Women Use Monitoring Program To Track Their Spouses' Facebook Activity

Bitdefender, an online security company, recently polled some of its customers to see how they're using a program that's designed for parents to monitor their kids' Facebook activity.  However, only 23.87 percent of the 1,600-plus participants said they used the program to keep tabs on children aged 13-17. A majority of the women copped to using the technology to spy on their boyfriends and husbands.

Bitdefender, an online security company, recently polled some of its customers to see how they’re using a program that’s designed for parents to monitor their kids’ Facebook activity.  However, only 23.87 percent of the 1,600-plus participants said they used the program to keep tabs on children aged 13-17. A majority of the women copped to using the technology to spy on their boyfriends and husbands.

The Bitdefender study found that the number of women who had husbands or boyfriends aged 25 to 34 were three times more likely than men to track their significant others’ Facebook activity.

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