Thursday, March 15, 2012

Facebook: reason for divorce?

I've heard that Facebook was the second reason for divorce last year. Ouch! Decided to do a little research and see if it was true.
Parker strayed to a woman
he kept in touch with via
Facebook.
A December 2010 article from DailyMail.com says one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook.  A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating.
Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66 per cent of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case. MySpace followed with 15 per cent, Twitter at 5 per cent and other choices lumped together at 14 per cent.

'Desperate Housewives’ star Eva Longoria recently split from her basketball player husband Tony Parker after alleging that he strayed with a woman he kept in touch with on Facebook.
I've seen couples have a combined account like "JoeandSueJones". Do you think that is silly or smart? Do you think couples should be able to have each others passwords to social network sites? If somebody contacted you and the conversation got flirty, would you tell your spouse about it?

I believe that if you don't get a hold of yourself and set regulations for technology use in your life, it's going to get out of control, both individual use and relationships.

Marriage counsellor Terry Real said he believes some users go on Facebook to create a fantasy life and escape the drudgery.
But he said Facebook is not really to blame.
‘Before it was email, then before that it was the phone. The problem is not Facebook, it is the loss of love in your marriage,’ he said.