My boyfriend recently came into the living room and interrupted one of my wild crossword puzzle tangents asking me a much dreaded question: Do you still read your ex’s blog?
While the answer is yes, (who doesn’t? or wouldn’t?) I felt trapped. I hadn’t told any of our leaky-lipped friends I’d been keeping up on my ex’s new job and relationship via his painfully descriptive blog so visions of a hidden camera system and night goggles filled my head.
How had my boyfriend learned of my online sleuthing? He’d trolled through the browser history in search of a wet-suit manufacturer he’d found a week before and in his quest, "checked out" my recent page history. So, is it wrong or right?
Tibi
Melrose
Miss Sixty
I don't go looking for stuff. I trust my husband. We respect each others privacy.
1Firefox has a google toolbar. You type what you want to search for and hit enter. It also remembers what you have typed previously. I was on my husband's laptop and went to search for something and started typing something with a T and "Tina Fey naked" popped up. I had to laugh.
Hahah. At least she's geeky too, right?
2True.
3It wrong to snoop but not when something unexpected pops up.
4Computers really aren't built so that people can share AND have privacy - even though my brother very, ah, courteously clears the history whenever he goes somewhere he knows I don't want to come across, google has a loooong memory.
5Haha, redsugar, that is SO cute! I think you need to trust the person you are with, otherwise, why are you with them? In my younger days, I would have snooped around, but I trust my husband. And I would want him to trust me, too. It would hurt my feelings if he was checking up on me.
6It never occurred to me that people have to share a computer.
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