Australians are hooked on text messages but their love of all things textual is getting them in hot water according to a new report showing one in four have discovered their partner is cheating through a text message.
Australia’s largest telecommunications provider (Telstra) in their ‘State of the Nation Report’ canvassed 1,201 Australians in May this year on their mobile phone message behavior and use and found four in 10 Australians send up to seven text messages a day, while one in three use texts to tell others about major events in their lives.
But on the flipside, one in four Aussies have found out their partner was cheating by reading a text, while a further 20 per cent (including myself on a number of occasions) had accidentally sent a text meant for their partner or lover to somebody else.
Texting seems to be the modus operandi for cheaters given the secretive nature of affairs and the fact that calling their piece on the side would most likely arouse suspicion of their other half. Many people catch onto this long before when they suddenly notice their partner being cagey about their phone or password protecting it.
Text messaging can also be easily tracked and evidence mounted to catch the cheating partner out leading to the swift termination of relationships and ensuing divorces. Suspicious partners can now employ a whole array of technology to track the person they suspect of cheating on them. Cheating has always been with us but is literally just at our fingertips now.
