’til Email Do Us Part: Sharing Online Accounts With Your Spouse

Earlier this week, my colleague Elizabeth Bernstein wrote a Bonds column about people getting in touch with old flames online, especially via the magic of Facebook. In the piece, she describes how some couples have devised new rules governing their online activities, like promising to inform their spouses when they contact an ex online or limiting their online “friends” to people of the same sex.

Other couples, meanwhile, share their passwords or even their accounts and email addresses. “If your bank accounts are common, why not your Twitter and Facebook accounts?” said one man in the article.

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