Joint email addresses

[JackandDiane]

I've just seen a shocker. Names changed to protect the innocent
[email protected]

Not only sharedy. But with sub groups. does wanker gesture

What if you want to email tom not jemima ?

I have a [email protected]. Not weird at all.

The only people I know who have a joint email account the DH I'm sure is on the controlling side (actually I know he is as they have a joint account which he spends wildly from but picks her up on every penny she spends) and there's not much trust - they got together after an affair - she was the OW...

Its just the same as not everyone in the world can read emails with an @gmail.com suffix, it's the prefix to the @ that decides who's inbox mail arrives in.

I don't get the issue with this, dh and I have a joint email tgat gets used for household bills,all school stuff, things relating to the kids basically anything we both need to see.

Then we each have our own email addy which we use for anything else. It just means anything we both need to see is in one place accessible by either of us then we have our own for anything else.

We just give out the appropriate email addy depending on who is asking, what it's for. So school, clubs etc thst the kids do goes to the joint one. My PayPal is linked to my own email, it's really very simple.

It is so joindvat the hip.

Have also seen a couple share a fb page.

Meh.

We have (equivalents of) jimandsally.co.uk, teamhathaway.me.uk, .me.uk, .me.uk and each of the DCs' names or initials.

Bloody useful they are too. School only lets you add one email address to the contact details, so we use a private domain address which simply forwards to both of us.

And when I get spam email addressed to tesco@teamhathaway I know it was Tesco selling on my data.

It protects my identity to use a different email address for each online login, but the emails all end up in the same inbox to read. Or I can apply filters so that emails to ebay@ go straight to my eBay folder, etc.

Yes, it's twee, but it's so much more than that.

My parents have one email address with both their names in it but they are nearly 70 and struggle to get to grips with the internet in general so there is no point in them having separate ones. However one person I know has a joint face book account with her husband

Shared FB page makes you think one of them cheated and lost FB privileges. I mean, fair enough if you had to pay a subscription per user, but it's just weird otherwise.

Dh and I have a shared e mail address. Only because we have no idea how to set up a second!

Me and dp each have two addresses (one is for general crap the other is for my re professional things). We have a joint e-mail that is used for paperless billing and statements as we both see them then.

surely it's just the same as your landline number? One contact point for the people in the house, then you can have additional, personal contacts as well (individual e-mails, mobile phone numbers etc). Don't see why it is a big deal at all.

I'd imagine they'd have their own email addresses too. Just ask Tom for his.

ILs have 1 email for 3 adults - [email protected]

So you can't email just 1 fuckwit, it's all 3 or none at all.

We have a shared address and individual ones, they can all be viewed on every home device as the accounts all show individually under 'Inbox'.

The only time it is a remote issue is if one of us is organising a surprise or gift for the other one.

Our fingerprints unlock each others phones too.

I have never assumed that having a shared address does not mean you do not have your own as well.

If you know one of these people well enough, you can ask for a personal one.

If you don't, you're probably unlikely to send something that cannot go to both.

We have a shared domain, but we have our own emails and tom and jemima probably also have their own emails.

I have [email protected]. He has [email protected]. We also both have access to [email protected] for bills, kids schools etc.

He doesn't have access to my emails (he'd be bored shitless if he did), I don't have access to his and the joint one is whoever opens email first.

My email is not part of my identity. I have my business one and my personal one for mn.

If you don't want to Tom to know something don't email it.

loads of people have a shared domain name - "@familysuchandsuch" or "@thisstreethouse" or whatever, no different that the couple using their names or initial. You can still set up loads of individual addresses that only one person has access to, all within that domain name. It doesn't mean they actually share an email address (though they could).

There's quite a difference between himandher@g mail.com and [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] etc. The former is probably a shared email, not my thing but if it works for them so what, the latter are separate email addresses and quite likely not read by both people.

What you've described as subgroup wankery is actually a bloody good idea. I'm currently sitting here working through my inbox labelling stuff that relates to different committees I sit on. If I could be fagged to set up new email addresses for them then in some ways it would be a lot easier.

Oh dea, is this a problem? We have a joint e-mail address, a joint bank account, plus we share a house and a bed.

DH and I have a shared email address - it's just easy and practical for us; it's got nothing to do with mine (or his) identity - we have a shared bank account as well.

I am sure if one of us wanted to have some secret emails we could easily find a way round it ..... but as most of our emails are routine business or practical matters (school stuff etc) it doesn't worry me in the slightest. I do receive a few emails from friends, but my DH is bored senseless by them and wouldn't read them & even if he did there is nothing that interesting in them .

Oh Lord, are non business related family domain names now a thing?

No strong feelings about joint emails, though I would never do it, or joint bank accounts (ditto) but joint FB invariably is the woman desperate for everyone to know she's living the happy family dream.
I have 4 such couples on my FB and none of the blokes ever look or participate. "Nah it was Gloria who set the page up, why the fuck would I want to be looking at photos of what I've just had for my dinner"

Same here Ragwort. I am not interested in reading his, nor him mine.

I will say things like - 'best friend' e-mailed saying such and such, he is fond of her Dh but not friendly enough to e-mail/see him without us. In my inbox, can you read it and let me know what you think about dates/plans etc., etc..

Yes, I am sure there are many ways around sharing if you didn't want to or found a reason not to , I like a simple life!

Shared everything here, when we married we pooled our savings/investments and made everything financial joint as well.