How is it the fault of FaceBook or any other website that people cheat?
It is known as the liberal 'view'.
See, it has to be 'somethings' fault, otherwise it would have to be 'somebodys' fault.
As in lack of moral principles, lack of committment, lack of faith.
Before the internet, these same class of dingbats would hook up at local pool halls or parking lots with jerks they met through personal ads or hanging out.
I let my kids set up Facebook accounts while they were still in high school with one condition: Dad had to be one of their friends. Even though they are grown up and in college and married, I'm still a Facebook friend. They could unfriend me at anytime because they are paying their own way now . . . but they don't and its very comforting for me, a parent, to see who they are hanging around with now.
So it cuts both ways.
I don't think I'd describe it as "fault" but the fact is that the internet, Facebook in particular, does make it much easier to find that old HS or college sweetheart.
It's not really "at fault," but it does offer propinquity (a wonderful word that means "nearness in place or time") that would not otherwise exist.
It's normal to wonder how things might have been if one had made the right moves toward a particular person way back when.... How often do people construct idyllic scenarios involving an old flame, that look especially inviting in comparison to the usual frictions and difficulties of our everyday lives?
In the old days, it was hard to look that person up.
Now, though, "I wonder" can be satisfied by a few clicks on the mouse. Facebook and other such sites feed the temptation, and it can obviously get out of control.
The article doesn’t say it’s the FAULT of Facebook, but that it leaves a trail that is used as evidence, along the line of lipstick on the collar.
I suspect it just makes it easier - and more public...
“How is it the fault of FaceBook or any other website that people cheat?”
I was just thinking the same thing as I read this.
“Many cases revolve around social media users who get back in touch with old flames they hadn’t heard from in many years. “
This statement alone tells me that a lot of people had their hearts in other places and/or were not happy in their current relationship.