Today, as I was doing my usual rounds, I learned that Facebook was named in 20% of divorces filed in the United States. The data was provided by the online research group Divorce-Online which is ran by Mark Keenan. He searched the keyword “Facebook” out of 5,000 total divorces and found 989 occurrences.
I had the same problem with a social networking site back in high school. My girlfriend broke up with me due to Friendster. Since she knew my password, she logged in and found out I was sending personal messages to chick I barely know. Eventually, she broke up with me. Can you guess how? She broke up with me through an email she sent using YahooMail! I felt sad because of the breakup but it was funny how the Internet played a big part of that breakup. I was stupid back then, less stupid now. ^_^
It’s not really the Internet or Facebook or any other Online Social community, it’s stupid people doing stupid things on these sites. Social networking sites are just the doorways for wives/girlfriends to reconnect with old friends and past lovers. Now it is left to you, to decide if you will opt to do stupid things. As the internet evolves you will see many more social trending but hopefully with less negative connotation as this one.
The Internet is great, really great! I spend most of time in the Internet and my life revolves around it. However, we have to admit that the internet holds powers we are just now starting to un-cover and we are stupid if we don’t recognize that we are in the face of a discovery, always have been.
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