Is Your Boyfriend Scoping Out Your Facebook Posts?

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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).

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