the one about being online
Just another Manic Monday!
How do you feel about couples that share an email address? I don’t understand it, to tell the truth. I meanI guess it’s nice to keep family and friends updated with family life…but when I email a friend about stuff that’s going on in my life, I don’t necessarily want her husband to read it as well. When I discuss things with my friend, I don’t automatically think she’s going to share all I say with her husband and that goes for emails as well. Make sense?
How open about your life are you in the various online arenas? Very open, always have been, but I don’t do anything online that I need to hide. I don’t visit sites that would embarrass me if anyone found out…although there’s not much that would embarrass me LOL!
On average, how many hours a week do you spend online? Do you think it’s too much? It’s hard to judge…I probably spend more time online during the week than on the weekends. I don’t think I spend too much time online. When I do go online, I generally go right to my email, then to Facebook, then I do a blog post, usually once a day.
Posted in Manic Monday | 10 Comments
March 30th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I find that email address thing fairly annoying–and kind of creepy.
March 30th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Well, we are one of those annoying, creepy couples with the joint e-mail address. Although truth be told it is only myself who reads the e-mail sent there and Andy actually has a separate one now.
But way back in the beginning (over 10 years ago), we didn’t go online very much and we just set up one account so people had a way to reach us if they insisted on e-mail vs. phone. Anyone needing to reach us just sent us one e-mail. I considered changing the signature to just my name now, but since we have a joint blog linked to that e-mail, it keeps the voice consistent.
Our friends and family know that our “joint” e-mail is really just mine and they know Andy’s personal address. But for blog readers, the message through e-mail is from us together, just as on our blog. Make sense?
March 30th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Like Jenn, I think that couples sharing email is weird. And I never am sure that the person I intended to get the email did get the email…
March 30th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Long ago, we only had one address, But we have has our own emails for several years and I like that!
March 30th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
just so ya know…I share nothing with my husband
March 30th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Yea, my husband doesn’t even touch our computer and I still have an email for him separate from mine. Is there such a thing as too much time online? I think not, lol.
March 31st, 2010 at 8:03 pm
wow, i didn’t know that couples shared email addresses. i would be a little uncomfortable sending an email to someone about personal info if i didn’t want both parties to read it. however, bumbles has a good point and it makes sense, especially since she started that account a decade ago.
but if one of my friends did that and it was a true joint account, i probably wouldn’t email her anything significant.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:54 am
I don’t get the shared email thing either. Why do people do it? Hmmm.
I have no idea how much time I spend online, but it’s a lot less than it used to be!
April 1st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I don’t actually know many people who share email, but my mother knows a couple, and it drives her nuts. I don’t do it myself. I get enough junk without having to sift through Mr. Al’s stuff.
April 5th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
The family e-mail address is actually mine — I chose the name, I set it up, I am the one who checks it. My husband uses a work e-mail at work, and that is as close to using e-mail as he ever wants to be. His family now sends letters to both of us: one to his work, and one to me at home.