Internet users are suffering from password fatigue
- Published: 12 Feb 2013 at 13.42
- Online news: World
Consumers are beginning to struggle with creating and remembering more and more passwords and would prefer the option of being able to use their social media logins across a number of sites to simplify their online lives, according to a study commissioned by user management platform Janrain.
The strain of having to remember more and more unique username and password combinations leads many to abandon a website during sign-in.
The results, which come from a larger study, "Consumer Perceptions of Social Login," found that more than half of the 660 participants had more than five passwords and logins they needed to remember on a daily basis in addition to logins for social media sites.
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