Mark Keenan, Managing Director of Divorce-Online said: “I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook and I decided to see how prevalent it was I was really surprised to see 20 per cent of all the petitions containing references to Facebook.

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I just wanted to offer a shoot-from-the-hip reaction to the angle this article is clearly driving at. I think it is silly to come out with statistics like this. “Fueling” divorce? I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the rate of people citing “facebook” in divorce papers grew at the same rate of people signing up to use Facebook. Facebook is now a practically ubiquitous part of peoples lives, like driving a car and using a telephone. Neither of those cause infidelity, but they certainly get used in the process.