A friend of mine who recently got married was telling me how she and her new spouse decided to open a shared email address. Her thoughts: It’ll be easier to keep track of bills (most everything is paid online anyway these days), and it’ll be easier to communicate with family because they only have to worry about sending one email to the two of them. OK, I get it. Simplify things by having one email account instead of two. In essence it makes sense.
In reality though, I couldn’t disagree more! After being married for almost a year, and pretty much having to share EVERYTHING with my husband, I l-o-v-e the fact that we have separate email accounts! It’s one of very few last remnants of <em>me </em> instead of <em>we </em> that I have left. (Just to be sure, I checked with the hubby on this one, and he agrees with me. No way in hell are going to have a joint email account!)
Surely, we’re not the only married couple that wants to keep our own personal email accounts instead of merging them into one, right? Well, I did some internet research, and don’t you know that all kinds of couples are having issues sharing digital technology these days!
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal called <a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118617307271187661.html”>’Til Tech Do Us Part</a>, there are a lot of married couples out there debating just how much of their digital lives they want to share with one another. Gone are the days of sharing just finances. Today’s married couples have to decide how to merge their MP3 collections, choose who’s TV shows get deleted from their TiVo, and decide who’s internet browser bookmarks stay on the home computer.
So far, my husband and I haven’t had any problems about merging technology because we haven’t really felt the need to do it. As long as I can browse the internet and write my blog on our home computers, I don’t care really care what my tech-savvy husband does to them. (Provided, of course, that he doesn’t break them.)
We’re really cheap too, so we don’t have TiVo or NetFlix or any of those kinds of things. We don’t even have cable! (We just get DVDs from the library and take advantage of watching TV shows on the internet.)
We don’t have an MP3 player or an iTunes account either. (Again, we go to the library, and if we really like the CD, we buy it!) Then I transfer the songs I like to my cell phone’s MP3 player, and my husband does the same for his cell phone’s MP3 player.
Oh that’s another thing…We don’t even share a phone. We don’t have a land line. He uses his cell phone, and I use mine. Plain and simple.
Maybe we’re weird to be keeping so much of our digital lives separate, but it works for us. I’m curious though, how do other couples out there feel about merging their digital lives into one?
A friend of mine who recently got married was telling me how she and her new spouse decided to open a shared email address. Her thoughts: It’ll be easier to keep track of bills (most everything is paid online anyway these days), and it’ll be easier to communicate with family because they only have to worry about sending one email to the two of them. OK, I get it. Simplify things by having one email account instead of two. In essence it makes sense.
In reality though, I couldn’t disagree more! After being married for almost a year, and pretty much having to share EVERYTHING with my husband, I l-o-v-e the fact that we have separate email accounts! It’s one of very few last remnants of me instead of we that I have left. (Just to be sure, I checked with the hubby on this one, and he agrees with me. No way in hell are going to have a joint email account!)
Surely, we’re not the only married couple that wants to keep our own personal email accounts instead of merging them into one, right? Well, I did some internet research, and don’t you know that all kinds of couples are having issues sharing digital technology these days!
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal called ‘Til Tech Do Us Part, there are a lot of married couples out there debating just how much of their digital lives they want to share with one another. Gone are the days of sharing just finances. Today’s married couples have to decide how to merge their MP3 collections, choose who’s TV shows get deleted from their TiVo, and decide who’s internet browser bookmarks stay on the home computer.
So far, my husband and I haven’t had any problems about merging technology because we haven’t really felt the need to do it. As long as I can browse the internet and write my blog on our home computers, I don’t care really care what my tech-savvy husband does to them. (Provided, of course, that he doesn’t break them.)
We’re really cheap too, so we don’t have TiVo or NetFlix or any of those kinds of things. We don’t even have cable! (We just get DVDs from the library and take advantage of watching TV shows on the internet.)
We don’t have an MP3 player or an iTunes account either. (Again, we go to the library, and if we really like the CD, we buy it!) Then I transfer the songs I like to my cell phone’s MP3 player, and my husband does the same for his cell phone’s MP3 player.
Oh that’s another thing…We don’t even share a phone. We don’t have a land line. He uses his cell phone, and I use mine. Plain and simple.
Maybe we’re weird to be keeping so much of our digital lives separate, but it works for us. I’m curious though, how do other couples out there feel about merging their digital lives into one?
