Top 5 Social Media Habits That Could Mean Your Partner's Cheating

So you suspect your partner might be doing a lot more when they go online than liking photographs of sunsets or passing comments about the music a friend has been listening to? Are they spending inordinate amounts of time connecting with individuals they vaguely describe as work colleagues?

People who behave negatively often leave clues behind, some less subtle than others, but always detectable to anyone who knows what to look for. Becoming familiar with requires is a modicum of research into the subject, but once you know what to look for you may well ask yourself why it has taken you so long to notice. Here are five social media habits that might indicate your partner is cheating on you.

They feature on the pages of total strangers

It's common for people in an amicable relationship to share many aspects of their lives, right down to their social media presence. This means they're likely to crop up in each other's Instagram stories or Facebook posts regularly. But what about your partner making these appearances in someone else's online feeds? If your other half is a consistent co-star in photographs posted by someone you don't know, you might well have cause to question this.

The same individuals keep commenting on their posts

There is every likelihood you are used to your partner liking your Facebook or Instagram images, a situation you will most likely have reciprocated many times. You could get suspicious if someone else adopts your mantle of being your partner's main cheerleader in terms of likes and positive comments. If the Facebook option of substituting a love heart for a straightforward like has been used, then alarm bells might justifiably begin to ring.

You find yourself increasingly edited out of their virtual life

Have you noticed yourself being sidelined from your partner's social media? Where Facebook is concerned, are you no longer invited to like the same pages, or tagged in posts where it would once have been automatic to receive this notification. Perhaps your partner has visited pages and intimated he is interested in attending a certain gig or theatre event, while this has proved to be news to you. The more troubling aspect of this might be when you suss out one of the people who have also specified interest is the site user you have noticed is constantly liking your partner's posts. With the heart symbol.

They spend more time on messenger than Facebook

Facebook is a social media platform that is designed to be extremely social. Once you've developed your friendship group, you can interact with a diverse range of kindred spirits. Commenting and online conversations are all conducted in a very public arena. When your partner chooses to spend more time shunning this way of communication and resorting to private messaging, ensuring there is never a lot of explanation about who is on the receiving end, then you need to wonder why there is a need for all this secrecy.

Their devices are protected with an uncanny zeal

One of the most basic tenets of going online is that usernames and passwords are to be cloaked in secrecy. Of course, where partners are concerned, the degree of trust forming the core of their relationship can extend to sharing this security information. But if someone is having an affair, they will guard their privacy, never leaving their device unlocked or devoid of the protection of the password they are no longer willing to divulge.