Open ID: Is It Too Much To Take?

A user name and password for almost every other service like Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc., was compulsory. If you noticed, however, once logged in to Gmail, you are logged into almost all other Google’s services. That’s nifty, isn’t it? I really like the fact that once logged into one of Google’s services, I can access the Google reader, I could read personalized news, check my calendar and much more.

But then, once you log out of Google. You are out. Then came the  promising Open ID technology which promises you access for all the services you’d ever need on the Internet.

Open ID is a single “log In process” that gives you access to plenty of seemingly different processes and services. Surprisingly, it isn’t like “ Username” and “Password” at all – it is actually a process.
For instance, if you want to sign-in somewhere using your Open ID, it will take you back to a service like Gmail for example, allow you to sign-in using your Google username and password, bring you back to the site you were trying to log into and then allow you to access  that site.

The first time I did it, I went dizzy.

A clear indication as to why it has not been adopted by Internet users as yet. It’s a little unnerving to be bounced around the Internet like that just so that I can gain access to a site I want to use. If Open ID would want me to bob around like that, I would rather keep my passwords and use them.

I lived like that until now; nothing will change for me, Would it?