come in between you and your user experience. We previously made a similar article which was particularly targeted at enhancing your experience, you can check it out here. Now, let’s begin smashing myths.

  1 Social Media Is Free

    If you think that social media is free then you are just a naïve internet user. Social Medias like Facebook, WhatsApp and others even Google isn’t free. All of these giants use you data like cookies, Browsing history, Opinions and feedback for advertisement generation and other uses. All of these companies earn when you click their ads or pay any attention to them. Next time you click on an amazon link to buy anything think about this or maybe just not. Especially while clicking our ads. (Wink-Wink)

  2 Typing URL Is Safest

  If you think you become a pro internet pro by just typing in the URL to stay away from any malicious website, then you should know that you are still not safe. The most common trick used by spammers and malicious websites is redirecting the user. Even if you type a URL, you can still be redirected easily. The less-known or less-used method is key-logger. Key-logging means recording or logging the keys stroke on a keyboard, normally secretly, such that the person using the keyboard is oblivious of their actions being monitored.

  3 File with Bigger Size ≠ Always Better

  If you are one of the people who downloads the bigger sized file thinking, “Yeah, It must be nice or high resolution” even if it is marked the same resolution, think what you are doing.

Yeah most of the times you are right and if it clearly says file one- HD and file two- Full HD and in this situation you are right. But, Most smarty-pants think that the same edition of game, Video or Music or anything is better if it is bigger. No, this is not always true. It is possible the smaller file might be compressed or nicely managed or does not include crapware or bloatware.

  4 Disk Partition Improves Performance

  No one knows how and when this myth originated. Believe it or not Disk Partitioning does not improve or disprove the performance of your device. Disk Partitioning is used primarily for management of, Well, Disk. Disk partitioning is used in multiple scenarios. One of which is to install OS in one drive and files in other.

  5 Cryptocurrencies Are Illegal

  While laws related to cryptocurrencies are strict in most of the countries and it is very risky to invest in them, yet cryptocurrencies are legal in most of the nations. People are always assuming that cryptocurrencies are scam and illegal. Cryptocurrencies are unsupervised but not illegal in most of the nations. Although in some nations they are risky and you can know more about them here. But, we in general don’t suggest them if you are not investing surplus amount.

  6 Latest Updates Aren’t Always Good

  There are many articles regarding this issue. Updates usually for older phones are not always good. Your old phone might not be able to take the load of the updates and perform poorly than before and there have been cases where older phones were given updates to make the phone run slower for whatever reasons. Security updates are necessary but not each and every software update is going to boost performance.

7 Apps From App Store And Play Store Are    Always Safe

  This is the most common misconception that people have including Apps. If an App is on the App store or Play Store it is safe to be used for sure. Play store and App store are constantly trying to remove malicious Apps and Fishy Apps, yet there is some garbage left over every now and then. Most of the Apps are normal and don’t require much information or permissions. But, If a camera App requires permission to you Contacts and other confidential detail, Maybe reconsider your decision and take a look at a better App.

  8 SSDs Are Always Faster Than HDDs

  This is partially true, SSDs are faster than HDDs in most of the cases. But, making a purchase decision based on just their names and assumption is wrong. Newer HDDs are faster than many cheapo SSDs and also have longer life than previous ones. Even by comparing Read and Writer Speeds it is not that big of a difference for a common user who doesn’t transfer files much, but for a Content Creator that can be a deal maker or breaker. You can know about SSDs, HDDs and SSHDs here.

     These are some more commonly followed myths or should we say “Were”. We hope that you don’t give into ones of these after reading this article and remember most of those as they can save you a lot of time as well as protect you on the internet. We have links to referencing articles to the stuff we talked about above that might not be familiar to you, So also check those to grasp a better knowledge of the Tech World. And for more of such informative articles and Tech News, Visit Rohan Wayangankar’s Blog.

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