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Old 08-08-2016, 11:25 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by BlueK View Post
I know someone personally to whom this happened and facebook was the vehicle. A guy I used to work with -- LDS, educated, well-off financially thought he was just taking his family on vacation in Florida. Little did he know while he was with the kids at Disneyworld and thought his wife was at some scrapbooking convention that she was actually cheating on him with some guy she used to know and had reconnected with through facebook.

Now I'm not going to say this guy didn't have some quirks which even I could see, but that is still a pretty crappy thing to do to your spouse (and kids). And while it's true that it's not that technology is the real problem, I think the sudden rise of social media has led to a lot of people who didn't grow up with it doing things they probably wouldn't have done in "real" life. It has made people think it's somehow ok to act in certain ways because it's on the computer. It's not rational behavior necessarily.
I'm betting affairs were more frequent in our parents' generation(s).
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