Do you have same user name and password for each website you have joined?

@sanuanu (11235)
India
January 3, 2009 6:35pm CST
Do you use the same user name and password or would like to have different for security purpose? I have two username and two passwords for each webiste. I can't remember different username and password for each site I join.
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39 responses
• United States
4 Jan 09
When I tried that, even though I kept a list by the computer, it became too confusing. Using the same one for everything works most of the time. I still go to some sites that assign a screen name and password, and I never remember them!
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• United States
29 Jan 09
There are so many sites I visit, I'm afraid I'd forget a variety of screennames. It's lazy, but I'm always in a hurry, so it's the least difficult way.
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• United States
31 Jan 09
There's no big mystery. I have very long fngernails, so I use them, not my fingers, to type. If one breaks, I find it very difficult. Avoiding hitting the wrong keys is not as difficult. Since I've been doing it this way since my early teens, when I first learned to type, I wonder, as I'm sure you do, why I type at all, or why I just don't cut my nails. Well, old habits die hard!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
31 Jan 09
Why least difficult? Why not the easiest?
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@karubod (603)
• India
4 Jan 09
hi...yes i have the same same user name and password usually, some times i may change the user name but the password always remains same.in this way we just cannot get confused every time we have to use.then just note down the user name & password somewhere for safety...happy my lotting....
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
7 Jan 09
Hi there, passwords are more important, that's why I am trying to live with 2-3 passwords for my online life.
• United States
4 Jan 09
I use various usernames but usually I use one of four or five passwords that are sort of variants of each other. I have a hard time keeping up with too many things, and I've forgotten the old passwords I used on some of my older accounts on sites, so these days I prefer to keep things simple. :)
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jan 09
I am also trying to increase my stock of passwords. Ealier I used to use only one password, then it gets increased by one. Today I am planning to find a new password, which is easy to remember.
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• United States
4 Jan 09
i use the same user name on most my sites. only a few of them are different and that is because my whole username wouldnt fit so it ended up being like chantalgiard instead of chantalgiardina lol
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jan 09
BTW: where did you get this user name from?
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@Masmasika (1921)
• Philippines
4 Jan 09
I use the same user name and password in all my sites. I only have two sites with different user names to make my name sound real because they are writing sites.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jan 09
It really makes impact on the customer if we are doing business on internet. I had some different username while I used to be a freelancer.
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@vanonas (949)
• United States
4 Jan 09
A lot of my passwords are the same, but I have 3 or 4 different passwords that I use. I try to keep the same username because it's easier to remember.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jan 09
yea, this user name is easy to remember, vanonas. Using different password is compulsorry because once a hacker knows that my passwords are same, they will be against me so, today I am increasing my password stock by one and I will have 3-4 passwords.
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@rusty2rusty (6751)
• Defiance, Ohio
4 Jan 09
I may have a the same user name or one similar. But never the same password. The reason why I don't keep a similar password is because if someone hijacks a site they will not have info to hi jack my account everywhere else.
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• United States
4 Jan 09
I am guilty of this. I use the same screen name for the majority of sites I sign up too. Not only does it make it easy to remember, but it also ranks my screen name higher in the search engines, when their spiders crawl the net and bring back information. As far as passwords, I have two that I use. One with strictly letters, and one with both letters and numbers. Another way that I can remember my password for everywhere I frequent.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
Sorry for keeping you wait for such a long time.q I am not including the banks site and payment processor site in this discussion. Those are really high security website which needs special security. So, I am not going to disclose my bank user name or password, as it can be risky. Anyways, I also didn't understand why should you feel guilty about this?
• India
4 Jan 09
hey why do you feel guilty about it even i do have the same username & same password for all the websites & i have only single username & password.but i only take care that i have different passwords for banking related sites & i keep it stored on my e-mail under different folders.so it helps me to use those password whenever i am stucked somewhere.
@suruchi86 (1873)
• India
30 May 09
Yes I use same username and password for most of the sites. However, I have selected different username and passwords only for banks, credit card and emails accounts for security reasons.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
30 May 09
Yes, banks, cc and paypal accounts user id passwords are not included in this discussion. I also use different passwords for each of my bank or paypal or cc account. Thank you very much for a reply, suruchi!
@Jody20 (887)
• Netherlands
4 Jan 09
I have about 4 different usernames but i use this one the most. I use different passwords. I use a program called Roboform to remember all my passwords.
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@Jody20 (887)
• Netherlands
30 Jan 09
Roboform is the name of the program a use, it's not a free program. You can try it out for free.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
31 Jan 09
Thank you very much for sharing the link. I will try to use this software and buy it!
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
Where can I get this program you use to remember passwords? I would like to have one with me because I have bank accounts which requires me to change my password every fortnight!
@wanpisu (207)
• Malaysia
4 Jan 09
I use the same username for all website that I signed up except the username already taken by someone. But I never use the same password for each username. Because if one of my password and username being compromise I have no worry about my other username and password. Normally I set around 16-20 characters for each password. I can't memorize all my username and password so I used KeePass Password Safe to store all of my password and username. With KeePass I only need to memorize I password.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
What is KeePass? Is it a software where you can store all your passwords? I would like to have one with me too because I have several bank sites and payment processors where I need to change the passwords every 15 days or so. It is very difficult to keep up with all that. I would like to have one of the software like KeyPass. Where can I get it?
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 May 09
Thanks for the link pal! Sorry for late reply!
@wanpisu (207)
• Malaysia
29 Jan 09
You can get it from http://keepass.info/
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@ds6413 (2070)
• United States
4 Jan 09
Hi, I usually use the same password but I have a couple of user names. I agree with you, it can get difficult to remember user name and password if I join many websites, I would rather know without having to think too hard.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jan 09
But my sister uses almost 12 usernames and password. She has a diary in which she has all the username and passwords.
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@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
12 Apr 09
No, for there I encountered some problem trying to do so. They do not accept what I have in other site and naturally I have to opt for a new username or new password. Why, any plan to heck my password, as you know how to do this? lol.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
12 Apr 09
You are kidding, aren't you?
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@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
12 Apr 09
Me kidding????may be or may not be...just tell me how much you have so far in the earning tab?
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@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
12 Apr 09
ok, why shy off? Ask me. I am there to tell you.
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31 Jan 09
I've got three or four user names around the web but only one password, I forget them too easily. If I get hacked I'm not too worried, will just have to re join and start again. The few sites I belong to like internet banking and paypal are different, I write my passwords down and change them regularly.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
31 Jan 09
I have not included banking and paypal into this category. They are different to social websites. So, jamesbond, which is the new movie, you are working on?
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
6 Feb 09
Moneypenny !?!
31 Jan 09
Nothing at the moment, I'm just working on getting Miss Moneypenny into this nurses outfit that I bought.
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
13 Apr 09
I usually try to use the same username, but sometimes people just beat me as they've registered first with my desired username 'laydee'. However, I do try to use the same password. The same password for my emails, another set for income generating sites and forums, another for the social networking sites. And of course, a different one for my paypal.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
13 Apr 09
Paypal doesn't allow us to choose user names so, we have to use email ids. It is always good to use strong passwrod with paypal but equallly you need to use the same with the email id which you are using. Thanks for response.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
12 Apr 09
I do use same user name if available with different passwords on the sites which I do join. I use to get my password remember on my browser so next time I log in I don't have to type my id and password. I use this feature because I have pc at my home , one can't use this feature on cybercafe pc.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
12 Apr 09
What browser you use for your net life? Firefox. then you must be known to the fact that anyone can get your list of user name and password anytime if it is not protected!
• Philippines
13 Apr 09
yeah, friend i do used the same username and password..what's the matter of this? why you ask? ..but you know i have read and learn some feedbacks not to create the same username and password because it is possible that your paypal account will be hacked but anyway i am just doing this having the same username and password to remember immediately since i am very poor in remembering things.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
14 Apr 09
Very simple, I wanted to make you aware of the fact that hackers are around us and we need to be a little more careful about our username and password. I hope you would be careful from next time! Thank you for responding.
@babyorchid (1737)
• China
8 Apr 09
welll, no. some impartant website, i will use complicate username and password,if some are only for entertainment i might like to user the same username and password,.. have a good day
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
8 Apr 09
I am putting aside bank and some secure sites. This is about your email id and ids you use for social networking sites. Even I don't want anyone to reveal anything about their secure sites. Thaks for responding.
@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
13 Apr 09
not sure i should divulge this information but you are my friend and i trust you lol ,so here goes but I tend to reuse passwords ,I may use a different user name .
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
13 Apr 09
I have seen in my life that if people use more than one account, they use same passwords for each of them. So, you are not an exception.
@nzalheart (2338)
• India
13 Apr 09
Hello! Well I mostly have the same username and password. But some important accounts have different. Mostly for the earning sites like this and some other social sites like this I use the same username and password. Yes its very much difficult to remember when we join many sites and then again remember username and password for each of them. I have so been using at most using three username and password, and this too makes me confused when I try to log in to a website after long time. I get confused which among three hehe.... Happy mylotting...
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
13 Apr 09
So, I think you need to try all of them once you want to login. I had this problem when I started using two passwords and two login ids. It was very confusing but sicne now I use cookies so, I seldome login. Hence I do't get confused.