Yes, torture.
I have never been so frustrated, or so forced to restrain myself from tossing my computer out of the window, as I have with the ever present torturous rampage of the password.
You may ask yourself. Huh? What does that mean? What's she on about now?
I'll tell you what I'm on about.
Passwords! Passwords to the never ending parade of websites that keep multiplying and multiplying, there is no end to the internet and there will never be an end to the new things you can find online but there is an end to the capacity my brain has to process it all and remember every single detail and fluctuation.
I tried, I really did -and I still do!- but can you honestly tell me that you have a completely different and unique password for every single website you are on? That you have a fluctuating password that changes every -what do they say it has to be?- week?!
How in the name of everything that is good and simple can anyone remember all that.
Mind you my passwords change probably that many times just because I don't remember the damned things and am constantly resetting them.
I just find it ridiculous that I start getting annoyed at resetting systems that aren't like other resetting systems and can't help me as well or as quickly.
I judging password reset pages against other ones!
There is no surer sign that this is getting ridiculous!
Sigh.... I realize this is an insane rant, but for those of you who like me do not posses a mind of infinite reaches but something more like a full sponge that when you learn something else (or put a password of a new website in for example), well some of the old information (i.e. old passwords) dribble out the other end.
It's hard to suffer from full brainspongia.
I know what you mean. Inefficient password-resetting pages annoy the hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a different password for each site, and my passwords don't change anywhere nearly as often as they supposedly should. I have somewhere around five different passwords (four of which were previous e-mail passwords), and which one I use on each site depends on how much I trust the company/organisation in charge of the site. But a few sites don't allow certain kinds of passwords (too long, not enough numbers, not enough uppercase letters, can't have spaces, can't have non-alphanumeric characters...), so I then use variants of those five or so passwords. The problem is that later I don't always remember which variant of which password I used for each site, and therefore I have to reset again and again. So yes, I know what you mean.
I also hate password-resetting pages which won't allow me to use a password I've used in the last year (e.g. Apple) and password-resetting pages which generate a random password for me (because then I have to manually change it to something else, which takes longer and therefore annoys me).
Glad to know there's another term for "terrible memory syndrome". ;)