The casual convenience and privacy of SMS texting, or emailing from your phone, just got serious.
A new survey has found that 40% of women – suspicious girlfriends and wives – admit they regularly snoop for flirty text messages on their partners phones.
Worse news for the average bloke is that nearly one quarter claim to have caught their partner “flirtexting” with someone else via SMS or email. Interestingly, 6.7% revealed they’d been busted themselves, and 20% had sent a flirty text to the wrong person by mistake.
Telstra, Australia’s national phone carrier, quizzed 1,250 respondents on their mobile phone use.
For those in a serious relationship, women are more likely to flirt with their thumbs, with 41% saying they engage in flirtexting compared to 30% of men.
Sadly, technology appears to have sounded the death-knell for real life romance too.
For those living in New South Wales, 14% of those surveyed confessed to having digitally dumped someone, with 13.5% of Victorians doing the same.
So what are the biggest flirty-text turn-offs?
Apparently, too many abbreviations (LOL, BTW, OMG, ROFL, SXC), writing in caps-lock, and the overuse of smiley faces.
I must be out of the loop somehow. I never get flirtexted by anyone. About the sexiest thing my wife sms’s me is ‘don’t forget to buy some milk on your way home from work xo’.
[TVNZ]
