Do You Think Technology Like Text Messaging Or MySpace Make It Easier To Cheat?

thats one of those pointless statistics because 90% of the population probably have a myspace account and probably 100% have text messaging capabilities. If people wanted to cheat they have always been able to do it, infact i wouldn't recommend cheating using text messages becasue i heard on the radio earlier today that 75% of women check their husbands text messages behind their backs.

i think it probably would make it easier to cheat. myspace is a connection to a lot of people. i think the internet in general makes it easier to cheat. there are so many dating sites and chat rooms for people to hook up in. but that doesn't mean everyone with a myspace account cheats...just depends who they talk to on there. i have one but i made it to keep in touch with old friends and family. in fact i only have like 8 friends lol and 2 are my cousins.

I really don't think so. People have been cheating since the beginning of time. If someone is really going to cheat, they're going to find ways of doing so, Myspace or no Myspace. In fact, I know older people that cheat on their spouses who have neither cell phones nor computers. So surely that 90% figure can't be right. I just can't imagine all those people coming up to less than 10% of cheaters. I have a myspace account, but I don't even really use it. My husband, on the other hand, has been pretty into Myspace lately, just because he found a lot of people he grew up with on there. But I'm not worried at all. =p

That's a good question. I think with all the technology it must be easier to cheat but if you know your partner well, as much as they love to hide it, I think you would be able to tell if something wasn't right. There is always a change in behaviour, either the spouse gets nasty and distant or extra nice to cover up the guilt complex lol.

I think it makes it easier to cheat, but I have no worries since my husband and I both don't like cheaters ;) What's crazy is that on myspace, he gets girls writing him all the time even though he clearly has pics up of his wife and kid and it says he's married. I guess some girls get turned on by that! When we get weird messages like that, we like to share and laugh at them.

Basically if someone wants to cheat, they'll find a way to do it. They were doing it back before we had computers and phones. And if you want to look at it in another light, doesn't the general population have a high incidence of having a MySpace and text messaging? So that would really kind of void the theory because people that do not cheat probably have close to the same rate of MYSpace and texting.

I'd have to agree. It makes it easier to get in touch with people who are also looking to have a fling, and than you can both get instant messenger and chat in realtime.

I fully agree with this observation. A spouse can be easily contacted through a text message via the cellphone as to when, where and how to meet again to have a follow through as regards their affair. Now, since you say that myspace is like a secret email address, that is self explanatory.

I think this is possible but if one knows their partner well they would find out through their changing behaviour if they were cheating. Either the partner gets too ratty or becomes too nice, either way because of the guilt problem that sets in and festers. I know because I have seen many couples got hrough this. I hope I never have to got hrough it, I suffered enough in my first marrriage lol.

I definitely think it's easier to cheat with technology these days. If there weren't text messaging or social sites, I think it would be easier to catch your spouse talking to the person they are cheating with. They would have to make phone calls, which you could eavesdrop on, or they might even send letters to each other. With text messaging & social sites, it's easier to send messages without a 3rd person knowing about it. And they could always erase the messages afterwards.