should you read somebody's text messages?

hey there my friend.i would say there is nothing wrong in reading msgs in somebody's phone who is very close to you.like my girlfriend reads many msgs in my phone.but yes you should always be prepared for what you may get there.........

I have read text messages intended for other people. BUT...that was only because someone sent ME the text messages instead. So of course I had to read them because I thought they were for me lol. But for real though, I've never read any text messages that are on other phones.

I don't read my bf's text messages because I trust him and I know that he really loves me. There was once when I sneaked into my ex-bf's cellphone, I was doubtful with him and I saw a lot of sweet text messages from other other girls. He was cheating on me. I give privacy to someone if I trust that person.

Me & my girl friend have complete trust in each other... Our lives are pretty much an open book to each other so we don't really care what each other does as far as private stuff goes... She has all the pass words & access to everything I have & vise versa...There are times I even ask her to check my voice mails for me & she asks me to check her emails... She says it has to do with trust on her part but for me, it has more to do with being lazy I guess, ha ha ha... In the very beginning of our relationship, there was a time when she was insecure & I gave her my email address password & the password to my voice mail & told her, "Whenever you feel like checking either of them or both, feel free to because I don't feel like having to go through them & tell you about it... It would be a lot easier if you just go in yourself & check'em all"... My cell phone is pretty much treated as a house phone so whoever is closer to the phone gets to answer it when I'm home...

I don't think we should be reading other people's text messages. I think it's an invasion of privacy in a sense that it's not our business to be reading them. It's just like a letter send through post mail. We are not allowed to read the content because it's against the law. Too bad for text messages because there's no such law. On couples, i think trust plays a major role. If we trust each other then i guess there's no need to check the messages because we're confident with each other. Sometimes, reading them just creates trouble or arguments.

I am not sure. It is VERY tempting and I ALWAYS read friends messages to see what they are up to haha. But in your situation of a boyfriend, I am not quite sure because it is good to know if they are cheating on you or doing anything in that sort of matter, but yet, it's not because what if they catch you doing it? Any what happens if you read something REALLY bad you shouldn't have? Well..it's your decision.

Well I guess we are somewhat guilty of it at times. Me and my wife does that every now and then. I have nothing to hide from her so I guess it's pretty okay for me to let her read all my text messages. On her part also she tends to allow me to read her text messages as well I guess it is kind of showing that we trust each other and as much as we could we tell each other if there is something that I should know before hand especially if the text is some kind of personal for her.

My husband and I don't read each other's text messages unless we asked each other to or when we have our hands full. My husband does ask me to read his text messages for him sometimes and I dislike doing it because his phone is a PDA and needs to use the pointing thing to poke the PDA....haiz too lazy to do that - prefer a normal press cell phone.

If it were one of my kids, I would read them. As far as I am concerned, until they are adults, it is my business to know what is going on in their lives. As far as my husband, I would read them, but not before letting him know that I am doing it. In my household, especially in my marriage, things like that just aren't private or personal. If he wants to read mine, he is more than welcome too. I would not read my parents' or brothers' texts though, and if I ever did, I would have no right to get angry with them for things I was not meant to see to begin with. In your case, I think that if you have read his texts and seen some that bother you, you have a few choices. You can confront him about them, thus, letting him know you have been snooping, you can let it go and say/do nothing, or you can leave him. In the end, the choice is yours.

i dont like to read someone's messages and i dont like if someone read my messages... "Hey, i'm human too and i need privacy" i always say that if someone read my messages without my permission... my mom, she always try to peep my cellphones, not only the messages but also the received calls and the phonebook, then she save my friends' number then she terror them (really call my friends and call them with bad names) really annoying and doesnt have respect at all...

I don't think that anyone should read another text messages, as to me there is no reason for doing so. However, I think teenages should be monitired when text messaging, as you never know what they might be talking about. I don't text so I have no teason to read anyone's text messages whatsoever. It is really none of my business. Now my 14 year old grandson texts to a girl, but my daughter is not worried about it, and I am concerned as he has lookes at things on the internet that he shouldn't have and I told her to monitor him. Othere than for that reason, I don't think text messages should be read, as it is their business and no one elses.

reading somebody's message is like invading someones privacy. My auntie loves reading my message but i never cared about it, but sometimes there are stuffs that you are only allowed to know. And i am this kind of person that dont erase any messages, so therefore they can really get something from my messages. However, it is sometimes rightful to read for you to know something, but well, just don't overreact on it directly because not all in the inbox are true.

Hello, I agree that cellphones can be a medium to a private thing. I do know that unless someone wants you to see something that they have got then thats different but I do have to say I am also guilty of reading my ex's text messages when we were together even though its wrong but at the time I felt I had to because things were not right and he was very sneaky when I tried to talk to him about things he would put me down and yell at me and make sure I felt like crap so at the time I have done it to because thats all I knew to do to find out the truth.