People Can’t Stop ‘Spotify Snooping’ on Friends, Exes and Crushes

When we play songs on Spotify to get us through the day, they can be intimate—and sometimes also publicly visible.

Many people have sharing settings enabled on the music-streaming service, making it easy for friends or strangers to find out what they’re listening to, and by extension, what they’re doing or how they’re feeling. A guilty pleasure (“MMMBop,” anyone?), your repeat listen (yes, Taylor Swift’s “Midnights”) or a playlist name may reveal personal information to those who are snooping.