Dumbasses, never had a Facebook account, never will. I’m not needy.
If you are self-centered and stupid and having an affair, you probably are going to get caught sooner or later. Facebook just accelerates the inevitable by having you broadcast your infidelity to the world in a way that your spouse and his/her attorney can see and document it.
Due to Face Book? Or in the old fashioned way?
I love FB. That is how I keep up with family and friends but people who post that kind of stuff are nuts. Private thing should not be posted for the whole world to see. I have received HB notes from friends and relatives from across the country today. They really made my day more special.
Heh! My last ex met someone while playing the online game, “Everquest.” They’re now married and living in Norway.
I met my current Wife through Classmates. She and I were a, “Thing,” back when we were in 8th grade.
We’ve been married now going on 3 happy years.
I personally don’t think it has anything to do with Facebook.
It has to do with content of character.
I wonder how many people wind up cheating on their spouses because of on-line gaming that turns into a relationship.......
I bet quite a few....
Mine are old flames for a reason.
Letters cropped up when they were the primary conversation medium. Then phone records. Now email/Facebook/etc.
I find facebook totally boring.
I have a friend who’s wife re-connected with a friend from high school on Facebook. She went to her HS reunion. When she came back, within a couple weeks, she announced to her husband that he was no longer meeting her needs and divorced him. Ran off and married the new dude. Broke up a 16-year marriage with 2 teen daughters. He did NOT want the divorce.
Both claim to be devout Christians. I know my friend was diligently faithful to his ex.
After several false starts, I decided that I had better do this in list form.
1. High school students are always distracted by it and other social media.
2. This creates a barrier to learning that is becoming increasingly hard to cross.
3. With this being accessible on smartphones, you are seeing an increase in students actually assaulting teachers when the phones are confiscated.
4. People are becoming so obsessed with reporting every little detail of their lives that they forget to live them.
5. People are also becoming so obsessed affixing their value to the count of virtual friends that face to face friendships become rare and as shallow as those on social media.
6. Facebook is now cited in 1/3 of all divorce cases in the US.
7. When I call someone friend it means they are a Mensch. Being one is therefore a measurable quality for those I call friend. I know them, I have broken bread, played music, um... gotten intoxicated:-) with them.
8. My really cynical definition of social media in general and Facebook in particular is that it is am "exercise and/or grand experiment in collective narcissism".
9. In a more generous view, I would say that is best likened to what George Washington is rumored to have said about government it is "a troublesome servant and a fearful master"
10. I have a ton of outside interests and inclinations. Getting bogged down in reporting on all of them would take time away from actually doing these things.