Account privacy: should you share accounts?

Philippines
August 2, 2012 2:48am CST
If you're married or have a relationship, is it acceptable to share an account in facebook? Or if not sharing, should we open our accounts of our partners, give tehm our email addresses and password? I know someone who is married and he shares his facebook with his wife. But it's a strain because whenever I want to talk about something, I still have to ask who is using the account. It's also a constant topic of arguments between boyfriend and girlfriend if the other person can open the account of his/her partner. What are your views?
9 responses
@litvillegas (1274)
• Philippines
10 Aug 12
Hello barbiesacol88 We have variety of opinions about this. Some people prefer to have share account in facebook other may disagree about it. In my opinion, It would be ok with me if my husband know about my account as long as there should be limitations about it. I mean even they're couples they should respect each other's privacy.
@Ladybugs (404)
• Philippines
7 Aug 12
I am in a relationship right now. For some people, they find it sweet if they share an account with their boyfriend or girlfriend, or with their husband or wife. Maybe, at first, it might seem sweet. But, I think as times go by, it would also be a source of a problem. Jealousy might also evolve. For me, I don't like to share an account with my loved one, or I don't want to give my password to my boyfriend. Privacy is still important for me. I also don't want to know about my boyfriend's password. Before, she gave his gmail password to my sister so she could log out his account in her phone. I didn't bother asking about it. For what reason? Maybe we would only fight because of the things I might read there. Before, I admit that I easily got jealous of some things. I don't like to know about his facebook's password anymore unlike before. Maybe, we should only be open-minded this time. We have our friends, and our partners have their friends too. Maybe let's just tell them that they should know their limitations in using facebook. Like, they shouldn't chat that much with their friends and they shouldn't fall with anyone in this social networking site. Maybe, people who already have their partners should be responsible enough in using facebook. They shouldn't do anything that would lessen their partners' trust in them. :)
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
I knew my husband's Facebook Account because I made it for him. I gave him the freedom to chat with his old friends and even his ex-girlfriends but until now he didn't receive any messages from his ex-GFs. One day, I had to upload some new pictures in his account, I saw his conversations with his friend's ex-girlfriend. That made me so angry. I couldn't understand why he added that woman to his friends. He didn't even knew her. They exchanged chat messages for nine days. maybe, I didn't get angry if he told me on the first hand. I was waiting for him to send me messages but he seldom sent me messages so I thought he was busy only to find out he was chatting with the other woman comforting her. His friend lives far from us and they don't have any communication at all so why in the world would he involved himself with his friend's ex-girlfriend's problems. I hate those days that we had that big argument. Sometimes, we still argue about it. I still trust him. I hope he will be honest to me. I only see him on the weekends. He also knew my fb account and password. So far, he didn't encounter any problems in my account.
@chookie1971 (2271)
• Australia
3 Aug 12
I have been married for 16 years. As to facebook, I don't know his p/w and he doesn't know mine. I feel that it is important for our friends to know who they are talking to. I am aware that some people do share their accounts but it is hard to know who you are talking to. The reason why I don't know his password is because I trust him doing the right thing in our marriage. It also allows our mutual friends to know who they talking to. There is another reason why p/w should not be known to others other than the owner of the account is because if there is a break up, once could cause more problems for the other and required a change of p/w
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
I guess some things are meant to be kept private. It's fine to know your partner's fb account but the access/password is to each own. I believe that even you are sharing a life as a couple, still each has it's own individuality. For me, it's also a practice of trust between partners. Even if you have no access to her/his personal account, the respect and trust between you is never a question. ~Just an opinion.
3 Aug 12
I think it is ok to share facebook account, just for the sake of trust between both of you (married/relationship). It will build more trust, because not all people share their facebook account. But if you feel not right about it, just not do it, because maybe if you have some secret to hide, it will make your partner jealous or mad or angry to you. So prepare your facebook first, then share, delete what is not appropriate in your fb first.
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
2 Aug 12
I believe that if a partner wants to cheat, he will do it despite knowing all his accounts and passwords. If that partner is not a cheater, then whether you know his passwords or not he will remain loyal to you. Just because you know your partner's passwords isn't a guarantee that he's not cheating. If a person doesn't like to get caught, he will make sure he will never be caught. I am married and even though my husband doesn't have a facebook account, I do not need to know his email passwords. I trust him enough that he will share with me everything that I have the right to know about. I respect his judgment, and I respect his privacy. I do not want to be always on the look out and always checking if i have something in my account that will hurt my husband if ever he sees it when he checks it.
@wogibook (75)
• Singapore
2 Aug 12
I believe this is more of preference and agreement from each couple. There's nothing wrong to share Facebook account, in fact, it shows the bond and openness in their relationship for 2 individuals become 1 in the presence of God when they get married. So just ask the questions away and don't think about who's using the account as I believe both of them would be able to see it anyway :)
@Heradog (33)
• United States
2 Aug 12
If a person has a good married then yes they should know each other facebook accounts.. actually I set um partners facebook account. I don't ever go in there unless I need help on a game. We have been together for 12 years and have very few secrets.. I boyfriend and girlfriend that really haven't been together very long then no.. only if you are very very serious and have no secrets. And I am glad you friends shares his facebook with his wife.. seems they have a good marriage and he want to keep it that way. Maybe you need to think why you need to talk to this married man, that is the true question.???