Does Facebook Lead to Break-Ups? (Divorce Lawyers Say It Does)
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2012/01/03 18:03:57
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Admit it: Even if you are (or were) in a relationship, you've checked out your ex's Facebook page, or maybe even looked up someone new. Well, it's precisely that sort of behavior that's leading to break-ups and divorces. Facebook was cited as a reason for a third of divorces last year involving "unreasonable behavior," according to law firm Divorce-Online, The Daily Mail reports.
"People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble," said Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce-Online, according to the Mail. "If someone wants to have an affair or flirt with the opposite sex then it’s the easiest place to do it."
According to the Mail, Divorce-Online says it has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of behavior-based divorce petitions that contained the word "Facebook" in the past two years. Thirty-three percent of the 5,000 behavior petitions filed with the firm in the past year mentioned Facebook. And flirty messages and suspicious photos are the most common "behavior" issues.
But it's not just what you do on Facebook that's the problem -- it's the fact that it's easy to get caught. "If you are keeping things from your partner, Facebook makes it so much easier for them to find out," Anne-Marie Hutchinson of Dawson Cornwell Solicitors told the Mail. Do you think Facebook leads to break-ups?
According to the Mail, Divorce-Online says it has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of behavior-based divorce petitions that contained the word "Facebook" in the past two years. Thirty-three percent of the 5,000 behavior petitions filed with the firm in the past year mentioned Facebook. And flirty messages and suspicious photos are the most common "behavior" issues.
But it's not just what you do on Facebook that's the problem -- it's the fact that it's easy to get caught. "If you are keeping things from your partner, Facebook makes it so much easier for them to find out," Anne-Marie Hutchinson of Dawson Cornwell Solicitors told the Mail. Do you think Facebook leads to break-ups?
Top Opinion
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Bethany Jansen 2012/01/03 19:24:49No
+16I believe its your character not the website. If you aren't faithful, you aren't faithful. Facebook doesn't MAKE you unfaithful..it may make it easier to cheat but it has nothing to do with the site. I've had people try to hit on me. It's so easy to say, "I'm married, I'm in a relationship" etc. If you're faithful, you're faithful. If you're gonna cheat, you're gonna cheat, period. It's just easier with Facebook because you don't have to physically get out & meet someone.
Don't care one bit about what the ex is doing .. I've moved FORWARDS .. have my own life .. I will NOT EVER look backwards .. and I'm find being ME!
My husband doesn't have a FB page. And I don't list any friends on mine. I just have a links that lead people to my Christian website and my Christian twitter account.