The Facebook IPO may be failing miserably, but something else is up.
Quentin Fottrell of Smart Money magazine says it may be wrecking marriages.
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.” The social
network is different from most social networks or dating sites in that
it both re-connects old flames and allows people to “friend” someone
they may only met once in passing. “It puts temptation in the path of
people who would never in a million years risk having an affair,” he
says. Facebook declined to comment.
Did you get that? More than one third of divorce filings mention that Facebook is in some way involved. Is this not a good reason to get out people? Just sayin...and I hope you were not stupid enough to invest.
