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How much input/ say do you have regarding your husbands / partners social media activity?

34 replies

laplante · 05/07/2021 21:08

Meaning are you oblivious? Do
You care who he interacts with ? Are you happy for him to have many female
Friends and followers even if he doesn't
Interact with them? Or is it all a little
Controlling to Feel that it's inappropriate to have female followers/ friends that he doesn't know in real life?

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rooarsome · 05/07/2021 21:12

I have absolutely no input or interest whatsoever.

GirlAloud · 05/07/2021 21:14

None at all.

DP isn’t a big user of social media, and nor am I, but I take zero interest in his accounts or who he’s friends with. I assume he has lots of female friends online because he has always had lots of female friends IRL.

DisgruntledPelican · 05/07/2021 21:15

No input, mostly oblivious (occasionally he shows me a video/meme or reads a post out if he thinks I might be interested, eg from mutual friends). I have no idea who he follows or who follows him. Think he uses Facebook and Discord. I don’t use either so I have no idea what he posts about.

Strikemepink · 05/07/2021 21:15

None at all, nor he in mine, apart from telling each other what’s happening in the lives of mutual friends or other areas of interest.

DramaAlpaca · 05/07/2021 21:16

Input? None whatsoever. I'm not the controlling type. I have no interest either, he can interact with whoever he likes.

OverByYer · 05/07/2021 21:16

None whatsoever

SemolinaB · 05/07/2021 21:16

None whatsoever. He’s an adult and can do what he likes.

pitterpatterrain · 05/07/2021 21:17

I have no idea

He is in FB. I am not

ApolloandDaphne · 05/07/2021 21:17

Completely oblivious.

elQuintoConyo · 05/07/2021 21:17

None. He's on Linkding but that's all. Oh, and WhatsApp, mostly for his family group, me, DC's school, DC's clubs.

I have FB, WhatsApp and MN. Not on FB much, a smattering of likes here and there.

Shoxfordian · 05/07/2021 21:18

No input at all apart from showing him how to do something difficult on Facebook like where his photos are Grin

Sloaneslone · 05/07/2021 21:18

None at all. I don't even pay attention to what he posts Grin

If I felt I needed some say or input into his social media, he wouldn't be someone I wanted to be with.

BunnyRuddington · 05/07/2021 21:19

I have some input but that's because he runs a business. Never really thought about what he does on his personal stuff, as long as it doesn't affect the business, so no political posts etc.

TourdeTarte · 05/07/2021 21:20

I've never even looked at who he follows or interacts with.

gurglebelly · 05/07/2021 21:21

@rooarsome

I have absolutely no input or interest whatsoever.
^ this
iklboo · 05/07/2021 21:21

No input and he has none in mine.

Figgygal · 05/07/2021 21:22

No involvement at all

gamerchick · 05/07/2021 21:22

None. Why would I, it's his SM. Hmm he doesn't have any input on mine.

laplante · 05/07/2021 21:23

To give context , my exh had an affair under my nose for possibly a year or more . I never had any idea but in hindsight , it was obvious. Social media played a big part in it.
It's well over and I've been healing
Well with counselling and time and am
In a new relationship .
This guy has hundreds of friends ,
Half women, mostly women he doesn't know irl but from a shared hobby . He doesn't interact with many of them. They're just there .
I'm a little unsettled as I don't
Know what normal Is anymore, which is why I asked .
I'm Sure I sound a little unhinged but wanted to give context .

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SleepingStandingUp · 05/07/2021 21:23

DH is only on FB but I genuinely couldn't tell you how many friends he has, their sex or how they met. I'm on Instagram, Twitter and FB. I'd be annoyed if he went through it looking at what I'd liked and who my friends were and what I was posting because if he doesn't trust me, he is free to leave me

Alfiemoon1 · 05/07/2021 21:24

I have no input or interest in dh social media

Izzy24 · 05/07/2021 21:24

Zero.

And likewise he has no interest/input in line.

And neither of us would read/check the other’s phone.

Izzy24 · 05/07/2021 21:25

In mine not in line 🙄

Ginmonkey84 · 05/07/2021 21:26

Zero input. I don’t have a clue what he’s on if I’m honest. Don’t care much either.

Izzy24 · 05/07/2021 21:27

The thing is OP , anything you read can be misconstrued.

Just don’t look.

That was then, this is now.