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A post from DoubleX intern Jessica Lambertson:
Our discussion
yesterday on password sharing touched on just how prevalent the
practice is. In the past, you had to actively look for information
about an ex by semi-stalking his or her friends. But if you've shared
your information with each other, scorned lovers can take things a step
further: They can search their exes' G-mail accounts or peruse their
Facebook messages without anyone ever knowing about it. Even when your
password sharing starts out as seemingly innocuous, lazy behavior (I
don’t know how many times I’ve asked my boyfriend to check my e-mail
for me), it can lead to a tedious and painful transition post break-up.
In a continuation of our awkward and wrong series of Internet mishaps, we’re
looking for unfortunate experiences caused by sharing passwords. Did
you find out your partner was cheating because of a rogue Gchat? Did
you search his Twitter personal messages and find out what your ex really thought of you? Send us your uncomfortable stories.
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The New York Times published an article
yesterday on how social media complicate relationships when a couple
shares passwords. To share or not to share has been a point of
contention in relationships at least since the '90s, when Seinfeld's George
Costanza is bullied into giving up his ATM password to a girlfriend
(it's Bosco). Now that everyone needs a password for her phone, her
e-mail, her Netflix account, her Facebook, and her Twitter, the
pressure to share passwords is even more intense. How do we redefine
dating etiquette in the digital era? DoubleX contributors debate:
Jessica Grose: My fiance knows my various passwords
and I know his. I would never, ever, ever, even if I suspected he was
cheating, go into his e-mail, search his chats, read his facebook
messages, etc., and I know that he would give me the same courtesy. I
would not share such things with someone I wasn't getting married to,
but I have no desire to know what he says about me to his friends, even
if it's complimentary. It's like reading someone's diary—always better
not to. I wouldn't even want to know what my exes said about me to
friends! It's so masochistic ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans:
Last night’s bizarro Halloween-themed Mad Men episode showed the nudity we’ve all been waiting for since Betts got a hold of her husband’s Pandora’s box: a glorious disrobing of Don Draper's decades-long, self-perpetuated costume. (SPOILER ALERT!) ... (Read the rest of this article at DoubleX.)