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Facebook has plenty of great uses, from showing everyone how hot you looked in your bikini this summer to stalking exes. As it turns out, it's also a great way to get laid.We usually think of Facebook facilitating hook-ups by keeping us in touch with our exes, but 11 percent of respondents in a new survey (conducted in conjunction with the TV show "Sex Rehab") admitted to sleeping with someone they met on Facebook. And while the survey didn't ask whether or not the respondents were cheating on someone when enjoying these liasons Facebookeuse, we can't help but think of all the friends we know who have creeped around on their boyfriends and husbands thanks to good old Zuck.
It's an all-too-popular quagmire. It's easy to cheat (or just to flirt with infidelity) on social networks, because it's not like it's AshleyMadison.com -- everybody's on Facebook. And if we happen to befriend that hot guy with whom we have three mutual friends, hey, it's not our fault -- Facebook suggested it.
The Daily Beast wondered whether or not we should give a partner our Facebook password. (Conclusion: only if you want to see them turn into a crazy.) We think couples should maintain SOME measure of privacy, but is sharing your login something you'd only freak out about if you actually had something to hide?
Let us know what you think.
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Tuesday 16 November
By Alicia
People in relationships are totally allowed some measure of privacy and I would never give anyone but my mother my password for anything. I'm sorry, I've seen what my ex and his friends do to each others' pages when one leaves his laptop open. I'm not handing out an open invite. Also, I have private conversations with my friends about their lives and mine. It's my place to go and rant (in private) about roommates, friends from college and boyfriends. No one should have access to those conversations.
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Tuesday 16 November
By 56dustbunny
After having experienced the worst asshole of an ex boyfriend who lived his whole life with secrets and lies, I can now happily say that i can leave my new awesome boyfriend at home all day or night with my Facebook, Yahoo and any other account open on my desktop. I should imagine he has no desire to look and see, and I would have nothing that i would hide from him anyway. In total contrast to the previous and such an easier way to live :)
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Monday 22 November
By Anne
Should men give their girlfriends their Facebook passwords?
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Monday 22 November
By Deekoo
The sort of boys who have a strong desire to go through their girlfriends' email checking for signs that they're cheating tend to be creepy stalkery types at BEST, and often wind up being a lot worse before the end of the relationship. If a boyfriend's not planning on surreptitiously eavesdropping or impersonating you, they don't NEED your passwords.
And even when the request is perfectly innocent, it can lead to a bunch of unintended privacy breaches - is it really your boyfriend's business that your brother is having trouble with his wife, that J. from accounts got REALLY drunk at L's bachelorette party and wound up in bed with ALL the strippers, that an old college chum is considering leaving the cult she fell into, that your employer is considering a lawsuit against their former surstromming supplier, or that your third cousin, who is firmly in the closet, used to have a crush on him?
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Tuesday 23 November
By OMG
Stories like these are why there should be a ban on stupid stories like this.
Then you get all the bloggers who have nothing to do, of any importance, searching for stupid stories, like this, and continuing the stupidity....yes indeed, let's now discuss anal warts and whether or not we should design chairs that allow for their healing.
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Tuesday 22 November
By Meee
My boyfriend thinks that the pictures that I take of myself on Facebook are a cry for attention. I don't see it that way at all... he thinks I'm a slut because of it and says he should be the only one to see me like that. They are not even bad pictures like not dirty or showing anything I should be, or slutty by any means. He also wants me to delete all the guys from my facebook and thinks that I should delete Facebook if I love him. He faught with me one day for 3 hours and made me cry and called me down just because I wouldn't give him my Facebook password. I ended up giving it to him and he thinks that I should always let him on my Facebook if there is 'nothing to hide'.. I personally think it's ridiculous... everyone needs their own space.. c'mon all I'm asking for is a little trust. What do you think?
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