As someone who used Lifelock, I've actually gotten one of those phone calls asking about extending credit, from my phone company - turned out they wanted to increase my credit limit (my teenager was racking up some LD charges chatting with his gf). That one phone call saved me several hundred dollars (they wanted to up it from $200 to $1000). Instead, I was able to get onto a different plan so the calls were free in the future.
For me, it's worth it. (I have been notified that information had been stolen, which is why I'd signed up in the first place.)
Yes - I could, theoretically, go in and place those holds myself. But - I use online banking so that I don't have to remember to write out checks, that's the bank's job. Why shouldn't I be able to pay a company do this for me?
Yes - permanent blocks would be better - but that just ain't gonna happen and we all know it.
There have been several people correcting misinformation on Twitter - I spent a fair amount of time doing it myself. Twitter has also been a good sources of information on school closings and local incidents, sooner than any big media source - and many people provide a cite for where to get more info on the incident.
Yes, there are silly tweets about the aporkalypse and the like, but the opportunity is there to get correct information to the masses and to correct misinformation - there were many tweets reminding people, for example, that eating pork doesn't lead to swine flu.
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As someone who used Lifelock, I've actually gotten one of those phone calls asking about extending credit, from my phone company - turned out they wanted to increase my credit limit (my teenager was racking up some LD charges chatting with his gf). That one phone call saved me several hundred dollars (they wanted to up it from $200 to $1000). Instead, I was able to get onto a different plan so the calls were free in the future.
For me, it's worth it. (I have been notified that information had been stolen, which is why I'd signed up in the first place.)
Yes - I could, theoretically, go in and place those holds myself. But - I use online banking so that I don't have to remember to write out checks, that's the bank's job. Why shouldn't I be able to pay a company do this for me?
Yes - permanent blocks would be better - but that just ain't gonna happen and we all know it.
There have been several people correcting misinformation on Twitter - I spent a fair amount of time doing it myself. Twitter has also been a good sources of information on school closings and local incidents, sooner than any big media source - and many people provide a cite for where to get more info on the incident.
Yes, there are silly tweets about the aporkalypse and the like, but the opportunity is there to get correct information to the masses and to correct misinformation - there were many tweets reminding people, for example, that eating pork doesn't lead to swine flu.