Negative Effects On Social Media Addiction

According to Elite Daily, “The average person checks their phone 150 times a day every 6.5 minutes”. This constant need to be a part of what is occurring on social media keeps many powerfully attached to their devices. This addiction has gone so far that a greater amount of people spend more time on their phone than with their partner. Thus technology has grown to hamper with one of the main human needs, love. Many desire to feel needed or wanted by someone else but with technology everything has become so fast pace that no one is willing to put in the work. Getting in relationships isn 't as difficult, it has been simplified by dating apps and social websites such as, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Utilizing these websites to approach another reduces the intimacy and the meaning behind approaching someone, it is very much like skipping steps. No one really has to commit

Facebook is one of the biggest causes in break-ups, the New York Post released that; “ the word Facebook was included in more than a third of divorce filings last year”. Social media sites like Facebook contain too many temptations. Before social media, there weren 't as many temptations a person had to go out of their way and look for it but now it’s just handed. Besides temptations, there’s a lack of respect for relationships and there’s constantly people who try to interfere. The lack of loyalty is what couples fear the most, some studies showed that“the higher the use of Facebook the higher the effect on the relationship and sparks of jealousy”. This proves that social media increases the amount of stress and sense of competition in both ends of a relationship. Being online is very much like access to having people over the house at any hour of the day or night; and if a relationship isn 't nourished properly it makes it easy for emotional infidelity to