Effects Of Social Networking Sites On Relationships

In the last ten to fifteen years accompanying the dawn of social media, means of communication among friends and strangers have been easier than ever. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into the largest social media site on the Internet with 30 million users and counting. The ability to catch up with former high school friends who are now across the country or see how an aunt in Pittsburgh has been doing since the birth of her son are now as simple as the click of a mouse. However, the amount of “friends” acquired on social media may not be an accurate reflection of how many close relationships one truly shares. In an article from Bigthink.com titled “Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?”, Steven Mazie gathers research from Pew Research Center about statistics surrounding Facebook

Before the beginning of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and many other social media sites, romantic relationships would advance behind closed doors. Today, it is much easier to identify at what stage a couple is in their relationship by just turning on your phone and opening up a social media app. Therefore, status updates, tagged picture posts, and tweets are ruining romance and relationships. Social media has ruined love because it is distracting to relationships, it takes away from face to face confrontation, and quite frankly social media is tearing couples apart.

Ellison et al believed that Facebook is a ‘rich site’ for research into the quality of relationships due its ‘heavy usage patterns’ and the mechanics of how it is more about offline to online relationships due the nature of the creation of the site, for university students to communicate. Facebook in incredibly different from other CMC as many users actually know most their ‘friends’ in real terms on the site.

Welcome to the digital age. Today’s society is constantly logged onto social media sites such as Facebook, twitter or Instagram. It is often over looked how much influence those sites have. They are used regularly throughout people lives, it has practically become part of their routine. Social media keeps people in contact and updated on their relations with family members and other people in their lives. With this contact, many forms of relationships are developed. Social media can affect relationships with friends, family as well as the relationships people have with

It is becoming more frequent in today’s society to utilize social media to connect and stay in touch with others. In fact, one could say that social media has become an everyday part of our lives. More than 800 million individuals use Facebook daily (Fox & Anderegg, 2014). It is therefore of great significance, that one gives awareness to how the frequency of social media usage can affect our romantic relationships. This study consists of analyzing the amount of time one spends on Facebook and if the amount of time has an effect on the relationship satisfaction. Previous studies have gone over the aspects of the activities and concepts among individuals that can cause negative relationship outcomes but these studies have not extended beyond the concept of frequency. Moreover, previous research has suggested that individuals’ attachment status, individuals who have Facebook–related conflict, individuals who were in shorter term relationships, and individuals who have certain ideas of what normal behavior is when getting to know someone on the website can end up predicting negative relationship outcomes (Clayton, Nagurney, & Smith, 2013).

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.

Manjoo’s essay 'Is Facebook a Fad' provides extensive insight into various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Based on statistics derived from Manjoo’s essay, we get to know that Facebook has over one billion active users and one half of them log into their accounts each day (Manjoo p.223). William Deresiewicz also eludes to this in his essay 'Faux Friendship'. As a result of so many people opting to turn to social networking sites, this in turn has made friendship to smoothly be integrated into the various new electronic lifestyles. One way that these sites poses an imminent threat to our ability to communicate face to face, is that,

Social networking is a global phenomenon, in the past teenagers and college students were the most active users, but now older generations are embracing this new technology (ComScore, 2012). A recent survey of 2,255 people conducted by the Pew Research Centre found 16% of Social Networking users were aged between 18 to 22 years old, 32% were between 23 – 35 years, 26% between 36 – 49 years, 20% between 50 – 65 years and 6% were aged 65+. (Hampton, Goulet, Rainie, Purcell, 2010). With an increasing number of people choosing to engage in social networking sites, across all age ranges, it is interesting to look at how this phenomenon might be redefining social relationships.

Picture this: an average teenager just wants to become part of the group, and they decide to join the bandwagon and get a Facebook account. It really doesn’t take much, a few questions, your name, and email and password, and ta-da, a Facebook account has been created. Now fast-forward a year. This same outgoing teenager is in front of a computer screen, not doing homework or researching current events, they are on Facebook, replying to messages, playing a little game, and just relaxing. It’s what every kid does, and therefore, what better way to keep up with other people? Now again, lets fast-forward just another six months; this same teenager, which had been average and normal, is now a technology buff, and they are ‘Face-stalking’

This question makes it clear that Facebook is an important part of many people’s lives.

Facebook is currently largest social networking site in the world based on monthly unique visitors – attracting 130 million unique visitors every day (Alexa Inc. 2012). The site’s popularity exploded in 2007 and it bypassed its social networking rival, MySpace, in April 2008 (Phillips 2007). Over the last few years Facebook has impacted people’s social lives in various ways. With its availability on modern smart phones, Facebook enables users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and peers wherever they are in the world as long as they have internet access. It can also group people together who share beliefs and interests and has been known to even reunite lost family members and friends through its enormous social reach

Using Facebook can help form romantic relationships and form lifelong partners. People have increasingly turned to Facebook to search for potential romantic partners in an environment where users can learn about each other through self-disclosed personal profiles (Cyber Psychology & Behavior 2009, Williamson V. 2008). Using the social networking site facebook, can allow users to learn about each other, communicate and find romantic partners. Hence more and more people turning to facebook to find the love of their life.

Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and

In this 21th century, Facebook is one of close friend that we spend time with. Sometime I wonder if we see Facebook’s page more often than see our parents’ face. Every time, I sit in the computer, I see almost every student open their Facebook’s page. Or, sitting in the hallway, face down with their phone or walking with it. Last night, I was talking my younger sister about her friends on Facebook while driving from St. Cloud back home in St. Paul. She told me that she never be lonely because she could talk with her friend wherever she been to. I asked her if she is talking with her friend now while we drive home, then she said no. I told her that she should be back to the reality because when her Wi-Fi, phone, or iPad die she will a black screen friend. Anyway, Facebook is not that bad. It is a new world open an opportunity with other new story and it is fast to share news cross different place with different time. However, it is not always be good all the time. It is information cannot be 100% trust.

Facebook, a well-known social networking site, has been known to interfere negatively in romantic relationships. Facebook has an option to list one’s relationship as: Single, Widowed, Divorced, Married, or In a Relationship. Posting a relationship status’ on Facebook may be considered a modern day causality, however, even when a relationship status is listed, there are still spouses or partners that will remain to seek others as a “one-night stand” or “lover” through Facebook. Relationships can be affected negatively by Facebook yet a remainder are still considered particularly healthy by having positive components extracted from the social networking site. Scholars publish articles and journals that state the negative effects on relationships due to Facebook yet, it is rare that the positive affects to create a healthy relationship are mentioned. Although these scholars have published such books, Facebook can be very beneficial to high school relationships, but adult relationships have been proven to be less influenced by Facebook and more affected by the individuals in the actual relationship.