Facebook the end of relationships?
By celestos
@celestos (814)
United States
April 2, 2013 10:07am CST
I really used to think that facebook was a good thing. A great way to keep in touch with your friends and family, share your interests and so on. Here lately it has became more of a dating site than anything however. I personally have had the misfortune of dealing with my current relationships ex wife through the network and honestly its ridiculous. The site does not to my knowledge even give you the option to restrict who can mail you. So lets say the ex is friends with someone I knew she can contact me or anyone on my friends list? I have known of several of my friends to have had problems with their significant others hooking up with people through this site. Has anyone had the same problem or is it limited to just around me?
8 responses
@mjhalz8 (255)
• Philippines
2 Apr 13
Because of facebook, it's not easy to find a partner. Yet because of this social site it is the reason of some break ups. And you can't control the people want to join or register in the site and search for your, or just seen your account accidentally or intentionally? the best thing is to set your FB settings into Private and as much as possible ignore people you don't want to interact with.
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@craftybird (80)
• United States
2 Apr 13
I agree.I used to go on facebook just to see what everyone as doing but it got depressing.My sister met her last two boyfriend's off facebook.My friend met the guy she cheated on her husband with and a girl i used to be friend's with in high school decided to leave her boyfriend of 10 years and left her 3 kids with her husband to be with an older man in another state she started talking to on facebook.Apparently for my friend's/family members facebook is a way act like they are still in high school rather than growing up.
@ChoukseyMK (1045)
• India
5 Apr 13
you are right. facebook after few days became a mixture of relevant and non-relevant people.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
5 Apr 13
And that is the downside of networking...... So might as well strict your setting to private if you do not want people to know if you have an account in Facebook as well as hide your friend's list.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
3 Apr 13
I just signed up at face book a few days ago. I have to say, so far I dont like it at all. Just a bunch of men, hitting on me there. I acepted them out of kindness. I have now deleted several.
@scubapro (1051)
• Gifu, Japan
2 Apr 13
actually even everybody likes facebook,i dont like it so much,yes i checked the news ,shares and pictures of my friends,but its like no privacy any more in our life.
people even we have never seen can see our pictures ,be our member and more.
sometimes i see many of my friends are online whom i didnt talk to 4 months,still never say hi or anything to me,
facebook makes us colder,real friendships are getting over
sorry for negative response
but thats how i think
@sizzle3000 (3036)
• United States
3 Apr 13
I think that if you have a strong relationship it wouldn't matter. My daughter and her husband both have facebook and are friends with their ex's and they don't have that issue. They both talk to their ex's and if anything crosses the line they tell each other. That's how it should be.
@HumanRites1 (18)
• United States
2 Apr 13
I've never noticed Facebook becoming a dating site, maybe because myself and my friends are mostly older. If I don't want to have dealings with someone on Facebook, I just block them.
If somebody's "significant other" is hooking up with other partners online, then I'd say "significant" is the wrong word for them.
