I have a list of at least 35 passwords for different sites, memberships, institutions. etc. Most of these have different IDs and usernames.
Many of them get updated every 60-90 days.
Is this a normal number of passwords to have? How many do you have?
How do you manage your list?
Between my various email accounts, social networking sites, business/trade programs (MLS, DocuSign, the showing service), my childrens’ school portal (to check their grades, add money to school account etc) and online banking, I probably have close to 15 logins/passwords. The ones I don’t use daily and don’t have memorized I keep in the notes section of my phone.
It’s pretty annoying…it’s probably not a smart thing to do, but I try to keep my username the same across the board, and just change up the password a little. For the ones that I have to change up after 90 days, I definitely have to jot those down in my phone notes
I have way too many passwords.
keeping track of them has been very annoying. I need to use a password mgmt app but then am concerned that will get hacked.
also annoying is my email situation. I need to clean out my email and have separate ones for separate things. otherwise important stuff gets buried in junk…I was going to do a full digital life cleanup over holidays but well..that did not happen
I use 2 unique usernames (one of them I use here) and 3 passwords. If I need a strong password for an account then I join 2 of them. So in total I have 4 passwords. Either A or B or C or B+C and yes both B and C have uppercase, lowercase, special characters and digits.
I have about 5 accounts just on GS. Password is the same for all of them
Have you guys not heard of password managers/organizers, some that even integrate with your browsers and “travel” with you from device to device? And they are FREE?
Except for my primary email account(s), i store pretty much everything else on one of these: