How to setup my wife's iPad to share our joint iTunes account

I have an ipad2. I have an apple ID. My wife and I have always shared my iTunes account on our 1 home pc. My wife just got herself an ipad2. I need help setting up her iPad so that we can share iTunes, but keep everything else separate. Do I need to get her a separate apple ID or use mine? We would like to be able to video chat, and I can't figure out how we would do that with the same apple id. I have already logged into her iPad with my ID, so if I need to change it, how do I do that?

If you connect her iPad to your computer's iTunes and select it on the left-hand side, then on the right-hand side you can use the various tabs (Music, Apps etc) to control which of the iTunes content to sync to it - and that selection should be remembered each time you connect it, so you can control what goes onto each iPad. That way you can share iTunes content and you only need to have the one iTunes account
In terms of FaceTime and Messages then you can assign your own email address (you don't need separate iTunes accounts) to those apps on your own iPads : Settings > Messages > Receive At and similarly Settings > FaceTime

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This applies mainly to couples who are adding another device and do not want their email, messages, etc. being duplicated on both devices. To begin read: How to use multiple iPhone, iPad, or iPod devices with one computer. You need to establish a separate Apple ID and password for whomever will use the new iDevice. See Apple - My Apple ID and Frequently asked questions about Apple ID. The easiest way is to do this on the computer using iTunes: iTunes- How to set up an Apple ID within iTunes.
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Once you are on separate accounts, you can each go to icloud.com and delete the other person's data from your account.
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So, if your wife has her own email and calendar she can certainly do that in parallel to whatever account(s) you have for email and calendar. But if you have only one iCloud account then only one of you can use it for email, calendar, etc. But the backup of these accounts is really just a backup of the device's settings that link the device to these accounts. For example, if she uses Gmail then the backup of the iPad only backs up the fact that your iPad is set up to use her account, it does not backup the account itself (the content of her account is saved and preserved on Google's servers, not your device's backup).
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From the Home screen, double click your Home button. You will see a list of recent Apps along the bottom of the screen. Press and hold on one of them until they start to wiggle. You will then see a red minus sign on each. Pressing the minus sign will remove an App from the list, and stop it from working in the background. (Click the Home button to stop the wiggling, and again to hide the recent Apps.)
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