Re: Is INTERNET ruining marriages ?
On the radio the other day, I heard that Facebook is cited on one of every five petitions for divorce.
Quote:
The research comes by way of a British divorce center called Divorce-Online (a convenient concept, no?). According to the Telegraph, the center claims about 20 percent of all divorce documents include some type of reference to Facebook.
The root of the problem should come as no surprise: Too many spouses are using the social network for flirting – or more.
“The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to,” Mark Keenan, Divorce-Online’s managing director, is quoted as saying.
Facebook’s Other Top Trend of 2009: Divorce - PCWorld
Interesting, haina? 
But I agree with what is written in the rest of the article … the problem is faithless spouses too stupid to realize they’re leaving an electronic trail. More and more people may be discovering their significant other’s indiscretions via social networks, but there’s no reason to believe that one is causing the other. Cheating is cheating; Facebook is just a medium (albeit one that creates an easily findable path of breadcrumbs).