Beware of Facebook,It Is Causing 20% Divorces/Separations !!

Face Book is popular in my home country. The people like to communicate with their friends on Face Book. I realize that for some people ex boyfriends or ex-girlfriends can pop up to the friends list on their Face Book page. There is no harm in staying friends but each person should stay faithful to his or her current partner. It is shame that in the USA 20% of people have got divorced or separated to communication with someone on Face Book.

I have to agree with the other responses. Facebook or anything else, is not the "cause" of divorce. It may be a symptom of something that's already a problem in marriages, but it can't cause the problem. People look for crutches everywhere, because they don't want to take the blame, so they'll probably use this for a crutch, too.

I don't think facebook is causing divorces but rather the person itself. I mean, aside from facebook, any person can go else where in other sites that communicates them with other people..and thus, cheats and divorces in the latter. I still and do promote and use facebook after all the news regarding about divorces and stuff. We are in control of what we do, not facebook. =)

That is really insane and given some of the reasons that divorces do in fact happen, I tend to see where something like that would happen, at least to a degree. Still, if that percentage is true, I mean yikes, talk about really bad. I think that there might be problems beyond that but still it just underlines the thing, some people can just get a tiny bit obsessed with Facebook. It is rather depression all things considered to think about how Facebook can cause problems. It is a website that can serve a great purpose, but much like everything else, it can have an ugly side to everything. Especially when people get a bit too obsessed with things all things considered. To have something go to an insane rate where it leads to divorce, that is really staggering to say the very least.

good post ,we have to accept change ,all people should change their mindset.

In a way I disagree with this. Facebook isn't a dating site, its just a website to keep in contact with old friends. If you're relationship can be broken up because of social contacts than it was really never meant to be. I don't know where the 20% fact came from though.. I don't think Facebook could cause a divorce. Reconnecting with old social contacts is part of life. You could run into them in real life or on Facebook. The reason for the divorce would be that you cared more someone else, other than your partner.

Hi awapak, I have been reading and hearing about this and it seems a bit crazy to me. I have a facebook account but would never put anything there that I didn't want the whole world to see. Don't people realize just how big facebook is? Blessings

I don't think Facebook has something to do with it. People or human beings are rational which means capable of thinking and making decisions. In Facebook, you are the one telling the site to do this and that, which is all the same with other technological gadgets. Divorce is not a crime committed by a social network but by people who used it as a tool and that doesn't make as the cause of whatever circumstances that may arise. It is still on the shoulder of the owner of the account.

Thats like blaming McDonalds because you are fat! blaming Facebook for divorces is ridiculous! My husband and I both use Facebook and I have to say that it brings us closer together with us working opposite shifts and hardly ever seeing each other it gives us a way to connect I post videos of our kids' activities that he cant attend so he can at least see how they do. Facebook has strengthened our marriage and our whole family!