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Alex Jun 30, 2019 @ 10:37am
Can people see who you are sharing your account with?
Let's say that I share my account with another account to get access to the games there. Can my friends see that I am sharing an account?

The thing is, I have two different accounts on the same computer. If I want to play with my friends I just log into my real account. If I just want to not be disturbed I go into this account. But I want to access some of the games on my other account.

So, can people see who I am sharing my account with? I am aware that if I go into my other account and play the games on this account, people are going to realize that I do not have that game in my library and make the deduction that I must be sharing my account with someone. I am just going to play the games from the other account on this account... That's a lot of "account"s.
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StickyPawz Jun 30, 2019 @ 10:50am 
Your friends will see that someone on your friendlist is playing a game.

Set your 2nd account to *private* if you want your game library to be private.
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Alex Jun 30, 2019 @ 11:27am 
Originally posted by StickyPaws:
Your friends will see that someone on your friendlist is playing a game.

Set your 2nd account to *private* if you want your game library to be private.

So if I share this account with another account, my friends on the other account will see that I have added this account as a friend?
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999999999 Jun 30, 2019 @ 11:28am 
You don't need to be friends with your alt account to use Family Sharing. No one can see who you are sharing anything with. Unless they are with you, looking at your account.

How about making your friends list private?
Last edited by 999999999; Jun 30, 2019 @ 11:29am
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Phantom Jun 30, 2019 @ 11:29am 
Originally posted by AlexOland:
Originally posted by StickyPaws:
Your friends will see that someone on your friendlist is playing a game.

Set your 2nd account to *private* if you want your game library to be private.

So if I share this account with another account, my friends on the other account will see that I have added this account as a friend?

There's no need to add the account, IIRC family sharing doesn't require users to be added.

In any case, you can always set your friend's list to private.
Last edited by Phantom; Jun 30, 2019 @ 11:29am
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