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Friday, May 20, 2011
Hard News Facebook's bad for marriages? No, cheaters are bad for marriage.
Posted By Mustang Sally, Mayor of Bang Town on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:41 PM
The Today Show reported that divorce lawyers are saying that Facebook is a marriage killer. I guess any excuse will do these days when it comes to infidelity.
Unless the other man or woman is named Facebook, there's no way you can blame the Internet for someone being a cheating douche.
Divorces can get ugly, and now more and more of these cases include incriminating evidence captured on social media sites, at least for one Florida lawyer who says she sees "some type of Facebook involvement" in 90 percent of her divorce cases.St. Petersburg attorney Carin Constantine talked to a local TV station, WTSP, and seemed to reinforce the notion that Facebook is a marriage killer.
In the interview, she mentions clients who have pointed her to pictures of their misbehaving ex-spouses-to-be on Facebook, including examples of husbands caught dancing with babysitters and others serving alcohol to minors. Then she prints the images and attaches them to legal motions. Constantine does the same with photos she finds on Google Images.
How can you blame Facebook for people being dumb enough to not only take pictures of their bad behavior, but post it online? Hell, some of the stuff I do with my partner would land me in jail if the pictures or videos ever got out.
It wasn't long ago that the 1,600-member American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (a strange name for a group focusing on the opposite of marital bliss) cited a survey that linked Facebook to one in five divorces, with 81 percent of those lawyers saying that social media is the new affair hotbed. And the hottest zone is Facebook, with 66 percent of those AAML sources mentioning it specifically for evidence of marital discord and misconduct.And then there is the camp that feels that like any tool, Facebook can be used for good or evil, but in itself is not to blame for people cheating on their spouses or publicizing things they do that others shouldn't know. After all, for many practicing fidelity in their daily lives, it's an innocent and effective means of keeping in touch with far-flung family members and friends.
This comment from a New York Daily News reader sums it up:
Here we go ... blame Facebook. People are going to communicate on whatever is out there to do their dirt. I never heard of putting Crane, Inc. on trial because people were sending love letters during their extramarital affairs using paper. They've been doing it since papyrus was invented. It's not the Facebook application's fault. It's how people use it as a tool. Either you use technology to benefit yourself, your family, and the planet, or you use it to destroy things. Simple as that.
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