Negative Effects Of Social Media On Relationships

Forming and keeping healthy balance on a relationship is complicated enough for couples these days. Busy work schedules, the ease of technology closing in on the distance gap, and the lack of feeling towards others in today’s society makes it already hard for people to embark on the crazy journey that we call love. Social media has a negative impact on relationships. Love is the universal language; it can destroy us, enhance us, confuse us- the limits are endless. Songs have been written about it, movies and novels dedicated to it, and philosophers have been studying it for decades. There are many unknowns about love, whether it is the love of someone or something, there are always questions involved when the heart is involved. Amongst the millions of uncertainties involved with love, there is always one thing that remains the same. Everyone has the capacity to do so. Because love is such a vast subject, it is easily impacted, and our views are impressionable. From a young age, we see what “should” and “should not” be. Unfortunately in today’s society, social media has a negative affect on relationships, and the gender roles that should be played.

Television is the second most popular form of entertainment next to the Internet. According to an article entitled “How do Media Images of Men Affect our Lives?” by Sam Fermino and Mark Nickerson, from the Center for Media Literacy, the most popular television image will be a male figure, and ninety percent of the time, a male figure will appear on television screen upon its first turn on. Shed on in a negative light, the article states further into how males are depicted as brave and strong, and that sensitive men cannot portray these roles.

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...en it comes to relationships. There are many different forms of media that can play a negative role towards men and women, and can also fill impressionable minds with “facts” about life that may not be what we are brought up to value.

Love is not easy; rather it is very complicated. There is no clear reason how it happens, or even why it happens, but there is only one thing that is true about love, and that is that it happens. People fall in love with things and other people, multiple times in the course of their lives. We love because it is something that we have learned how to do, and therefore, it becomes something that we can do, something that we want to do. Love that is true to moral values will last longer than a love that is influenced by social media, because more times than none, the media has a negative impact on relationships in today’s society.