FACEBOOK is a goldmine of damaging data, incriminating messages and pictures and now plays a key role in America's divorce battles, lawyers say.
According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 81 per cent of its members have used or faced evidence in court plucked from the social networking site, or from others such as MySpace and Twitter.
Adverts for cut-price divorce services are to be screened on television for the first time.
The company involved is offering a divorce online for just £65, plus VAT.
Customers are posted all their forms to sign and don't even have to attend court.
The ad will be shown on digital channels later this month and has also been posted on video YouTube.
The founder of Divorce-Online, Mark Keenan, yesterday denied that he was profiting from couples' misery - or that the ads would encourage them to split.
Emma Jones talks with a smugness that anyone who has snapped up an expensive dress in the sales will recognise. She got a bargain, she agrees.
The 'product' that she expected to set her back some £4,000 actually cost her £400. And her saving was entirely down to that thoroughly modern art of Googling.