The Negative Effects Of Social Media Effects On Family Relationships

The traditional family roles and relationships are on the decline. According to Psychology Today, “When the working parent arrived home after work, his or her children were so immersed in technology that the parent was greeted only 30 percent of the time and was totally ignored 50 percent of the time.” Children will text or email their parents instead of walking out

Teens have an addiction towards electronic devices. Many people spend hours a day on these devices. Lasn states, “living inside the postmodern spectacle has changed people” (Lasn 171). Technology has changed the way people spend their time and also the way they feel towards family members. People have a sense of connection when they are on their electronic devices, but when it comes to family time there is a sense of disconnection.

In the Article “Quality time, redefine” by Alex Williams, the author discussed the influence of technology in today’s family’s interaction. In the past, families used to get together to play games, watch television shows or have dinner. Now, they are using their laptops, iPads, smart phones, and eBooks to work, to shop online, to listen music, watch television, sports and movies. For some people the internet and the use of these gadgets are responsible for bringing families apart. For example, in some case wives and husbands send e-mails to each other while they are in the same room and for many families their time together is spent in the living room with everybody doing their own thing. On the other hand, the author explains how in the

Technology has dramatically affected the way family members relate with one another. Several years ago family members lived for each other and had a lot of affection for each other from the way they communicated to the way they carried out their activities together. In the modern era technology has replaced the intimate relationship between parents and children. The use of human and non-human characters affects the nature of the relationship that exists in a family and the expectations of various characters from other characters. For example, the automation of various functions at home increases human interaction with various machines and undermine the relationship between family members. Technology has impacted families negatively by creating undermining the expectations of how individuals relate to others.

Before, people used to leave their homes to communicate with friends through places such as the bar, café, or even going for a walk. Now, technology has made communication so much easier. With applications such as Skype, Facebook and iMessage, we are able to instantly message our friends without spending money, time or energy to commute. Overall, messaging applications have made communication easier, quicker, cheaper and more efficient – all four are demands of which most humans look for when performing tasks. However, there are times when technology usage is more than we should take. Television for example can easily prevent a family from communicating. With 24 hours of nonstop broadcasting news and entertainment, some families can sit through these programs for hours without saying a single word to each other. According to a survey conducted by the Mirror, the average parent spends only 34 minutes with their children a day (Maughan, 2015). Over 2,000 parents surveyed had admitted to being too tired or busy to spend time with their children. With 24 hours in a day, if the average human spends 8 hours a day sleeping (Bjarki, 2015), 7-12 hours a day working or going to school (Ferro, 2015), and 8.4 hours on media devices (Chang, 2015), communication among friends, family members and the outside world in general is expected to be at its concerning lowest. According to research by the telegraph, 65.8% of children under 10 years old own smartphones

Social media has taken over the modern day world. It has helped us to communicate,

American families now prefer to text or email each other instead of talking face to face. That means interaction is being lost between the members of the families. Even if they live in the same house they opt to use their cell phones, or tablets to communicate because they think is better to do it that way. American families do not notice that technology is making them lose the connection and the confidence that they have to each other. This is really bad because it can lead to the separations between the husbands and wives because they forget how to hug, how to kiss and how to show love to each other. Nowadays American families show their love via Snapchat with happy faces, kissing faces or even sad faces. This is really bad because they are also forgetting what a family is. Also, technology is causing parents to forget their responsibilities with their

Because of technology, family time is no longer a priority, unplugging from technology is necessary once a while. I take my daughter as an example, I am trying to have a conversation with her and all she is doing browsing through her phone and she got mad at me for asking to please put phone away for a bit, she had no time for mom. My husband is another one that will constantly look at his phone to play Word Chums when we are on a date. In fact, I am also guilty of using the technology of a way out of family time depending what it is, especially when my husband is trying to test me if I know a verse in the bible. We as a family can change our behavior tours technology, but we don’t take advantage of our time together. We need to unplug immediately,

We use devices too much and we never have time for our families and friends in person. We take our devices to our friends houses, but we don’t actually socialise face to face. ‘We're becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfied to engage with one another and look into someone’s eyes.’ We need to spend time with our families because when we do we make memories but you can't make

Recently, people are now discussing how social media changes our life, whether it is good or bad. Some of them think that social media is a kind of fad because of its rapid development. Others think that it is really useful and makes our life easier than before.

Technology has changed the relationships of families. Distracted by their laptops, TV’s, smartphones, and video games, families can’t have a friendly

The social media is one of the most common ways of communication and pretty much of knowing anything and everything around the world these days, and it is growing very rapidly. It changes and affects each person in a different way, or ways. Some may argue that social media has a bad influence on children and young adults, and that it negatively effects their brains, character, or personalities, while most people see that the social media has a more positive effect on them than a negative one. Moreover, social media has helped many people around the world to connect, or re-connect, with each other, easily. Social media is basically the new way of keeping in touch with everything and everyone, and of even strengthening bonds between each

Social media has a big impact on family relationships. It is a media that allows the individuals to exchange information. Social media is breaking up families relationships and it is a huge problem in demand of communicating. The media had made lots of bad influence on families, especially the addiction of how it has been used by humans. Families are changing the way they relate to each other. There is no privacy in a social world. According to (JR) “The more social media we have, the more we think were connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other". I 'm therefore against social media and its extraordinary use. That is why there are lots of advantages and disadvantages in a social habitant. It is important to change how families and individuals see social media as a hobby rather than as a waste of time.

In the past, families used to schedule time frames in order to all get together to sit down and have a talk about what had happened during their day. Since the creation of the smartphone, this has changed from a time for everyone to talk and socialize with each other into a competition of how many words per minute someone can text on their smartphone. This situation has occurred in none other than my family. Every dinner, we used to get together and converse about each other’s day and now it has changed into a time to use our phones. Even if we are only rooms apart, we much rather send each other a text message than call out each other’s name and engage in conversation in this matter. By no longer engaging in these conversations the smartphone has reinvented the way humans go about their social relationships. It is due to this that many people in the world today cannot have a face-to-face conversation because they feel unsafe with this form of conversation. As Sherry Turkle says:

“One study, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, found people ages 8 to 18 spent more time on media than on any other activity – at an average of 7.5 hours a day” (qtd in Drago 14). Communication is crucial so that family members know each other’s necessities and wants. Conversation is a two way street. If there was no communication, nobody would know what each other thinks and feels, which can make a family interaction more challenging. Homes in America are deficient when it comes to communication. Communication is an essential element in every home for it to be triumph. “The rise in popularity and use of social medial tools, such as Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter has led to an increase in the regularity and frequency of interactions between individuals, groups and communities” (Yost, Fan).