No one can argue that social media has permeated every aspect of our society. Everyone from your youngest friend to your oldest relative communicates on one form of social media or another.
As of 2017 a huge 81% of people had a social media profile of one kind or another.
With numbers that huge it’s a safe assumption that the parties involved in a divorce will have one or even all of these types of accounts. Experienced family lawyers will tell you the consequence is that documenting and presenting social media evidence is now a critical part of family law proceedings.
Ultimately, the statements on social media are often a doubled-edged sword: they are typically emotional, sometimes rash. One the one hand, social media is uniquely set up to be electronically preserved since it exists in a digital format already.