When Your Shared Netflix Account Outlasts The Relationship
Sharing of online streaming video and music passwords among sweethearts is a territorial marker, like wearing a boyfriend's sweater. But what happens to custody of the accounts when the love is gone?
by Yuki Noguchi
Feb 14, 2019
3 minutes
A couple of years ago, Aleta Dignard-Fung got dumped by her boyfriend.
"It was a pretty bad breakup," says the 20-year-old graphic design student, who lives in Las Vegas.
Only later did she remember that he still had the password to her streaming music account.
"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. "I'd just blast
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