re: Husband/Wife Facebook Accounts...Why do people get joint FB accounts?

Posted by soccerfüt

Location: A Series of Tubes

Member since May 2013

76180 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 12:24 am to Ryne Sandberg

This guy-

has never had a FB Account.

Mrs Füt has one but she rarely posts on it, mostly only stalks.

The thought of she & I having a joint account is (to me) goofy.

Maybe if one of us were so technologically challenged to need the other’s help?

Posted by drunkenpunkin

Louisiana

Member since Dec 2011

7662 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 1:25 am to Ryne Sandberg

This needs a spinoff thread for things you automatically judge people for upon sight.

Posted by Bullseye

Madisonville

Member since Oct 2017

241 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 1:35 am to Ryne Sandberg

Hell, I can't even have a FB account. just saying.

Posted by northshorebamaman

Mackinac Island

Member since Jul 2009

38577 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 1:52 am to Ryne Sandberg

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Women always control join accounts, at least that's what it seems.

I only know one couple with a joint account and it's pretty clear they both use it. Half the time it's recipes and the wife trying to sling her shitty handmade jewelry and the other half is the husband bitching about ATL and UGA sports. Weirds me out because I'm never sure who I'm talking to.

Posted by northshorebamaman

Mackinac Island

Member since Jul 2009

38577 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 1:54 am to financetiger

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No, quite the opposite. Easier to manage one account than two separate ones, especially if you don't look at it often. Also, if you are married, then you know most of the same people (or know of them) anyway, so who cares...keeps everything on one account.

This doesn't make any sense. I only manage one account now because my wife handles hers. Why would I manage two accounts unless I'm pretending to be my wife?

Posted by TigersSEC2010

Warren, Michigan

Member since Jan 2010

38535 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 2:56 am to lsunurse

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My younger sister is mentally challenged yet manages her fb account just fine btw.

So yeah...lame attempt to defend your joint fb account. We are still gonna judge you as weird as frick.

Posted by Num1TigerSpam

Member since Mar 2018

245 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:03 am to Ryne Sandberg

It's always those couples where the wife is involved in a pyramid scheme

Posted by Yak

DuPage County

Member since May 2014

4672 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:22 am to lsunurse

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I could excuse an older couple doing this.

It's pretty normal to be honest. Even my dad and his wife have one and when they talk to me it's always ended with "love dad & stepmom", as if I didn't know who it already was

This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 6:27 am

Posted by Cotten

Tennessee

Member since Jan 2018

1878 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:22 am to Cosmo

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Even weirder: i know a couple with joint gmail account

My parents have separate work emails but share a personal that’s like 20 years old lol

Posted by Open Dore Policy

The Commodore State

Member since Oct 2012

5451 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:33 am to Ryne Sandberg

I don't do Facebook.

It's all housewives gossiping and sharing recipes, hoodrats going on about how hard life is and there ain't no good meen out there to take care of they bastard babies and friends showing off their revolving stash of new toys because they don't have a fulfilling life to keep them satisfied.

Wife asked me at some point if I wanted her to put mybname on hers in case my acquaintances look for me on there.

So I said sure, why not.

Posted by cave canem

pullarius dominus

Member since Oct 2012

12186 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:41 am to Ryne Sandberg

I look down on any adult that has a Facebook account, joint or otherwise.

Posted by northshorebamaman

Mackinac Island

Member since Jul 2009

38577 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:46 am to Open Dore Policy

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I don't do Facebook.

It's all housewives gossiping and sharing recipes, hoodrats going on about how hard life is and there ain't no good meen out there to take care of they bastard babies and friends showing off their revolving stash of new toys because they don't have a fulfilling life to keep them satisfied.

Your Facebook feed is ultimately a reflection of the kind of people you choose to "friend". I don't have hoodrats on my Facebook because I'm not friends with hoodrats.

Posted by mdomingue

Lafayette, LA

Member since Nov 2010

48652 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:47 am to Ryne Sandberg

I can give you two situations that I have inside knowledge about. One is a coworker whose wife wanted him to have a Facebook account, which he didn’t really want so she created (with his consent) a husband/wife account. If you really want to make sure he see’s something posedt, you have to tell him in person or ask his wife on FB to tell him to look at it. He thinks it’s quite funny and tend to agree with him.

I also have a relative whose wife insisted they combine their accounts because she had concerns about who he was communicating with on Facebook. Turned out she was stepping out and they are now divorced.

I know others who have them but I don’t know details. I don’t quite get it.

Posted by Averytiger

Member since Dec 2017

1366 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:55 am to Ryne Sandberg

One of my high school classmates ended up with one, and it wasn't hard to figure out why.

When he had his own separate account, he would send me occasional "how you doing?" private messages to let me know that I hadn't aged a day, that I looked great, and that he'd love to catch up for drinks.

I always ignored them, but I doubt that I was the only one that he was trying to lure with private messages.

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Posted by mikelbr

Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2008

49099 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:57 am to financetiger

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keeps everything on one account.

I stopped judging them a couple years ago. The scenario is usually because the husband didn't have an account and didn't care to. A joint account allows their friends/family to at least tag/include him in events/pics/etc.

TLDR it's usually because the husband/boyfriend has little interest in FB.

This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 6:58 am

Posted by northshorebamaman

Mackinac Island

Member since Jul 2009

38577 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:59 am to Averytiger

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One of my high school classmates ended up with one, and it wasn't hard to figure out why.

When he had his own separate account, he would send me occasional "how you doing?" private messages to let me know that I hadn't aged a day, that I looked great, and that he'd love to catch up for drinks.

I always ignored them, but I doubt that I was the only one that he was trying to lure with private messages.

I was pretty confused by this post until I realized you're probably a woman.

Posted by TeddyPadillac

Member since Dec 2010

30750 posts

Posted on 4/11/18 at 7:20 am to GreatLakesTiger24

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FB is great for being able to reach someone (and to be reached). I don't need it that often, but it's worth keeping around for that reason alone.

Sooo....... are you only using facebook from a desktop, or did you forget that the little rectangular electronic device you play games on and play on facebook with is a phone?

You guys calling people with joint accounts weird are too stupid to realize that you're just as weird being on facebook as an adult. Get a fricking life and quit worrying about updating the world on yours and caring about everyone else's.