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Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce pe ions, lawyers have claimed.
The social networking site, which connects old friends and allows users to make new ones online, is being blamed for an increasing number of marital breakdowns.
Divorce lawyers claim the explosion in the popularity of websites such as Facebook and Bebo is tempting to people to cheat on their partners.
Su ious spouses have also used the websites to find evidence of flirting and even affairs which have led to divorce.
One law firm, which specialises in divorce, claimed almost one in five pe ions they processed cited Facebook.
Mark Keenan, Managing Director of Divorce-Online said: "I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook and I decided to see how prevalent it was I was really surprised to see 20 per cent of all the pe ions containing references to Facebook.
"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to."
Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behaviour.
Computer firms have even cashed in by developing software allowing su ious spouses to electronically spy on someone's online activities.
One 35-year-old woman even discovered her husband was divorcing her via Facebook.
Conference organiser Emma Brady was distraught to read that her marriage was over when he updated his status on the site to read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."
Last year a 28-year-old woman ended her marriage after discovering her husband had been having a virtual affair with someone in cyberspace he had never met.
Amy Taylor 28, split from David Pollard after discovering he was sleeping with an escort in the game Second Life, a virtual world where people reinvent themselves.
Around 14 million Britons are believed to regularly use social networking sites to communicate with old friends or make new ones.
The popularity of the Friends Reunited website several years ago was also blamed for a surge in divorces as bored husbands and wives used it to contact old flames and first loves.
The UK’s divorce rate has fallen in recent years, but two in five marriages are still failing according the latest statistics.
Mr Keenan believes that the general divorce rate will rocket in 2010 with the recession taking the blame.
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its just making it alot easier to get caught
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It's not Facebook's fault if some users are dumb.
Plus, Facebook now has new privacy settings
Just leaving a trail of what they were probably doing anyway.
If you're married it should just be for family to keep in touch, nothing more and close it off to all other people, period.
I get 40% of my clients from facebook.
If I got married, I would close my FB account.
I have a FB account and so does my wife she can see everything I do if she wants. It's not FB it's the person.
agreed. My wife and I have each others passwords. Not because we don't trust each other but sometimes my bro will get on (he's in Iraq) and she will log into my account and she will joke around with him pretending to be me.
I agree.
^ hey angel is bo flexing in your wedding photo? haha. bo cracks me up!
I don't believe in a person who is married spending time with a person of the opposite sex to whom they are not related. Online or in person makes no difference to me. I should not be having private contact of any sort with any man if I am married. I don't believe in putting myself in a position to be misinterpreted. If I were married, I would not PM with any males on here either or even engage on the board in anything that seems to be a conversation between the two of us.
She can't see a record of your chat and you can't see hers.
Yes, he is.
The little kid in the photo is my former roommate's son, Brett.
Brett really looked up to Bo.
Bo showed Brett the best cartoon channels.
Bo taught Brett how to prank call.
Bo also taught Brett the following joke, which Bo would convince Brett to to tell me whenever Bo visited where I lived.
Person one: " Do you have tickets?"
Person two: " Tickets to where?"
Person one flexes his muscles: " Tickets to the Gun Show!"
Thus the muscle flexing picture- one of my most favorite wedding pictures.
I use mine for family though. Nothing going on there. It is very convenient when trying to organize stuff with everyone.
I think it's great for family. I just know that I get unsolicited contact from guys I went to high school with that I would not feel comfortable about if I were married. I don't want to make it completely private, but I suppose that would be another option- so that no one could even contact me. I just am extra careful because I learned the hard way after a married friend make a move on me.
If meeting people on FB is "causing" you to f around on your spouse, then your marriage isn't worth a crap to begin with.
True.
I hate how they blame certain sites instead of blaming the people themselves. If they are cheating then they are not happy and it could just as easily happen at work or somewhere else.
I concur.
I think its more than just FaceBook. The internet has made infidelity alot more accesible and open for anyone who might want all the reward and less of the hassle of creeping in the "real world." If your heart is intent on straying, it will do so regardless of social network. The real problem is the lack of ability of being straight-forward. If you're being that sloppy and open to su ion, you're bound to get caught--and in some cases, it is intentional.
I think a more deeper problem is that people, and I am speaking about the younger generations, don't really understand what a relationship is and what it entails. However, there is soooo many issues that are at play here...FB ruins lives people...
Me too. The le should be "Infidelity fueling divorce, research claims."I concur.
The le should read
"Sancha pulls horny married bas s off of facebook."
Do the damn thang, Sancha!
Yup. My (ex)wife blames facebook, among other things, but refuses to accept any responsibility for her part in spreading her legs for other men. Conveniently, she leaves out the fact that one of the dudes with whom she cheated was before she had ever heard of facebook.
Revisionist History. Not just for sports fans.
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