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What's the reasoning behind a "joint" FB account?

Sunflower777Sunflower777
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I've seen some people with screen names like this: JoeAndJane Smith. So presumably, the husband and wife are one with their FB account. Just made me curious. Why do people set it up that way? Why not two, individual accounts? 
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Re: What's the reasoning behind a "joint" FB account?

  • Halo79RNHalo79RN member
    IDK... I think it's pure cheese or a bordering psycho obsessive. like do you not trust your spouse enough to have individual accounts???  weird.
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  • BubblyToesBubblyToes member

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    IDK... I think it's pure cheese or a bordering psycho obsessive. like do you not trust your spouse enough to have individual accounts???  weird.

    Thank you.  My thoughts exactly.  It's lame.

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  • CiarraiCiarrai
    imageBubblyToes:

    imageHalo79RN:
    IDK... I think it's pure cheese or a bordering psycho obsessive. like do you not trust your spouse enough to have individual accounts???  weird.

    Thank you.  My thoughts exactly.  It's lame.

    Yup.  This.  Though I know that my cousins have a "family" email account and not separate ones (except for work).  It's just easier for them and they figure they don't have anything to hide from each other.  Maybe it's something like that?

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  • Littlejen22Littlejen22 member
    My guess is either one of them is really bad with computers and never goes on the internet or it is a trust thing.
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  • tslmom87tslmom87 member

    I have a few friends who have done that while their h's were deployed, just to keep everyone updated and what not. Other than military/deployment reasons I don't know the reasoning

     


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  • august06momaugust06mom member
    They're lame and annoying. Is it really that difficult to have your own?
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  • r9stedtr9stedt

    I used exH's when I taught high school because I didn't want students finding mine--- even if it was locked up, or seeing me comment on one, or trying to befriend me, etc, etc, etc.

     

     

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  • GettinNervousGettinNervous
    Considering a few of the messages I have been sent in the past by male friends, I can confirm that some of them SHOULD have joint accounts.
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  • ghmghm

    The joint FB thing is weird.

    That said, my email is DHfirstnameandmyfirstnameourlastname.... because he used to not really use email much. He's had his own for years now, and I still use the same one. I've signed up for new ones, but never really made the switch. 

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  • gibsgibs
    I know two people who use a joint FB account.  One is a muslim couple and he doesn't let her have her own.  The other is a horndog of a dude who cheated on his wife so now she monitors everything.
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  • GettinNervousGettinNervous

    He could have accounts under other names. But . . . I guess there's not a 100% way to ensure he won't.

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  • mikeandmonicamikeandmonica
    I think most of the time it is a trust issue, but before DH joined FB I seriously considered making his name my middle name on there because SO MANY of his friends were friending me to talk to him because he didn't have his own. 
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  • KapaluaKapalua
    My parents don't technically have a joint account, it's my Mom's name but my Dad uses it too.  Just like they share an email acct. and a cell phone.  I attribute it to their age and technology comfort zone. 
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  • FormerlyAKFormerlyAK

    My parents have a joint one. First my dad had one. Then he started friending all her friends and family, so she would go on it. Then she ended up using it more than him, so he added her name. They are retired and sit there together chatting with people, so it works for them.

    Ex-h and I had different accounts until I found out he used his to have innappropriate conversations with other women. Then I said joint account or no account and we joined accounts. Didn't stop him from cheating, though, hence the reason he is my ex.

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  • MayorMcCheese000MayorMcCheese000 member
    My DH doesn't have one and occasionally uses mine, but it is not a joint account-it is mine that he occasionally hijacks. It doesn't really bother me except when he posts things and doesn't identify it as being him and not me. He says his reason is because he manages 300 people and doesn't want anything out there. I say it is because he is too lazy to take the time to make his own page. I think there is truth in both. Basically he got logged into my FB because I was checking it through his BB on a road trip once and just never logged out. I don't really mind b/c I have nothing to hide and he likes seeing the updates and pics I load up while he is at work. I would prefer he just had his own but oh well.
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