Check out these fantastic stats that I found, from a recent survey conducted by Virgin. I'm sure we can all say we've done one of the following, thanks to our ever increasing reliability on our mobile phones these days.
•10% of young Australians have been involved in a break-up as a result of text-checking.
•59% of text checkers check their partner’s phone when they’re in the shower.
•Women (38%) are more likely than men (28%) to check their partner’s texts.
These results come from a recent study to do with phones and text messaging. I'm guiilty of checking friends and boyfriends phones, but I blame my curious mind!
Furthermore, it was uncovered that 900,000 of us check our partner’s phones and that Australia is a nation of paranoid text checkers with over one in three young Australians admitting to checking their partner’s text messages, and more than 280,000 having been being involved in a text-checking related break-up.
What I think is funny, is that I am sure we have all done it, but blatently deny it, when someone asks what you are doing on someone elses phone.
And finally...
•76% of text checkers do so in secret.
•73% of secret text checkers have found out things they later wished they hadn’t.
•44% of sneaky text checkers have discovered flirtatious or sexual texts, ranging from harmless flirtation (32%) to full blown sexual texts from someone else (19%).
•The most common places text checkers operate is while their partner is in the shower (59%), whilst in the same room (41%) or on the toilet (35%)
Who's going to own up to their secret text checking, or have you ever been sprung checking your friends or partners text mesages - are you still friends now?