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Found DH is on FB

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svenwhen · 29/12/2019 03:14

He had set up my new computer and had put himself as administrator as it was easier to set up he said and used his old email account to set it up . This account he hardly uses ,it's really just a backup account. while waiting for him I just scrolled down emails, there's not many, and there was one from 2017 a Facebook account being opened under a false name. No other emails from Facebook. He has always been a social media avoider and has no sm accounts or so he always had me believe.

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justdoityourself · 29/12/2019 06:28

If there's only one email, it suggests he set up an account to have a nose at something then deactivated it. Not much to get worked up about.

selmabear · 29/12/2019 07:22

It's an email for 2017. I'm assuming these were no ther emails regarding this facebook account. My guess is he made an account to see what the fuss Facebook is about and used a false name.

DookofBust · 29/12/2019 07:30

I also have a fake Facebook account to an alias email address and think social media is generally a waste of time.

Why? I have to use it at work in a very public role and don’t want anyone to link my work account with my private life, I am also a JP, the two combined mean I doubly don’t want to be linked.

I keep in touch with the people I want/need to by other means and am a fairly private person.

The reason I joined it was to keep up with what was going on at my yoga class. That’s all I use it for.

MirriMazDuur · 29/12/2019 07:37

Does he play phone games? Some people have an account for that, to send each other lives etc.

I used to have one that I used because I didn't want friends to see my posts in hobby groups.

SpudsAreLife84 · 29/12/2019 07:40

Probably just to play games etc, but I'm sure someone will be along soon to tell you its because he wanted to join Tinder (you need a facebook account to link to I think)

Scarsthelot · 29/12/2019 07:57

Sounds like he set it up. Probably didnt even have a nosey then shut it down.

Really cant see the issue

wombat1a · 29/12/2019 08:08

DH has 2-3 FB accounts, some other websites he uses allow him to login using a FB account so it's easier for him to have a 'fake' one and use that in case things go wrong on the other sites.

MirriMazDuur · 29/12/2019 08:43

You can use Tinder without Facebook, btw.

eveshopper · 29/12/2019 08:50

I also have a fake Facebook page. I use it within my hobby groups so as not to allow other enthusiasts to my personal page. Can't say I have ever told Dah about it tbh. I will ask him when he wakes up.

SpudsAreLife84 · 29/12/2019 09:08

You can use Tinder without Facebook, btw. Could you in 2017?!

MirriMazDuur · 29/12/2019 09:12

I've no idea, sorry x

Scarsthelot · 29/12/2019 09:16

Yes you could. You can sign up to dating app using facebook or not.

I was on on 2017 and never used Facebook to sign up

Scarsthelot · 29/12/2019 09:17

And why would the automatic jump be to tinder?

OP do you normally act like this? Having a scroll through his emails from years ago?

Pinkybutterfly · 29/12/2019 09:23

I have a FB account with only my surname just to access marketplace 😯

saraclara · 29/12/2019 09:31

If the FB account still existed, he'd have had loads of emails from them over the last couple of years. So it looks like he opened one, looked around (or used it for something that required FB membership) , then closed it.

eveshopper · 29/12/2019 09:34

If the FB account still existed, he'd have had loads of emails from them over the last couple of years.

I never get emails from Facebook?

coconuttelegraph · 29/12/2019 09:36

If you have a profile just to look at things, no friends, no likes etc why would you get loads of emails?

Sarcelle · 29/12/2019 09:38

When Spotify became a thing you had to have a Facebook account to open a Spotify account. Changed now, but that used to be the case. Perhaps that might have been the reason.

pelirocco123 · 29/12/2019 09:38

I get loads of emails from fb on an email that I originally opened a fb account for
OP 1 email from 2017 ..1 email

pelirocco123 · 29/12/2019 09:42

36coconuttelegraph

If you have a profile just to look at things, no friends, no likes etc why would you get loads of emails?

Because FB stalks you ...i get emails suggesting friends ...this is on an account i must have opened years ago , i dont use it and the friends suggestions are people i would have emailed from this email address....its an email I use for work , so not even people I would necessarily know

AllThatPalaver · 29/12/2019 09:46

I never get emails from Facebook?

Neither do I. You can turn it off so they email you about nothing instead of getting hundreds a day.

GiveHerHellFromUs · 29/12/2019 09:47

@eveshopper you can turn the notification emails off. You probably did that.

eveshopper · 29/12/2019 10:12

you can turn the notification emails off. You probably did that.

Yes I know. I'm just wondering why people are saying he has obviously deleted it because he hasn't had any emails from Facebook.

WendyMoiraAngelaDarling · 29/12/2019 11:19

I'd really be re-considering my relationship if my significant other started quizzing me suspiciously about a FB account I opened three years ago for my own reasons.

ThePeckOfPickledPeppersPeterPi · 29/12/2019 11:26

@svenwhen it seems to me that your problem here is not that your DP has a fake-mame FB account, but that you can't talk to him about it and say he has form for lying/obfuscating.

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