Password Implosion

I like to think of myself as somewhat creative, but if I have to think of one more password I may implode!

I thought I was clever when I first started using the internet. I loved David Mamet's "The Spanish Prisoner." I knew enough to use my childhood pet's name as a password if I ever opened a Swiss bank account.

I joined Facebook like millions of other baby boomers and was thrilled to connect to my grade school classmates from Penn Yan, NY. I only lived there from Grades 2-7 and had very little contact with them for the past 30 years. I had already resigned to the fact that joining FB made me out my age, but the payoff with connecting to everyone I have ever met was worth it.

I panicked when a friend innocently commented, "I remember your dog Penny when you lived on Hillcrest." OMG, not only did she nail my Swiss bank account password, but also my mythical "porn" name, Penny Hillcrest!

Then I started to wonder how many of us have the same passwords. If you lived in a certain place at a certain time, I'll bet we liked the same restaurants and TV shows.

Since then, I have (and no doubt, you have too) gone through dozens of password naming configurations and log-ins. And quite frankly, I can't keep up anymore. I don't remember what point in time I logged in with that device on that website with that clever password. I only have three pets, I can't keep up!

I'm sure there is an App for my problem but I can't remember how to log into it. Are you having the same problem?