Tonkunaga (2011) reported that partner monitoring is the second most commonly
reported act of Facebook. Surveillance is an unintended advantage to online websites because the
act is anonymous (Elphinston & Noller, 2011; Marshall et al., 2012). Recent studies have found
that 60% of college students use the social network Facebook as a way to check up on their
significant other (Bowe, 2010; Marshall et al., 2012; Tokunaga, 2011). Elphinston and Noller
(2011) state couples are likely to use SNS as a way to check up on their partner. Utz and