Fitbit helps woman catch her boyfriend cheating, thanks to activity recorded at 4 in the morning
- The fitness tracker helped a woman catch her boyfriend cheating when his activity levels spiked in the middle of the night
- The woman, Jane Slater, took her story to Twitter, where her followers shared their own, similar stories
If you are going to cheat, don’t forget to slip off your Fitbit along with your underwear.
Jane Slater, a correspondent for US sports channel NFL Network, says she caught a former boyfriend cheating after spotting a suspiciously rapid increase in his heart rate and physical activity at 4am on their shared Fitbit app.
The ex had given her the Fitbit as a Christmas gift so they could track each other’s activity levels and motivate each other to exercise more. Slater says she didn’t hate it until “he was unaccounted for at 4am and his physical activity levels were spiking on the app”.
“Wish the story wasn’t real,” Slater wrote in a post which has been retweeted more than 46,000 times and has more than 472,000 likes. She added: “Spoiler alert: he was not enrolled in an OrangeTheory class at 4am”, a reference to a fitness franchise in the US state of Florida.
Making the experience even more painful, Slater, at the time, was preparing to celebrate his birthday. “I was at his home w balloons ahead of the birthday I planned the next day.” She was so concerned about where he was, she even contemplated calling the police.
“My girlfriend once said ‘one day we will laugh about this’ as I sobbed uncontrollably in the car,” she tweeted. “I have now many times bahahahah.”