...to suspect infidelity if a couple has a joint FB account?

[Bebepoor]

Unless they’re 60+.

Our neighbours have one and it’s weird. Never any idea who’s liking/loving/hahaing.

Amazed at the "if you're not on facebook" assumption/opinion. I've never had a Facebook account. I just don't want one and I'm neither of the things mentioned. I just like to keep my private life private, simple as that.

What a load of nonsense, and how pathetic and judgemental.

My wife gave up her FB due to disinterest and work. She occasionally used mine. Then I gave it up as I got fed up up of all the shit on there.

We share her Amazon account - why pay twice for Prime?!

We have separate emails, but know each other’s passwords - handy for admin (like buying a house etc) but a pain when she found out my proposal plans when we were buying said house!

We know each other’s lock codes on our phones etc.

Why the need for so much privacy in a marriage?

Oh, and to c3pu I bet you’re the type of person who would beat up a paediatrician if they moved into your neighbour. So ignorant.

I often use husbands email address as it’s the first one we had and more of a family address. We have friends who share a fb account, again more of a family thing. She’s less interested in social media. Nothing sinister or odd at all.

Really?? That's what you think?

I assume one, or both, of the couple can't be arsed with facebook but have an account anyway to keep in touch with friends.

Some couples actually like each other and talk to each other you know, so share stuff almost like they're actually friends

c3pu was that just a really bad joke?

Because that's a really fucked up thing to say if not.

Dp and I aren't on FB, in fact a lot of younger people are moving on from it now too, and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of us are not sex offenders. Dp and I certainly aren't anyway.

As someone has said you can get family prime across multiple accounts, otherwise how do you keep your Christmas shopping a secret?!

I don’t judge anyone for not having Facebook but shared FB is a bit weird, why would DH want to see updates from my old school friends or work colleagues? We also follow different groups etc. Plus I have family and friends groups on messenger.

I think with things like this you should keep your unfounded assumptions and judgement to yourself

Wow. I had NO idea that people jumped to such ridiculous conclusions! . I know loads of people not in Facebook, or any social media.

It means squat.

Oh Christ it was so obviously a joke re the not having FB that it’s worrying people took it so seriously.

I have heard people say that a joint FB account meant one was a cheater. Also vow renewal means the marriage is in trouble and you can start the countdown to the divorce. People think odd stuff...

Finalpaoa and MisterMagpie and anyone else interested....

you can share an amazon prime membership...delivery perks, separate accounts, kindle library, video/films, but only the names account holder gets the music deal....huge pita for us as i presumed it was both, but no!

So now I have to get dd to indulge my amazon habit, and fork over cash to her, as dh wants the music, and I am not bothered, so signed in on his phone. He can fork out for Prime this year.

Also if someone says they don't have Facebook, I usually assume they're a sex offender or cheater.

Other possibilities:

• Luddite
• Conscientious objector

I don’t have a FB account, nor do I intend to get one. My early cynicism about such a nosy, intrusive product have been borne out by recent coverage about targetted/filtered content and election comms. Ugh.

I don’t have Facebook and I’m not a sex offender nor a cheat. It just irks me.

Agree with pp’s about the “if you don’t have Facebook I assume you’re a sex offender or a cheat”
What ???
I don’t have it and I’m definitely neither of those things

*c3pu
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Me and my partner done have Facebook. I'm 22 he's 27. We aren't peadophiles or cheaters.

I'd say over 45 it's totally normal to be uninterested in Social media and not have own account and email.

Thats hilarious. I'm a bit under 45, but I know lots of people who are over that. ..many of them have been using (and designing) social media before Facebook ( or even MySpace) existed!
The Internet has been widely used by the general public since the late 1990s and I have had an email address sinice 1995..!

c3pu
Also if someone says they don't have Facebook, I usually assume they're a sex offender or cheater.

I haven't used Facebook for about 12 years until 6 weeks ago. Never saw the point in sharing intimate detsils about my life with people who if I saw IRL I'd cross the street just to avoid saying hi.

I think most people lack the self-awareness to realise how boring they and their lives really are and being played out on the stage of FB isn't an improvement on that.

I only made a FB account recently because I live in a different country then all of my family now so it's an easy, free, way to get family updates as well as ask them for advice on parenting. I probably go on FB itself once every two weeks, but use their messenger app to talk to family more regularly then that.

My husband closed his FB account about 2 years ago because he viewed it as a soul sucking waste of time that people get addicted to and a source of more unhappiness then happiness.

We don't share my FB account but he knows he's welcome to look at it whenever he wants. He only really gets interested when I tell him our Mom's are talking about our baby.

So I wonder if some people are like me, have a partner that just wants an occasional look in at what family are up to without having to set up their own account vs people who are truly equally sharing one account. If both use a FB account equally then I do find that kind of odd.

YABU OP, that's a very narrow perspective. People have joint accounts because they can if they want to. Maybe one of the reasons is infidelity but I suspect it's mostly about convenience/ease/sharing.
Whoever said if someone doesn't have FB they are probably a cheater or sex offender, ermm
I don't have a FB account nor does DH, because we used to and my god it's boring. We don't want to watch other people's lives and the only reason we joined when it was new was that it was new and we wanted to see what it was about.