By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com
Have you hit the irritating state of password overload yet? Just wondering. Spent part of the weekend trying to clean and organize my office – the desktop remains messy, but the computer has been cleaned up a bit – and decided to compile a full list of the log-ins/passwords that are necessary to live my life. I didn’t realize there were so many, and so many different ones.
There are five financial passwords: two banks, credit card company, stock brokerage account and retirement fund.
There are three utility passwords for online bill pay: electric, cable and mobile phone. The landline went away years ago.
There are three newspaper/blog passwords: for uploading pictures to “The Republican-American” for my columns and stories, and for my RIDE-CT.com website and this blog
That’s 11 separate log-ins/passwords so far.
There are five passwords for motorcycle manufacturer press sites that I often use, one more for a website that offer news about radio as well as ones for eBay and Facebook.
The total is now 19.
There’s a password for Kodak Gallery, which I use to have prints made of digital images, and one for access to an out-of-state newspaper.
That’s 21 different log-ins/passwords.
In looking at the list yesterday, it dawned on me that it was missing the most obvious ones? My two email accounts. That brings the total to 23, and you can double the number because a log-in and password are separate entities.
There’s no way to remember so many different log-ins and passwords, although many are similar. A log-in one place might be a password somewhere else and vice versa. It gets so confusing. I suspect I am not alone in having this problem. And there’s no solution, is there?
I now have my passwords printed on a sheet of paper and it’s tucked in a plastic sleeve. Went to look for it this morning, though, and my messy desk had swallowed it. It was back to quesswork.
