But you might be interested in the Spotify Family subscription plan – she can save 50% with it. You are not allowed to share it with your wife and also you won’t be able to listen to music at the same time (it will always stop on one device). And besides, she says, now another one of her friends is using her ex's Hulu password.Unfortunately sharing accounts is against Spotifys terms and conditions. Russell says that in a strange way, holding on to the passwords enables her to maintain connections with the people who've passed through her life. Her ex-girlfriend responded, "We're not dating anymore."īut then the ex immediately shared the password with Russell anyway. "Last time I couldn't log in to it, I texted her and I was like, 'Hey, what's the Hulu password?' " Russell says. Russell sheepishly admits she's saving $30 a month using various borrowed accounts from people she's no longer dating. "I think about it sometimes, like: When is this going to end?" They broke up last year, but she remains logged in to the woman's Netflix and Hulu accounts. (She says he thought it was strange but went along with it.) Russell subsequently dated a woman in New York. She even shared that music account with another man she dated. Some spurned lovers exact revenge by changing the password just as their ex reaches the climactic season finale.Īll Tech Considered What's Hot On Netflix? A Startup Aims To Track Ratings In The Streaming Age But unwinding these entanglements can get messy after a breakup. It speaks volumes about how closely relationships entwine with digital life. The expression "Netflix and chill" isn't just code for date night.
"It was just kind of like the Spotify wars, and we'd just spend like 10 minutes trying to override each other's songs," Dignard-Fung says.īreaking up is hard to do - made harder for some who share streaming music and video profiles. She jumped in and out of the shower, changing the music back as they continued battling for control, pushing each other off the shared account. "I'd just blast my music in the shower, and then it'd change and it'd start playing Bulgarian folk music because he's Bulgarian." "Part of getting over someone is being able to listen to your jams in the shower and maybe cry or something like that," says Dignard-Fung, who at the time was into Justin Bieber. Only later did she remember that he still had the password to her streaming music account. "It was a pretty bad breakup," says the 20-year-old graphic design student, who lives in Las Vegas. Aleta Dignard-Fung says she battled her ex-boyfriend for control of what music would play on her Spotify account.Ī couple of years ago, Aleta Dignard-Fung got dumped by her boyfriend.
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