Stop posting anything on Facebook about your ex-spouse, their family or your kids on Facebook!
Everything you say and do affects your divorce. Facebook is not for you to vent or air your issues please stop all the posting during your divorce.
Here are 3 Reasons not to Facebook during your Divorce.
1. Social Media Eliminates Your Privacy
Venting about your divorce in a manner that is contentious, unfriendly or malicious on Facebook will come back to hurt you.
Any information posted online can be used in court to show where you have been, what you have been doing, who you have been doing whatever with, even potentially what kind of money you have that was not disclosed.
Any information made public online will blow holes in an argument for keeping your “private life” private. If it’s on the internet, the right individual can find it and use it against you in court proceedings.
Your best course of action is to talk with a professional, bound to privacy about conversations they have with you. If you need to vent or talk through your feelings talk to them. Comments to your friends can also be detrimental so keep your venting to close personal friends.
2. Posting Pictures can say more than “I had fun.”
Don?t Post any pictures that can be manipulated or misinterpreted. Keeping a low profile on any social media in the first rule to follow when getting a divorce.
If you think posting pictures makes the process better showing your ex-spouse you’re having fun without them or showing your facebook friends how you’re handling the divorce don?t – it can be used against you. Plus, everyone knows a divorce, even the best ones are painful so no need to create a false impression on Facebook.
A night out could mean you drink too much. A picture with a significant other automatically opens the door to their background and involvement with your children. A photo of a trip could lead to questions about parenting time and whether you left the children with someone other than their other parent.
Share with your family and friends your life during the divorce not the internet universe.
3. Your children have a right to privacy that you need to protect.
Under no circumstances say or share anything about your children online.
This is a difficult process for children, cyberspace doesn’t need to be aware of their situation. It can be embarrassing, hurtful and very upsetting for them. Protecting you child is your number one job. If they need to talk, provide the opportunity for them to speak to a professional or to close family members.
Consider yourself under a microscope when you are going through a divorce. Keep Social Media out of the picture it does serious damage to your family and the divorce proceedings.
