Social Media and Teen Relationships

Welcome to my blog! My name is Jazmine. I am a junior at Old Dominion University. My blog is about how social media negatively impacts teen relationships. I am 21 years old and I am have been in my longest and most successful relationship thus far. Social media has always played a part in my life, when I was single and in a relationship. I hope my blog can help and educate individuals about how social media really effects a relationship. I hope my blog can change individual's minds and heart about the way they use or interact on their social media. On my blog you will find posts about social media and relationships in which some of the posts are negative blogs and some are positive. I think that this is an important topic because social media truly plays a role in relationships and in a negative way that we can all avoid, if we choose to. I have bad experiences where social media was valued more than the relationship; and well lets just say that it didn't work out. I will say that it is a hard thing to transition out of. We all love social media because it allows us to connect with the people we cherish and also connect to new faces that we have never met. I think it is important to read upon this topic especially for teens who are engaging themselves and preparing for long-term relationships. Enjoy!

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This presentation explains the negative influence that social media has on teenage relationships such as insecurities, trust issues, and jealousy. There are so many people on Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter that are all following each other which creates controversy in teen relationships. This also creates jealousy and insecurities in the relationships. Social media can scare partners of harm for the relationship in the future. I know what this is like and it can be very scary. In my teenage years, everything revolved around social media. The relationship status on social media was the biggest influencer of all. 

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Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships

From heart emojis on Instagram to saying goodbye to a relationship with a text message, digital technology plays an important role in teen relationships.

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“Social media helps teen daters to feel closer to their romantic partner, but also feeds jealousy and uncertainty”

“Boys are a bit more likely than girls to view social media as a space for emotional and logistical connection with their significant other”

“Teen daters like being able to publicly demonstrate their affection and show support for others’ romantic relationships. Yet they also find it allows too many people to be involved in their personal business”

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People get more concerned about how well their picture looks with their significant other on social media than actually tending to the relationship

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this is so true and in teenage relationships anything that is “cute” in a relationship is all of a sudden #relationshipgoals. 

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How Has Social Media, Mobile Technology Affected Teens’ Dating Lives?

Romance among teenagers has become a lot more complicated than sending your friend over to ask your crush’s friend if they like you.

PLEASE READ THIS ONE if you don’t read any other post on my blog! There are so many points as to how social media impacts their romantic relationship. Soooo many that I can relate to.

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How Does Social Media Effect Relationships? | Report Card | RIOT

Shannon Coffey talks to a married couple, comedians Casey Jost & Lisa Kleinman, and R29's Sex & Relationships editor, Hayley MacMillen, about the effects soc...

I love this video! Misconceptions an misinterpretations happen all the time in teen relationships over social media. There are gender trends that happen on social media where it is cool for the “male/female” to say things that can look and be interpreted in the total opposite way than the person meant it. This is something that I hate about social media. So many characteristics of the relationship are torn down because of the poor choice of actions and words through social media. Social media is one of the fastest sources to break trust in a teen relationship and I can vouch for this first hand. “Why did you DM her? Why is she DMing you?” This leads to some of the points in the video...grab a drink and a snack and enjoy the talk.

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Digital Dating & Teens

I was a reluctant digital immigrant in my late twenties. Yet, I met my significant other online. We were introduced by our families, and communicated by ...

This post states that “most adolescents turn to social media for friendships, so it seems logical that they turn to it for romantic relationships as well”. This is a very logical point, hence there are many online dating sights now that are for mainly adults but I am pretty sure they are not used by only adults. At least this article gives some “common sense” tips for teens being interactive with romantic relationships on social media. 

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I agree 100% with this reading that young people, teens start and begin relationships through social media and text messaging. There is a part where the writer says that social media was just teen “drama” where teens would use social media to “provoke, push, and hurt one another”. Back in my teen years, I witnessed this first hand, and I am probably guilty of some of those things trying to fit in with everyone else. It is a normal instinct from teens to do things that seem cool or make them feel like they are independent entering adulthood. I remember that when I was in middle school we didn’t have face to face conversations with who we liked. We would talk all day on social media and through text messages and then barely had anything to say to one another in person. Social media was the facilitator for me when I was a teen and I can see that today in teens this still is being continued but with Instagram and Snapchat. 

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AMY ☼ MORRIS on Instagram: “18 months ago we shared our first kiss stood in the rain outside in the gym carpark.. fast forward to a few days ago & I'm stood on the top…”

19 Likes, 2 Comments - AMY ☼ MORRIS (@amieamiefit) on Instagram: “18 months ago we shared our first kiss stood in the rain outside in the gym carpark.. fast forward…”

This picture I found on Instagram under the “#relationshipgoals” hashtag. It is a picture as simple as this one that influences teens and their relationship. If you search and look for these kinds of pictures on Instagram, it definitely will start taking a toll on your mind, thoughts, and probably your actions. For me, I would see and look at these pictures purposely to see what kind of cute couple pictures to take or even just imagine that I had couple pictures such as the ones that I see. I would stare and observe them and hope that one day I can take pictures like this or wish in the present day that I had one. There is nothing wrong with this photo at all. It is all of the societal comments about it being a “relationship goal” that makes the picture effective. 

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How Social Media Is Making it Harder for Teens to Spot Unhealthy Relationships

Seventy-five percent of teens say social media negatively affects their relationships.

WOW!!! This article made me very emotional while reading it. There were so many things in it that I could relate too and one  of the biggest ones that was said by Shay was “she's heard from students who talked themselves into staying in toxic relationships because their own social media posts assured them that there were good times to match the bad.” This one really hit me hard because for personal reasons I have been that girl that has looked at many “#relationshipgoals” pictures and posts that have altered and changed my perception of my own relationship. Some of the pictures made me think that things could dramatically change to what I see on social media. I agree with the writer that many of us teens enter relationships inexperienced, therefore we don’t know what is toxic for us nor to us. We also have no idea that social media is even having this effect on us and our relationships. This was a great thing to read.

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Social media easily can kill your perception of yourself and everything -- and one -- around you.

This was one of my favorite blogs because it is so relatable. There are many times where a picture or post on someone’s social media site was more than deceiving and made me think or question things that I normally would not. These posts made me doubt myself as well as compare myself to others and even made me think that sometimes I wasn’t good enough. I would think I knew someone through their social media when in reality their social media was nothing like who they really are.

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Kenadie T. Wilkerson talks about how social media can play a part in your romantic relationship whether it is a negative or positive role that social media plays. 

From personal experience, I can relate to this because when I was younger and I had a “boyfriend” when I would get mad I would run to my facebook and post things that he and everyone else would then know that there was a problem or I was mad and upset. This really didn’t do any good to my relationship.