Technology's Impact on Relationships

Younger adults around the globe are growing up in a world filled with media in different kinds of shapes and forms(Brown, 2006). It is said to be that people are able to find partners independent of where they live and will be able to maintain a healthy relationship. This is because now people are able to share and communicate everything about their lives instantly. For example, music, videos, photos and other types of communication are easily available to the average person. (Herlein & Piercy, 2008). Society turns to technology these days to communicate because it gives them a sense of control over their social lives. Madell & Muncer, 2007). For example, when a person receives a text message. They can think for as long as they want to how they are going to reply back. Being able to think carefully is something digital communication has over physical. Sometimes we can say things that we did not mean due to being under pressure or reading body language. Texting someone can also have an impact on relationships with others. A study done showed that adults that are in a romantic relationship who uses texting to communicate with each other are more likely to have a better quality relationship (Coyne, Stockdale, Busby, Iverson, & Grant,

Imagine that you are in a long distance relationship where your significant other lives across the country. Talking on the phone and texting are both ways of communicating today; however, talking on the phone is more effective in relationships. Long-distance couples need trust, love, and loyalty, but most of all, they need to hear each other’s voice at times. Talking on the phone has been a method of communication for decades, but texting is relatively new. Although texting is more popular today, talking on the phone seems to build relationships better and easier.

15). This research speaks volumes to the overall effect that the spread of technology has on our addiction to social media. It shows that we now value our time and interactions that happen over the Internet more than we value the true face-to-face interactions that real relationships actually depend on. One study performed on a university campus in Turkey used a questionnaire to evaluate different factors that could have significantly positive or negative effects on a relationship. This study performed by Egeci and Gencoz found that “…those with lower communications problems…were more likely to experience relationship satisfaction” (388). The type of communication that is proven to help grow relationships occurs most effectively face-to-face, where people can read each other’s emotions in their facial expressions and non-verbal

As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have become easier. Technology has changed the way we go through life. It’s made talking to people easier, as well as keeping up with the lives of others. However, the effects have affected the aspects of our lives that don’t include technology.

Now the world of development is faster and faster, a lot of mobile applications are make the people distance more and more closer. In the “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight” article. JENNA WORTHAMT She has 3,000 miles away from her boyfriend, and they often use smartphone applications to get closer and chat with each other. She pointed out that the convenience of these applications can make people become more closer, and this is not like the phone or text formal. In the new app “you and me”, the entrepreneur is committed to allowing more couples to use the software for one-on-one meetings. Although this software is not a real alternative, but does not affect the actual time together in the real world. In Ms. Friedman's blog, she noted that 74% of couples believe that the Internet had a positive impact on their relationship. In my view, although the virtual world spent most of the time, but it also brings a lot of positive impacts.

In an article written for the New York Times by Jenna Wortham called “I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the App.”, Wortham discusses the pros of using social media in developing relationships. She talks of her personal accounts with dating apps to keep up with her long-distance relationship with her boyfriend and how she finds that communicating with him through video chat is pretty useful for maintaining her relationship. Wortham believes that communication through social media platforms like G-Chat (Google Chat), Skype, Facetime, etc., makes conversation feels more casual and that she feels a closer bond with the people she talks to “physically, even though it’s through a screen” (394). The audience she could be appealing to is anyone

Technology can be positive through providing face to face live video and audio chats, but can also be detrimental when it comes to simple texting without nonverbal messages. Facetime has been able to provide expressions and voice cues that help bring meaning to verbal messages. Nonverbal communication is hard to fake and is more trustable. While, texting can be detrimental to relationships because the meanings of words are skewed since they don’t have nonverbal cues to give context and meaning to them. The relationships that is most influenced by technology is my friends at Uconn because we spend so much time together and the amount of closeness I feel with these people is no comparable to those affected only by technology because I feel a sort of closeness through maintaining a close distance to them and I have the ability to exchange vocal and facial cues.

An article from humankinetics.com discusses more in-depth about people false perception of the effect of technology on relationships and communication. “….one would think that these tools would be used to gain an understanding of other cultures, meet people all over the world, maintain and strengthen familial relationships, communicate effectively with others, and help people to become more socially adept.

In the article “The Effect of Technology on Relationships”, Lickerman explains how the planet has never been more interconnected but it hasn’t come without costs. Some of these costs can be social isolation, mistaking virtual relationships for physical ones. Dangers of technology can include sending different messages than we intended. Because texting, emails, and instant messaging have poor ability to express emotion, so something you say can be taken out of context and end up ruining relationships. She concludes with to make technology serve us well, it requires us to exercise it with good judgment.

The developments of technology have been rapidly growing over the years. Every few minutes something else is being refined. It 's exciting to live through technological times and see the accelerated progress expand. Technology has greatly influenced the way people interact with each other. Social networking has connected with a great number of friends, families, communities, and had even helped some individuals find their long term love. American adults use technology for a variety of reasons, for example, Match.com, the first prominent site and the most popular, it has TV commercials, online access, and apps on the cell phone. Aaron Smith and Maeve Duggan discuss the statistics of those who access these sites, actually meet with their partner, and who has an outcome of a long term relationship. They compare the percentage of the users of the sites and smartphone apps.“One in every ten American adults has used an online dating site or a mobile dating app” (Smith and Duggan, 2).

In a study done by Przybylski and Weinstein “[we] found evidence that [technological] devices have negative effects on closeness, connection, and conversation quality [with another person]” (Przybylski and Weinstein). By using online communities to gain knowledge people are limiting their face-to-face interaction resulting in a decrease in the effectiveness of common social skills, such as conversation quality. There is no need to have face-to-face interaction when technology can simply do it quicker. According to Kaci Stephens, “digital forms of communication […] tend to lead people to act impersonal in person.” This impersonality causes people to be friendlier over text than in person creating awkward real life social interaction among people. By interacting with people over text or email, it is easier to say things that would not typically be said in person. Online forms of communication lead to a lack of effective communication skills amongst others when talking

Maintaining relationships with technology is not a bad thing, it becomes more and more of assistance because of the lack of contact and interaction with loved ones when they are away from home. Switching between face-to-face and mediated communication is a normal, seamless way of communicating with others. But it can also be a tedious undertaking when it could become an addictive use of cellular telephones called nomophobia, as in "no mobile phone" phobia. It's quite common. And a sad reflection on our ability to disconnect. I remember when I gave Mother her first cell phone, she found it so odd, in fact, she nearly fed it to one of her nasty corgis before I was able to stop her, though I almost wish I hadn’t. I digress, I would suggest not go out of your way to find friends and romantic partners over the internet, but if you were to come upon someone in that fashion it is not a bad thing. I’d advise you to meet them in person soon after meeting them online because of synchronous communication, face-to-face communication is better with its synchronous communication with the immediate feedback. At times relating to someone live and in-person is best, especially for expressing feelings and emotions. I wouldn’t expect you to give up your social media but I do hope that you take the time to meet your future best friend or possible love of your life in

The topic I have chosen to focus on throughout this paper is discussion one which is based on the affects of technology on relationships.

Keeping in touch, when it comes to good or bad news or just wanting to talk to the other technology have made it incalculably easier now. For committed couples, this is a good thing because before in earlier time periods when one was gone for vacation for the entire summer they had no way to talk to make sure their relationship is still steady. Technology has also led to long distance relationships. With the advancement of technology couples who either met online or had to split up due to college, job transfers, or for family reasons the use of electronics could keep the two together. Some would even call these factors of dating a giant leap of mankind due to

How do people fall in love, finish degrees and manage businesses, all because of the technology on the Internet? This is strongly answered by internet technology such as: the use of webcams and video conferencing that has affected interpersonal communication today. Over the past few years, video conferencing technology has been growing as a result of the desktop and internet technology. These personal cameras allow the user to share a moving image of themselves with others. These cameras are then used in any kind of video conferencing, or conversation there may be. Video as well as audio makes the experience seem very human. It has allowed interpersonal communication exist when your not actually in person. The fact that people can now have