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Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers
crimeandpunishment writes "A lot of Facebook users going through divorces have learned a very costly lesson about their privacy settings. In fact, for many of them their Facebook pages helped lead to the divorce in the first place. More than 80% of the members of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers say they've used or run into evidence gathered from Facebook and other social networking sites over the last five years — and some of them have some very entertaining stories to tell. 'Facebook is the unrivaled leader for turning virtual reality into real-life divorce drama,' said AAML's president."
If people spent more time thinking before they got married, then perhaps it wouldn't matter what they shared, as they would be much less likely to put themselves into damaging situations.
Newsflash: Some /.ers can't take a joke.
> Marriage, strictly speaking, is a binding contract.
Don't worry too much about it. As we enter the age, where women are more and more the main bread winners while their male counterparts sit down-sized at home resenting each minute of it, you will see a dramatic drop in marriages. Women will know better than to put themselves in a position where they might have to support the ex-husband because of their now higher income and the rest of the guys still holding onto their balls will refuse to marry because they have realized it to be a poison pill fluffed in romantic rhetoric that has put men of the current and last two generations into a lose-lose situation...triple that if kids are involved.
How about "think before you marry"?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.