Recently my wife said that she has heard that FACEBOOK is responsible for 1 out of 5 divorces. She added that young married couples (we know one) are swearing off Facebook to preserve their marriages.
I said really? - If their marriages are that weak or if they are themselves THAT weak, than the marriage is doomed already, even without Facebook.
I didn’t think about it anymore until I ran into an article in the Wall Street Journal that addressed the issue. The article was titled “Irreconcilable Claim: Facebook Causes 1 in 5 Divorces” by Carl Bialik, The Numbers Guy, March 12, 2011.
Bialik states that there is very little data on the causes of divorce but statistics do show that marriage and divorce rates have dropped as internet usage has risen.
As to the “rumor” that Facebook is responsible for 1 out of 5 divorces; it can be traced to an on-line divorce service provider (Divorce-on-Line). The owner of the site noticed that the word “Facebook” appeared in 989 of the company’s 5,000 divorce petitions so he issued a news release stating that “Facebook is bad for your marriage”.
Later, the American Academy
Bialik then points to a media relations type guy at Loyola University
Goes to show you that the internet is fast and in some cases can start rumors or propagate untruths…use common sense.
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