1-in-5 UK divorce petitions mention Facebook
Facebook is bad for your marriage according to researchers, who say it's cited in one-in-five UK divorces.Legal experts looked at the paperwork for 5,000 divorces, discovering that 989 (about 20 percent) had references to Facebook within the text of the divorce petitions.
They claim this shows that Facebook can be bad for marriage by allowing people to contact previous partners and lost loves.
It's also said many people have unfounded worries their partner is using the social networking site in this way, but that this doubt can turn a relationship sour.
Rumours Facebook are changing 'Relationship' status options to include "Ruined by Facebook" have not been confirmed.
A spokesperson for Divorce-Online, which conducted the study, 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 and I decided to see how prevalent it was.
"I was really surprised to see that 20 per cent of all the petitions contained references to Facebook.
"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to.”
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Divorce-Online
"I was really surprised to see that 20 per cent of all the petitions contained references to Facebook.
"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to.”
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Divorce-Online
