Facebook Wrecks Marriages! Claim a Bunch of Divorce Lawyers
By Quentin Fottrell
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to ‘married’ Saturday and received over one million ‘likes’ from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups.
More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a U.K. survey by Divorce Online, a legal services firm. And over 80% of U.S. divorce attorneys say they’ve seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. ‘I see Facebook issues breaking up marriages all the time,’ says Gary Traystman, a divorce attorney in New London, Conn. Of the 15 cases he handles per year where computer history, texts and emails are admitted as evidence, 60% exclusively involve Facebook.
‘Affairs happen with a lightning speed on Facebook,’ says K. Jason Krafsky, who authored the book ‘Facebook and Your Marriage’ with his wife Kelli. In the real world, he says, office romances and out-of-town trysts can take months or even years to develop. ‘On Facebook,’ he says, ‘they happen in just a few clicks.’
Yeah, because nobody ever got divorced or had an affair with somebody they met online before Facebook.
