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1 in 5 Divorces in U.S. caused by this?

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waggy said:
yeap. don't suprise me in the least. hell you add in a long marriage and a "what if" comes up. those old feelings and desires rise again and to many are weak and act on it.
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roguerower said:
I'm gonna agree with this. Facebook isn't causing the issue, the people using it are. If people from a ways back drifted apart, they did so for a reason. Digging that shit up for the world to see is just asking for bad shit to go down.
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yeap
 
roguerower said:
I'm gonna agree with this. Facebook isn't causing the issue, the people using it are. If people from a ways back drifted apart, they did so for a reason. Digging that shit up for the world to see is just asking for bad shit to go down.
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Agreed. As much as I dislike the social networking sites, they are not the cause of the problem.
 
I could see it as a contributing factor, but not the sole cause. A marriage that can be broken by facebook flirting with absolutely nothing else wrong isn't much of a marriage IMO.
 
sometimes you need to disconnect to connect.

All the available online contacts and messaging pretty much get in the way of things.
 
Top websiteZ in cyberspace:

1. Fakebook
2. Google
3. Youtube

Anyway, I am not against Fakebook, but I don't necessary support it, it's just a game. If anyone really gave a damn, do e-mail and the cell phone.

What's problematic in society, will transition into cyberspace, and spit itself back out of the voids, and directly into family homes.

So tell me, how many Fakebook accounts do all of you really have!!! (lol...)
 
shouldn't it be stupidity and recklessness that resulted in the divorce? posting sexual material on facebook is not necessarily private.

i would have to translate that statistic into at least 1 in 10 spouses are stupid.
 
People always get bored of what they have and are always tempted by the new unknown and exciting things they don't/can't have, that's what causes cheating. Even in a perfect healthy relationship, someone can just snap in a panic attack one day and decide they want to be somebody else and a different life out of the blue: eg that faithful well mannered religious girl that was sheltered and brought up that way decides she wants to be a wild girl all of the sudden. Social networking is just a new way to do it and an easier way to get caught,

Internet in general exposes people to life outside their own and puts the endless "what if" possibilities in their head, especially with unstable people to begin with who never know what they want in life and until now have just been going by what they saw growing up and following along with what was socially expected.

That said, internet methods are much more dangerous and serious than voice or seeing someone in person. Its easier for a cheater to spill their guts and be intimate and talk shit behind the other persons back when you are talking to an anonymous IM window because it's a computer and not a "person" and the person involved thinks it's harmless and doesn't recognize that it's inappropriate... until real emotional bonds are formed and it's too late.

Women cannot get on the internet without causing drama, scientific fact 😀
 
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So in other words, when people have more opportunity to escape the chains of monogamy, they tend to opt to do so.
 
exdeath said:
People always get bored of what they have and are always tempted by the new unknown and exciting things they don't/can't have, that's what causes cheating. Even in a perfect healthy relationship, someone can just snap in a panic attack one day and decide they want to be somebody else and a different life out of the blue: eg that faithful well mannered religious girl that was sheltered and brought up that way decides she wants to be a wild girl all of the sudden. Social networking is just a new way to do it and an easier way to get caught,

Internet in general exposes people to life outside their own and puts the endless "what if" possibilities in their head, especially with unstable people to begin with who never know what they want in life and until now have just been going by what they saw growing up and following along with what was socially expected.

That said, internet methods are much more dangerous and serious than voice or seeing someone in person. Its easier for a cheater to spill their guts and be intimate and talk shit behind the other persons back when you are talking to an anonymous IM window because it's a computer and not a "person" and the person involved thinks it's harmless and doesn't recognize that it's inappropriate... until real emotional bonds are formed and it's too late.

Women cannot get on the internet without causing drama, scientific fact 😀
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This is actually a pretty good explanation. After being on FB for a couple years. I can definately see and have seen the potential for disasterous results. Eventhough you know the person who reconnected with, that IM window gives you a sense of distance and safety to play out the fantasy. Unfortunately people take it to the next step.

btw the social sciences are now just starting to study this issue. Because it is coming up more and more.
 
It gives people an easy avenue to pursue this kind of stuff, but it really does come down to the person and problems in the relationship.

It's what happens when you let your woman out of the kitchen unfortunately.
 
Facebook is a giant catalog filled with potential booty calls anyway. I sure as hell dont give a damn what someone had for lunch or what their feelings are at the moment. I would only pretend to care if I thought I'd get some ass.
 
Facebook is not the problem. The people are the problem. Want a stable healthy marriage? Stop flirting with others online. Noone wants to take responsibility for their own actions anymore.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I could see it as a contributing factor, but not the sole cause. A marriage that can be broken by facebook flirting with absolutely nothing else wrong isn't much of a marriage IMO.
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A marriage with nothing else wrong with it wouldn't have any face book flirting going on in it. A good marriage isn't a marriage of morons.
 
soulcougher73 said:
Facebook is not the problem. The people are the problem. Want a stable healthy marriage? Stop flirting with others online. Noone wants to take responsibility for their own actions anymore.
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and here you are saying you don't need to pay for cable because you have rabbit ears and uTorrent.
 
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