"How social media is turning peoples' private breakups into 'celebrity' spats"

There are increasing numbers of ordinary couples are opting to go through “public” divorces as a result of the rise of social media, according to lawyers. Cara Nuttall, a lawyer quotes "They suggest that if it's good enough for this actress or pop star, then it's good enough for them". There is no doubt that a growing proportion of individuals of a certain age regard preserving their reputations among social and professional peers as one of the main concerns when they come to talk about getting divorced.

• Solicitors have handled more than 300 divorces over the course of the year 
• More than one in 10 cases of divorces now include a spouse attacking the other on social media before they agree the terms upon which they separate

Social media, particularly networks such as Twitter is notorious for throwing shady tweets about their peers or any individual for that matter. It is now possibly a place where users share their emotions with no regard of a face-to-face conversation of perhaps how they feel with their partner, family member, friends, etc, and instead vent publicly on social networks. This in the future can be an unhealthy development, where people are so clung towards e-media that they are isolated from human interaction and intervention, which develops to social problems. Sometimes in anger too, split partners may release content publicly that may be explicit, doing more damage than intended, which is never a good thing as "Taking something off the Internet is like taking pee out of a pool", as once said by a media theorist.