I don’t know if anyone has yet been diagnosed with internet schizophrenia, but it can’t be long in coming….
I’ve long been interested in blogging, and scoail networking. I enjoy amusing videos as much as the next person. And I like to have an email account for personal use, and one for any selling on ebay. I also like to pay bills online, and I’ve shopped at amazon…
Assuming I don’t want someone to steal all my identities at once, that means a username and secure password for each site…And obviously I can’t store them on my PC, as that would leave me vulnerable as well…
I know of people with various systems for creating and remembering passwords, involving a secure password with an alhpanumeric code taken from whichever site to which it applies….but they’re the kind of people who have a media PC set-up and run their own servers. Linux, probably…
So what solutions are there? I have, in addition to my work email, 4 email accounts. I have 4 blogs, under two log ins. Most have Google Adsense etc running. Then I have a Flickr account, Youtube account, Amazon account, Ebay account and a LinkedIn. I belong to at least 7 or 8 forums for personal use. So we’re already up to 19 different usernames and passwords, if I don’t slip into using the same one for anything.
Oh, and while I’m here….does anyone actually use Del.icio.us? I’ve got an account (so that’s 20!), but I haven’t discovered what it’s useful for… I have an ever expanding bookmarks folder in my browser, and not enough hours to browse sites i already know about!
