theworryblog.com

It’s mostly in my head – a zillion of them.  I develop websites – which means I have a LOT of usernames and passwords.  I have them for conventional things – my business email, personal email, etc. Same as you do.  I also have them for every website I’m involved with.  For each, there is one for the registrar (well, a pair – user and password), the hosting, perhaps the database, and if it is a blog, the admin area.  I have them for wireless hotspots, forums I take part in, sofware companies I’ve purchased from, online bookstores, and so on and so forth.  I’ve written them all down, but going to find them is time consuming.  So I try to remember them in my head.  I’m actually surprised at the number of these I can come up with.  But from time to time I forget.  Then I worry.  What if I can’t find where I’ve written it down.  What if somehow it’s been changed.  I’ve taken to calling passwords worrywords.

Thus far, in over 15 years, I don’t recall ever having been shut out of a site due to lack of password or the ability to retrieve it.  That doesn’t stop me from worrying about this possibility, however.  Just one more thing to stress about.