There new stats coming up on numerous things on Facebook. We have the top apps on the social network, the most popular status trends with Memology all the way to some lawyers claiming that around 20% of the petitions that are filed for divorces are in some association with Facebook. Doesn’t surprise me much, mainly because I have earlier covered news associated to some serious problems in connection with virtual worlds. The other reason is it is easier to spot your partner involved in explicit conversation with other on their friend list.
What is surprising is how exactly can this be used to base an allegation to ask for a divorce? Getting hold of evidence of emails that have all those love filled messages that you might have been exchanging with those belonging to the other gender. But seriously why would a married person be so stupid to leave traces? I mean they take care of their text messages and calls on their cell phones and leave traces of their flirt life on the social network.
So what is the take on this? If you are married and both of you are on Facebook, kindly avoid your lover away from the list or at least don’t actively post ridiculing messages and mails on their profiles. Other than that, calling Facebook the only reason for divorce is quite stupid and i agree with Nick on this one that each one of these divorcees have crossed limits to actually step into the divorce realms.
While it is saddening to read this, it just shows the extent to which the social networks play a role in our lives. Forget shopping, games, etc these are actually stepping closer to what happens in reality. And while regulations and rules are there in real life, something similar is set to be coming for social networks too and if they do, there will be ways for deception too (cheating, etc, I mean why not?).
Lastly, just one question, will all this actually open new doors to professions online? I mean we have journalists online what about Advocates too?
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