3.09.10 - 3:00PM
- by
Lindsey Weber

Emotionally Distressing Password Recovery Questions

topic:
Humor
Tech

As if forgetting your password wasn't stressful enough, you also have to remember the horrifying questions you once answered about yourself when you signed up for the damn account in the first place. Not normal objective stuff like you might prefer, but sneaky, depressing and overall damaging 'life questions' that make you remember things you really would really prefer not to. C'mon! Let's stir up some raw emotion. Here are a few of my favorites.

For the social climbers:

For the (four) fish you flushed:

For the recently divorced:

For the dyslexic:

For the children of broken homes:

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3.09.10

By JoyEngel

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Who the heck remembers where their parents met? This is silly.

3.09.10

By Lindsey

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Joy, wait until you get the question: "How long does it take you to get back to your hometown?" THEN tell me you're not emotionally disturbed.

3.09.10

By eric brown

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i lol'd

i prefer: what town were you born in?

i know that it offers absolutely no security, and i like it that way.

3.09.10

By Lindsey

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...And if your childhood home burned down in a freak fire accident? WHAT THEN, ERIC?

3.09.10

By Stephen

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Internet: What was your first pet's name?
Me: Sparky. He was such a handsome dog. [sniff] I remember the way he would jump up and down when i got home from school. I swear he was smiling. He was so ... [sniff] wonderful. [RUNS TO ROOM CRYING]

3.11.10

By Uriel

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Um. You're not supposed to answer those with *real* answers. Otherwise, you can fall victim to social networking scams.

3.09.10

By John A

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One credit-card firm (I have dropped their card) did even worse. In addition to the questioms, it checked that your Internet address had not changed from the last time you made a payment and that there was still a "cookie". Since I clean out cookies every day, and power-off my equipment at least once a month (which forces a re-connect to my ISP which in turn assigns a new address) I had to get a "temporary" password delivered via EMail every month. And sometimes it took so long for the EMail to arrive (why I have no idea) that it was no longer valid, go through the whole process again. And yes, I did complain several times.