iPhone app ‘finds friends,’ ends marriages

It's amazing what iPhone apps can do these days. Do you want to look at pictures of fluffy, sweater-clad kittens while sitting in Math 102? There's got to be an app out for that. Or say you need a gumbo recipe, and you absolutely can't wait until psychology's over to look it up. I'm sure there's an app for that too, chef.

But what if you suspect your significant other of having an affair? Believe it or not, the iPhone 4S has a hussy tracker.

"Find my Friends," the actual name of the app, was intended as a built-in Global Positioning System. Users can view their friends' locations on a map on the iPhone screen.

However, one New York man supposedly had other ideas for the app. The website, MacRumors.com, shows posts from the nameless husband after he allegedly caught his wife in a lie.

"She told me she was at her friends house in the east village," he said. "I've had suspicions about her meeting this guy who live[s]uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there."

And now the man is divorcing his cheating wife.

Although neither MacRumor or the man who posted the claim have confirmed the story, I can't help but wonder about absurd apps and their purposes.

Remember when phones were only able to make calls? Now, they can do just about anything except cook your meals and wash your laundry. (I bet the execs at Apple are working on that, though.)

The New Yorker's rumored predicament with his wife brings to light that smartphone's have shaped us into an introverted society.

Even if the story may not be true, we ARE using our phones to weed out unfaithful spouses in other malicious ways—rifling through inboxes, checking missed calls and skimming through the contacts list.

Alexander Graham Bell is likely shuddering in his grave. He couldn't have imagined when he invented the first working telephone nearly 140 years ago that we'd transform the device into a personal private detective.

Tracking cheaters aside, "Find my Friends" could be handy. But couldn't you simply CALL your friends if you wanted to locate them? Heaven forbid we carry on a live conversation with another human being.

Perhaps the "cheating" wife in New York wasn't really being unfaithful.

Maybe she just wanted the company of a man who knew how to truly communicate—face to face.