Annotated Bibliography
As social media use is continually increasing with access to an abundance of technology, romantic relationships are changing in how lovers interact. For example, cell phone usage is prominent on dates, social media sites cause jealousy with viewing old photos of previous lovers, and there is a growing “intolerance of separation” (Su) with constant texting and location tracking applications. Thus, I am studying the effects of social media on romantic relationships because I want to find out what the consequences of its use are to help my reader avoid issues that are becoming prevalent in today’s society. While social media and technology may aid in maintaining a relationship, it is crucial to understand that it is
…show more content…
is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Albright College, allowing her to be credible for discussing the topic of how Facebook psychologically affects relationships. She has written an article on Psychology Today and argues that Facebook has effects relationships. However, instead of taking a purely negative stance on the subject, she discusses the benefits, such as increasing communication, and consequences, like causing jealousy, of Facebook usage on relationships. The limitation of her argument is that she solely discusses Facebook use and does not address other forms of social media. Nevertheless, a majority of her argument can still be applied to many social media outlets, such as Instagram, Twitter, etc. This article is relevant to my research because Facebook is still a commonly used form of social media, as a relationship is not considered “official” unless one’s relationship status is updated on the website. Furthermore, the research is applicable to my own because her findings are about Facebook, which is a website I intend on including in my …show more content…
She argues that social media is causing face-to-face communication to cease, thus hindering the use of the five senses in conversations, and that social media causes individuals to be more open with sharing information. This article is relevant because it constantly refers to Jonze’s film, which addresses how relationships may change in the future, making it possible for one to pursue romance with a software. Thus, the argument is responding to the rise in technology and social media use, and how people’s daily interactions are being altered as a result. This research fits into my own because it discusses potential problems media will cause in the future within romantic relationships through limiting face-to-face
In fact, Facebook has become such a factor in a teenage relationship in recent years that the “Facebook official’ has become relevant, referencing the act of a couple mutually verifying and displaying their relationship status on the site. The phrase itself suggests that modern-day relationship between partners who both have Facebook profiles requires confirmation for everyone on their friend list to see, an idea that would have seemed risible to anyone in a relationship before the rise of Facebook. This phrase is referenced in the title of the article Are We Facebook Official? Implication of dating Partners’ Facebook Use and Profiles for Intimate Relationship Satisfaction”, and play a major role in the text of the article itself (Papp, Danielewicz, & Cayemberg 86).The article focuses on a study meant to discover the effect of Facebook on couples, primarily by testing the importance of how couples displayed their relationship status over the site (87). The results of the study varied between the two genders, but seemed to suggest that the way in which partners in relationships display their status could have a direct connection to how satisfied at least one partner was in their relationship (88).
Technology has advanced a lot and has been greatly impacting our lives since the Industrial Revolution. The appearance of the mobile phone, the computer, and the tablets have all changed our ability to communicate with people around the world. Although technologies have greatly improved our lifestyle, they have brought many negative effects on our relationships and happiness as well, for instance distorting people's views on one another and bringing more loneliness to people's lives. Many people believe that benefited by social media platforms such as Facebook, it is now not necessary to talk to someone in person in order to effectively communicate with one and know one’s life. Others, however, believe that technology alone cannot replace
Advances in technology have complicated the way in which people are connecting with others around them and how it separates people from reality. In “Virtual Love” by Meghan Daum, she illustrates through the narrator 's point of view how a virtual relationship of communicating through emails and text messages can mislead a person into thinking that they actually have a bond with a person whom they have stuck their ideals onto and how the physical worlds stands as an obstacle in front of their relationship when the couple finally meets. In comparison, the article … While Daum and X discuss that technology pushes us apart and disconnects us from the physical world, they evoke a new light into explaining how technology creates the illusion of making
In the essay, “Relationships and Technology,” by Joseph A. DeVito, he wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of online dating and its effects. Technology has made an enormous effect on our relationships, both physically and mentally. Some argue, our mental obsession with technology has become so dire in order to interact with others. While on the other hand people argue these improvements have only physically enlarged our communication with others and improved our lives. There is no denying the growth of technology has gotten extremely big, and it now plays an important role in our daily lives.
Wortham verifies that some online dating apps have lost customers and failed because once partners entered a relationship they just couldn’t make it work. Although some studies explore the negative impact of digital communication, Wortham claims, I’ve had some of my most emotionally intimate and honest conversations with friends and romantic partners on mobile devices” (Graff 397). Wortham complicates matters further when she writes, “We are now in constant and continuous communication with our friends, coworkers and family over the course of the day” (Graff 394). She argues that frequent contact through virtual chats can closely compare to being together in person. Digital technology can potentially cause people to forget the feeling of what real face-to-face
The technological age and its advancements have created an environment where people are practically obligated to use social media. Through social media, relationships are negatively affected with technology acting as a barrier between people. This barrier negatively affects individuals and their much needed social interactions with social media changing how people communicate. Because social media has become one of the primary ways for people to interact with their peers, people are forced into a situation where their relationships aren’t as genuine as direct face to face interactions. On an individual level the barrier of social media creates a situation that Sherry Turkle has coined being “alone together”. People are able to use social media to network and create connections, but they are left unable to reap the
Many positive aspects of social media result in the expansion of relationships but overall Clayton, Nagurney, & Smith (2012) found that a high level of use, specifically Facebook, was associated with negative relationship outcomes and increased relational conflicts. Social media additionally reduces the need for face-to-face interactions, where online communication replaces daily in-person interactions, resulting in reduced ability to maintain these relationships. Many of the relationships created on social media do not have a high level of fidelity, reliability, or trustworthiness. While endeavoring to establish and maintain online friendships adolescents may partake in exaggeration or self-aggrandizing, resulting in a less than accurate representation
In the article “When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships”, Lori Ann Wagner declares, “according to a Pew Research survey (Duggan & Smith, 2013), 73% of adults online use some kind of social networking platform” (Page 2). As the usage of social media increases more significantly, there are more information people can receive from the Internet, and people can see and feel the life they never know before, like they can see the selfie from Obama, the Instagram photos from famed singers and actresses, the Yik Yak updates from people nearby, and the Facebook updates from families and friends. Social media, as a new thing walks into people’s life, has been regarded as influential in their life in many ways, especially in people’s relations with each other. And the increasing number leads people to ask themselves in what way the social media change people’s relations with each other.”
expect to see social networking continue to impact romantic relationships in a negative way and cause instability in relationships by simply leaving behind an unsteady foundation for those relationships.
Let 's face it, social media is changing our lives. Especially when dating in a Facebook-addicted society. No longer will it take time for a man to build up courage to ask a woman to dinner, because simply there is instant messaging to do the job.No longer will it be a mystery to that man to know about the woman before the date because her profile provides every detail about her life. Facebook is making dating a little bit easier, but is achieving something by putting less effort always considered a great thing? Social media is affecting couples who are dating in a negative way because the online platform allows a person easy access to create a fake a profile account to obtain a date, easily increases jealousy between couples, and makes cheating on a partner easier to do.
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.
Dr. Emma Seppälä, the Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism, provides insight on how exactly social media negatively affects relationships. One harmful effect of social media she talks about is that it is addictive. People tend to focus on seeking pleasure from their phones over real people because there are constant interactions and posts on social media sources. Dr. Emma Seppälä also explains how social media causes people to be lose their sense of reality. By virtually posting one’s friendships, vacations, or whatever else it may be, it causes that person to disconnect from their reality and the people that it consists of. Living in the moment is when we’re the happiest, but what people don’t realize is that they lose the true meaning of the experience when they virtually praise it. Why focus a meaningless amount of likes when you can share enjoyable experiences with a companion who actually cares? The final aspect Dr. Emma Seppälä discusses is that social media damages communication. Communication is arguably the most important aspect of a relationship, but how are people supposed to do that if they are constantly on their devices? Social media was created to connect people, but it ultimately separates us away from reality and into the virtual
The use of therapy to save a relationship for the overuse of social media can be waste of money and time to some people. However, in a survey realized by Stejin and Shouten discovered that 2.2% of the couple’s loss more than gain closeness in their relationship. This show the while people think that social media is a good tool to help them to find new friends for other it means the worse thing in the world because through social media they loss many things like a relation that they been in for many years and then after been so involve with social media everything collapses for their habit in social
In today’s generation, one can see the issues that are causing most people to live miserable. One of the greatest issues is that not everyone values what he or she has the same way others do. It is good to be on social media to explore the social world with others, but there are people who tend to share their private relationships’ information on social media. For example, updating their statuses on Facebook on a regular basis can lead to so much, which can be classified in three categories below. Young people should be cautious with Facebook because of the negative effects that it has on their relationships such as criticism, jealousy, and bad reputation.
Facebook is one of the biggest causes in break-ups, the New York Post released that; “ the word Facebook was included in more than a third of divorce filings last year”. Social media sites like Facebook contain too many temptations. Before social media, there weren 't as many temptations a person had to go out of their way and look for it but now it’s just handed. Besides temptations, there’s a lack of respect for relationships and there’s constantly people who try to interfere. The lack of loyalty is what couples fear the most, some studies showed that“the higher the use of Facebook the higher the effect on the relationship and sparks of jealousy”. This proves that social media increases the amount of stress and sense of competition in both ends of a relationship. Being online is very much like access to having people over the house at any hour of the day or night; and if a relationship isn 't nourished properly it makes it easy for emotional infidelity to