There is no denying that social communities enhance the way we live.

It’s given people new freedoms – a way to exchange news with friends and family, discover and develop new interests and share individual and group experiences.

But with new freedoms comes new responsibilities – a fact which a select few are yet to embrace.

Today, the Daily Mail reports on the first Facebook Divorce, the news of a woman who learnt of her husbands intention to split after he updated his status to read : “Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady”.

This isn’t the first time people have abused their social circles – and it won’t be the last. Whether it’s online or over a pint in the pub – people who are too heartless to do the right thing and face their responsibilities will find new and cruel ways to hurt those around them.

Sadly the invention of Facebook means that essentially private stories like Emma Brady’s can be examined in great detail by the rest of the world. Beware of the dangers of conducting your emotional life via the internet.