 TITLE: Should You Use a Password Manager? CONTENT: What Is a Password Manager?\n---------------------------\nPassword managers—used by fewer than 15% of Americans as of 2019, according to the Google poll—store your login information, such as usernames and passwords. Throughout the course of a day, you might access email accounts, social media accounts, e-commerce sites and other online destinations. Since each site you have an account with typically has its own login requirements, you could easily find yourself using dozens of usernames and passwords every day.\nYou can download a password manager app or install a browser plugin that'll automatically enter your login information when you go to sign into a website. To unlock the \"vault\" containing all of your passwords, you'll use one \"master\" password. Some password managers even generate individual passwords for the sites you visit.\nBecause your passwords are securely stored, password managers make it easier to maintain secure, unique passwords. For instance, instead of using a simple, easy-to-remember password for all your accounts, you can use your password manager to store complex passwords (like Gn$3kj$g34s) that are unique to your every account. Not only will those passwords be much harder to guess, their uniqueness is an additional security measure. When you reuse passwords, every account that uses the same password becomes vulnerable if one account is compromised.\nSome password managers are free, but more feature-rich services tend to charge a monthly subscription fee. END