I think that the first step is admitting you have a problem. Right?
It is true.
I have a serious Password Problem.
For those of you who don't have a password problem let me do some explaining for you. I hate passwords.
Why?
Plain and Simple: I can NEVER remember my passwords.
It doesn't matter what I pick as my password I can't remember it and then I get "locked out" of whatever I am trying to get into and have to make phone calls, wait for emails and other fun password waiting stuff.
I am wondering how many passwords one person needs to have, because I have way to many for my little brain to remember.
2 email accounts (one work one personal)
1 bank account
innumerable online payment accounts. . . . like home mortgage, banana republic, questar gas, rocky mountain power, comcast, american express, car insurance, FHA, ann taylor etc. . see, I can't even remember all the accounts I have let alone their passwords.
And I can only get to those places if I can remember the password to get onto my computer and then to access my wireless internet. Confusing I know.
password, password, password
My life is complicated. It used to be so easy. I would pick a password I could remember (usually my birthday -- since that is all I can ever remember)
Then, all this password security stuff began. . . "it has to have numbers and letters, it must be no more than 5 characters, it must be 8 characters- no spaces, 3 spaces, can't have any letters of your name, are caps sensitive, are not caps sensitive". . . the list goes on and on.
Then come the security questions. What was your first pets name? Who was your high school science teacher? What is your favorite song on the radio? What color shirt did you wear on October 4th? What is your mother's maiden name? Who is your grandpa's next door neighbor? What date did you start this account? If you could be a super-hero who would you be? Ridiculous! Do they really think that if I can't remember 5 simple numbers and letters to enter into the password box I will remember who I sat by in the 3rd grade?
Once at school my principal set up my computer for me and picked the password. He picked the word walmart as my password, because he knew that I hated walmart and wanted to bug me. I am sad to say that all year long I had type the word walmart into my computer log-in screen every morning (because I couldn't figure out how to change it).
Surprisingly, this is the one password I remembered.
I think I might reset all of my passwords to walmart but I am NEVER going to start shopping there.
It is true.
I have a serious Password Problem.
For those of you who don't have a password problem let me do some explaining for you. I hate passwords.
Why?
Plain and Simple: I can NEVER remember my passwords.
It doesn't matter what I pick as my password I can't remember it and then I get "locked out" of whatever I am trying to get into and have to make phone calls, wait for emails and other fun password waiting stuff.
I am wondering how many passwords one person needs to have, because I have way to many for my little brain to remember.
2 email accounts (one work one personal)
1 bank account
innumerable online payment accounts. . . . like home mortgage, banana republic, questar gas, rocky mountain power, comcast, american express, car insurance, FHA, ann taylor etc. . see, I can't even remember all the accounts I have let alone their passwords.
And I can only get to those places if I can remember the password to get onto my computer and then to access my wireless internet. Confusing I know.
password, password, password
My life is complicated. It used to be so easy. I would pick a password I could remember (usually my birthday -- since that is all I can ever remember)
Then, all this password security stuff began. . . "it has to have numbers and letters, it must be no more than 5 characters, it must be 8 characters- no spaces, 3 spaces, can't have any letters of your name, are caps sensitive, are not caps sensitive". . . the list goes on and on.
Then come the security questions. What was your first pets name? Who was your high school science teacher? What is your favorite song on the radio? What color shirt did you wear on October 4th? What is your mother's maiden name? Who is your grandpa's next door neighbor? What date did you start this account? If you could be a super-hero who would you be? Ridiculous! Do they really think that if I can't remember 5 simple numbers and letters to enter into the password box I will remember who I sat by in the 3rd grade?
Once at school my principal set up my computer for me and picked the password. He picked the word walmart as my password, because he knew that I hated walmart and wanted to bug me. I am sad to say that all year long I had type the word walmart into my computer log-in screen every morning (because I couldn't figure out how to change it).
Surprisingly, this is the one password I remembered.
I think I might reset all of my passwords to walmart but I am NEVER going to start shopping there.
2 comments:
Hi Amber!
I hear you on the Password dilemma. Lately my wife and I have learned of a new way of remembering passwords that allow all your passwords to be different, and yet you will still remember them.
1 - Choose a base password: amber will do :)
2 - Make it slightly different by using a number and a cap: Amb3r
3 - Add 2 characters from the site that you are logging into - for gmail for example it would become: Amb3rgm
And there you have it - a unique password that should pass the "tests" for both length and complexity, will be different for every site you use, and yet you should be able to remember it.
Good luck!
I hate password stuff too- but I mainly wanted to comment on the Walmart hating-ness of the post. Yipee! There's more people out there like me. Death to the abomination that's taking over the world :)
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