Cheating on your partner? Be sure to swap the sex of your phone address book names

By on February 14, 2006 in Services

Link: Text messages open portal to men’s hearts – 14 Feb 2006 – Technology & Science.

But alongside the rise of the text romance comes a warning of a new phenomenon uncovered by the research: text cheating.

"Research subjects admitted to changing the names in their mobile phone address book, so that ‘Jane’ becomes ‘Jake’, for example," Mr Bowler said. "Girlfriends won’t be suspicious of text messages arriving from ‘Jake’."

I just had to do an additional comment on this article from the New Zealand Herald — I think this research has its place.  However, how is your girlfriend going to react when you get a message from ‘Jake’ (as apposed to ‘Jane’) saying "Last night was brilliant, I love you"?

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    Personally if I am in a relationship where they do not trust me and are checking my phone than I do not want to be in it. But than again I would not be cheating.

  • http://migraineheadacherx.com/ mike mills

    Personally if I am in a relationship where they do not trust me and are checking my phone than I do not want to be in it. But than again I would not be cheating.

  • http://www.savingangel.org/ Stan Brower

    This works perfect, I've tried this much before, though I wasn't really cheating.I don't think anyone would like to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't trust him and keeps checking his text.

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    Why not just clear the messages? I mean if your going to cheat . . . just clear your messages after each chat session.

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    Why not just clear the messages? I mean if your going to cheat . . . just clear your messages after each chat session.

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    Haha very good point and not one that im sure many cheaters think of. Might be a lot easier if they just didn't cheat to begin with ;) Bookmarked.

  • http://www.extremejohn.com Extreme John

    Haha very good point and not one that im sure many cheaters think of. Might be a lot easier if they just didn't cheat to begin with ;) Bookmarked.

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    Now this is some funny stuff your stating that men are open or are adapt to cheating through text messages.
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    hey …i inderstand how difficult it is to manage both partners at the same time…instead it is better..to go for single….double is trouble.
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    we should be putting this post up in time for valentine’s day for all those romantic SMS two-timers out there

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    we should be putting this post up in time for valentine’s day for all those romantic SMS two-timers out there

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    It would be really easy to use reverse phone lookup to find out who it really is

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    very nice

  • taylor1028

    hahaa…i think the swap would be pretty hilarious on the cheating partner

  • jeremiah99

    good idea.before you get caught.

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