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CLEVELAND - Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typedtwo words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman withwhom she believed her husband was having an affair.
Click. Andthere it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, ****olded or not.Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husbandliterally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde,was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.
"I wasnumb with shock, to tell you the truth," says France, an occupationaltherapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. "There was like an albumof 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding."
Affairs wereonce shadowy matters, illicit encounters whispered about and oftendifficult to prove. But in the age of Facebook and Twitter andlightning-fast communication, the notion of privacy is fast becomingobsolete. From flirtatious text messages to incriminating emails,marital indiscretions are much easier to track — especially ifpotentially damaging photographic evidence is posted online.
"Allof these things are just a trail of cyber breadcrumbs that are easilytracked by good divorce lawyers," says Parry Aftab, an expert onInternet safety and privacy laws.
France, 41, was not completelyblindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009.That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began takingfrequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn soncame home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home whenhe was supposed to be in China for business.
In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen.
"SoI actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself forsure," France says. "He was there with this girlfriend. I said, 'Hey,I'm his wife. We've got a baby.'"
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