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(The New York Times) Stupid Teenagers sharing passwords as show of affection, stupidity   (nytimes.com) divider line 28
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2012-01-19 10:53:45 AM
... and they deserve everything they get
 
2012-01-19 12:53:45 PM
What possible secret would a teenager have to keep that was even the slightest bit significant to the grand scheme of things? Their lives are petty. Hell, I remember a girl calling me stupid for not taking a practice test. I was like, "I don't need a practice test, maybe you're the stupid one."
 
2012-01-19 12:56:03 PM
You know, every generation talks about "How stupid kids these days are"
But kids these days are farking stupid.
 
2012-01-19 01:15:12 PM
jaylectricity: What possible secret would a teenager have to keep that was even the slightest bit significant to the grand scheme of things? Their lives are petty. Hell, I remember a girl calling me stupid for not taking a practice test. I was like, "I don't need a practice test, maybe you're the stupid one."

Its not about secrets. I'd say on balance the "I have no secrets" part is noble. The issue is after they break up, one of them could log on to their Facebook account and post all sorts of nasty stuff.
 
2012-01-19 01:35:44 PM
Anyone up for some bosco?
 
2012-01-19 01:42:18 PM
How is this legal?
 
2012-01-19 01:44:27 PM
jaylectricity: What possible secret would a teenager have to keep that was even the slightest bit significant to the grand scheme of things? Their lives are petty. Hell, I remember a girl calling me stupid for not taking a practice test. I was like, "I don't need a practice test, maybe you're the stupid one."

You know nothing of teens these days. I, on the other hand, watch Degrassi: The Next Generation and am completely on top of the issue.
 
2012-01-19 01:49:19 PM
So time fro some new "Facebook Exposed" threads on 4chan then?
 
2012-01-19 01:54:50 PM
BUT THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AND YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!
 
2012-01-19 01:56:07 PM
The only person I've ever shared any of my passwords with was my mother, and that was for banking purposes.

/she fleeced me.
 
2012-01-19 01:59:02 PM
turbidum: /she fleeced me.

Dude(tte)... cold...
 
2012-01-19 01:59:54 PM
turbidum: The only person I've ever shared any of my passwords with was my mother, and that was for banking purposes.

/she fleeced me.


That's only fair. Have you seen what you did to her vagina?

/I have.
 
2012-01-19 02:01:46 PM
Uzzah: turbidum: The only person I've ever shared any of my passwords with was my mother, and that was for banking purposes.

/she fleeced me.

That's only fair. Have you seen what you did to her vagina?

/I have.


That, and mom was being fleeced for how many years until she finally moved out?
 
2012-01-19 02:12:40 PM
I usually get into trouble when I ask whoever I'm seeing not to post pictures or updates about me on facebook. No way in hell am I sharing passwords.
 
2012-01-19 02:18:02 PM
Teenagers sometimes do inadvisable things that compromise their privacy. Film at 11.

www.myfacewhen.net
 
2012-01-19 02:26:17 PM
Is that what the P in HPV is?
 
2012-01-19 02:39:15 PM
I'll never understand why intentionally putting your self in a position to be screwed over is admired by some as "devotion," see: sharing passwords, giving risque photos, getting married.

I mean, you wouldn't show your dog you care about it by prying open its jaw and sticking your throat in it, would you?
 
2012-01-19 03:16:51 PM
He's a friendly dog.....
 
2012-01-19 03:48:37 PM
My teen daughter and her best friend have each others FB passwords so they can update each others status when one or the other is not online. They call each other on the phone and give updates. Invariably, this leads to massive confusion, conflict, defriending, new FB accts, refriending and more drama than Shakespeare ever produced.

Which is exactly how they like it.
 
2012-01-19 04:10:31 PM
I don't know why but I find this very, very funny. I mean, like, doubled over over milk out the nose can't catch my breath and I'm gonna die funny.

Maybe because I do not have kids. That is the only reason I can come up with.
 
2012-01-19 04:18:26 PM
ProfessorOhki: I'll never understand why intentionally putting your self in a position to be screwed over is admired by some as "devotion," see: sharing passwords, giving risque photos, getting married.

That's why my wife and I did all those things at once--along with the nuptials came the racy-photos-email-and-bank-account-password-exchange-festival.

Good times, especially when alcohol is involved.
 
2012-01-19 04:22:16 PM
When you share your locker combination with Johnny, you're sharing your locker combination with everyone Johnny has shared his locker combination with, and everyone they shared with, and everyone...

/Or something
 
2012-01-19 05:55:52 PM
adding that the practice includes the unspoken notion of mutually assured destruction if somebody misbehaves. "It's the kind of symbolism that always goes awry."

Because if I wanted to screw someone over whom I shared my passwords with, I'd never break the trust by changing my password a second beforehand... People falling for the MAD scenario where both sides wreak havoc are stupider than people sharing passwords.
 
2012-01-19 05:56:10 PM
So? Email accounts keep records of outgoing mail, so send a follow-up explaining that there was a bad breakup or whatever to whoever your ex harassed.

Saying "the damage is already done" is more indicative of stupidity than sharing the passwords to personal accounts anyhow. If you're a basically frank and communicative person, the vast majority of people are inclined to be reasonable about social awkwardness, this is one of the lessons that shiat like your friends changing your FB to say embarrassing things is supposed to teach you on your path to adulthood. That, and taking the mocking with humor and good grace.

//Personal accounts, in the larger scheme of things, mean basically nothing. If you're sharing your work account, of course, here's a box to clean out your desk, I'm calling security if you're still here at end of shift.
 
2012-01-19 06:08:03 PM
Jim_Callahan: So? Email accounts keep records of outgoing mail, so send a follow-up explaining that there was a bad breakup or whatever to whoever your ex harassed.

Good thing it's impossible for them to change the password of your account, isn't it? Or delete the messages from sent items.
 
Slu
2012-01-19 10:03:38 PM
My wife knows my passwords, but I don't know why she would want to login and read me and my buddies telling each other dick jokes, but if she does more power to her. I know her passwords as well, but I have never felt the desire to login to anything. But I am 35 with a 9 month old, so I don't do anything anymore anyway.

Hell, these days if you pick up my phone, you can access everything without a password if you can get by the passcode on the phone, which my wife also knows. Which is also the same as my ATM PIN....this is all starting to sound a bit dumb on my part.
 
2012-01-20 03:28:52 AM
Slu: My wife knows my passwords, but I don't know why she would want to login and read me and my buddies telling each other dick jokes, but if she does more power to her. I know her passwords as well, but I have never felt the desire to login to anything. But I am 35 with a 9 month old, so I don't do anything anymore anyway.

Hell, these days if you pick up my phone, you can access everything without a password if you can get by the passcode on the phone, which my wife also knows. Which is also the same as my ATM PIN....this is all starting to sound a bit dumb on my part.


Your PIN wouldn't happen to be 1...2...3...4 would it?

Cause that's the same as what I've got on my luggage...
 
2012-01-20 10:54:50 AM
My wife knows all of my passwords to everything... I'm not too worried about it. We've been married 24 years as of today. I think we're lifers.
 
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