That's My Cripple, Saving Passwords

Ever struggled with LastPass? Ugg, I'm an older person who seeks to always stay up on tech. I've been using Lastpass for maybe a year now. Sure it's super great,but I am not a super great user. I swear to God on the Bible that I saved my password correctly. Yet often times it's not the password I saved at all. Is some weird password that I have no idea how it got there. Subsequently I can't login!

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What do I do? When I create a password, I always write it down on a sticky. My husband and Greg, (the man who helps me learn Wordpress), cringe, wrinkle and are mystified as to why I would have sticky notes with handwritten passwords. Well, that's because I don't trust Lastpass to save them correctly! That's why!

You do not know how many times I've saved in Lastpass and then later could not get into the site I was working on. It's happened seventy times or more. It's frustrating. I also cannot tell you how lucky I was that I wrote it down on a sticky. If I didn't have the sticky I would be totally screwed. The sticky always saves me. To me it's worth writing it down. How can it hurt to have your password in more places than one?

Tonight my husband explained to me about how Lastpass works. He made it clear that there is an issue with the questions other websites ask. If the website in question ask questions, well Lastpass does not recognize it. Lastpass does not know what to do with it. So when I enter the answers they ask, somehow I would save that as the password and not the actual password that was the original correct password.  If you're feeling confused, believe me, I'm still confused as to why I do not understand how to use Lastpass. I chalk it off as: I'm way older than these young whippersnappers and people who are older comprehend in a different way than the younger people, Certainly that is a generalization, but it's not without truth.

I know people my age who do not use the internet, cell phone or any technology at all. To them it's way too hard to understand so they refuse it. Yet, me, well I do not want to be left behind, I do not want to be like my Mother or Grandmother, and say: "I quit, it's to hard to understand." 

You know they have classes to teach older people how to use the internet. Yet this condition has always applied to all generations. My mother retired when the computer entered her job. She was so terrified of learning how to use a computer that she decided to retire. 

I have vowed that I will always seek new technology,but I will never vow that I will be great at it. I just don't want to be left behind. I want to be apart of the world in all it's amazing  changing gifts of technology, even if those gifts are scary.

I will figure out Lastpass. When I do, I will give up my sticky's. I will work it like a pro, and know in my soul, that I never need to write down the passwords as Lastpass will have finally made sense to me.