Downloads of activity monitoring software up 390%, rise in social media a suggested cause - activity monitoring software, facebook, social media

Downloads of activity monitoring software up 390%, rise in social media a suggested cause - activity monitoring software, facebook, social media: "It is thought that this increase has been driven in part by a shift in focus by software vendors to more consumer focused products, but also because of the continued rise in popularity of social networking is driving demand.

In January 2010, a study of US divorce lawyers concluded that 20 percent of divorce petitions cite Facebook as a contributor in a marriage’s demise. Social network evidence is becoming an important component of the divorce paperwork, and one such way to obtain this evidence is through the use of monitoring software such as PC Pandora, WebWatcher and SpyAgent."