Throughout my blogs I have talked about how everything that is on social media is affecting society. As this is my very last blog post, I will be making a continuation of my previous post, which is about social media disrupting relationships.
If we
compare love from the 50s and 60s to the “love” nowadays, it is completely
different. In the old days, boys were taught to properly talk to a girl, take
her on dates, and then ask her to be their girlfriend. In the generations now,
all it takes to get a girl is to just hit her up saying she’s cute. The only
thing wrong with this is that we fall for it even though it may be a person
we’ve never met before. Why? We love the attention and the feeling of being
noticed and not being compared to another girl that may be “prettier” than us.
Recent studies have linked social support to mental health, showing that it
doesn’t take much to just get online and start a “relationship.”
An
article titled “Social Media’s Impact on Relationships,” by Shelley Galasso
Bonanno states, “Online friendships, while certainly valuable in many ways,
lack the ability to provide us with opportunities for deep and lasting
emotional closeness.” From online relationships we do not get to experience the
same effects and benefits that we would get from a relationship where you get
to spend time in person with your significant other.
As my
journey to seek answers to all the questions I had about social media comes to
end, I would like to say that I have definitely responded to all the questions
I once had. I would like to conclude by saying that social media has a big
impact on our lives today and will always continue to, but if we work together
we can change the way social media is used. Being the generation of tomorrow,
we can make the effect of social media add nothing but positivity to our lives.
Galasso Bonanno, Shelley. "Social Media’s
Impact on Relationships." Psych Central. 6 Oct. 2015. Web. 21
May 2016.
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