Flirting with danger: Chinese message apps add to marital woes


WeChat and other platforms have helped revolutionise inter-personal relations in China, but are also blamed for adding to growing strain on Chinese marriages by making it easier to flirt with potential new partners.- Bloomberg

SHANGHAI (AFP): Echo couldn't figure out why her Shanghai businessman husband routinely came home well past midnight, straining their 10-year marriage -- until she looked at his phone.

Flirtatious messages from other women revealed a pattern of affairs facilitated by WeChat, China's top messaging app.

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