Clinical Implications of Internet Infidelity: Where Facebook Fits In.
The Internet can enhance existing relationships or facilitate the development of new relationships, including illicit ones. Increased research in this area has predominately been on online sexual addiction and pornography, with few about social networking sites. Facebook, a popular social networking...
| Published in: | American Journal of Family Therapy Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 325 - 340 |
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