Is Your Boyfriend Reading Your Facebook Messages?

According to a recent survey put out by AskMen.com, dudes are a nosy bunch — more than a few admitted to snooping around their partners’ inboxes.

AskMen’s “Great Male Survey” — which is currently live on the site, chock full of manly stats — was conducted over a two-month period, during which the website collected the responses of more than 100,000 dudes.

The questions range from Facebook use to online dating, but we found a certain collection of stats intriguing: those pertaining to online privacy and relationships. According to the survey, by and large, men believe that privacy is dead online. Although 21.31% opined that privacy is alive and kickin’, 53.18% answered, “Yes, but not online,” and 25.51% said no.

The gaggle of hombres’ answers in other arenas backed up this assertion. When asked if they had ever read a partner’s Facebook messages, e-mail or other electronic correspondence, the men answered thusly:

• Yes, but only with my partner’s knowledge: 23.51%
• Yes, but only because it was open on the desktop: 13.32%
• Yes, I broke into my partner’s e-mail or messaging account: 8.90%
• No, but I would if I suspected my partner was up to something: 21.54%
• No, I respect my partner’s privacy: 32.73%

While 32.73% is a still a goodly number of considerate bros — and while the survey doesn’t specify what “with my partner’s knowledge” means (it could entail, say, looking up flight information or something of that nature) — it seems a pretty substantial number of guys have snooped on a partner.

Take comfort, though, ladies and gents — dudes are decidedly not down with actual stalking. When asked, “If you had the ability to, would you track your partner’s physical movement (with a GPS implant, for example)?” only 3.56% said “Yes,” while 79.28% said no. That’s rather heartening, but considering men are more down with Facebook (69.55% use it regularly) than geo-location (54.55% don’t use Foursquare or other geolocation apps because they don’t understand it or know what it is), perhaps it’s just a matter of time before men start embracing radar love. Totally kidding (I hope).

 

(via Mashable!)

 

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Perhaps it's because I've never been a jealous woman, but I genuinely think reading your SO's email or fb messages or text messages or ANY form of third-party communication is a clear sign of a guilty conscience. I know one couple where the man constantly reads her correspondences, to the point where she has to delete anything right after she sends it, out of fear that he will get angry that she didn't tell him something. Seriously. She says she has nothing to hide, so she doesn't care that he does it, but my conclusion about that arrangement is 1. he's a control freak, and 2. he's probably suspicious of her because he himself is crazy shady and therefore he assumes she must be up to the same antics that he is.

 

I disapprove, strongly. And if you plan on reading your SO's messages, be prepared to find out something you never wanted to know, because if you've reached that point y'all probably don't have a very trusting relationship anyway.

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