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

Me and my wife have one. Main reason at the beginning was when we got married, she didn't have an account but was always on mine since we had all the same friends. Since I was petering off of facebook, I suggested just making it joint.


Also, it was a conscious decision for accountability. Set yourself up for success. Before I was married and was on facebook regularly, I had two separate occasions where ex gf's, who were married, reached out to me through messenger to initially catch up, but eventually started venting to me how they were unhappy in their marriage, maybe shouldn't have gotten married to that person, wondered if we should have tried to make it work. I walked away from those as quickly as possible, but it was a good example of how it could be potentially dangerous when a married person has an account where they can hide things from their spouse. So when I made the choice to go with the joint account, I was ridding myself of that temptation to ever hit up old flames and just see "what's up".

And I'm not saying that ever married couple needs to do this. At all. And honestly, we'd probably be fine with separate accounts. But for me, it was a safeguard and a way of saying "I'm not going to try to hide things from you". I honestly don't see what's so "weird" with trying to set yourself up to NOT fail. You can talk about being strong and in a more healthy relationship, but over the years, with the marriages I've seen completely crumble, NOBODY is ummune to misstep. You can posture all day about that, but it can happen to anyone.






Plus, I hate facebook and I'm never on it now. It might as well just be her's.