CNN: Facebook a Tool for Cheating Spouses?

Mirroring user comments throughout LifeTwo.com, a recent CNN article cites the role that social networks, and Facebook in particular, plays in infidelity.

Stacey Kaiser, a psychotherapist and relationship expert, says she estimates Facebook plays a much larger factor in divorces. "It's not just your everyday affair," Kaiser told "Prime News." "When it comes to something like Facebook, you are reconnecting with a long-lost love. All those teenage feelings, those college feelings come back again, you feel young again, and it drives you to do something you don't normally do."

While it is true that infidelity has been around as long as marriage...

throw in e-mail, text messaging and Facebook, and these days you have a lot more opportunities to cheat, plus even more confusion about what cheating actually is.

But would-be cheaters should take note,

A recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that 81 percent of divorce attorneys have seen an increase in the number of cases using social networking evidence during the past five years. More than 66 percent of those attorneys said the No. 1 site most often used as evidence is Facebook with its 400 million registered users.

Another recent survey by Divorce-Online.com of more than 5,000 attorneys says Facebook is mentioned in about 20 percent of divorce cases.

Of course as with email and chatting, experts state that Facebook is just a tool (or perhaps more strongly a facilitator) and not an underlying cause of infidelity.

Source: CNN