University of Michigan Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate student.

The Facebook divorce

13 Oct 2009

The problem is, Facebook is still a lawless frontier. (Though lawyers, particularly divorce lawyers, have come to view the site as an “evidentiary gold mine,” as a recent piece in Time magazine put it, and they regularly pan for nuggets in the opposing side’s pages.) There aren’t any definite principles, precepts or binding contracts between individuals, and its habitués are forced to improvise as they go along.