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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” Saturday and received over one million “likes” from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups.

More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a U.K. survey by Divorce Online, a legal services firm. And over 80% of U.S. divorce attorneys say they’ve seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. “I see Facebook issues breaking up marriages all the time,” says Gary Traystman, a divorce attorney in New London, Conn. Of the 15 cases he handles per year where computer history, texts and emails are admitted as evidence, 60% exclusively involve Facebook…

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8 Comments!

  1. DougM (jackassophobe)
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 8:05 am |

    That’s all fine, but I did a long-term study of the issue,
    and I came up with a more useful stat:
    100% of divorces involve the term “jackass” or the like.
    (What? Yeah, bein’ one kind’a contra-indicated for me.)

  2. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 8:44 am |

    Whooda fuck does surveys on stoopid shit? An howda fuck can they get *hard percentages* from a planet where the majority of human beans are fucking lawyers!!!!!

    Regarding Facebook. Does anybody realize the ginormous cost of thousands of fucking Christmas cards for their *Friends*?

  3. mojo
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 8:50 am |

    All you needed to know about the Z’Berg IPO scam:

    “Facebook itself is offering 180 million shares, while existing stockholders will offer 241 million shares.”

  4. mojo
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 11:58 am |

    Spreading Bull:

    “[I] hope Elizabeth Warren doesn’t back down on this, because wanting to be Indian, like Hawkeye, makes us in a deeper sense fully American.”

    Wait – now she wants to be Alan Alda?

  5. mech
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 5:49 pm |

    Seems to be easier to embark on relationship mischief when one can troll online instead of the lock bar.

  6. ZZMike
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 7:46 pm |

    Is there anybody here not on Facebook? I’m only there because of a few family people.

    I heard the other day that they’re starting a lookalike version for Turkey. It’ll be called Fezbook.

  7. mech
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 7:51 pm |

    ZZMike, I’m not and have no plans to.

    There’s only so many hours in a life. . .

  8. Sigivald
    Posted May 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm |

    If Facebook is increasing the number of divorces, by their evidence it seems to be doing so by letting philanderers get caught.

    I ain’t seeing the problem with that.

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