Facesplit ... social network site is blamed in divorce papers http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2780179/Divorces-blamed-on-Fac ebook.html?=&ATTR=News
FACEBOOK has been blamed for the breakdown of thousands of MARRIAGES. The site was named in at least 20 per cent of divorce petitions in America this year, according to research. And the most common reason is spouses engaging in saucy sex chat with their online "friends". Other social networking sites, including MySpace, Bebo and Twitter, also featured heavily in the sample of 5,000 divorce papers studied. Mark Keenan, who carried out the research for website 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 so 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." Mr Keenan scanned the Divorce-Online database for the word "Facebook", and found 989 instances of the word in 5,000 petitions. In the US, divorce lawyers openly admit to searching social networking sites for evidence of infidelity or wrong-doing in a bid to strengthen their case against an errant spouse. *********************************** * POST TO [email protected] * *********************************** Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
