These days you have to have a password for everything. And most of us are strugging to keep up.
A new survey from LastPass was pretty disheartening:
Over the past month, the average American has been locked out of 10 online accounts because they forgot the password.
63% of people say it happens a lot.
65% of respondents admit they’d forget their passwords unless they wrote it down somewhere. Another 65% say they panic when they realize their computer or phone doesn't have it stored.
In fact, 57% say if they lost their phone they’d be locked out of most of their accounts, including their bank account.
A lot of us have websites we avoid because we have no clue what the password (and sometimes user ID) could be.
Solutions?
Our old go-to was the Password folder at home. We'd write down new passwords, literally on scraps of paper or even a napkin, and throw it in the Password folder. Not very efficient, to say the least. But it's still my husband's go-to.
You could save it to a document, but then you run the risk of getting hacked and someone getting everything... or accidentally deleting it and losing everything.
This may be why we have anxiety.
(P.S. I never promised to fix it. Just identifying the problem)
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