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

moshquerade

moshquerade

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[Facebook infidelity] :|


'Facebook causes one in five divorces in U.S.'

Flirty messages and photographs found on social networking website Facebook are now leading to at least one in five divorces in the U.S., a survey has revealed.

A new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers also says around 80 percent of divorce lawyers have reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating, according to the Daily Mail.

Many cases revolve around social media users who get back in touch with ex-girlfriends and lovers they had not heard from in many years.

Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66% of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case. MySpace followed with 15%, Twitter at 5% and other websites together at 14%.

"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to," Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce Online, was quoted as saying.​
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I can see it. Long lost connections "reuniting" after friending on facebook. Old flames and crushes curious about each other.
 
I would say being cold or non-caring to your spouce is the bigger cause. If you have no reason to reach out then it would not happen in a lot of cases.

i.e. facebook/internet is not the problem, just the way of expanding on it.
 
Gillbot said:
I can see it. Long lost connections "reuniting" after friending on facebook. Old flames and crushes curious about each other.
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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.
 
Marlin1975 said:
I would say being cold or non-caring to your spouce is the bigger cause. If you have no reason to reach out then it would not happen in a lot of cases.

i.e. facebook/internet is not the problem, just the way of expanding on it.
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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.
 
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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Well yeh, but if it weren't for facebook these people probably wouldn't be reconnecting.
 
I believe this 100% since I personally know 2 cases just in my family/friends circle where separations are inminent due to Facebook flirting being discovered by the other partner. One case is my female cousin who found her husband's page where he had befriended his ex-girlfriend and had some intimate messages for each other.
 
RaistlinZ said:
Then maybe we should ban phones and email while we're at it. Blame the people, not the technology.
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alright... guns don't kill people, people kill people. i get it, but facebook has still been cited as such:

"Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66% of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case"
 
I think addiction to the Internet is probably the bigger cause. Facebook is just popular right now so that will statistically be at the top.
 
moshquerade said:
alright... guns don't kill people, people kill people. i get it, but facebook has still been cited as such:

"Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66% of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case"
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Um, wrong. Guns don't kill people, people don't kill people, it's the bullet which leads to loss of blood & internal damage that kills the person. Geez Mosh, get with the program 🙂

Facebook doesn't cause people to be unfaithful, but it does make it easier for people with no self control to make excuses for themselves.
 
SagaLore said:
I think addiction to the Internet is probably the bigger cause. Facebook is just popular right now so that will statistically be at the top.
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So that's what we can blame North Korea on? Kim Jong Il is addicted to the internet and has 0 friends on facebook and therefore wants to kill everyone?
 
Society needs to stop saying that divorce is caused by this and that. It is only caused by one or two things, something is lacking in the relationship between the two people or one person is just not cut out for a relationship. Facebook, text messaging, e-mail, like may other things, are just tools that allow people to find what is lacking.
 
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