Therapist Sees Increase in Internet Infidelity

Do your Facebook friends include former love interests?

How do you handle inquiries from former romances? It's a question we posed on KETV.com a few weeks ago. And while not many people were not eager to share details, they responded in an online survey.

In the unscientific survey, 12 percent of people polled said they used a social networking sites to contact a former boyfriend or girlfriend. And of those, about 5 percent actually continued the relationship.

An Omaha marriage therapist said social networking Web sites can be dangerous for marriage.

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Cheating Partners Exposed with PInow.com’s Valentine’s Day Infidelity Quiz

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Using these and other tell-tale signs of infidelity, partners can arm themselves with evidence and stop the disastrous pattern of infidelity. The best thing a worried partner can do is to prepare. Oftentimes, what started out as just an inkling of suspicion will prove to be accurate. Studies have confirmed it, showing that 85 percent of women and 50 percent of men who suspected that their partner was cheating were ultimately correct.

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Virtual Affairs: Real Life Mess?

In her year long study of online infidelity at the University of Florida, Beatriz Avila Mileham recruited 76 men and 10 women who regularly visit chat rooms tailored to married people looking for a tryst. Most of the subjects told Mileham that initial online flirtation doesn’t count as cheating: 80 percent said they felt like they were just “talking with a computer.” However, online interactions can lead to real world relationships. Thirty percent said they had a face-to-face meeting with someone they met online. Twenty-four of those 26 people ended up having an affair.

Is Your Husband's Avatar Faithful?

Online infidelity was once limited to chat rooms and dating sites.

But there is rising concern that virtual worlds such as Second Life and Kaneva and role-playing games like "EverQuest" can escalate the potential for and extent of infidelity.

After all, avatars, or alternative identities, do it all: shop together, get married in wedding ceremonies and even buy property with virtual currency they purchase with real-world dollars. They can also commit crimes against each other, get divorced and sue one another in real-life court over in-game disputes.

Cyber Infidelity Can Be Damaging For Real

In real life, he is a successful 35-year-old business owner and husband-to-be. But on Second Life, the virtual fantasy world with 11 million "residents," his avatar, Lugh Dragonash, is a cyborg, or human machine, which can make it difficult to meet women, he says.

Not that he's looking. But he could, because in Second Life, you build your perfect pretend life, down to property, skin tone and a dream spouse. Even Dragonash's fiancee, who is 29 and unemployed but works as a go-go dancer in Second Life, has a boyfriend. She engages in cyber sex with him and, before you ask, Dragonash doesn't watch. And no, he adds, it doesn't bother him.

Survey Findings On Perceptions of Infidelity in Online and Virtual World Environments

Spunlogic, an award-winning interactive marketing and technology agency, released the findings of a survey on the perceptions of infidelity in online and virtual world environments.

With social networks, text messaging, and even virtual worlds beginning to play a role in interpersonal relationships, real-world effects are beginning to take shape. An example made headlines recently -- a man, who created a character representing himself in the virtual world Second Life, married his "in-world" romantic interest, prompting his real-world wife to file for divorce.