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My Digital Wife Tried to Take Over My Digital Life

• Jonathan

I’m sure anyone who has gotten married, been to a wedding, or listened to The Spice Girls will be familiar with the concept of “two become one”. By this, I mean a romantic couple who are now so close in their relationship that they are “as one”. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a nice sentiment, but while I love my wife 3,000, share a bank account with her, and have an amazing child with her, we are still very individual. We certainly would not consider ourselves “one”.

But tell that to the digital version of my wife, who recently went on a heist across two platforms, trying to take over my life – or, at the very least, absorb herself into mine. It started a few weeks back when my wife (let’s call her Lucía because, well, that’s her name) asked me to fix some preferences on her YouTube account. She allowed me to sign in on my Mac, and I made the changes. Subsequently, whenever I visited YouTube or used Google Search, the active profile was always Lucía’s. I knew that could be easily fixed, so I signed out of her account, keeping mine active.