One law firm, which specializes in divorce, claimed almost one in five petitions they processed cited Facebook.20% of divorce petitions sites Facebook! And there I thought it’s harmless fun. Although I shouldn’t blame Facebook entirely. According to the report:
Amy Taylor 28, split from David Pollard after discovering he was sleeping with an escort in the game Second Life, a virtual world where people reinvent themselves.Now I am not sure what are the ethical values about virtually sleeping with someone (at least that’s how I understand these lines). But is it really considered evidence in the court of law? I mean, I get it that it means that that person have an intent to cheat his wife but he didn’t really cheated on his wife, did he? I understand the rage of the wife but again the question is: will or rather, should this hold up as an evidence in the court of law? I mean, people kill hordes of other people virtually every day through these games, are we going to try them next for the intent to kill? If not, then how can they use the same argument for a divorce case? Unless, of course, there was more to the case than “sleeping virtually”.
Anyway, I am curious that if social networks can wreck such an havoc, what about blogging? I couldn’t find anything on net but I bet it should have more impact on relationship breaks than anything else. After all, no matter how hard you try, blogs become very personal.
Lol! Virtual sex as a grounds for divorce? I can understand if it was cyber sex with another human being to an extent...but virtual sex?!
ReplyDeleteOh well...now if only the social networking world could open up options for relationships rather than causing divorces, that would be helpful... :P
@ PB: Am not sure about the difference between cyber sex and virtual sex. For me cyber sex is virtual sex. They are doing it in a virtual world anyways, so everything has to be virtual :P
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