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> If I had a dollar for every divorce caused by infidelity that started on Facebook, I would have… well, just about the same amount of money I have. I believe
by gamechangr 5y ago
> If I had a dollar for every divorce caused by infidelity that started on Facebook, I would have… well, just about the same amount of money I have.
I believe he means to imply that nearly all the cases of divorce he is seeing at his practice started
online.
I’m sure there are millions of FB users that aren’t heading to a divorce. In some ways though , there is no way to verify how bad it is (or isn’t ), which is why a top divorce lawyers word for it has value.
- mateo411 5y agoI think you could measure it. You could estimate or determine the percentage of marriages that end in divorce every year. You could to control for other factors such as recessions and see if the percentage of divorces is greater after 2009/2010 when Facebook became popular.
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- jka 5y agoIt'd be easier for Facebook themselves to estimate, because they have the affected set per-country (userbase), and they know the baseline per country (published national statistics - both users and non-users). They've probably done that research, and they probably also know whether people engaging in affairs are more or less likely to increase engagement with the platform and click on related targeted ads and make relationship-relevant (or whatever the internal terminology is) purchases. Whatever the results, they can forge a kind of internally-consistent worldview. "This is what we've seen about our users, so this is what we think and will say humans are like naturally to avoid cognitive dissonance in the ranks and ourselves"
- jka 5y ago(they'd also probably have the data to know whether or not those relationships last, now that I think about it)