The results come from a survey carried out by the UK divorce website Divorce-Online: the first instance in December 2009 and a follow-up in December 2011. In both cases, 5,000 petitions were queried by the website.
While Facebook is being combed for signs of infidelity by divorce attorneys, they're also looking for disparaging remarks made by spouses about each other after they've separated and are embroiled in litigation. It found the most common reasons for citing Facebook in a divorce petition to be:
1. Inappropriate messages to the opposite sex.
2. Facebook friends reporting a spouses behaviour.
3. Separated couples making nasty comments about each other.
Mark Keenan, spokesman for Divorce-Online has this piece of advice to share: “People need to be careful what they put on Facebook as the courts are now seeing a lot more evidence being introduced from people’s walls and posts in disputes over finances and children.”"Also the use of Facebook to make comments about ex-partners to friends has become extremely common with both sides using Facebook to vent their grievances against each other," he added.
Facebook is still a social tool For single people to meet their special someone. Even for marriages, social networks can help further along a relationship. Just like with any other social medium,by improper use however, even the most innocent of intentions can turn ugly with .
Other social networking sites didn't reach that high of a percentage. For instance, Twitter was only at 20 percent in 2011, and the problem associated with the network is that spouse's used it to make comments about exes.
There is even a website dedicated to "Facebook cheating."
Divorce cases aren’t the only personal legal matters involving social media postings. Apple recently fired an employee who ranted about his job on Facebook, and termination procedures were launched against a New Jersey teacher who called her students “future criminals” on the social network.
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