Emma Brady , a 35 year old conference organiser from the UK said she had no idea her husband was looking for a divorce. She found out soon enough though, when a friend who had read the wall post her husband left for her called to console her.
Brady spoke to the Daily Mail about her embarrassment and pain, ’The first I knew about it was when I received a phone call at work from my best friend, who lives in Denmark,’ she said.
‘She asked me if I was okay because of what Neil had put on Facebook: “Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady”. I was shell-shocked. ’I have had people who I haven’t spoken to for years contacting me asking what is going on.
What upset me the most was not the fact that Neil had written he had ended his marriage, but the comment from a girl in Canada who said: “You are better off out of it”. It hurt me that he had been speaking to someone else about it.’
Neil Brady, who is now living with his mother, insists he had talked to his wife about separation. ‘I’d had enough of her’.
This bizarre story adds to the other we recently covered when a wife’s “relationship status” change on Facebook triggered her husband to murder.
When I was 12 I broke up with a girlfriend over the phone. I’m still ashamed of that one! But this tops everything!
I heard about a marriage proposal via Twitter. Has someone heard of a divorce notice via Twitter?
Well, you could say the divorce started for her when she was confronted with the facebook Wall Post. The title “Harsh. Husband notifies Wife of upcoming divorce via Facebook Wall Post.” would have been more accurate but I think people get the point…
Can’t say I have that much experience with divorces myself but I do know it isn’t an overnight thing. Either way, it is the phenomena of posting extremely personal and private messages on public services that is interesting here.
People worry about the lack of privacy some services can guarantee but at the same time we see people going to extremes in publishing their most private events. People ask for privacy unless you give them the tools to show everything about themselves, then they jump at the opportunity…
Now THAT title would have gotten us LOTS of traffic! ;-)
Actually, if you’d have read the whole article you’d have noticed that there was no such thing as a Facebook divorce.
The guy just wrote on his wall that he’s now divorced. It took them another six months and an assault charge to actually separate.
I guess a Daily Mail reporter simply read about the whole thing when covering court stories and thought it would make for a juicy little article.
That’s one hell of a divorce if it takes six months to actually reach the stage where they don’t live together anymore.
I just think the story’s absolute fluff, the only reason why it ever saw the light of day is because of the assault on the woman (which in my eyes is a lot worse than posting a bogus divorce notice on a website).
I agree, that’s the basic issue when services like Facebook reach the mainstream.
But in this case, a headline like “Husband writes stupid shit on Facebook, gets divorced eventually due to far worse shit” would have been more apt ;)
My point exactly. Shouldn’t always be about traffic ;)
Uh.. this sucks!
Did you remember time before selfphones, there was this thing.. What was that.. ? Oh yes, If you have something to say, say it in my face!!
Then was news when someone send text message to announce divorce, now in Internet supertime we use social media for those little announcements! :)
Sad.. so sad..