It might be true that social networking itself doesn’t kill marriages, unhappy couples do, but according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, poplular social networking site Facebook is involved in one out of every five American divorces, the U.K”s Daily Mail reports.
“The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to,” said Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce-Online.
Is social networking a marriage killer? About 80 percent of divorce lawyers who participated in the study said that there was a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating, the majority of which involved Facebook (66 percent). MySpace was a distant second with 15 percent, followed by Twitter at 5 percent.
Rev. Cedric Miller of the Living World Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune, New Jersey, called Facebook a “portal to infidelity,” pointing out how easy it is to reconnect with ex-lovers through the social networking site. He’s the same reverend who made headlines when he ordered his congregation to delete their Facebook accounts after blaming the site for interfering with the relationships of 20 couples in his church.
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