Dating apps, messaging services and even websites where you can arrange affairs have made it easier than ever to cheat – and be caught. Reports of passionate flings being struck up – and quietly stoked – using the private messaging function on the online marketplace are common, say experts. Ask them about boundaries and truthfulness, about private messaging and deleted messages, how they're handling workplace chats.' Essentially, such employee-centred technology enables conversations that may once have been struck up by the water cooler to flourish in private online. 'People assume affairs start on dating apps.