Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled. Oversharing on social networks has led to an overabundance of evidence in divorce cases. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook for divorce cases. Facebook is the unrivaled leader for turning virtual reality into real-life divorce drama. About one in five adults uses Facebook for flirting, according to a 2008 report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
What your thoughts on Facebook being used in this manner? Divorce and financial settlements, custody of children etc are serious matters in a court of law. Do you think things posted on something as frivilous as people's Facebook walls should be able to hold up legally in a court of law?
Answer by DomenicH
Sorry, but I think that it should be. Employers already look at facebook as a judge of character, why cant it be used in court? I mean, unless someone else is using your facebook, that's all you, so its accurate to be used to judge you.
Hell, a person commits a crime and police don't know where to look, first thing? He has a facebook? Oh look! He twittered his friends, he'll be at the coffee shop! Gogogo!
As you can see, nothing placed on the internet is private. If a person doesn't want it used against them, he should put it on fucking facebook in the first place.
Answer by tfoley5000
Well Yes they can only If you did something Wrong and If they have Evidence they can you in Court If you did something wrong Even with Lawyers Its hard to kept your personal Information Private welcome to 2010.
Answer by Mother Hubbard
A community used to keep track of events and actions.
There were so many pairs of eyes, lies were not going to
work in divorces.
Facebook is kind of like the community, only less emotional.
My husband had a room in a house
paid for by his boss, so that he could have affairs
when our daughter was small.
I went and supported him as his wife publicly -
hundreds of people visited him at his other home
without saying a thing to me.
In 1999 when the internet arrived to our
house, I gained the transparancy that the community never gave me -
from the web. I knew that the man hitting me occassionally
had a public girlfriend in three different places. I knew a whole
bunch of stuff was really lies - like his salary.
I like transparency. It saved me 50 years more of wondering
why I'm such a bad wife that I gotta get beaten while
starving. It proved my first instincts are really right.
No matter how many loud strong men in my face said
otherwise. Transparency's good.
Answer by Wicked Wanda
If someone is stupid enough to put pictures of their mistress and them up on the internet then they deserve what they get.
Answer by Foremost authority
Just another good reason to stay away from facebook and any other cite that puts your life out there for the world to see.
I have nothing to hide but I like my privacy.
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