Internet: FindNewPassion.com or Bad Behaviour excuse?
Apparently the latest trend in social networking has been the set up of websites that gear towards having extra-marital affairs!
Yes seemingly the purchase of ordinary everyday material items and entertainment accessories has become a little too mundane and it transpires that some social internet savvy shoppers would rather bag themselves an affair! 
According to FindNewPassion.com for example - where you can become a member of the "elite and discreet married dating" club - they argue that in the 21st century we are blindly and busily consumed with laptops, blackberries, plasma television (kids and 'the old ball and chain'..), it is simply "not enough to be caught up in the world of everyday routine" and we should strive in our non-eventful lives to dishonestly and discreetly sway from our loved ones and "find new passion". So plain old adultery is back...according to their business plan, and stepped up a notch this time by going online. There must have been a gap in the market! 
In fact on their 'about us' page, their unique selling point really boils down to the witling off of a range of everyday work and family activities that anyone in my opinion who actually has a life, does, and they make them sound like chores and bores! We all have our off days sure, but is that really an excuse to pop onto a site and begin an illicit affair?
Allegedly due to the daily interruption of work and family life (pff!) "we’re caught in a world of things that are missing: heat of
emotions, magic of human touch, intimacy, affection and desire. In
today’s world we’re omitted of the best human luxuries: excitement of
passionate connection and ability to live in the moment". Enticing. Not. Surely that's why people get married and have families in the first place? Don't most human beings want to experience these emotions and passions? Don't they want to do it in a secure committed relationship? It doesn't have to be black and white. Even if they are in dull relationships that are going nowhere and need the freedom - surely being honest with your partner and with yourself at least is a better route to go down than playing the games of a pent-up emotional hormonal teen. C'mon, don't commit to someone then, don't get married!
Eden.com, another website offering opportunities of extra-marital sex and passion, is originally a French network but has now built up a large member
base, 1800 members of which are supposedly married Irish people. Yes it could be that desperate housewife next door to you, the great family man who runs the local soccer club, the mammy's boy/girl or the janitor in your local school!
I recently watched a television interview where a woman described her need to be part of this network, desperately joining because she felt a need to act out her sexual fantasies in secret with a new lover, which for whatever reason she felt she couldn't enjoy with her spouse of many years. Should she be with her husband in the first place if this is truly how she feels?
Like prostitution, sexual escapades and extra-marital straying have gone on since the beginning of time, so I'm not being naive here. But this new online swing (excuse pun) has really opened my eyes - has social networking gone too far?