Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims...

[sianrose]

This morning our visiting speaker spoke how "Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions"

it was in regards to avoiding immorality...

here is an article on the subject

"Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims

Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, 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.

Suspicious 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 petitions 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 petitions containing references to Facebook.

"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to."

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."

telegraph.co.uk/

[trottigy]

Facebook is fine, says Pope Benedict, but real faces are better

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0125/Facebook-is-fine-says-Pope-Benedict-but-real-faces-are-better

I guess the above doesn't concern him.

[Dages]

Haha, dear brothers and sisters, you should concentrate on only 1 topic about facebook

In france, we have a little "joke" about facebook, in french, this word sounds like : fesse-bouc ("buttocks"-goat)

(i hope that "buttocks" is not a bad word in english, i just looked an online dictionnary)