Is Facebook the cause of many fights, drama, divorce, and cheating?

[Phyrekiss]

I think not.

I dont think Facebook is the cause of divorce, or fights or drama. I think Facebook forces honesty and people don't like it. It forces you to have conversations you wouldnt normally otherwise have had. It forces you to be responsible for things that you have said, and have done.

What do you think?

[Spanky]

Yes to fights and drama, Facebook is really just a place for people to go to for snooping through every ones business.

[Fractal]

like you, i don't think facebook is the actual cause but it certainly seems to have a large hand to play, so, i'd say it's like an agent provocateur or an agitator. if you allow it to be so, it can just be like an open doorway to all your exes and your partner's exes and unless you are the world's most solid and trusting couple, it's bound to raise some issues or be the cause of some anxiety. the thing, i guess, with all this new technology is to be very much in control of it, to use it to your advantage and not to grant it any more importance or power than it deserves.

[melodichorn331]

Facebook doesn't cause anything. People get caught up in there own drama within and create an outlet via Facebook. Social networking is just an outlet for our thoughts. It is a voice that wants to be heard, no matter what the voice is via: quotes, art, photos, events, anger, happiness, etc...

When the "ego" is left wandering around on Facebook then it becomes insane. Keeping ever so mindful while carousing Facebook is the only way I can partake in the madness.

Peace always..
Mudslinger

[Friendlybrain155]

Facebook provides the ideal conditions for someone finding out a little bit and spinning it into a giant mess based on faulty assumptions and their own fears.

In other words, 'forcing' conversations that don't need to happen because they're based on invented fantasies that don't really exist.

I think your picture of it as a force for good is as far fetched as saying it's the cause.

[Kuma]

My honest answer is that I can see no reason for me to join facebook.

But, more important, I must wonder about the nature of a person who feels the need to be "forced" to be honest?

Kuma

[DadsDivorce.com]

Facebook in and of itself is not the issue, it is each person's responsibility to act accordingly. The issue is that when people are online they do not realize that they may be held accountable for the things they say or write there, the pictures they post, etc... For example, there was a recent case where a mother in Missouri went online with a fake I.D. claiming to be a girl from her daughter's school. This mother deliberately added a friend of her daughter's and talked dirt to her, calling her names and pressuring her. The daughter's friend killed herself as a direct result of those conversations. The mother did not think she would be held responsible for anything she did online, but she was.

One correction to your statement though would be that Facebook does not "force" anything from anyone. It is each person's perception of what their personal freedoms and accountabilities are when they are online that is the core issue.

[Hahahahaha... ^_^]

I don't think so, I think it lets people hide behind their computer screens so they don't really have to face each other.