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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I got a notice that my parent's google password changed and the account was "recovered". Asked mom why she changed the password, and she said she didn't. Later I get a story that she changed her Craigslist password. I asked why, and she said "I wanted to see what would happen". That's not a human response to the question. Nobody wakes up one day and thinks "I wonder what would happen if I changed my Craigslist password". Too irritated to participate in insanity at the moment. It's difficult enough to manage one's own affairs to any degree resembling acceptable.
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My mother does. She will call me and say she can't get into an account. It goes like this every time:
- I look up her password in my spreadsheet and try it - and it fails.
- I ask if she changed her password and she says yes - someone told me (the news, a friend, readers digest, etc) that I should change password frequently.
- I say "OK, did you write down the password in your book?"
- She says "yes", looks at the book, no password
- I recover her password, tell her to write it in her book and enter it in my spreadsheet.
A few months later (whenever it stops auto-entering on here iPad) she calls again. She does write down the password - but never in her book. She writes it down on some random slip of paper intending to write it in the book later but loses the random paper.