Passwords: Do you write them down or do you prefer to trust your memory?
By Wise Ghost
@WiseGhots (14606)
February 17, 2019 9:44pm CST
Nowadays, we need to have password for just about everything, right? I mean, credit cards, cell phones, e-mails, forums, social platforms, apps and so many other examples... Oh, my! It looks like our minds will burn with so much information.
How do you deal with this? Do you trust memory or prefer to write and place in a safe place?
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@shebullet (287)
• Philippines
18 Feb 19
i trust my memory better just make sure it is easy to remember. My siblings always get their hand in my diares ao no way they aint getting my social media password.
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@shebullet (287)
• Philippines
18 Feb 19
@shaggin it is also good to make it just remember and dont forget it
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@GreatMartin (23671)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
18 Feb 19
I have an address book called "Internet address & password logbook"!
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
18 Feb 19
Well, as a long time cyber security person (hear the NOOOOOOOO in the background) I would never advocate writing down a.password. If you are worried that your memory won’t work, please try one of the many password vault applications!
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
19 Feb 19
@WiseGhots , It may be helpful for me to add this. Have the URL address, web page of each account you have online, along with physical mailing address and possibly a toll free number. Reason being, if you lost your internet service due to a computer going down or dropping your internet for whatever reason having a toll free number to call or physical mailing address to contact the site you are a member of, to either keep tabs on earnings, cancel a specific account that bills you automatically or annually. I mean, you can have this information available just in case something unpredictable happens.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
18 Feb 19
A few of them are not written anywhere (netbanking and paypal) I have written some of the others in a notebook, but I use my homemade abbreviations instead of the full name of the sites. I thought that was safer than writing the real names of sites, but sometimes I don't understand my own abbreviations 
I have one site in my notebook that I don't recognize. I know what the username and the password is, but I don't know the name of the site, so it isn't very useful
I have one site in my notebook that I don't recognize. I know what the username and the password is, but I don't know the name of the site, so it isn't very useful 2 people like this
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
19 Feb 19
@WiseGhots I guess I have to be more careful with the abbreviations
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
18 Feb 19
A lot of my passwords are the same which helps memorizing them. I also have it not something people would think of so I’d they think they can get into my stuff they can’t.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
18 Feb 19
@WiseGhots I have multiple different passwords so some times I have to try them all.
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@Shavkat (140129)
• Philippines
20 Feb 19
@WiseGhots Don't be worried. It was transcribed in Russian letters.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
18 Feb 19
I printed out all my passwords and user names and so forth and made copies. I saved them on an external drive also. I can not remember most of them by memory. I can't remember what I watched on television yesterday for that matter so I really think keeping them on paper is the best.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
19 Feb 19
@WiseGhots , I have had experience forgetting some of my passwords and I can tell you it is a real headache to recover one or have to change it sometimes.
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@dya80dya (36769)
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18 Feb 19
@WiseGhots If someone finds the passwords it wouldn't be so good.
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@EdwnSoutAfrica (167)
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19 Feb 19
@WiseGhots its better then trying to remember a whole bunch
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@snowy22315 (182416)
• United States
18 Feb 19
I usually save them on the computer..with a password protect program.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
19 Feb 19
I usually write them on my phone app or I email them to myself. Paper comes up missing around here too often to do that. Lol
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@Deepizzaguy (104341)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Feb 19
I use a piece of note paper to keep my passwords.
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@janethwayne (5191)
• Philippines
19 Feb 19
I write them down in my secret place and safe.Because I am forgetful now.
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