12 Biggest Tech Myths You Hear All the Time
10. A Magnet Can And Will Erase Your Hard Drive
A common magnet is capable of erasing the contents of a floppy disk. Whereas USB storage, SD cards have nothing magnetic in them, so a magnet won’t do anything to them. Also laptop and desktop hard drives are safe from magnets. PCMag magazine found that you would need an incredibly strong, industrial-strength magnet pointed in just the right direction in order to wipe a hard drive's contents. So your data is probably OK if you accidentally place a refrigerator magnet on your MacBook.
9. Facebook Is About To Start Charging For Service
No, this is totally false. Don't believe those chain letters. Facebook is never going to charge for service. A section from the Facebook Help Center entitled "Facebook Myths” has a question: “Will Facebook ever charge for service?” The answer given is, “No. We will always keep Facebook a free service for everyone.”
