Study Shows Facebook Involved in 20% of Divorces
Posted on Jan 5, 2010 2:00pm PST
According to WPVI, a divorce-help website recently reported that popular social networking site, Facebook, is linked to 20% of divorces in the United States.
The news was released after a survey was conducted by Divorce-Online.co.uk. The British website provides essential resources for spouses who are going through
divorces and legal separations. According to the site, of the studied 5,000 divorce papers that were filed in the United States, 989 couples said Facebook played a role in their breakups. This means that 20% of the divorces filed were Facebook related.
Mark Keenan conducted research for the British site. He said that, "The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to." The study also reveals that social networking websites like Twitter and MySpace were also cited as grounds for divorce.
The site is not sure if Facebook caused divorces or if it just provided means to spouses who would have been unfaithful anyway. It also claims that some divorce lawyers crawl sites like Facebook to build stronger cases on behalf of their clients.
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