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Perils of social media and the law : Don't check your common sense at the door

By Kevin O'Keefe

Reading Time Magazine's Person of the Year article on Mark Zuckenberg I read of the following about the dangers of Facebook: According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 81% of its members have seen a rise in the number of divorce cases involving social networking. Imagine a time when Americans began to use phones en mass. If we polled divorce lawyers, wouldn't the majority have seen a rise in the use of phones in communication between people having extramarital affairs? Even facilitating communication between those folks? How about with the advent of the automobile? Wouldn't the majority of matrimonial lawyers have seen a rise in people traveling to their extramarital encounters in automobiles? The way we communicate and connect with one another is changing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).