Is Social Media Ruining my Relationship? Ashly and David have been together for seven years but have been married for five years. They were high school sweethearts, Ashley was the caption of the cheer squad and David was the star on the basketball team. They now have two kids together, a boy and a girl named Evan and Ava. David works an office job and Ashely is a stay at home wife. While David is working, Ashely entertains herself in many ways but she is mostly on social media. She would be on Facebook for hours then switch to Twitter; minutes later she’s on Snapchat then Instagram. Her phone is basically glued to her hand. She has her phone when she is in the bathroom, at the dinner table and even late at night in the bed. Every time David tries to talk to her about how much time she spends on social media it becomes an argument. Everything seemed so perfect but now they are getting a divorce. There are many reasons of how social media can ruin a relationship. One reason social media ruins relationships are because people compare their relationship with others. People tend to become jealous of other couples. For Example, imagine scrolling on Facebook and every time your online you always see this couple posting pictures and saying sweet things to each other. After a while you start to reflect on your relationship and get …show more content…
They feel as if that’s is invading their privacy. A lot of people are not comfortable with even the thought of giving there partner their password. There are boundaries in certain relationships where some share passwords but others don’t. Some also feel as if their personal space has been taken away and that their partner doesn’t trust them. However, if your partner asks to logins into your account or for access. That might have to do with trust that was previously broken in the past. Building trust in one another is more important than a
Furthermore, it is thought that social media lets humans connect with others and have more friends than those in the real world. However, this is not always true. People worry about their online worlds and whether people will like them. Online, people are more judgemental than real world friends, which can lead to a low self-esteem. The article “YES: Connecting Virtually Isn’t Like Real-World Bonding” by Larry Rosen states that “...our constant need to check comes from anxiety…” Obviously, technology has a negative effect on people as far as lower self-esteem and
Dependency is usually a barring factor, and when you are dependent on things like social media, you are putting yourself, and your confidence in the hands of other people. Technology, the Social norm, and todays morals, are the problem. We are dependent to social media here in the United States as 60% of our population has a social media account. The Human species is also dependent on social media because 2.95 Billion people use it! People need to cut down on the social media use! People with social media accounts use up to 40 minutes a day on it. The opposing view would say that social media brings people together. And can connect people from long distances, while this is good, people simply are attached
Social media allows you and your friends to publicly share photos, talk, make plans, and give out information about yourself. Those were all positives but could easily be negatives as well. When you receive a friend request on Facebook, the profile pic used could easily be faked and so could the person’s identity. By putting something on social media, you allow others to gain access to your photos, messages, arranged plans, and even your address, depending on what’s on there. Social media effects society in both positive and negative
because of the increase in the time that is spent on social media it can cause terrible harms in destroying one’s social skills. An example of this is that if you spend all your time on social media just talking to random people you never met. It can cause social awkwardness to when it is time to talk face to face interaction with some one you do know. My perception of social media is that there are to many people spending to much of their time on social media. Rather than just spending time interacting with people face to face and gaining strong social
Social media has affected people negatively because people depend on social media more than their brain .Which does not bring any benefit to them .Our society has come from being very social to antisocial over the years. Many people don 't interact with each other anymore .We search, post ,tweet and snap not even knowing who we are sharing are information with . In his article “Mind Over Mass Media ,” Steven Pinker writes about the amount of knowledge and power social media is taking away from our brains .College
With recent advancements in technology (e-mail, phone, text, social media, and video conference), couples can manage and maintain their relationship with a simple touch of a button. Foremost, communication through technology is important to couples involved in long-distance relationships (LDRs), as the demand for relational development requires constant attention.
One could argue that the effects of social networking sites could make an individual more inwards due to the lack of direct social contact. As the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine suggests (in Sigman, 2009) “Social networking encourages us to ignore the social networks that form in our non-virtual communities”. However as Lewis & West (2009) found, Facebook seems to have the opposite effect and encourages an individual to be more social in some ways due to the structure of the site as it is less direct than a phone call and with no monetary costs attached to it, but always with the ability to communicate with multiple people at one time with other individuals about to respond to a message and view others responses. If a person does become inward and slightly withdrawn from society through Facebook, then most likely they may have possessed these traits already as Dwyer’s research of behaviour offline suggests that even “some people will always be more inclined to socialise than others” (2000). This maybe due to their own personality traits rather than the effects of Facebook on an individual. As Amichai-Hamburger & Vinitzky discovered in their 2010 study, introverted individuals seem to transfer their pattern of behaviour from offline to online, which is reflected in the smaller volume of ‘Facebook Friends’ in comparison with those with extroverted personalities. As was stated earlier by Ross (2009), Facebook’s structure is mainly offline to online therefore those who are introverted in reality and have trouble forming friendships offline, will have fewer friends who can be added as ‘Facebook friends’ so their lack of social circle size is not a result of Facebook, it merely highlights it.
Social networking can connect strangers across the world. As the evolution of communication continues, technology progresses and social networking grows. Social networks like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook have grown to have billions of users. In fact in today’s society, it is necessary or nearly expected to use one if not all of these technological communication networks. The increasing use of social networking has had both a negative and positive effect on communication in relationships. The purpose of this literary analysis is to answer if social networks are helpful or harmful to relationships.
First, Facebook is a negative influence because it causes people to feel less important than others. Seeing continuous updates of others success makes a person think of their own life as small, non-achieving, and even pathetic. " Seeing updates of friends' successful careers, cute babies, and fabulous vacations inspires feelings of envy, loneliness and even anger," (Kelly, 1). When a teenage girl sees her best friend tagged in the status of another girl, she feels left out or sometimes replaced.
Another way it is harmful to social interactions is through social networking sites. While social networking has the ability to reconnect with old friends, see what family and friends are up to, and stay informed, it also has a dark side. Problems with romantic or even platonic relationships can arise from something as small as who your friends are on Facebook or whom you follow on Twitter. A more likely situation is that romantic relationships could face turmoil if one person finds out that the other has been talking to someone else privately. Under certain circumstances, one partner could think that the other is cheating on them.
A recent article in Time magazine titled, “You Asked: Is Social Media Making Me Miserable?”, overlooked the various studies conducted on social media’s effect on people’s lives. Social media is a major part of people’s lives across the world. It provides them with information and allows them to connect with others at the click of a button or tap of a finger. Author of the article, Markham Heid writes, “Social media now dictates how people interact with friends, read the news and navigate their day-to-day existence” (TIME). However, the accessibility we now have to everything and everyone around us can lead to some negative effects. Social media keeps changing in terms of content and user interaction, and as we adapt it to it, it can do more
There are many problems related to the internet but I will focus on one that is very important which is relationships on social media. Social media might cause many people to feel lonely and make that the people break up or cause damages in any relationships because those people are not able to socialize or interact with people around them. Social media is harmful tool the we have to use with caution because sometimes it helps you, but sometimes it goes against you, especially Facebook and Twitter. Information sharing and relationships on social media are problems that need to be addressed for many reasons. Some of these reasons are the people who are active on social media, interact and socialize with
Social media has nothing but negative effects on people’s minds. Social networking can become very addicting and people can get wrapped up in the drama and excitement of the cyber world. It would only improve our society today if social media never existed to our knowledge. Our society today feels so connected with social media that it interferes with our lives making every task even harder with the temptations.
“According to Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media” (Jung, 2016). It is not a shocking fact when you notice that it requires much less energy to just sit around and text. It sounds innocent at first but when you realize that people are now spending hours and hours on their screens some concern
There are some downsides to being constantly connected to everybody through social media. The biggest down side is not communicating to loved ones and family through real life interaction, but instead through social media. That is a serious problem to some people, especially those who use technology and are familiar to technology. Because they might not feel the urge to make human interaction, they are just attracted more to technology.