In more password related news, the New York Times reports:
In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 30 percent of teenagers who were regularly online had shared a password with a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend.
Sure it’s a symbol of trust, but we don’t need much of an imagination to see how this can go horribly wrong.
The password sharing results were revealed as part of a larger survey title Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites.
This is what happens when we have a generation growing up without Seinfeld. George taught us to never share our passwords.
Kramer also demonstrated that we should never make passwords about ourselves since they can be guessed easily.
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Danah Boyd wrote a great article on the issue recently http://socialmediacollective.org/2012/01/23/how-parents-normalized-teen-password-sharing/ . It’s just the evolution of locker combo sharing and the normalization of what parents ask of their children. An interesting take on the issue.