Facebook Blamed for Breakdown of Marriages
Facebook Blamed for Breakdown of Marriages
Posted 12/22/2009 at 6:46am
| by Paul Lilly
2
Comments
Print
The vow most newlyweds agree to is "till death do you part," but it may be Facebook that ultimately ends up doing in their marriage, suggests new research.
Mark Keenan, who carried out the research for website Divorce-Online, studied 5,000 divorce papers and found that Facebook had been mentioned in at least 20 percent of them, most of which complained about spouses engaging in "inappropriate sex chat" with online friends.
"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," Keenan said. "I was really surprised to see 20 percent of all petitions containing references to Facebook."
Facebook isn't the only social networking site testing relationships. MySpace, Bebo, and Twitter all were fairly common in the sample of divorce papers as well.
More like this
2
Comments
Comments are closed on this article
Quakindude
December 22, 2009 at 3:30pm
That damned T-Shirt ROCKS!!!! ROFLMAO!!
MaximumPC Moderator
***The views I express are my own and do not represent the views of MaximumPC Magazine or Future US.***
skramblr
December 22, 2009 at 9:42am
Really? Seriously? You're going to reference a story printed by the Sun?
Well, at least it wasn't something about alien abductions!
Connect with MaximumPC
Featured Content
The gang discusses the GTX 690, Trinity, Ivy Bridge, Amazon, big-box stores, MMOs,...
This month's issue
Feature
Build a PC On Any Budget
Feature
Cloud Services Showdown
How-To
Encrypt Your External Drive
Build It
Upgrade an X58 Rig
Most Commented Articles
Latest Max PC Tweets
- maximumpc: Original RickRoll Video Returns to YouTube After 24-Hour Copyright Hiatus http://t.co/MaH9Sxyy1 day 8 hours ago
- maximumpc: Corsair has decided not to go forward with its $78 million IPO, citing weak equity market conditions http://t.co/A5a4DAzj1 day 9 hours ago
- maximumpc: Want to work at Maximum PC? Our Online Managing Editor, Alex, is moving away, so we need a new one. http://t.co/9Z7JCh0E3 days 6 hours ago
