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TheOther

2011-12-31 10:39:03 AM

People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.

'Innocent'?
If you're looking up ex-partners online, you're already looking for 'trouble'.
Facebook is currently just the most efficient instrument of finding it.

Riche

2011-12-31 11:05:22 AM

Well, good, I guess. Face it-- if a marriage can't handle Facebook then it wasn't meant to be.

Yes, that means most marriages done today weren't meant to be. Luckily more and more young people are realizing this and either not getting married or delaying it.

Ideally, most people would wait until their 40's to get married and have a kid or two. Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country, getting an education, having fun, getting laid, saving some money and maybe building a career.

The biggest problem, of course, is that having kids in your 40's is risky and difficult. Maybe the technology to help with that will become more mature and cheaper in the next couple of decades.

Tr0mBoNe

2011-12-31 11:18:41 AM

I'm in my mid 20s and having a great time building my career, partying, and saving lots of money.

I am so alone.

AbbeySomeone

2011-12-31 11:24:57 AM

I have no sympathies for anyone who gets in trouble using FB.

unyon

2011-12-31 11:36:50 AM

TheOther: People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.

'Innocent'?
If you're looking up ex-partners online, you're already looking for 'trouble'.
Facebook is currently just the most efficient instrument of finding it.

'Ex-partner' and 'friend' aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, I've been married for almost 20 years, and I have probably 5 or 6 former girlfriends on FB. They're people that I know well, whose company I clearly enjoyed at some point, and I'm genuinely interested in their well-being. Is that 'looking for trouble'?

i_was_never_here

2011-12-31 12:54:08 PM

BroVinny

2011-12-31 12:54:11 PM

This is all Zynga's fault.

DarwiOdrade

2011-12-31 12:55:58 PM

The gays are running Facebook?

DeltaPunch

2011-12-31 12:56:20 PM

It's almost like you shouldn't air your laundry where everyone you know can get a whiff.

Mart Laar's beard shaver

2011-12-31 12:57:19 PM

Just keep your poke function restricted to your spouse. No problems.

Zik-Zak

2011-12-31 12:58:15 PM

Riche: Well, good, I guess. Face it-- if a marriage can't handle Facebook then it wasn't meant to be.

This.

/there's a SMART button and a FUNNY button, but I think a 'THIS' button would serve better

Kygz

2011-12-31 12:58:53 PM

farking farmville. I ask the ex to water my crops one time while we go on vacation and now the wife is divorcing me.

bravian

2011-12-31 01:00:29 PM

unyon: 'Ex-partner' and 'friend' aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, I've been married for almost 20 years, and I have probably 5 or 6 former girlfriends on FB. They're people that I know well, whose company I clearly enjoyed at some point, and I'm genuinely interested in their well-being. Is that 'looking for trouble'?

Define "trouble"?

/don't classify sleeping with an ex under 'trouble' myself

Slartibartfaster

2011-12-31 01:02:28 PM

Riche: Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country

fark that

Aloy

2011-12-31 01:03:46 PM

bravian: unyon: 'Ex-partner' and 'friend' aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, I've been married for almost 20 years, and I have probably 5 or 6 former girlfriends on FB. They're people that I know well, whose company I clearly enjoyed at some point, and I'm genuinely interested in their well-being. Is that 'looking for trouble'?

Define "trouble"?

/don't classify sleeping with an ex under 'trouble' myself

There's the trouble!

Wasilla Hillbilly

2011-12-31 01:04:06 PM

I like it just fine. farkin idiots.

1bzymomma

2011-12-31 01:04:21 PM

Right. The fact that I work two jobs, clean the house, do all the shopping, do most of the work for our kids, and still have to put out two or three times per week have nothing to do with the fact that I might get a divorce. Facebook is going to end my marriage. Not the fact that my hubby seems content to watch me work myself to death and still biatch about how hard he has it -that would have NOTHING to do with it. ;-)

FarkinHostile

2011-12-31 01:04:28 PM

Eh, Facebook just made it easier for me to realize my ex-wife couldn't keep her vows. It's not like she wasn't a lying slut before it came out and it changed her.

Facebook is a useful tool to gain insight as to a persons nature.

Riche

2011-12-31 01:11:37 PM

unyon: TheOther: People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.

'Innocent'?
If you're looking up ex-partners online, you're already looking for 'trouble'.
Facebook is currently just the most efficient instrument of finding it.

'Ex-partner' and 'friend' aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, I've been married for almost 20 years, and I have probably 5 or 6 former girlfriends on FB. They're people that I know well, whose company I clearly enjoyed at some point, and I'm genuinely interested in their well-being. Is that 'looking for trouble'?

Not necessarily. There's a simple test to find out, though.

Does your spouse know about the FB communication and is OK with it? Are there absolutely NO discussions/chats/images you need to keep secret from your spouse?

Fano

2011-12-31 01:12:40 PM

Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

Fano

2011-12-31 01:15:00 PM

Well of course, "what might have been" is much easier to hunt down when it used to be your ex was living three states over and it was difficult to find out what they had been up to, all the time. I learned from Cracked.com there is now an ap for the iphone that informs you when women you know change their profile to "single." Temptation becomes greater when you know when they are available.

apachevoyeur

2011-12-31 01:17:06 PM

Before Facebook, email was to blame. Before email, phone statements.

I can't wait for the next trend in divorce catalyst technology.

4.bp.blogspot.com

AcneVulgaris

2011-12-31 01:20:25 PM

Slartibartfaster: Riche: Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country

fark that

You'll spend your whole life forking over 40% of your income or more. Service is compulsory.

LoneWolf343

2011-12-31 01:20:33 PM

Riche: Ideally, most people would wait until their 40's to get married and have a kid or two.

Can you imagine being 53 and raising a 13 year old?

Epossumondas

2011-12-31 01:21:36 PM

Riche:
Does your spouse know about the FB communication and is OK with it? Are there absolutely NO discussions/chats/images you need to keep secret from your spouse?

Goes back to the saying "If you wouldn't do it in front of your grandmother, you probably shouldn't be doing it at all."

(Does not apply to pooping or marital sexy time.)

Knucklepopper

2011-12-31 01:21:42 PM

In the past year alone, I've slept with four married women (each one a hotter MILF than the previous) and had a wild time of it, all facilitated by Facebook, yes, but enabled by their disinterested husbands.
Never mind Facebook; pay attention to your spouse! Because if you don't and she's attractive, men like me will.

MoronLessOff

2011-12-31 01:22:58 PM

Riche: Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country

At 37, you are executed.

PsyLord

2011-12-31 01:24:29 PM

/got nothing

s1ugg0

2011-12-31 01:24:46 PM

altinos

2011-12-31 01:25:54 PM

Knucklepopper: enabled by their disinterested husbands

Maybe they were disinterested because the wives treated them like shiat, and they were using you as revenge in their minds against the husband. Not that you would care, but don't assume that it's always the husband's fault that she cheated.

WTFDYW

2011-12-31 01:27:08 PM

Zik-Zak: Riche: Well, good, I guess. Face it-- if a marriage can't handle Facebook then it wasn't meant to be.

This.

/there's a SMART button and a FUNNY button, but I think a 'THIS' button would serve better

THIS

altinos

2011-12-31 01:27:21 PM

MoronLessOff: Riche: Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country

At 37, you are executed.

Bogus.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears

2011-12-31 01:27:59 PM

BroVinny: This is all Zynga's fault.

My wife needs help plowing her cornfield, I will trade gold coins/fertilize your cotton in return!

altinos

2011-12-31 01:28:28 PM

s1ugg0: Also how many divorces were caused by alcohol? 95%?

Alcohol doesn't make you cheat, it just removes your restraint.

Knucklepopper

2011-12-31 01:29:50 PM

altinos: Knucklepopper: enabled by their disinterested husbands

Maybe they were disinterested because the wives treated them like shiat, and they were using you as revenge in their minds against the husband. Not that you would care, but don't assume that it's always the husband's fault that she cheated.

Nope. If the spouse just paid attention, sexually, emotionally, yadda, there'd be no issue there. And I know that in these specific cases, it wasn't for revenge. They're beautiful, at their sexual prime (mid-30s to early 40s) and their idiot husbands leave them sitting there while they collapse on the couch to watch their sports.

altinos

2011-12-31 01:30:15 PM

Kygz: farking farmville. I ask the ex to water my crops one time while we go on vacation and now the wife is divorcing me.

So that's your code name for water sports...

cchris_39

2011-12-31 01:31:51 PM

Just turned 51 here. For my age group, it become obvious pretty quickly that the overwhelming majority of high-volume posters are women who are already divorced or obviously depressed/unhappy.

My wife and I don't friend anybody we ever dated (or wanted to), and we know some couples who have only same sex friends.

Free Radical

2011-12-31 01:32:51 PM

DarwiOdrade: The gays are running Facebook?

That's right Social Conservatives, you best get on this! DOMA to the rescue!

apachevoyeur

2011-12-31 01:36:08 PM

Don't tell the teabaggers, but marriage is dead anyway. If two people love and trust one another, they don't need the blessing of a religion or government to make it real. Take the bullshat out of the equation and you are left with a partnership between two people. Or a person and a turtle. Whatever.

chitownmike

2011-12-31 01:37:49 PM

cchris_39: Just turned 51 here. For my age group, it become obvious pretty quickly that the overwhelming majority of high-volume posters are women who are already divorced or obviously depressed/unhappy.

My wife and I don't friend anybody we ever dated (or wanted to), and we know some couples who have only same sex friends.

Wow! That's farking retarded!

Riche

2011-12-31 01:37:57 PM

LoneWolf343: Riche: Ideally, most people would wait until their 40's to get married and have a kid or two.

Can you imagine being 53 and raising a 13 year old?

Actually, I'll be 52 when my baby girl turns 13.

/after 8 years of trying we just thought we were infertile.

TheOther

2011-12-31 01:41:25 PM

unyon: TheOther: People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.

'Innocent'?
If you're looking up ex-partners online, you're already looking for 'trouble'.
Facebook is currently just the most efficient instrument of finding it.

'Ex-partner' and 'friend' aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, I've been married for almost 20 years, and I have probably 5 or 6 former girlfriends on FB. They're people that I know well, whose company I clearly enjoyed at some point, and I'm genuinely interested in their well-being. Is that 'looking for trouble'?

I'm sure that you are a wholly virtuous person that is not a creeper/stalker nor even gathering material for a nostalgia-fueled fap later.

Perhaps my outlook is skewed by a sample bias or two; it seems that a lot of people that I know that are getting divorced have been a victim and/or participant in Facebook shenanigans - but that may be because I only hear about the bad stuff or that all the people I know are crappy human beings...or is the fact that I know them evidence enough of that?

wambu

2011-12-31 01:41:42 PM

Facebook only exposes stupidity, does not cause stupidity, cheating or divorce.

PsyLord

2011-12-31 01:43:17 PM

Good thing I stick with Craig's List to reconnect with my old flames...

wambu

2011-12-31 01:44:03 PM

Riche: /after 8 years of trying we just thought we were infertile.

Richard Nixon had that same problem, but he finally got it down Pat.

SoCalSurfer

2011-12-31 01:46:40 PM

I seriously think marriage is overrated and going out of style

Let's see, do I want to chain myself to one person and forfeit half of my stuff just so I can get some tax benefits?

NO THANKS

CitizensUnited

2011-12-31 01:46:42 PM

MoronLessOff: Riche: Spend the 20's and 30's for serving your country

At 37, you are executed.

4.bp.blogspot.com

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wibbly_wobbly

2011-12-31 01:47:23 PM

My thought is that these relationships were already doomed, Facebook just quickened the process.

Zizzowop

2011-12-31 01:49:28 PM

I heard video games cause violence too.

Honest Bender

2011-12-31 01:49:46 PM

Knucklepopper: altinos: Knucklepopper: enabled by their disinterested husbands

Maybe they were disinterested because the wives treated them like shiat, and they were using you as revenge in their minds against the husband. Not that you would care, but don't assume that it's always the husband's fault that she cheated.

Nope. If the spouse just paid attention, sexually, emotionally, yadda, there'd be no issue there. And I know that in these specific cases, it wasn't for revenge. They're beautiful, at their sexual prime (mid-30s to early 40s) and their idiot husbands leave them sitting there while they collapse on the couch to watch their sports.

Funny thing about that. Years of having your sexual advances shut down eventually leads to you not trying anymore. Then it's suddenly your fault for not trying anymore.

When is something ever a woman's fault? They always have some reason. Some justification. It's like arguing with a child.

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