"Weeellllllll, FB and IM and SMS and mobiles makes it all easier."
Easier than what?
In my POV this is rather by way of being an example of what the late scholar Aaron Wildavsky once called the "tyranny of the latest thing" - a natural pathology of the human decision-making process where we project today back into the past and assume "our" time is ever-so-much-more-so.
In olden days - oh, the 1950s, say - there were bridge clubs and bowling leagues and lodges and block parties....and opportunities for affairs galore (Cheever, anybody?). And don't let's get started on milkmen and traveling salesmen and Fuller Brush men and office Christmas parties...
Though technology may make it "easier" in relative terms - after all, I'm lying here in bed with Themselves asleep next to me, in a hotel room near Big Midwestern City, pecking away at an iPhone, but I don't know that I would necessarily conflate ease-of-technological-access with will, desire, intent or even opportunity.
