Hi All,
I recently started an experiment with Twitter to track immediate family breakdowns as communicated by parents through Twitter.
Suffice to say, it is always amazing to see what people will communicate publicly over the internet regarding their family situation. The experiment was short lived (three hours of data collection) as I litterally ran out of storage because the amount of mud slinging by potential litigants to a family law matter was just too much to handle. (Need to narrow by geographical region.)
What I did notice on the snapshot of data was that there are a pile of people on Twitter ready to assist and provide incredibly bad advice and in only three hours of collection:
- 18 recommendations to change the locks on the matrimonial home.
- 22 recommendations that a parent call the police and have the other parent arrested
- 92 recommendations to a possible separating parent to read various "domestic violence" websites
- 211 explicit statements about the other parent
- 8 recommendations to seek sole custody and supervised access
- 912 really upset parents who are willing to insult, degrade and publicly shame the other parent of their children
Social Media and Family Law
I am trying to figure out a way to cross reference the small thumbnail description of the possible litigant and advice provider to see if there is any commonality between the person requesting advice (sharing information about their family break down) and the responders at this time.
912 unique profiles is a lot and the data is free form text. Just on first eye balling of the data it is incredible to see how many self described "CRUNCHY" people out there that are experiencing a family breakdown or instructing someone to lock out the other parent from the matrimonial home.
Reminder to everyone: Public social media sites (facebook/twitter) is probably not the best place to resolve (or get advice) about family breakdowns. It makes for great cogent and relevant evidence in a family law matter.
Also, if you have 1000+ followers ("friends") it doesn't necessarily mean that you should be sharing with these people your family situation. Furthermore, it doesn't mean that they are your "friend" and providing you good advice.
Good Luck!
Tayken
I recently started an experiment with Twitter to track immediate family breakdowns as communicated by parents through Twitter.
Suffice to say, it is always amazing to see what people will communicate publicly over the internet regarding their family situation. The experiment was short lived (three hours of data collection) as I litterally ran out of storage because the amount of mud slinging by potential litigants to a family law matter was just too much to handle. (Need to narrow by geographical region.)
What I did notice on the snapshot of data was that there are a pile of people on Twitter ready to assist and provide incredibly bad advice and in only three hours of collection:
- 18 recommendations to change the locks on the matrimonial home.
- 22 recommendations that a parent call the police and have the other parent arrested
- 92 recommendations to a possible separating parent to read various "domestic violence" websites
- 211 explicit statements about the other parent
- 8 recommendations to seek sole custody and supervised access
- 912 really upset parents who are willing to insult, degrade and publicly shame the other parent of their children
Social Media and Family Law
I am trying to figure out a way to cross reference the small thumbnail description of the possible litigant and advice provider to see if there is any commonality between the person requesting advice (sharing information about their family break down) and the responders at this time.
912 unique profiles is a lot and the data is free form text. Just on first eye balling of the data it is incredible to see how many self described "CRUNCHY" people out there that are experiencing a family breakdown or instructing someone to lock out the other parent from the matrimonial home.
Reminder to everyone: Public social media sites (facebook/twitter) is probably not the best place to resolve (or get advice) about family breakdowns. It makes for great cogent and relevant evidence in a family law matter.
Also, if you have 1000+ followers ("friends") it doesn't necessarily mean that you should be sharing with these people your family situation. Furthermore, it doesn't mean that they are your "friend" and providing you good advice.
Originally posted by Adapted from Fight Club
Tayken
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