New App Requires Two-Factor Authentication Like Your Account The Federal Fucking Reserve Or Something

KinPix, a recently-downloaded photo-sharing app geared toward families to share pictures privately amongst themselves, requires you to use two-factor authentication to log into your account as if it were the Federal fucking Reserve or something.

“This will be an easy way for everyone to share pictures in one place,” said your sister Alison as a way to convince you to install yet another app that you’ll probably barely use onto your phone. “And it’s straightforward enough that Mom and Dad can figure it out too.”

Two-factor authentication is a security measure that requires users to provide multiple pieces of data to verify their identity. While an effective way to protect sensitive information, it seems excessive for an app that your family is mostly going to use to share boring vacation photos.

“So now I’ve got to open up my email and cut and paste some code?” you grumbled quietly to yourself with your sister not quite out of earshot. “What a pain in the ass.”

Sources within the family insist that KinPix is the easiest way for family pictures to be shared, since it seems like nobody’s on Facebook anymore.

“Can we all just get on the same app so me and your mother can see what everybody is up to,” said your Dad, without even realizing that this stupid, fly-by-night app probably won’t even exist in a year or two. “I don’t like all those pictures on the group chat. It’s too confusing.”

After all that hassle — downloading the app, creating a profile, setting up two-factor authentication, uploading some pictures to make sure it worked — and nearly a quarter of an hour of your life spent setting it up, as of press time, no one else in the family had uploaded a single picture to KinPix.