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Panjita
Beginner May 2011

Facebook Rules

Panjita, 23 August, 2011 at 16:28 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 32

There was a thread last week which involved various limits we put on ourselves and our partners when it comes to Facebook. I just wondered what your "rules" are, if you have any?

I've not given H and rules other than that it upset me that he was friends with one particular girl (he deleted and blocked her as soon as he knew).

My own rules though are that I am not friends with anyone I have had sex with. I just think it is inappropriate.

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Latest activity by WhiteRose84, 26 August, 2011 at 11:34
  • Flowmojo
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    No rules for either here, he barely goes on his facebook, and hes not bothered about exs or anything so ?

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  • Panjita
    Beginner May 2011
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    You know, I have never been obsessive or jealous but I really, really am since H and I got together. He bumped into someone in the supermarket last night who I know has done "stuff" with him and it knocked me sick! I need to get over it as he was a bachelor for almost 7 years before we got together so there will be plenty more where she came from.

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  • lamby
    Beginner August 2010
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    We don't have any rules or anything but his ex requested him as a friend a few weeks ago - I was with him at the time he saw it and he was quite shocked. I told him straight away to accept so I could have a nosey at her ? and so that she would see he was happily married (it was years ago but she really broke his heart and cheated on him.) I don't think he would have accepted her as a friend without telling me / talking to me, just out of courtesy to me as I think it could feel a bit weird knowing exes can see all your photos, etc.

    I'd check with him if an ex requested me, just think it's nice to really, though I'm not a fan of being friends with ex's anyway - it just doesn't work for me!

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  • sapphire_22
    Beginner September 2011
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    WFS.

    I'm not on FB, but OH is and he leaves himself signed in on our shared laptop, which makes me think that he mustn't be doing anything on there I wouldn't approve of!

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  • Rizzo
    Beginner July 2011
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    My husband hates FB so isn't on it but he loves it when I spend the evening on there - it means he can watch the footie!

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  • nanny plum
    Beginner September 2011
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    No rules as such,i have been with OH for 12 years but he was a bit of a player before that so i think there are at least three folk he has slept with on his facebook. It does not bother me now although in the first few years of our relationship i was very jelous..pre facebook thankfully.

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  • jojo2
    Beginner June 2012
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    We have no rules either but I have told him to stop making comments on conversations I am having with my friends, to me it is like interrupting a conversation especially when we are having a laugh and he doesn't get the irony and kills the moment with a comment.

    My rule is keep of my wall unless relevant.

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  • AmnesiaCustard
    Beginner June 2011
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    We don't have rules as such but do discuss what we think in acceptable, eg he had an old schoolfriend (female) who was sending him inappropriate jokes and pictures and I didn't want my own offspring (who are my "friends" to think he was the kind of man who thought this was a good idea.

    H kindly told said woman to desist. (She commented on our wedding photos saying she thought i was "pretty". Huh...like I want your opinion!!!)

    Anyone got any good ideas about how I can delete his mum as my friend??

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  • NikiST
    Beginner July 2011
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    No real rules.. just the one about not being friends with anyone we've had sex with. It was a mutually agreed rule though.. not one that one of us implied and the other just agreed. It started when I added an ex.. when my OH asked who he was as he would say inappropriate things on my statuses, etc, I told him and he got a bit upset about it. We talked about it, I deleted the guy and we mutually agreed not to have any ex's on there.

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  • ebony_rose
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    No rules here really. I'm not "friends" with my OH on FB anymore though, as it was causing problems. I have a lot of male friends, and my OH being the jealous sort didn't take their comments to be as lighthearted as they were intended to be, so I deleted him ?

    It saved A LOT of arguments.

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  • Sparkles82
    Beginner April 2013
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    We dont have many rules as such, we are very open and leave ourselves logged in and things and often post silly soppy messages on each others walls.

    The only thing I did insist was that his ex-wife and her family are blocked totally, only because they are poisonous and before they were blocked, she turned up at our house on the night before we went on holiday and caused a lot of trouble - as the police took her away she said "Bet you dont f*ck off on holiday now" so obviously our happiness on FB had made her quite cross!

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  • Houdini
    Beginner August 2010
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    No rules for us.

    I'm friends with an ex - still friends with him off of fb too.

    H has his ex on there, and his ex-wife. Doesn't phase me in the slightest. They've both remarried and as far as I know they've never actually talked to each other on there! ?

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  • T
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    No rules for us.

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  • kharv
    Beginner March 2012
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    Same for us. Although nothing bad has really happened to make me reassess that IYSWIM?

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
    Beginner January 2012
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    No rules for us. I have no idea if he's previously had 'relations' with any of his female friends on there. I couldn't even name half of his friends, that's if I even went through his list.

    Panjita, a question though. What if you're friends in real life with someone you've once had sex with? Or is that inappropriate too?

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  • Spangler
    Beginner September 2010
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    No idea, but I'd love to do this too!

    Mr S isn't on Faceache. I do hide people who post very dramatic passive aggressive statuses (statii?!) Also people who constantly put pictures of themselves up (usually of them holding the camera too). Oh and people who play Farmville A LOT.

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  • T
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    This p1sses me off.

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  • Panjita
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    Good question. I'm not friends with any of my ex's as it goes and I think that was one of the main reasons I felt it inappropriate on FB. Can I point out that I am not saying that this is the correct thing to do, it's just what I am comfortable with. I know a lot of people maintain good relationships with their ex's but I am not one of them! As for my husband, I don't know the names of anyone he's slept with other than the girl he was seeing before me so I don't know if he is friends with anyone else he has slept with.

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  • Knees
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    No rules for us at all. I do have some exes on there but some of them aren't on there.

    I met OH when he was 28 and I know he'd been around the block a bit when we got together. Remember on the old style FB, you could put how you knew a person when you accepted their friend request e.g. is related, went to school with? Well one really ugly girl who was about 20 had put "they went out". I really didn't like that.

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  • Vikster79
    Beginner July 2011
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    No rules, she can be friends with whomever she wants and vice versa.

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  • Edie
    Beginner July 2010
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    H refuses to have a FB account, so for a while he knew my account details and would use my account to snoop...then he started changing things on it, and asking me to add things to my Likes that I don't like - he does, and going through my messages from people, asking me about things I've said. I don't go through his emails / texts so I changed my password and he's not allowed on it anymore!

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  • Edie
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    H refuses to have a FB account, so for a while he knew my account details and would use my account to snoop...then he started changing things on it, and asking me to add things to my Likes that I don't like - he does, and going through my messages from people, asking me about things I've said. I don't go through his emails / texts so I changed my password and he's not allowed on it anymore!

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  • Houdini
    Beginner August 2010
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    Edie - that's just like my Mum and Dad!

    My Mum doesn't want one but will happily use my Dad's account to snoop at what's going on! ?

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  • knitting_vixen
    Beginner September 2011
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    what about your husband?

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
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    What if people you have had sex with aren't ex's (in the context of a formal relationship)?

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  • Panjita
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    ha ha ha. I should have said "had sex with prior to meeting my husband". ?

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  • Panjita
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    Apart from my husband I am not in touch with anyone I have had sex with.

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
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    I clearly give it up easier than you then ?

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  • Panjita
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    I'm not saying I've lived the life of a nun, (but I wasn't the town bike either) I just don't see any of them now.

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  • pandorasbox
    Beginner August 2012
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    There's no rules... I am 'friends' with guys I have slept with, OH has never said anything, and he was friends with his ex but shortly after we got together he deleted her as he felt they weren't actually 'friends' so no point keeping her. (I think he thought he was being a good bf at the time!)

    I did post here recently about a girl commenting/liking EVERYTHING OH puts on fb but I haven't given him any rules about it!

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  • ajdown
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    No rules, no secrets. Works for us. If we wouldn't want the other one finding out about something, we don't do it.

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  • WhiteRose84
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    Neither of us are on fb anymore - both for different reasons - but when we were on it, there were no rules. Like AJ said - If we wouldn't want the other one finding out about something, we don't do it. And neither of us feel the need to tell the other what we can and can't do x

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