Joint Facebook Account w/ Your SO?
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my partner and I have our individual email addresses etc but we did create a joint one so that we could send our friends updates or details about different events. We haven't used it much yet.
We don't have a joint fb account because we use social media for different things. I use mine mostly for networking and community organization etc. She uses hers to interact with a very small group of close friends through chat/status updates.
However, we do share a phone for texting when we're in the same space.0 -
Looking through my list of "friends" on Facebook, a pretty big chunk of them are shared pages with their significant other or spouse. I personally just don't get it. Although my husband is my main PIC (partner in crime) we are definitely not the same person. We have different interests and while we obviously have friends in common, we definitely don't know or associate with the same people day to day. It may not always be the case, but when I see a joint account, it just screams "trust issues" and "insecurity" to me.
Thoughts? And if you share an account with your spouse, what's the reasoning behind it? Maybe someone can help me see it from a different perspective.
maybe its really just a means of distributing pics to friends and family and the otherwise have no use for FB0 -
Well what I've learned on MFP today is that unless your partner routinely checks your phone, Facebook account, and smells your junk when you get home, you're not really in a solid relationship.
Guess I'll just stay single. I have this weird thing where I kind of like being my own person.
Holla!
I hate the joint account thing. Might as well stick a sign on your head that says "I have no identity of my own." The only scenario I could remotely see it being useful were if you were concerned your SO was trying to get some side action and was using fbook to do it, or you were jealous and wanted to keep tabs on your spouse's friends. And even those are bloody stupid reasons that would backfire anyway.
i don't see how having a joint account would preclude your SO for creating any number of alternative accounts on whatever website to accomplish whatever goal.
i'm sure that some joint accounts are created for the reason you mentioned but its pretty pointless to think that will solve that issue0 -
Facebook accounts are just like checking accounts. Each couple should have a joint account, and the man should control the password. My BF lets me post on facebook whenever he is there with me. If something comes up that I want to post while he is at work, I just write it down on the To-do list he leaves for me every morning, and we do it together when he gets home and finishes checking the list to make sure I finishsed everything.
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I've heard it's a thing certain conservative Christians do (I wouldn't know, as I'm neither conservative nor Christian, and my husband and I have separate FB accounts). It's either to protect the woman against impropriety (pervy PMs), or as a symbolic gesture, you know, the whole "a man cleaves unto his wife and they become one flesh" kind of thing.0
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I've heard it's a thing certain conservative Christians do (I wouldn't know, as I'm neither conservative nor Christian, and my husband and I have separate FB accounts). It's either to protect the woman against impropriety (pervy PMs), or as a symbolic gesture, you know, the whole "a man cleaves unto his wife and they become one flesh" kind of thing.0
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Yeah...I don't think it's "wrong" or necessarily bad at all, but to be honest my first assumption would be that somewhere along the line there was some serious trust breakdown and maybe even infidelity that led to a shared account.
Then again, I think the same way when someone has a vow renewal (especially if following just 5-10 years of marriage). Maybe that's the cynical side of me but I just don't assume good stuff FIRST in those cases.
I only have two facebook "couple" friends and honestly in both cases I kind of get it, the women are active on social media and their husbands aren't at all and it is a way they stay in touch with extended family and friends who aren't local to them.0 -
I don't think its weird especially if the guy is like me and uses Facebook once a month lol0
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I've heard it's a thing certain conservative Christians do (I wouldn't know, as I'm neither conservative nor Christian, and my husband and I have separate FB accounts). It's either to protect the woman against impropriety (pervy PMs), or as a symbolic gesture, you know, the whole "a man cleaves unto his wife and they become one flesh" kind of thing.
Now it makes a little more sense. All of the couples I have seen doing this are conservative Christians (at least on facebook they are).0 -
Nah, I need my space, man.0
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I've heard it's a thing certain conservative Christians do (I wouldn't know, as I'm neither conservative nor Christian, and my husband and I have separate FB accounts). It's either to protect the woman against impropriety (pervy PMs), or as a symbolic gesture, you know, the whole "a man cleaves unto his wife and they become one flesh" kind of thing.
my parents are conservative christians they have their own separate accounts.
"protecting a woman" is just code for jealousy, control and manipulation.
I'm throwing a big fat BULLCHIT flag.0 -
I've heard it's a thing certain conservative Christians do (I wouldn't know, as I'm neither conservative nor Christian, and my husband and I have separate FB accounts). It's either to protect the woman against impropriety (pervy PMs), or as a symbolic gesture, you know, the whole "a man cleaves unto his wife and they become one flesh" kind of thing.
Now it makes a little more sense. All of the couples I have seen doing this are conservative Christians (at least on facebook they are).0 -
This is why I don't want to get married anytime soon
This and potentially being called "hubby"
Brb going to throw up
Ugh I hate the term hubby. And prego.
I'd never have a joint Facebook account with my boyfriend. Its weird.0 -
I don't think its weird especially if the guy is like me and uses Facebook once a month lol
this is pretty much my thinking0 -
This is why I don't want to get married anytime soon
This and potentially being called "hubby"
Brb going to throw up
Ugh I hate the term hubby. And prego.
I'd never have a joint Facebook account with my boyfriend. Its weird.0 -
I don't think its weird especially if the guy is like me and uses Facebook once a month lol0
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I don't think its weird especially if the guy is like me and uses Facebook once a month lol
whats this should/shouldn't crap
i'm just saying i could see a woman creating a 'joint' account for whatever mysterious femine reasons just to promote her relationship with her bf/husband that is never on facebook0 -
I don't think its weird especially if the guy is like me and uses Facebook once a month lol
whats this should/shouldn't crap
i'm just saying i could see a woman creating a 'joint' account for whatever mysterious femine reasons just to promote her relationship with her bf/husband that is never on facebook0
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