Facebook and cell phones cause breakups

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Is it just me or did everyone seem a lot more faithful before cell phone use and facebook/myspace use became prevalent.

 

The use of both seem to make cheating a lot easier, and a lot easier to hide. When i look back on it, me and my last two ex's never seemed to have any issue until they discovered social networking sites. At the very least it lets people flirt easily which leads to bigger problems down the road.

[LovelyDaze]

IMO it make things harder. Back in the days before cell phones, Facebook, etc. The person cheating could easily say that they are going out with friends and would be home late. The person waiting at home had no real way to check on them every 5 minutes so they had to buy into it.

 

If a person flirted? It wasn't in readable text for 400 friends to witness. You could be sly about it at work, at a club, at a friend's party and the S.O. would be none the wiser.

I just read that a lady found out that her husband got married to another woman through Facebook of all places!

 

If people could care less leaving flirtacious texts and their social networking sites all out in the open for their S.O. to see, then that tells you how much they give a damn.

[maria gostrey]

i think fb is amazing in that it is a lot harder to cheat with it around. for example, even if a guy was cheating on you, what are the odds that the other girl involved knows about you? so if they are friends on fb, she'd be naive enough to leave suggestive messages that will let you in on a situation you could have easily been lied to about otherwise.

 

i found out my "relationship" ended on fb. at least it communicated to me more than my ex ever did.

[Feelin Frisky]

There is no established social literacy for any of this technology.. I liken it to the momolith in "2001 - A Space Odessy"--it's the future in the hands of apes.

 

Facebook is not just a player in the game of sex and relationships, it is the vehicle for gossip and resultant clashes that sometimes turn family memebers into factions against each other. Fooey.

 

There is no established social etiquette for texting and such done though a cell phone. Therefore young people who have not lived without this mechanism tend to adjust emotionally to it and seem to not realize how this invention has effected the concept of human dialog and the proportions which existed when people used to have to learn to contain their emotions as a matter of coping with real nature. It's a huge issue of social neglect that the establishment is too old not to even understand much less remedy. The chips are falling where they may and for many that's a sad fate.