Apparently sharing passwords is the new thing ... What? No!

[clytemnaestra]

Apparently sharing email/facebook passwords is the new thing among teenagers to show trust or intimacy or whatever. Ack! No! That's ridiculous! And such a terrible idea!

Does anyone out there do this?

There are some passwords that are more important than others, of course. I'm perfectly fine sharing some passwords and aghast at the notion of

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[inuyashasit]

haha XD my husband and I "share" passwords for facebook in so much that I have, IN THE PAST, been so addicted to certain games that he NEEDED haha to be able to sign in for me and play my games for me when I was away or needed to be doing homework instead, and sometimes I just need him to send me stupid things for stupid games to finish stupid "quests" so it is easier for me to sign in as him and just click it already haha. But we have also been together since I was 14 so there are NO secrets, or ANYTHING I would consider something he couldn't see because he is for real my bestest best friend and I tell him everything, even if he doesn't want me too haha and he knows all my email passwords and I know all his

[clytemnaestra]

Hahahaha - I've never gotten into those types of games. Though I can understand the temptation - I played a hell of a lot of The Sims back when that was the only game of its type around.

My so is also my best friend, but there are still parts of me that I don't necessarily want him to see without context. I'm a very private person, and tend to need to process issues that are complicated or important to me before I discuss them. With anyone, not just him. So, I'd feel like if he read something I wrote to someone else or that someone else wrote me without my having an opportunity to process it first, that I was blind-sided or something.

(Also, we're super boring too, so nothing juicy would probably ever get accidentally made public. But there's always that chance!!)

[hbi2k]

Well, I am shocked and hurt that you won't share those five to twelve alphanumeric characters that would let me look at stuff you said to other people. I mean, you've only shared your life and home and cats and innermost feelings and love and life with me. That's all. How could you possibly be so closed off with me as to have one little thing you kept to yourself? Shocked, I say.

Also: I could see people who've been together for years and years doing this if they wanted to, but teenagers? Are they INSANE? The lifespan of a teenage relationship is about the same as the milk in our fridge! That's just asking for trouble.

[clytemnaestra]

I do the same thing - I have about 4 passwords that I rotate for most sites. I know it's bad, but it's such a pain to think up new passwords just for sites you want to read or order one thing from! I guess I just can't be bothered to think up and remember a password just for a site that I want to order an xmas present for and will never visit again. (For example.)

[ext_751252]

Mandatory in a relationship? Definitely not. Mike and I know each other's email passwords, just in case, but I wouldn't consider it necessary to share as a sign of trust, especially if you are in high school. I've heard too many horror stories about forwarding and reply-to-all situations to put anything that I wouldn't want someone to read in an email anyway. I'm sure I've done it, but not if there is any chance they might accidentally read it.

[clytemnaestra]

I agree. *nods*