So, I got the opportunity the other day to be up at home, and I taught my mom how to be more safe on the internet, and was able to help her feel more secure online. She is pretty cautious about the internet in general, and I was able to alleviate some pretty real concerns for her.
The first thing that she liked learning about was the temporary credit card number that could be set up to make the purchase and evaporate after that so your credit card number never really gets out in cyberspace. She is always cautious, and makes online purchases on a computer that's hooked up to a hard line, so that she doesn't have her "credit card up in the air for crooks to sniff out."
She als appreciated the discussion we had about multiple email addresses and having those accounts forward to your real email that you don't give out to anybody. I actually had her set up her own personal Gmail account so that she could have access to google calendars as well.
All in all, I think it went very well. She is definitely going to implement some of the things she learned into her everyday life. And I'm never putting my debit card number in to buy something ever again. too scary.
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