Did you ever find that as you create more and more new accounts (be they Google, Shopping sites, E-vites) it becomes more, and more difficult to log on because you start forgetting all the passwords you've created and can't ever get into your own accounts? I sat here this morning trying to get into my brand new blog for about half an hour. HOI DA????? I try to keep a written list of all these passwords, but then, I forget where I put the list. Perhaps I should just create the same exact user ID and password for every single account I activate. Although, it's possible I might come home one day and find that someone has stolen my identity (don't know why anyone would ever want to do something like that) and taken all my $$ out of my savings account (not that I have much left during this financial crunch).
Yes, when you have no patience for these things, life can be real difficult.
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Oh my God. This stuff is tremendously entertaining to me. So Ass Fresco.
ReplyDeleteThis is great!! I get to hear this stuff in person at lunch (which always makes me laugh and really breaks up a boring day). I will definitely add this site to my favorites!
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Yes, I have succumbed to making all my passwords and user names the same, but the real problem lately is my bank which prompts me to change it every 3 months for security purposes. So, I went back and forth between the same 2 passwords, with just a capitalized initial letter to effect the difference for about a year, until my bank got wise to my trick and issued a new policy preventing re-use of the same password for 6 months. Which meant that I had to start altering different letters to make them capitalized. As you might imagine, it was not long until every attempt at access was a hacker attempt, as I repeatedly forgot what my capitalized letter of the moment might be. The latest policy is disabling my account after 3 wrong tries. So, to avoid locking the account on the very day that I need to see if I have enough money to write my would-be check, I am sometimes forced to click on the "clue" to my password link, which then gives me questions (that I apparently answered a many years ago) like "what is your mother's middle name" (who's mother, mine or Brian's, I am never sure, and when it is mine, did I write Concepcion, Conchita, or Conchi? definitely don't know), or what city did you get married in (Long Island? Saint James? St. James? NYC? again, who knows). Those clue questions are much more punitive when you get the answer wrong though they have not yet implemented a fining procedure that debits my account that I can't get into for everytime I activate their security breach bells.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. I see that we are definitely familialy tied (is that a word?). I, too, have that very problem. My password at work is rudely changed every time I'm out of the office. I spend my life sending messages to all sorts of establishments through the "I forgot my user ID and....um.....my password too (for the FIFTHTEENTH TIME!!!) could you please send all that information to me again, and again, and again........?"
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