So facebook is bad for your marriage…online divorce service (convenient) Divorce-Online scanned their divorce petition database for the use of the word “Facebook” and found 989 instances of the word in over 5,000 divorce petitions sampled. I think Facebook is bad for relationships full stop!! You’ve got couples who want to conduct their whole life via facebook status updates. Rows, intimate details you name it, it gets facebooked.Personally I couldn’t think of anything more tedious than having to document every detail of my relationship for all my friends and family to see (please, no one point out the irony of my blog here)…
I seriously have friends who facebook each other from the same house just different rooms to declare their love, sickening, and that’s not me being bitter that no one wants to declare their love in such a freakish manner to me, it’s because I’m reasonably normal. I don’t wish to log on and be faced with happy couples exchanging wall posts about how fabulous they both are and how much they love each other, I’d rather see other peoples embarrassing drunken photos – just what facebook was designed for.
The other problem is causes is it actually does is make you obsessed. Now I say this with an ounce of experience because I’ve been there and had to wean myself off. The most recent guy I met, I actually started to enjoy my little visits to his facebook page, cooing over his holiday snaps (yep, half naked), having a peek at what people had to say to him, having an earth shattering moment when he listed he was “in a relationship” and interested in men (although he claimed this was a joke when I offered my congratulations). But it literally took up time out of my busy schedule just to check him out, it meant it was a lot harder to cut him off when I needed too as I missed my daily dose of “runner boy” (this is what he’s now known as for blogging purposes). I’ve also used it for the same purposes to cruise profile pics of boys I used to have crushes on in school and to delve into their life’s – that’s just not normal behavior and I suspect that’s also what gets a lot of married people in to trouble. Now back to the survey, apparently the most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not attached too.Applications such as Are You Interested and Social Me as well as a random poking make it so easy to marrieds to do some window shopping.
So, the conclusion, keep relationships off facebook all together. Yeah sure list you’re married, single, engaged if you want too but maybe try that old fashioned way of keeping arguments in your own home (or ikea like regular couples) and your sop fest between just the two of you, because its quite nauseating.
