Okay. . . I can see some of the logic in site verification processes. I mean, sure, there are hackers and scammers out there that just live to write a program that will allow them to automate one process or another. Their programs never do it WELL, but they do it. AND for secure sites, this is more than just a nicety, it's a basic necessity-- secure server or not.
But from the way every other site has decided to include this little script into its profile, I'm beginning to wonder if I really exist. I mean, these programs don't seem to think so-- they keep asking. As if I might turn into something UNreal at any moment. Am I the only one who seems to notice how neurotic computers are? They always have to ask the same questions, a million times over. And now, with this verification process, they've got me a little worried.
Maybe I should install a verification script near my bed. Then, before I even get up in the morning, I can be sure I am still a real, living, breathing human being. And if I don't get the code right (which, by the way, is always possible because half of them are outrageously unreadable), I can stay in bed. :) That sounds like a winning idea.
Let face it. Verification Processes have gone way past the stage of being a mere "fad" and headed straight into the realm of BASIC NECESSITY, at least according to the neurosis of the internet. Before long, it will be similar to passwords.
Do you know, I can remember when there WERE no passwords on websites. I mean, I have to think back... but, yes. The only password that existed was to logon to the internet. And that was stored offline. NOW, exactly WHERE can you go without offering up a password?
And YET, even WITH passwords, many sites STILL insist on a verification. And this is one reason why the whole issue is a little ridiculous. I mean, I had to login to my account -- whatever that account might be -- so now, explain to me why I have to verify my actions?
I can see it at a site like PingGoat!, because there IS no login. You just input your URLs and click on the send button (Which, by the way, I love-- even as I wonder how long until they start requiring email addresses, too.) So, okay. At a site like that a verification IS reasonable.
But for blogs? Or for email I'm sending WITHIN my account? Come ON! Does my email REALLY need what is, essentially, two passwords? Does my blog entry REALLY need to be verified?
Oh, I know I'm shouting at the wind. Just as I am fairly certain that, within a year or two, verification processes (VP's-- once they have an acronym, you know it's inevitable) will be as ubiquitious as userid's and passwords already are.
What next? (I'm not sure I really want to know.)
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