The Positive Influence Of Social Media

Social Media is a controversial topic. For this reason, many people have argued whether social media is positive or negative. Nevertheless, there is more evidence supporting the idea that social media has had positive implications on society. Reasons for this include that social media can help your career and that it can aid adolescents when it comes to socializing. However, there are several other individuals who hold on to a different view.

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.

Another thing that social media has done to modernize dating is with it’s contribution of couples with unrealistic dating standards. Men and women across the board are constantly being bombarded with posts of so-called perfect couples on their feed. It’s hard to dodge them in all honesty. Seeing these pictures, people are made to think that they need to be that awesome boyfriend, or to be that flawless girlfriend in the relationship. On the flipside of this issue, we’ve also been brainwashed to expect too much from the other, which can ultimately end up leaving us in utter disappointment.

Standards had became an enormous popular thing to create in this generation. Amongst your social media timeline, you witness shared posts by your friends. Many in which are post of selfies, funny memes, or #RelationshipGoals. Relationship goals is a term that has inevitably gone viral, almost destroying relationships. These posts displays a popular couple, where most people envy them. Most ‘relationship’ post’s pertain couples that show off the things they give, or do for their significant others; such as buying an expensive dinner, shoes, jewelry, or even a car. In I Tweet, Therefore I Am written by Peggy Orenstein, she identifies that “we act out a role in every interaction, adapting it based on the nature of the relationship or context at

With evolving technology comes new types of social media, people have begin to question the internet’s effect on our mentality. It is a bit difficult to compare the pros and cons of social media, it has more to do with an individual’s experience.  Some could be having a horrible time due to social media, but others could be thriving off of it.  The more negative implications of using social media could be the way that we share our personal lives and how much of it we give to the public, regardless of social relationships, to consume.  Along with this, we are deeply impacted by what we see from others based on our viewing of what they share because of the ability to create falsified identities and unrealistic interpretations of who we are

Social media has the ability to make relationships easier because it helps to connect us over long distances, however, relationships have evolved into

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

As an outcome of the new technological innovations, many people have turned to more convenient and virtual means of developing relationships as opposed to tangible and more meaningful ones, and this is harmful as it can erode the possibility of contributing personal views to society in an effective way. Social media is a rather broad platform, and within it, lies a myriad of websites that would allow for individuals to communicate ideas, for example, through Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and many more alike. And while convenient communication may have its benefits, it is safe to argue that the consequences may outweigh them. For instance, the detriments of not maintaining physical relationships can be seen in Scott Brown’s Facebook Friendonomics, where the author notes that “people have become mere collectibles” due to the increasing dependence on social media as a mean of forming social relationships (2). This is significant because it evident the ways in which dependency on social media can be hindering in both, in maintaining a sense of individualism, for example because what is presented on social media might not always be accurate, and in contributing to society, because the relationships or ‘friends,’ that many people seem to have on Facebook, cannot truly be

about their relationship (Reed et al., 2015) The use of social media relates to the couples that

There are many controversies within our nation’s society; one of the main topics is social media. Many argue that it is “bad” because it causes issues and is unhealthy; where others argue that it is “good” because it allows people to connect with each other and “stay in the loop.” However, any way you slice it social media greatly impacts teen relationships. In more ways than one, it has a negative effect on tween and teen “romantic” relationships. Three ways, that social media have negatively impacted tween and teen “romantic” relationships, are because of his or her willingness to give out and up private information, allowing his or her partner to have too much control, and portray that everything is always perfect.

Social media is incorporated in our everyday lives. It is used mostly to stay connected with friends, family and the media world in general, but sometimes, it is used in different ways in such it can have an effect on relationships. The issue about social media and relationships is that it can cause a lot of issues such as disloyalty, trust issues, etc. It is much easier to cheat on your partner nowadays as it is easy to simply erase all kinds of evidence social apps. An important concept to keep in mind however is that the contributing factors have changed over the years, and that is why it needs to be researched every few years or

Another thing that social media has done to modernize dating is with it’s contribution of couples with unrealistic dating standards. Men and women across the board are constantly being bombarded with posts of so-called perfect couples on their feed. It’s hard to dodge them in all honesty. Seeing these pictures, people are made to think that they need to be that awesome boyfriend, or to be that flawless girlfriend in the relationship. On the flip side of this issue, we’ve also been brainwashed to expect too much from the other, which can ultimately end up leaving us in utter disappointment.

Admit it you’re guilty of marvelling over other people’s relationships and comparing them to your own but don’t worry we all do it. Little do you know that your sneaky looks on Facebook could be destroying your relationship. In an article by Forbes it was stated that 45% of millennial feel that the increased use of social media has had a major impact on their relationships. Likewise in the same article it was stated that a quarter of those surveyed felt that their spouse was more interested in their phone when they were together, this showing that even date night is affected by the addictive antics of social media. Elsewhere in a survey carried out for woman’s health magazine showed that those who logged onto social media site ‘Facebook’ more times than the daily average are more likely to have Facebook related conflicts and negative outcomes within their relationships. Similarly Russell Clayton the Doctoral Candidate at University Of Missouri stated that the more someone in a romantic relationship uses

Media has existed in our lives for centuries. It is a continuously developing force that has taken over our world today. In recent history, films were one of the most popular sources of media and highly influential on the minds of many throughout the world. It gave people certain ideals and stereotypes of how things should be. Today, film is not the only prominent media source, social media has made its mark. Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook was the first major type of social media when it was released in 2004. Since then, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat have become the three most prominent sources of social media that follow in facebook’s footsteps. According to Statista , Humans consume over 12 hours of media each day. The 12 hours we spend on media is full of possible love damaging influences. The view of real love has been altered in recent years due to “fake love.” According to Chuck Klosterman, the media has affected the way that humans interpret love in a negative light but, while this is the case, it’s also imperative to show that people can differentiate between what is fake and what is real.

Many individuals use social media as a way for connection and emotional support when it comes to their relationships with their family and/or partner. In “The Loneliness of the Interconnected”, Charles Seife illustrates how most people use the internet to go find new groups of people to meet and it reinforces our beliefs and views on certain information like relationships (Seife 289). When any person goes on social media whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram they are bound to see someone in a romantic relationship or a family posting pictures of themselves happily together and it will make someone else jealous or make them believe that they have to be like that family or type of relationship. Social media negatively impacts the way people perceive romantic or family relationships because it often involves cat fishing, causes jealousy in relationships, and promotes a belief that soul mates are meant to be best friends.