Beloveds and passwords . . .

[KillerMuffin]

So when you pick yourself up a beloved, or if you already have one, do you share passwords and stuff to like email, the boards, chat sorts of things?

The StudMuffin gave me all of his when he finally got an email account or 5. I don't know why he needs 5 email accounts, but whatever cranks his camshaft.

I didn't give him any of mine. If he wants to read my email, I'll open the account for him and let him have at it. This place is cookied in for me and I made him swear not to post under my name. He just reads here on occasion anyway. It's "just a porn board" to him.

I really don't understand the fascination or need to give one's love one's passwords. We have a "joint" email account, his primary one, for anything we both need to see, which is about as rare as an honest yeti sighting.

So, if you do it, what the heck for?

 

[AzureAngel]

I don't do it, I'm weird like that.

I only give out passwords if absolutely necessary. Say, I need access to something of mine but I can't get to my/a computer.

The only reason to do so, I think, would be as an expression of trust of some sort. While I consider myself very trusting, I value my privacy. My passwords are just that.

 

[claude_moveml]

This sounds morbid, and it probably is, but if I died or was somehow incapacitated I would want emails to be answered by someone that knew what had happened. And upon my death I'd like the contents of my computer (especially music written and in progress) to pass on to someone that could do something productive with it (my computer is password protected).

 

[joolushko]

My husband and I know each other's password but we never go into each others accounts. It is for emergency use only. If he calls from work and says, hey, get this out of my email for me, etc. We have seperate computers. We never use each others. I can leave my cookies alone.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I'm sneaky. I can tell him what my password is every day for a year and he wouldn't be able to use it. He can't spell. Hell, he can't even pronounce it.

HAHAHAHA snort.

 

[Lovely Fiona]

Same p/w for every site and my bank !!

If anyone ever works it out......!

 

[sexy-girl]

mine was because we had paranoia about hotmail ... sometimes it messed up and the email wouldn't arrive right away so it was helpful to know the password to check each others inbox when we sent emails

but saying that i also gave her my pin number for bank card and she told me the alarm code for her house (she changed it to my pin number actually)

we use to do a lot of stupid stuff just to feel closer to each other when we were apart so i guess that's where the habit started but i dont really know why we do it sometimes for a real reason sometimes just because we feel like it i guess

 

[Wiggles]

We don't share email passwords at all. I know the password to his PC, but he doesn't know the password to my area on my PC. If he wants to use it I've set up his own account.

We do know each others ATM passwords and I have his cell phone password.

Frankly, I don't really think he cares about what I get in my inbox. And he only plays AC and other PC games, so he doesn't really use his email at all.

 

[alexandraaah]

I've never really thought about it and it's never come up.

I doubt I would, but not because I have something to hide.

I don't know, maybe I do have something to hide.

Maybe I want something that's all mine.

Maybe someday I'll think about the question before typing my response.

 

[perks]

Maybe someday I'll think about the question before typing my response.

what would be the point of that?


and no, he doesn't.

Fuckkkkkkkk that. MIne mine mine mine mine.

 

[Ice Cold]

No sharing of the passwords. My password is so far off the wall, I used it for several applications. No reason for anyone else to have it.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: Re: Beloveds and passwords . . .

ummm...KM? I asked this question a long time ago and it started a massive fight.

That's because you started it to elicit a specific reaction, not to genuinely ask the question.

Sorry if that seems like a flame, but I call it like I see it.

I think it's a valid question KM is asking.

 

[Nora]

Nobody has my passwords to anything that I consider private. Hubby has the pw's to anything we share. I think. Since I normally have to set up his email accounts for him (he's not exactly computer literate) I have his.

Although between this and the "have you made provisions for your online life in the case of your untimely demise" thread, I'm thinking I might write them all down and give them to someone I trust and who I'll still know several years from now.

 

[*bratcat*]

Re: Re: Re: Beloveds and passwords . . .

 

[KillerMuffin]

Brat, a lot of stuff you started ended up in a fight. Anyway, a long time ago there were a different set of people hanging out here.

Times change and the board changes.

You've quit being the figure of controversy and there has been an entirely fresh set of people coming into the boards who hasn't seen this question.

Why did you see fit to remind us that you had asked this very question and began a flame war by doing so, anyway?

 

[alexandraaah]

If you insist. It was brought up just the other day so it was an easy find. I'm really bad at splitting hairs for the sake of a useless argument and sticking with it for the long haul, so I'll just put your first post and drop it. I don't see anywhere in here a mention of a fight you were having at home, but several mentions of board issues. Enlighten me if you'd like, I'm sure my mood will pass shortly though.

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Password Privacy - Emails and PMs
How many of you have/had access to someone else's email/pm password and accounts??

Something that caught my attention in another thread was that an ex-girlfriend still has access to her ex-boyfriend's PM and email accounts.

I have always looked at my email accounts as mine and have never shared the passwords with anyone not even my spouse.

I am just curious as to who you have shared your passwords with...and most importantly why? Also...wouldn't this be considered an invasion of privacy after the relationship ended???

Just call me confused

 

[*bratcat*]

Re: Re: Beloveds and passwords . . .

 

[April]

Re: Re: Re: Beloveds and passwords . . .

chit wrong button

Next time try the "back" button. It works wonders in avoiding just these embarassing gaffes.

 

[LittleMsNaughty]

We don't share passwords - I think it's better not to know what/who my man is interacting with... unless you see the whole conversation things can be taken the wrong way or in a different context than what they are meant.... I showed him how to delete the temporary internet files and cookies so nothing ever automatically signs in.... now I don't accidentally open his PM's thinking they are mine or vice versa..... not that we hide things from each other - it's just a matter of respect really.

And human nature makes it impossible not to read the message if it pops up in front of you

 

[Bindii]

I haven't given him my passwords to any of my email accounts...not that it would matter as he wouldn't have the first idea on how to even find email.

He thinks the computer is for playing games and the occasional peek at porn.

 

[Georgia Girl]

One person here has my password and thats just because she monitors av's for me, as for the rest my system is cookied in so my family could access those I speak with regularly if something happened to me.

Other than that there is no one I would share them with since I'm single.

Dawn

 

[Rubyfruit]

I've discovered that passwords don't mean shit when your beloved is a hacker.

 

[YourSweetOne]

This is a little different. But Im only 20 and I live in my own apartment in the same building as my mom and we are shockingly close. Like best friends. So I know all her passwords cause they are the same almost everywhere on the puter. Ive told her some of mine but she doesnt remember them lol. I dont care if she reads something in my email even if its private. Hell if she is that desperate to know what im up to then go for it. She wasnt the type to read my diary or search my room or anything when I was a kid so I dont worry about it. I also have different passwords for all my email accounts and different chat rooms and boards and whatnot. Dont ask me how I remember them all. I have no idea! lol. Not to mention I do every single one of her errands inculding paying bills picking up ciggies and grocery shopping for her so I have her bank pin. When i got my bank card I picked her pin for mine. So if I need her her to go get me ciggies or anything she can remember it. Lol. So not my SO but my mommy and I share passwords. My best gf's man gave her his passwords cause they were having trust issues but she never once used them and he refused to take hers when she offered them. I wouldnt share mine. If they want to read my stuff they can do it with me sitting beside them turning it on for them. But since there is so much illness and death in my family I do have my passwords and all that written down for my mother in with all her important legal papers. Figure most of my friends are online and she is constantly online as well. So its easier for her to be able to email everyone if something happened to me. Also I have her email my man if Im going to be late to meet him or something of the sort. Ok so ya.....think ive said enough about me and my pitiful mother who both are online way to much and cant do a damn thing for ourselves but do everything for each other. Lol....ya alrighty then.

Hugsssssss

 

[patient1]

I was entrusted with my Beloved's passwords to do housekeeping in her account,& help manage her marketing network, etc. at times when she was away from home or had tech. difficulty.