In recent times telecommunications revolution especially the use of mobile phones is transforming the Nigerian society
in many ways. The socio-economic and cultural impacts are enormous. As the spectrum of mobile phone usage
increases, opinion differs among users on the impact of this revolution in Nigerian. This paper therefore set to
investigate the impact of telecommunications revolution especially text based messages on criminality and family crisis
in Nigeria. In doing this, the study elicited data through questionnaire from 7200 respondents who were randomly and
purposively selected. Analysis of this data revealed that, most Nigerians were duped through text messages, while
significant numbers of marriages are in crisis due to spouse assess to text messages that suggest suspicious of infidelity
among partners. We recommended among others that Nigerian should scrutinize text messages before reacting to its
content and that proper documentation of Sims pack users is necessary.