Earlier I cited evidence that Facebook is cited in 20% of divorce cases. Other sources are noting that the trend is increasing:
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% ofU.S. divorce attorneys say they’ve seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to theAmericanAcademy of Matrimonial Lawyers. “I see Facebook issues breaking up marriages all the time,” says Gary Traystman, a divorce attorney inNew 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.
Thinking to Believe 
May 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm
The problem is not Facebook, the problem is sin. Take a way Facebook and you will still have adultery and divorce. Take away Facebook and you will only find that something else would have supposedly contributed to 20% of divorces. The adultery would have been committed with someone close rather than an old fling across the country. Take away Facebook and the sin nature is still there.
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May 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Aaron,
I agree that the problem is sin, but I think things like FB can actually increase sin because it increases opportunities for sin and introduces possibilities where none existed before. While nature is always there, opportunities and avenues to express it can wax and wane. Technology like the internet and FB is making it easy for people’s sinful natures to express themselves in ways they otherwise would not have done if those technological advances did not exist.
Jason
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May 30, 2012 at 3:54 pm
I just think we should be careful in shifting blame. We live in a society that is always shifting the blame somewhere else. Alcoholism becomes a disease, guns kill people, it is never my fault, someone or something else made me do it. All of these things are inanimate objects. They are neither right nor wrong. But I do agree with your point.
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