The World Wide Web or as we all know as the “Internet” has been very useful and fun to use especially now with the escalation of social networking sites like friendster, twitter, facebook and many more. So what do all these sites have in common? Cookies! Yes, Cookies!
You might find the term funny but this is very useful to both the internet users and for the sites (like those stated above). Cookies identify you to the site. They store settings about your preferred customized look and feel for the pages you view, your username and encrypted password or user id, who referred you to the site, profile preferences, and just about any kind of information the administrator want them to store to customize your user experience. Cookies are most commonly used to give you access to login protected pages once you’ve entered your information, identify you in content that you changed on the site like for example forum posts or article comments. Again, cookies will function as their creators have written them to function. This sounds like a simple, obvious statement, but it must not be overlooked because cookies are also vulnerable to exploits and hacks.
So basically cookies serve as your passport to secure sites. So whenever you are logging-in a site like facebook, always remember that there’s a cookie behind that.
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