August 23, 2006
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Password
Have you ever changed your password for safety purposes only to spend the whole day trying to remember your new password?
Have you ever changed your password for safety purposes only to spend the whole day trying to remember your new password?
Comments (142)
lol yes. first
no….
I have different password for everything
3?
no, dang, 4
I would have commented sooner but couldn’t remember my password
Xanga, Yahoo, Myspace, TheFaceBook, Aim, you name it, all different. There are times I’m like…”What the heck was My Facebook password??? It may be hard and a lot of work, but hackers or people trying to guess my password can’t log onto another. Hehe
This has apparently happened to you.
No.
Yeah. My passwords are usually names of politicians in the 30′s…
Yes, yesterday I did exactly that.
AMEN! Yeah that happens to me all the time!
Ha, my passwords are the middle names of jazz musicians.
No.
Not yet!
i HATE passwords!! i never know which one i’ve set where. drives me nuts.
nope.
nope
17th!
nah
yes i did with xanga i almost forgot the new password……. but luckly memorizing comes easy to me………. it is the most frustrating feeling too………..
What makes you ask???
but I hope you had fun
Yep, it blows!
No. I have like 3 or 4 that I rotate in and out so I only have to guess a few times.
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you have just my myspace. I have one, but I always forget my password
Nope. I have one very long password that is near gibberish that I use for everything.
no. only morons do that.
oh yeah
i have a different password for everything .. but it all has to do with the same thing ..
one subject .. different variations
hah!!
I have on other sites, but not for xanga. I had to change mine recently since I was unable to accurately type the password I had on here for the past three years at least.
I forgot to put the word “described” between just and my
i have teh same password for like everthing but my one email… which i haven’t gotten into in like a year b/c i can’t remember the password
so yeah, definitely
nope. they are all easy to remember and hard to figure out. plus I only use 4 or 5 diff ones, so it only takes a couple of times.
No, I use the same password for everything. I’ve had the same password for 5 years.
No. My passwords are assigned according to a formula that I devised. Very little margin for error.
yea… I did that for my computer. I finally had my dad do some funny trick that let me in.. I no longer have a password on my computer… lol
oh geez… don’t you hate that!?
No…I make sure it’s something I positivley know.
That’s why I email it to myself and keep it in a safe place…
Unless I change the password to my email account. Then I’m screwed.
yes.. lol. all the time.
nah
yes and many times over. Once I changed to something very simple and I forgot.
no…
no. sometimes it takes me a few guesses. if i can’t remember i just click “forgot password?” and they send it to you in like a minute.
once… and it was horrible. i haven’t changed it since, lol
no
yes! i work at a bank and they MAKE us change our password all the time! SO irritating!
No…..I just have them email me what it is…..lol.
Not really. I have a 2-3 words that I designate as passwords. If one doesn’t work, I just try another. It doesn’t take me long to log in.
-Kristin
yes
ugh, yes
yeah
nope. I remember when I change.
No, I rotate about 5 different passwords so I have a one out of five chance of getting it right the first time, lol. Plus if I forget it I think just about everything has a password reminder or you can have your password sent to you or you can change it etc…
yes
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lol yeah
All. The. Time.
Although, I have a few that I rotate, or add numbers onto, so after a few guesses I can usually get it.
I hate passwords. We have different passwords for everything at work. Then I have passwords for the bank, passwords for online stuff, passwords for family stuff. I have a terrible memory and I have to keep a book of all my access names and passwords. Jeez. Sometimes it makes me crazy. I couldn’t get into MySpace once for months because I couldn’t find my access name and password. The same thing happened with Live Journal. Fortunately I don’t use those for much.
Forget someone stealing my social security number, if anyone ever gets my book of names, accounts and passwords, I’m really sunk.
Yep. It sucks. I usually end up getting and email sent to me or whatever..then I’m like “duh moron…”
omg i hate that!!
yea
yeah…
umm no
Nope, but everyone thinks so! She’s my old neighbor (we used to live in CA, we moved halfway across the country 7 years ago); she’s 9 and her brother is 11, and I’ve known them since they were born … so, they’re basically my siblings
We see each other about once or twice a year. I’m told a lot that we look alike, though, which is funny, because she’s half-Mexican. Actually, I don’t know why that’s funny. But yeah … she’s adorable.
No. I can’t think of a time when that’s ever happened.
sure have
yes.. im kinda in that situation now
to answer ur question yes i have
so therefore i usually keep the same pw for everything i know the “experts” say u should have a differant one for everything that way if someone finds one they don’t kno ur pw to everything
but its hard to remember a million differant passwords im working on it though im trying to have them all be differant
Myspace?
all the freaking time.
No. But I do tend to forget passwords if I don’t use them in a while.
whoa
deja vu i just turned my computer off for the first time in like 2 weeks and it took me like a hour to remember it xD
I learned the hard way…write everything down…that way I don’t have to remember!
Only once. I learned my lesson
Yes, there is nothing worse in my book.
I have that problem once a month when I’m forced to change my password on my computer at work! Damn!
Every six months per corporate policy. A minimum of one capitol letter, one special character, one number, and at least six characters long.
And no password used over the last 14 passwords!
yep. thats why i use firefox and have the computer remember my pws…lol
yep. my voicemail pass has been the same since my first cell. i changed it once, couldn’t remember the password and had to have the phone company reset it after 2 months. (which, apparently they can’t do anymore)
mmhmm
i have different passwords for different things heh
problem is, i can never remember which is which
yes infact I did that today with my myspace
yes…and then i feel like an idiot
yes! all the time! but i figured out a way to beat it. i have three different passwords that just use a variety of numbers. so it’s really like six or eight passwords, but at least i have someplace to start when i forget. =)
lol YES. Well no because I just send myself an e-mail to remember. but I do spend all day trying my old password and then remembering I changed it..
No.
I use the same ones for all my email sites and other sites. then I change them all regularly. I hate when I change because my fingers automatically start the other password.
YES.
Haha . . . sounds like someone is aging.
Ugh!!! yes! And now I can’t get at my hotmail account. Because I can’t remember the whole question thing… and silly me, I didn’t provide an alternate e-mail address…
I am constantly having to take advantage of that “Forgot Your Password” link!
silly dan. you forgot your password?
yes, more than a few times.
why do you think it took me so long to comment?
OMG YES! I have done that many times…especially at work. Every 90 days they make us come up with a new log-in password. Federal regulations, anyways…we can not use the same pass word twice and it has to be at least 6 digits, and alpha numeric, AND it is case sensitive…..WOAH! Then I have my personal passwords….debit card, computer log-ins, etc…etc….everytime I open a new account I tend to use whatever password is my current password at work. So remembering which account has which password is getting craZy…. especially since I am not that smart to begin with. <3333333333Rachel
Yes I changed my password about 3 months ago on my other site and I still have problems remembering it. I have a question for you. I don’t have a myspace (I’m boycotting). I’m curious to know if your as popular on myspace as you are on xanga?
Nope.
unbelieveably yes. then i just change it back to what i keep thinking it was.
Mine are always now lyrics..just totally random ones from songs old and new. So I don’t forget, they mean something to me.
But before…yeah.
yup…
No, but now I probably will.
No.
No.
Yes. Multiple times.
-Guru on the Hill
No, but I used to so I came up with about 4 that I rotate.
Generally not, I usually remember all of them. I never duplicate a password, but I did make a change one day before going on a two week vacation and it took a while to remember once I was back.
I have a system. I also am probably about 1/1000th as likely of a target to have my xanga hacked if that is possible. But get a system that has some sort of a logical progression that you would understand and other people will not. My password is imapirhanatheyliveintheamazon. Sorry, been watching Nemo at work. That is definitely not my password.
I don’t remember.
Or rather, trying to remember IF you changed your password or whether you just can’t type, and then IF you changed your password… to what?
can’t say that i have.
Yes…That`s why I started writing them down.
Not changing my password, but when using a new password for another log in, yes.
YES! I do That ALL THE TIME!
Thanks Dan.
I know I’m not the only one now!
YES!
Yes…
Nope,my password has always been Mervin123
I have three passwords for everything. One is more secure than the other. Depending on what I have to use the passwords for depends on which one I use. I’m never too worried about getting my password stolen.
LMAO! Definitely yes!
umm one time i changed my email and other account for something and then i forgot the password COMPLETELY so i had to make a new account..yea…
not a whole day but a good while!
All the time!
roflmao……………………………………………yes
I’ve never changed it for that reasoning. I’m forced to change them every so often due to work policy. I hate it. I have like a trillion passwords to remember and almost all of them change every 6 months, and I can’t even use variations of the original ones. Argh. :Þ
Yep. All the time, I’m surprised that I can even get to my xanga everytime.
Lol, yes I did, and one place, I finally had to ask an admin to reset it for me, because I totally forgot it and forgot which of my emails I had used to activate the account
Yep.
yeah
Yes! I used to be one of those dorks on Neopets (yeah, laugh at me), and they required you to put a number in your password. That’s when I forgot my number I put in. xP ~Ginny
yeah. it sucked because i couldnt remember it,=[
i no iv did that like 100 times all year
Oh god, you did it, didn’t you?
Hahah. Possibly..
[ariana]
If you haven’t, you will.
haha… wasnt for safety purpose… changed to a new password because i forgot the old one… haha
ch’yeah….not on xanga, though.
no.
Yeah. but of course with my luck, the person I was trying to protect my site from guessed the new password before I could remember it.
-k
No, actually, I havent. But, the very few times that I have changed my password on things, I’ll type in my old password at first, then it will say that it’s the wrong password and I’ll be like, “Oh yeah, I changed my password.” and type in the new one, but I’ve never forgotten them. All my passwords are the same, anyways.
-KrIsTiN-
sure have
lol yea i think once