Divorce and Social Networking Written on October 7, 2009, by Frank Fortuna.
A few years ago, people who take divorce used to share their sorrow and anguish with their closest peers and try to keep the matter discreet. After all, divorce is not something that one can feel proud of and boast about, unless and until he/she had faced severe physical and mental abuse from his/her spouse. My friend says, “Things change as time changes”. True, the conventional procedure of taking divorce, the long and elaborate legal proceedings have started to make way for quick and easy online divorce. Hence, the way one shares his/her distress with friends has also changed. But let us see if this is for good or not.
Social networking sites have completely transformed the way people communicate with one another and they have started affecting people’s lifestyle too. Earlier people used to call their friends if they wanted some information. But it’s not like that now. A Canadian friend of mine from a village called Belledune just updated her status to “Does anyone know the phone number of Peter’s ice cream shop?” Behold! She received nearly 8 replies for that post along with the information she needed, within a quarter hour. Some people have the habit of updating their each and every move on social networking sites, irrespective of its seriousness.
Sharing their anguish over divorce is one thing that has been added to this list. There are people who just state that their married lives have recently ended in divorce, on social networking sites such as Facebook.
I came across a news article in the Inquistr, under the title “In modern divorce, Facebook is an evidentiary goldmine”. This is hundred per cent true because the chances of others’ seeing when one posts something about his/her divorce are high. The privacy in social networking sites is not impenetrable and it’s very easy to even recover deleted posts. This works wonders for lawyers who argue for divorce as they get additional evidence to turn the table against the other spouse. It is not possible that a person will be a close friend of each and every person in his/her friends’ list. So things which ought to be shared only with closest friends are now losing their value. No one would really want to publicise the fact that he/she is divorced.
I’m the kind of a person who thinks that online divorce in itself is disrespectful and mean. So you don’t need a clue to understand out what my opinion about this is.
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