Would you call this cheating?

[talkinghead]

One table SNG at Party. Me in 200 BB (quick tournament) with big chip lead. UTG player has T205 left and goes all-in, the two medium stacks each with around 1500 chips fold. I decide that the current situation is profitable and want to prolong the bubble play so i can steal more blinds so fold my BB to UTG player, much to the disgust of the other two chaps.
I then proceeded to shamelessly steal blinds and the bubble eventually burst with me having T8500 chips.

I made a tactical play for my own reasons but other guys cried foul saying that either I was soft playing against my buddy. (didn't know the guy of course)