New research has claimed that social networking site Facebook may be behind one in three divorces in the UK, swindonadvertiser.co.uk reports.
With millions of people around the world taking to Facebook to interact with their peers, it has been claimed that the site could drive a wedge between couples; even accounting for as many as one in three divorces. The figures have risen sharply since 2009, wherein the rate was just 20 per cent.
The independent research studied 5,000 reports detailing why couples as decided to call time on their marriage. Three reasons repeatedly cited centered on Facebook.
The key reasons cited to divorce solicitors were one partner sending inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex online, friends taking to the site to report a spouse's behaviour and couples undergoing a separation taking to the network to publish derogatory comments about one another.
This behaviour may just be limited to Facebook however, with just 0.4 per cent of people citing fellow social networking site Twitter as a contributing factor to the divorce.
Given Facebook's notoriously low privacy measures, comments made on it could well be used within legal proceedings; particularly if there are children and therefore a custody case involved, pcr-online.biz.
