This Is Funny

Amy Minsky and Carolynne Burkholder from Canwest News Service write:

Facebook shown to increase jealousy in relationships

Be careful when you surf Facebook, or your relationship status may go from “married” to “it’s complicated,” researchers warn.

Amy Muise, lead author of the study, said the jealousy is caused by overexposing partners to triggers.

The more time you spend on the social networking site, the more likely you are to feel jealous, according to a study from the University of Guelph.

Article continues: read it here.

I certainly think Facebook (and blogging and chatting) can lead to less time spent together by the couple. This can even be a good thing, at times, because interactions with others make people more interesting and absence makes the heart grow fonder. To a point.

But it DOES seem rather silly to be communicating with Jacqui by Facebook when we’re living in the same house. And we were doing that. So I guess I sidestepped the problem because I stopped and now I have no clue who says what to Jacqui on Facebook.

Although I’m interested!

The article goes on to say:

Georgina Hobbs-Meyer, 24, is one of the victims of divorce sparked by Facebook jealousy.

According to an article in The Guardian, Hobbs-Meyer stumbled across her husband’s Facebook correspondences with another woman.

“And once I was in, I was hooked. Their lusty e-mails touched on bad beat poetry, but were infused with textspeak, their coy cyberflirts rife with emoticons,” Hobbs told the British newspaper.

Well at least the article admits the divorce was sparked by her jealousy.

“beat poetry” … hmmm. And oh no! Emoticons! Argh!

Call in the divorce lawyers. That‘s a rational response.

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* There’s a bad one.