Social Media's Effect on Long Term Relationships

Hello, Im Shanice and im creating this blog to talk about the issues social media causes when it comes to maintaining long term relationships. I welcome you to join me on this journey to find sources that not only agrees with my stance but also refutes it. Theres more than one way to look at this issue and i'm willing to see all sides. 

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This blog was really cool because it pretty much sums up my project. It gave tips on how you can stop social media from wrecking your relationships. First tip was to just be present. When they say be in the room it means come off the phone and spend time with the ones you love most. Build real life intimate relationships because internet relationships don’t last. They won’t give you real companionship only real ones will. Tip two was to be careful what you post. Set those boundaries, don’t let the lines blur because boundaries are how you keep relationships sacred. Ruining relationships because you don’t set boundaries on social media is never good for anyone. Tip three, be sure to be on social media but get off. Don’t spend hours on end online because from we learned in the video I posted it actually changes your DNA. It shows that social media actually mess with your make up, it’s called epigenetic. Social media can be detrimental to real life relationships and our ability to hold onto long term ones but it’s up to us to determine if we will let it.

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How to Navigate Social Media Boundaries in a Relationship

As a sex therapist, I never imagined I’d spend so much time talking about social media.

This article talks about boundaries when it comes to social media. If we wouldn't do it in person then we shouldn't do it online. The fact that we must talk about boundaries shows the problems. If we want to hold long relationships then we must have boundaries in every aspect of our lives. Each relationship we have we set specific human boundaries with each one. On social media we erase those boundaries and post things widely available to anyone. The longer we do this the harder it is to un-blur those lines when we try to form long term relationships. Having no boundaries on social media ruin those relationships, because online relationships don’t equate to real ones.

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In the age of social media it’s harder for teens and young adults to figure out who they really are. They try to be the people who seem to be liked by everyone on social media. This is damaging to these teens who are trying to find themselves. They watch everyone’s life make comparisons to their own. This can cause many young adults to pretend to be someone that they’re not. Now bringing this back to the topic, let’s thing how can we form long lasting relationships of we’re hiding our true selves ? Pretending to be someone else to be liked by others ? This is a significant problem with today’s youth, the need to be liked is heighten by social media.

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How Social Media Can Affect Relationships, Plus 6 Red Flags To Look Out For

The Internet behemoth that is social media can put a lot of extra stress on relationships these days. When dating in today's Instagram-Facebook-Twitter-addicted world, you have to be aware of how social media can affect your relationship. With all of

On social media many tend to post more than what is necessary. Too much PDA is can be damaging to any one relationship. When we show ourselves on social media in inappropriate ways it devalues our relationship. This can cause levels of jealousy in the relationship. The  jealousy that we’ve talked about before is what ruins the relationships. This brings us into new relationships insecure and we continue the cycle.

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Blocking the people who hurt you on social media isn’t weak or immature. You dont have to make yourself misersble for someone else.

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As we see in this article the women equate her partners love for her by what he posted on his social media. There’s this idea that we must post our love ones almost everyday and show the world that we love them. If that is not done we assume they don’t love us. What we actually do for each other and tell one another is how we know if someone really love us not that they post on social media. We’ve moved from showing affection to one another by what we do to what we post. This is ruining human ability to hold long relationships.

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Millennials, Here's How Social Media Impacts Your Relationships

According to a poll conducted by Pew Research Center, 45% of millennials said that social media has had a “major impact” on their relationships.

Forming new relationships on social media isn't necessarily a bad thing. It great to form new relationships, but when we get so involved with the ones on the internet we can start to neglect real life ones. On the internet, we can be whoever we want to be. So many people create these fake profiles and we fall into the perception that the people on the internet are perfect. So when we have issues within in person relationships we think the grass is greener on the other side and cut in person relationships off for the ones on social media. This results in infidelity. 62% of men and 34% of women report that they snoop through there significant other phone to see what they’re doing on social media. That lack of trust that social media causes is the reason we are unable to hold long term relationships. They ruin the ones we already have, which is sadly the truth of many relationships in today's age.

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This Is How Technology Is Affecting Your Relationship

It is now an uncontested fact that technology is pervasive throughout our lives. But how often do we assess its presence in our relationships, recognizin...

This article talks about how technology and social media is affecting our relationships. The first one which to me is the most important one is epigenetics. This is a continuation of the video I previously posted. This is how the use of social media and just technology in general is seriously changing our genetic make up. So by logic scientist are researching how we communicate physically change us. Epigenetics is the study of changes in the DNA structure, not the sequence. I don’t know about everyone else but for me personally the thought of DNA structure being changed is very alarming. We must remember we pass our DNA down to our children. So buy logic our actions now are not only changing us but the future generations. The affects are already beginning to show with us. We are having more trouble holding onto long term relationships. Jobs are now asking us to list our social media, divorce rates are sitting around  50%. It has scientifically been proven that marriage before lasted longer. It continues to discuss social media accelerating relationships,but not keeping them. Yes, its easier to form relationships because of social media , but when we get face to face those relationship begins to dwindle because of our inability to translate onscreen emotions to real life. 

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How Social Media Is Rewiring Our Brains

This video brings up a view that not even I was considering.  Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA talked about the physiology aspect of how social media actually rewires the brain. Because of this we actually use more of the left side of the brain, which isn’t as social as the right side. With less and less human interaction, we begin to gain a more surface view of the world. With this more shallow view we begin to have issues holding long relationships. We are training ourselves to be more left brain, which is more distant from the areas of the brain that mediate emotion with the body. Emotions are needed for any relationship to be successful. And the more social media we use and less, actual human interaction we are moving further away from those emotions and causing long term relationships to be practically impossible. We must think of our relationships before social media became an enormous part of our lives and see if our relationships got better or worse.

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Social media has became such a large portion of our lives that we forget what is private and what inst anymore. Social media has caused those lines to be blurred and it has resulted in relationships being ended. This has caused for careers to be ended as well because of the things we put on sites, such as Facebook. Careers are also seen as relationships. The job we work for, we build relationships with other co-workers and bosses. Because of that the things we put on line  can ruin these relationships as well. So not just the amount of time we spend on social media causes us to have problems holding onto long term relationships, but what we post on them as well. 

(via Social Media and Relationships - The Wellness Universe Blog)

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Social Media affects on long term relationships

My topic is about the “How does social media affects teens abilities to form high functioning, long lasting relationships.” This is important because in today's society social media plays an enormous role in our lives. The average American has said to spend over eight hours on electronic devices each day. That's 1/3 of our day alone. With this in mind we can see that it can cause damage on our ability to hold long term relationships. The time spent on social media, takes away our ability to continue to develop in person relationships. I hope to contribute, analysis and commentary on articles that has published research on this issue. I hope my analysis challenges you to think a little deeper than whats posted. sources such as the “wellness Universe” I consider essential sources on the issue.