So I've finally decided to join the 21st century and get on Facebook. The problem is, my wife already has an account on Facebook, so it won't let me sign up because it's the same email address. What do I do?

 

Can you sign up for another email address? Gmail? Yahoo?

 

Pretty much make a new Gmail or Yahoo email

 

Yeah, you have to get a different email address. Can't use the same as someone else.

 

You and the wife could use a joint account and make everyone wonder who cheated

 

But, what if your wife wants to sign up on the forums?

 

With no offense meant to the OP, I'm staggered at the idea that there's someone out there on the internet without at least one independent email address that's their own. Which, I suppose, is a reflection of how entrenched internet communication has become in our lives as I see it.

 

I have like 8 email addresses just for myself. All for different purposes.

 

You know one of those types too? I have a buddy that now shares his facebook account because of his shenanigans.

 

I have mailerdaemon@ my ISP's domain just because I can  

 

I agree with the consensus. Sign up for a separate email account. It won't even take 5 minutes of your time.

I have 4 separate active email accounts: work, yahoo for personal, a professional gmail account and a personal gmail. I have several other dormant accounts that I only used to open separate Photobucket and Imageshack accounts.

If you're a weak-willed, habitual cheater then this might be an enabling tool, and I'd advise against it.  

 

Forgive me for my stupidity. Let's say I wanted to get a Yahoo! email account. Is it just as simple as signing up, and that's it?

 

At this point, are you even sure you want a Facebook account?

If you've lived your life this long without it, why burden yourself with it now?

 

In other words; "You will never find more a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

 

My only reason for even wanting to be on Facebook is to keep in touch with a bunch of my fellow collectors who are on these Facebook groups. At this point, I can see their posts through my wife's account, but I'd like to have my own account so I can join in on the conversation. I've missed out on some great deals in the past because I wasn't able to contact them.

 

Primarily why i use it these days too.

 

I love not having Facebook, Twitter and whatever other often named 'social' networks there are.

 

This. Better not having a social media account.
At first these were just nickpages and it was just fun, than it went from this site to that site and last one I was on myself was Myspace and mainly because I'm a musician. I already saw Facebook when it was not yet hyped and did not like it. Once I learned about all the things they do with our data, it was a no go. I'm on no social network and will never be. Also these things are useless time-eaters. The only person who benefits of you all having a Facebook account is Mark Zuckerberg.

Also, you cannot be in touch with so many people at once. You spend much more quality time with your friends if you really need to talk instead of having read it all already online. If I can't keep in touch with people just because I'm not on Facebook, so be it. Nothing lost. Only for them. Trying to keep in touch with hundreds or thousands of people is superficial and exhausting. The real friends count. Nothing else.

 

The guy just wants to keep in touch, maybe just comment a thing or two in their group, and mainly purchase things/get good deals.

Seems like a legit reason to make one.

Yeah just create an email for yourself then create your FB account.