Facebook- a reason behind broken marriages

London: Social networking site Facebook has been deemed as a reason for a third of divorces across the globe.

A US national daily had featured a report in which a law firm Divorce-Online claims that the website is rapidly being used as a source of evidence in broken marriages.

It quoted the firm as saying that the firm had seen a 50 per cent increase in the number of 'behaviour-based' divorce petitions containing the word 'Facebook' in the past two years.

Apparently, last year, not less than thirty-three per cent of the 5,000 behaviour petitions filed with the firm had the mention of the social network.

Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce-Online said to the daily that Facebook has become the primary method for communicating with friends for many people, adding that they contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.

He also said that if someone wants to have an affair or flirt with the opposite sex then it's the easiest place to do it.

One of the common reason cited for the website causing trouble in marriage were 'a spouse finding flirty messages, photos of their partner at a party they did not know about or with someone they should not have been with'.

Mark also added that people need to be careful what they put on Facebook as the courts are now seeing a lot more evidence being introduced from people's walls and posts in disputes over finances and children.