Remember when a password manager felt like a crazy luxury?

I spent about $40 a year on one back in 2015, and my friends thought I was nuts. It saved me last year when my old email got hit in a big data leak. The manager flagged all my reused passwords, so I only had to change a few instead of a hundred. Anyone have a good method for getting family members to actually use one?

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burns.brooke1mo ago

Totally get that feeling of being the weird one for using a password manager early on. It's a huge relief when it pays off like that during a leak. For family, I had luck just setting it up on their main device and walking them through one login.

fiona_lewis377d ago

My buddy Mark from work had the exact same struggle with his dad. He tried explaining how password managers work like five times and his dad just shrugged it off every time. So @burns.brooke, what finally got through was Mark setting it up on his dad's laptop while he was asleep. Next morning he just handed him the phone with the app open and said 'this logs you into everything, just try it once.' His dad used it for two weeks and then called him actually thanking him because he got a leak alert from his bank. Now he's the one bugging Mark to install it on his tablet too.

holly_flores791mo ago

How did you get yours to actually listen? My sister fought me on it for years. I finally sat her down and showed her the list of her own leaked passwords from that one big checkup site. Seeing her own email in black and white was the only thing that worked. She went from total refusal to asking me for help setting it up that same afternoon.