Is The mCouple App, For Suspicious Spouses, The WORST Idea Ever?

Privacy. We're all very concerned about privacy at the moment.

Well, new app mCouple could be about to do away with privacy completely, when it comes to relationships.

We feverishly check to make sure that our Facebook posts are set to "Friends Only" and a great number of people have been asking for their Google results to be removed, under the "right to be forgotten" policy.

So why on earth do we feel we have the right to know everything that our other half is doing and saying?

The App

Jealousy, the green eyed monster, is an ugly part of our character, that most of us try very hard to keep under wraps.

New app mCouple plays on this baser instinct, threatening to turn us into obssessive snoops.

Once installed on a user's phone, mCouple will let you monitor texts, emails, Facebook messages and even geolocations - so you can track their whereabouts - in real time!

The app creates a user ID, and once that ID is shared, users can begin tracking their partner's every move, even tracking their recent call history.

In the promotion video, on Google Play, the app's creators rather disingenuously claim that it will bring you "closer than ever before with your loved one."

Sure.

Considering it is basically like placing each other under extreme surveilance, it will more likely bring you resentment and stress.

Who's The Victim Here?

What is EVEN worse - the app can operate in a kind of "stealth mode" meaning that, if you're especially suspisious, you could actually install it on your partner's phone without their knowledge, as it won't show up in their list of apps.

Doesn't installing secret apps on your partner's phone make you in some way the villain in the scenario too?

Some people will likely use the argument: "If he/she isn't doing anything wrong, then they won't mind me looking."

However, we would argue that we all have the right to a little privacy in our lives.

How about on those days when you feel your partner has done something a little unfair and you just want to vent to your BFF?

We all do this and we say things we don't really mean, just because it feels good to get it out. In many cases, venting of this kind actually HELPS us to get over the whole thing more quickly.

Heading For Breakupville

It could be said that this app, far from bringing you closer together, might actually be the thing that breaks you apart.

Imagine if your partner was able to see anything you've ever said about them, whether you really meant it or not.

And even if you're not doing anything wrong, consider coming home to a barrage of questions about why you left the office at lunchtime.

You might only have been popping to the post office, but facing the Spanish inquisition on a regular basis might actually make you less likely to want to toe the line.

Right?

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So, hands up if you think mCouple is a terrible, terrible idea? Yeah, us too.