[IxDA Discuss] email address as username

[Jed Wood]

Lars makes some good points in that post. However, of those 5  
reasons, 1-3 all cite "they'll forget" as the primary issue.  
Remembering the username and auto-populating can remedy this in many  
cases. #4 has already been pointed out as not scaling very well, and  
I know I'm surprised at how often my usual username is taken, even  
though it seems quite unique.  #5 seems beneficial only in social,  
"fun" applications. I don't feel warm fuzzies when using  
"RockStar137" to sign-in to my car loan account.

-Jed


On Oct 28, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote:

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>   5 reasons not to use email for login
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> http://blog.publicsquarehq.com/view/5_reasons_not_t
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> Sunandini Basu wrote:
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>> Hi
>> I'm reviewing a web based blogging service. Currently on sign up, the
>> user has to enter a username, a display name and an email address. I
>> suggest that that username be replaced by the user's email address.
>> (from any email, say yahoo, gmail, hotmail, rediffmail, etc)
>> How would this impact the security of the product? Is there any
>> drawback in using an email address as the username?
>> Cheers,
>> S
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>>
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