Monday, December 21, 2009

Does Facebook Fuel Family Breakdown?

U.K. "research" concludes Facebook is bad for your marriage:

Divorce-Online scanned their divorce petition database for the use of the word ”Facebook“ and found 989 instances of the word in over 5,000 divorce petitions sampled.

This means that just under 20% of all the petitions filed through the company had references to Facebook within the text of the divorce petitions.

While this data primarily demonstrates only that this company is particularly fond of making references to Facebook in the pleadings it drafts, I nonetheless suspect there is at least a grain of truth in the stated conclusions.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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2 comments:

  1. Insurance TekemarketingMonday, December 21, 2009 3:33:00 pm

    Facebook divorces? That's somewhat ridiculous. Unless they met on facebook. Then yeah. They deserve it.

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  2. sassyMonday, December 21, 2009 6:40:00 pm

    Is it being a member of Facebook or, what you and/or other Facebook members post about you (and possibly your activities) that is considered bad for a marriage?

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