How to choose passwords

The era of inland letters and postal greetings is approaching end. Today we could hardly find a person who uses postal service to get in touch with the relatives thanks to the technological developments. The arrival of new players like telecommunication and internet had pushing out the traditional services like postal out of the play ground. Today it is very hard to find a person without email ID. We all of us have email ID and a password to open the email account. The password is created at the time of creating the email ID. Since password can be stolen or guessed, most of the email service providers allows to change the password. While creating password most of the users create password carelessly. Some of them even forget the password after the account is created. The password must be chosen very wisely since internet is the best way to spread bad impression of a person to a great number of people.
Microsoft recommends the password must be at least 14 characters long. The strength of a password is determined by the different types of characters you use. It is always better not to use the words find in dictionaries as passwords. If words from dictionaries are used, the hacker can easily guess the password of your account. Also bear in mind do not use common passwords. Most of the people uses 123456 as password. How simply a hacker can find such a password ? Also don't use locally used words as password. It is very common trend in Kerala to write the PIN number over the ATM cards. It is like handling key of your account to the thief.
You can check the strength of your password at:  https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx?WT.mc_id=Site_Link