The need to have a simple form for signups

The Slow as Molasses Press
I Googled the following: "routine way of signing up for anything" and ended up with a page on fitness Who is minding the store My intent was and is to underline the need to have a simple form for signups that is common to every site that wants you to be part of it What is reasonable  would be REAL NAME REAL EMAIL (email as username by default) and a unique password That's all Whatever the form is  it should be common  All the other stuff these sites want should be optional and have nothing to do with signing up Finally I flatly refuse to use my mobile phone address for a simple reason I do not want anyone calling me period My mobile phone use is not related to getting calls There it is

NO ONE WILL FOLLOW THIS ADVICE until someone comes up with a Facebook-like method which turns out to be as  onerous as the profusion of diverse ways of joining things that assumes we will be charmed by another different bit of legerdemain IXNAY NO WAY Simplify or die