One is not a hundred.

Today, it seems, we are so many people. Me, I'm Harsan, Harsan_Ronyo, Harsan.Ronyo; I'm Silent_Fox (well, used to be I could be), Tobias, Tobias DuPree, Tyla, Christopher, and Anon80353429Z on certain websites mum wouldn't want me browsing.

Then came openID, to help bring some simplicity to our online activities. And now I'm all the above, plus http://obscureabstractions.blogger.com/ openid.aol.com/tobiasdupree from AOL, I'm HarsanRonyo from Yahoo (who actually gave me a choice)....and none of these work with all but the highest tier of social websites, and none of my accounts can link into any of my other openID accounts.

It's supposed to make life easier, but what I'm seeing is new account names tied to old accounts that once were compartmentalized. I'm looking at my AIM account suddenly being able to get into Yahoo and do things should it be cracked. I need to up security on accounts from AOL to Vox because of all this.

Add to it that now I have a "one account to rule them all" from all these services I used to have just an account with, but my legacy accounts can't be tied into a single "one account to rule them all"; how do I get myself pulled into one "me" like this promised, because I'm starting to get a multi-personality disorder from all the names I have to enter to access all the accounts on this very large internet.

I state again, openID was supposed to be a problem fixer, not a problem causer. If it had redeeming qualities from my perspective, I'd be praising it for what it did. A unified account for internet access? Sign me up! (just not for my banking and money requiring stuff) I'd love to be me regardless of where I was. That's tough! But no, I have to be me, me, me, me, me, me, me, and me, and oh, me, because the system is flawed and won't let me tie to an overriding name, but instead hands me a new one and a new headache.

Up your password security if you have these accounts:

AOL (the link is to their special password change website)
Blogger
Flickr
LiveDoor
LiveJournal
Orange (Telecom, french)
smugmug
technorati
vox
yahoo
wordpress

and for more information go to http://www.openid.net/

Signing off Irate,
Harsan, Tobias, Silent_Fox, Christopher, Anon39387892347025X, Tyla, etc. etc. ad nausium.