Password sharing

[MPM]

Before I even get started, I know I have to have a disclaimer to beat away a few of the noobs from this post.

DISCLAIMER: I am not talking about account/password sharing on Runescape.



All right, that's out of the way.

Suppose you meet this special someone, and you two hit it off and start dating. Do you ever give them your passwords to things online, or do you keep it to yourself? Why?



I want to admit it. Being misplacedme is a very nice way for me to be the person I use to wish to be. Hiding behind the screen, I could be bolder than my real life counterpart, or lead a small group of people on a single task.

To give away my password to someone was to give away my identity. To allow them to be me. If they wanted to, they could completely change who everyone thought I was.

Naturally, I never thought I would give away my password.



So, what about you? Would you ever give up your identity that way?

[BlueLancer]

No, I wouldn't. I don't see why I'd let anyone take my identity "just because".. Even if you loved the person at that moment. If they dump you or you dump them.. They could do immense damage to you. Think tip.it and how a person who had backdoor access, screwed over the entire board by deleting 3 months worth of posts just because he/she was pissed off at the staff (for kicking him/her out of the staff?)

 

 

 

Maybe I'd give my passwords to someone in my immediate family, but it'd have to be a good reason. You can almost NEVER fully trust a person especially if he/she is not a part of your family, it takes a very special kind of human knowledge to be able to fully, 100% trust a person. Those people aren't as common as you'd think.

 

 

 

But as a part of business, I do share bank passwords and code lists with multiple people. The arrangements have worked for years and nobody's getting screwed, it works 100% on trust & friendship, and the final deterrent is that the guy who embezzled anything would be pretty easy to find anyways. But foremost it does work on trust.

[Nadril]

First off, I pretty much use the same thing (or a varient) for a password everywhere.

 

 

 

The main person who knows my password is one of my good friends who I play MMOs with, and also room with at college. Now obviously he only uses it for if I'm not there and he needs to transfer something in a game, or if he wanted to run him through some sort of instance, ect. Likewise I've done the same (I know his accounts).

 

 

 

 

 

My little brother knew my password on TIF purely because, when he was littler, I set up his first runescape account and just used my normal password.

 

 

 

 

 

Well a while ago, after he was banned from TIF (monkey_933 user name) he ban evaded on my account. Of course he's a [bleep]ing moron sometime and publicly announced it was him that was posting (not like I'd go to the graveyard anyways) and ended up getting my account banned.

 

 

 

I managed to ban appeal it but was still banned for a month.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think I'd let anyone else know my password though. Plus all of the important info I have (like credit card info and [cabbage]) is tied to other stuff.

[Latinoking]

I don't share my passwords with no one. There's really no point + it's your account and not that's person.

[Bunker_Boy]

Well I suppose it truly depends on the person. If I had known them for a long time and if they were a trustworthy person, I may, although I usually don't. I have one friend I've known for 12 years, I know all his passwords, but I've never told him any of mine. I just personally don't like others accessing my information/character etc.

 

 

 

I know my friend would never screw me over if I gave them to him, and I've never done anything to him, but it's just something I don't normally do.

 

 

 

Every once in a while I'll change my password to something so I can let someone use it then change it back afterwards.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I think you make an interesting point. The persona 'Ginger Warrior' can sometimes be a way for me to live a second life - separate from my real identity. I can do things being Ginger Warrior that I would never do in college or with RL mates, both on RuneScape and working on Tip.It. Whenever I talk to someone on the Internet, I like them to call me Ginger Warrior, unless they're actually my friend in which case I'm fine with them calling me by my real name. So I protect that identity very securely and no, I wouldn't let anyone into that life at all - it's personal.

 

 

 

If I was in a relationship though, especially the ones I try and build, I wouldn't mind them having the password to my email account or something like that. They can read my texts too, I've got nothing to hide. In fact, having that level of disclosure with each other probably helps with trust and helps move the relationship along smoothly.

[Solidus_77]

Unlikely to happen, even the girls who I play video games with dislike runescape (no, that's not why I left ;) ). But if it did happen I guess I would have mixed feelings.

 

 

 

In a way I feel Solidus_77 died back in January after I left this game and after that happened, the whole "immersion" effect sort that video games cast fell apart with it. Now, I merely think of this account as a medium through which I talk about stuff on this board. For practical reasons I will not share my password, but I don't really feel so associated with my online "persona" in fact I don't really think I have a "persona" much at all.

[Lateralus]

For practical reasons I will not share my password, but I don't really feel so associated with my online "persona" in fact I don't really think I have a "persona" much at all.

 

 

 

You do, and it's a little annoying.

[Shiny]

There is only one person who I have and ever will share my password to anything with. Thats my twin. I trust him, and multiple times in the past i have gave him my password. Today, he doens't know it too my accounts of TIF, but i trust him enough not to post any "absurd" things. I keep myself logged in on gmail and such so i don't need to use my pass for that.

[x_bow80]

For me, it depends what it is. If its like my simple yahoo email i wouldn't care giving my email to the person i love. But for things like my business email, or my work computer i wouldn't give those passwords away. Just so they couldn't delete anything on accident and me lose hours of work.

 

 

 

Work - no

 

Personal - yes

[Errdoth]

They'd better have a damn good reason to need it.

[Nadril]

I should clarify that the only thing me and my roomate even use each others passwords for are MMOs. Obviously I don't know or care to get into his email or anything stupid like that.

 

 

 

For MMO's it's pretty useful however, dual boxing is great. :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

 

edit: I've known him for something like 7 years now.

[Solidus_77]

For practical reasons I will not share my password, but I don't really feel so associated with my online "persona" in fact I don't really think I have a "persona" much at all.

 

 

 

You do, and it's a little annoying.

 

 

 

No I actually do not feel associate with my online "persona" but feel free to judge me as you see fit.

[IGoddessI]

There is only 1 friend of mine who knows my password to practically everything and that is our very own Rick. I met him about 6(?) years ago and while we may not see each other much, I do believe he is someone I want to keep around for a lifetime. He is the most trust worthy and loyal person I know apart from the person I'm with and I'm happy for him to know anything and everything about me. Quite often I have turned to Rick with my passwords for a few issues. But yeah, most trust worthy person EVER but don't get on his bad side.. He'd probably crash an entire system of computers :lol:

 

 

 

As for my current partner at around a year of being together we knew eachothers passwords for everything (computer related, not bank cards etc)

 

 

 

After many years, having a son with him and most likely getting hitched for life, we have combined things. I believe it is the smartest move we ever made. We now live together under the same roof.

 

 

 

We now have a joint email account, share the same mobile phone, share the same computer, joint bank account, I've added his name to my business and our new car is going under both of our names.

 

 

 

I don't believe at this stage in our lives we should ever have to ask each other who someone is.

 

 

 

If you're a friend to me, you're also a friend to my partner and vice verser, we come as a whole package. If you have a problem with him, deal with it or get out of my life and the same goes in his life.

 

 

 

We are eachothers number one and always will be.

 

 

 

I've always been an open person in relationships - I don't hide things. If my phone gets a message, sure read it for me, if it rings, sure answer it for me. If you ask who someone is, I'm going to tell you, even if you may not like to know it's my ex of 3 years etc.

 

 

 

I've never hidden anything, ever in a relationship. Even the first time I cheated on someone, I rang him and told him straight away.

[MPM]

 

I don't believe at this stage in our lives we should ever have to ask each other who someone is.

 

 

 

If you're a friend to me, you're also a friend to my partner and vice verser, we come as a whole package. If you have a problem with him, deal with it or get out of my life and the same goes in his life.

 

 

 

We are eachothers number one and always will be.

 

 

 

Exactly what I was thinking, except put much more eloquently than I ever could have.

[Range_This11]

My ex-girlfriend and I shared (after much convincing from her) facebook passwords; I never once checked hers. She decided that when we broke up that it would be cool to delete all my other ex-girlfriends that I still talk to and send them messages saying nasty things about them. Never share a password. Worst mistake ever.

[IGoddessI]

My ex-girlfriend and I shared (after much convincing from her) facebook passwords; I never once checked hers. She decided that when we broke up that it would be cool to delete all my other ex-girlfriends that I still talk to and send them messages saying nasty things about them. Never share a password. Worst mistake ever.

 

 

 

Change your password before you break up.

[bloodyhatchetbear]

Only one person knows my passwords to anything, and that is my fiance. We've been together for 5 years, living together for 4, and we combine our incomes together for survival reason. He knows most of my passwords, mainly because certain pay things he has to pay for via his bank account, and I know his because certain other pay things I pay for via my PayPal. Only certain ones he doesn't know, and that's because they were changed recently due to my older brother getting ahold of the pw's to my myspace and email (I don't trust my blood family very much with my things). I have my fiance's myspace password I'm the one that does all the coding on it. So it all depends on the person you trust with it.

 

 

 

Also, I don't fear him deleting things if I were to have a job that requires a computer, mainly because he knows better than to delete anything "by accident". It also works Vice versa.

 

 

 

Also, yes if we were to break up for some reason, I would change my passwords, and I would hope he would be smart enough to change his.

 

 

 

Another thing I would like to point out is this: I am no different online from RL. I do not act any differently, nor do I talk differently. To be different like that is just... unfathomable to me. I can't split my personality like that.

 

 

 

[adam_ross0]

I would never share my password to someone..I just don't trust many people that much. I could probably share one with a couple of my friends and I could trust them with it, but I haven't.

 

 

 

I know it's unsafe, but I generally use 1 password for everything..or a variant of it. I need to change that #-o

[Range_This11]

My ex-girlfriend and I shared (after much convincing from her) facebook passwords; I never once checked hers. She decided that when we broke up that it would be cool to delete all my other ex-girlfriends that I still talk to and send them messages saying nasty things about them. Never share a password. Worst mistake ever.

 

 

 

Change your password before you break up.

 

 

 

I didn't think of it until after she decided to be a [bleep] about stuff. It's changed now, along with my email password too (since it was the same thing).

[Roseiah]

When I am talking to people on msn or emailing people I do talk about personal stuff between me and that person. And the thought of someone else logging on and listening and reading that just isn't something I would like to happen.

 

 

 

I have several hotmail accounts, and only I know the passwords to each of them. It is like shutting my bedroom door, whatever goes on behind the door is private.

 

 

 

I do keep my passwords on a word document and anyone who logs onto my computer and goes looking for them could find them, but I could never tell anyone my password. It would be like letting them know a lot of my secrets and allowing them to have the opportunity to be me.

[MPM]

Another thing I would like to point out is this: I am no different online from RL. I do not act any differently, nor do I talk differently. To be different like that is just... unfathomable to me. I can't split my personality like that.

 

 

 

You are a very lucky person. My life situation was very odd, and because of that, my personality in real life suffered. I was a loner, I was anorexic, I never stood up for myself. Having the internet as a mask allowed me to express the person I wanted to be back then. Slowly, as I worked my way up in Tipit, I made my RL self better.

 

Making friends with people on the boards helped me to speak to people, and express what I was thinking.

 

Moderating the boards helped me have a voice over other people.

 

Working on the crew put me into a group environment with tasks to do with other people. I had to coordinate my efforts with what other people did.

 

Managing the crew gave me a position where I had to make decisions. I had to have other people work, and deal with any problems that came up.

 

 

 

I'm a completely different person than I would have been if I didn't have tipit. I was always the same person, but misplaced was a stronger, more capable version.

[knives669]

I didn't know you proposed to Alexandra! :D Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! ^_^

 

 

 

Now, On Topic: I dated a guy for over three years and never gave him my password. Though I knew his passwords. :P I'm just kinda weird about people having access to my stuff. It's not like I have anything to hide. I just don't like the idea of someone else going through my emails, or messages. Or even logging onto my WoW account. :P

[runescapeloser22]

The only password I've ever shared is my account on the family computer with my mom, because I forgot to print out a school assignment and while I was on the bus, I had to talk her through printing it out so she could bring it to school. I've also shared passwords with my friend for a certain game, but I'm afraid that if I talk about it the mods will go all crazy and temp. ban me for breaking Jagex's rules.

[Lionheart_0]

When I was with my first girlfriend, she has this huge jealousy issue. After much begging i eventually gave her my hot mail password (which is a different account then the one i currently used). She never actually did anything except check it to make sure other girls weren't mailing me, and to make sure that most girls were off my msn list (Ya, I pissed off a lot of girls at the time cause I suddenly had to become enemies with them). I think I changed the password eventually (But ended up ditching it the next summer anyway when i seemed to be hacked).

 

 

 

Other then that, I don't think I've ever had to share passwords anywhere else.

 

 

 

I definitely don't think it's a good idea to share passwords anymore.

 

 

 

Edit: Now that I think about it, the other password I share is the one to my laptop (With my account being the only one since it's mine). I let tonnes of people know it when I have to go do something but they want to use it for something. I never leave it alone for a long period of time with anyone, and almost never with an Internet connection.