Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Tangled Web

User Name ________
Password__________

Does anyone else have trouble managing all of your passwords and user names for the various web sites you visit and subscribe to? Drives me crazy. I need a method to keep track of them. I used to have one universal user name and password but then the web sites started having more rules: mixture of letters and symbols, minimum length, etc. THEN some e-master decided you need to change your password every few months. As if I don't have enough to keep track of...

Now it's also complicated by the fact that Leah is on Webkinz and Club Penguin and a plethora of other web sites and I have to try and remember her user names and passwords.

And how about those sites with the squiggly, scrambled letters that you have to retype or they won't let you in? Sometimes I cannot tell if the letters are uppercase or lowercase or if it's an "l" or a "1". And I'm sure that the twentysomethings that invented this new level of security are feeling so smug when I type it in wrong and they reject my post.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ain't it the truth?! Usually the robot detectors are fairly easy to get past, but we found one the other day that was almost impossible to read. And if you have dial-up? Forget it! That's why Cath can never post comments to my blog.