Second Topic: Peer Relationships
Friends—they are really important to teens. And as teens grow, parents recognize that friends play bigger and bigger roles in their lives. They become romantic partners. They help teens develop social skills, try new activities, and provide them with lots of support and encouragement. Through their friends, teens figure out a lot about themselves and who they are becoming. Teens who have trouble forming positive friendship relationships can struggle in many areas of their life. http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/resources-and-publications/info/parents/other-conversations/peer-relationships/
Better friendships in teen years may lead to better health in adulthood
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/150831_friendship.htm
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Everything at your finger tip, with access to 24-hour communication source, and the ability to develop a social network with close or distance friends.
So relationships can be formed meaningful, casual or anonymous. In psychology terms real relationships, non-real relationships, and fake relationships.
What type of relationships are you in. If you’re in bad relationships, your change for success in the future, is what it is. You have the power to make or break yourself, by who you hang with.
Solution to Relationships: Let’s breakdown what a fake relationship is. Twitter, Instagram and other follow and unfollow social media networks. So you get it, 90% of these people are playing a role, so they got issues already.
You cannot form a real relationship with a fake person. Because, it’s not real. However, many teens do. They let these losers into their lives. Is that asking for trouble? Yeah.
I don’t mean other online game anonymous players, because it’s a game. You do not ever, ever tell them your real name or address information, because this relationship is not real, it’s just a game. Get
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They don’t know you. This is fake. So have fun, it’s not real. Don’t let them in your life. Don’t meet them, don’t give them any real info.
And remember, let haters hate, those big ear and bad breath losers. They don’t know you or ever will.
Now dealing with casual relationships, the non-real relationships, is the hardest. Because, sometime you want to hang with them. The thing you have to ask yourself, can you walk away from this.
I mean if you agree to hang out, but it gets weird or feels uncomfortable, can you say I am leaving, and they try to make you feel guilt or call you weak for leaving. That’s the time to go, because you are about to let them control you, if you stay. I mean I can stay a little longer, NO. Let me think about it, NO. You Go and stay in control of your life.
I’m telling you the truth, not because I don’t want you to be popular. I’m telling you, because over 60% of teens that become drug users, pregnancy, or locked up is because they loss control of their life, by staying. We want you to reach your full potential, be the best you can be, and the only way you can do that is by not losing control of your
This is misuse of technology, because real live relationships are much more important than relationships with computers and phones. Sadly, this is already happening in our society and it is apparent in Noam Scheiber’s article, “How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons.” Uber uses tech tricks to convince drivers to drive more for them, “To keep drivers on the road, the company has exploited some people’s tendency to set earnings goals — alerting them that they are ever so close to hitting a
There is no doubt that recent technological advancements have changed the way humans interact with one another in the 21st century. Through email, text messages, and social networking sites, we are able to get in touch with people all over the world in a much faster and more efficient manner than in previous years. Since modern technology has become such an integral part of our everyday lives, it is certainly not uncommon for two people to meet and connect with each other via the Internet. Members of this relatively new subculture of online daters invest a great deal of time and energy into their romantic affairs. In fact, according to Robert Epstein’s “The Truth About Online Dating,” advertising materials from the largest online dating services suggest that over 50 million Americans are currently using such services, and that they are wholly satisfied with the results (34). Unfortunately, however, the controversial subject of online relationships in modern society is frequently misrepresented by the media. Many films and television shows exaggerate the risks associated with online dating, choosing to highlight extreme examples of lies and deception for the sake of maintaining their dramatic quality. Other forms of media tend to romanticize online dating, consequently giving Internet users unrealistic expectations for their own relationships. Whether it depicts the frightening or idealized side of online dating, popular culture makes a conscious effort to feature sensationalized stories in order to appeal to a target audience that relies solely on entertainment. As a result, the truth about Internet dating is not adequately conveyed, which ultimately results in the public’s distorted image of such online practices.
People are increasingly turning to para-social relationships because their social needs are not being met. A para-social relationship is a one sided relationship based on an illusion of a connection to another person. People who form these types of relationships can be lonely or not getting the social interactions they need. Halpern states, “The combination of loneliness and
Also Research shows that even friends can affect the person’s psychological development for teenagers, good friends can be like a personal support group giving them a sense of belonging, a feeling of being valued and help with developing
Such experiences include “children, marriage, aging, death, birth, college” (West & Turner, 2016). With the lessons learned with friendships earned and lost over the duration of childhood, there may be some hesitancy on having a person becoming a potential friend in the future. People take things slow, take more time to know the person to determine if this will be either a meaningful friendship that would benefit both people or if it will be just a type of friendship which is just acquaintances and nothing more. There will be at times when that relationship will seem to wane or known as “Waning friendship…friendship intimacy bonds begin to decay; friends spend less and less time together” (West & Turner, 2016). This can happen for a number of reasons such as growing apart, different points of life for two individuals, and loss of interest. As adults, we have essentially categorized ourselves into business professional, student, relaxed, church, etc. Sometimes certain connections to certain circles don’t overlap with others because of the vast differences between them. It is perfectly normal to have casual friendships that don’t require constant meet-ups while other friendships are much closer and intimate because of a familiar
Relationships, to me, are very important to have in your life. Some people may think of one of the most common relationships, which would be romantic. However, when I think of relationships, I personally think of the people around you. Anyone in your life has a relationship with you. These relationships aren’t always good, but they aren’t always bad either. In my life, the relationships I have are shared with family, friends, teachers, etc. However, I am surrounded everyday with “adult” relationships, team relationships, and more.
Erikson saw the development of inatimate relationships as the crucial task of young adulthood. The need to form strong, stable, close, caring relationship is a powerful motivate of human behaviour. An important elemen of intimacy is self-disclosure, ‘revealing important information about oneself to another’ (Collins & Miller, 1994, p 457). People become intimate and remain intimate through shared disclosures, responsiveness to one another’s need and mutual acceptance and respect (Harvey & Omarzu,1997, Reis & Patrick, 1996).
But most partners even felt closer to their friend, but not many ever moved past being FWB or friend zoned. During an unofficial survey done by university students, they found that over 60% of the surveyors had been in, were in, or wanted to be in a FWB relationship. And out of the ones who had or were, 50% of them felt closer to their partner after they had started “hooking up” (manthos 2). When people participate in “hookup culture” at least half of the participants get feelings for the partner, even though the initial point of the relationship was to stay strictly physical. Although only about 20% of these relationships transition into a romantic relationship (2), that still leaves 80% of these people awkward with feelings even though the begining agreement was to get none. So to transition, it almost seems inevitable to form feelings for your partner. Spending that much time with them would make you at least care about their well being as a person. So does this mean that people should go into relationships looking for relationships? Or that they do? One author believed that those people who ended up feeling closer to their partner, went into the relationship wanting more. (1). People may say that they are too busy to maintain a relationship, but to remain friends with benefits, you have to spend time with them too. However if casual hook ups is all that a person is looking
Social progressions such as healthy bromances are a good thing but it’s all about creating a balance between your life and relationships.
People who manage relationships well are able to see the benefit of connecting with many different people, even those they are not fond of.
Either way, if people want to avoid social-media-related relationship drama, the best advice may be to pay more attention to your real-life partner than your online followers.
When it comes to any types of relationships I’m like a deer in headlights. I am never able to tell when someone wants to be my friend or if they’re interested in me until they just say it. I can count all my relationships on one hand, but that doesn’t mean they ended on good terms. There are many types of relationships such as acquaintances, friends, and close friends/ intimate.
Making friends on the Internet is not safe. "You do not always know if people are who
Friendships are based on a completely different set of structural relationships to those with parents. They are more symmetrical and involve sharing and exchange. Friendships are important to young children but there is a change at the beginning of adolescence -- a move to intimacy that includes the development of a more exclusive focus, a willingness to talk about oneself and to share problems and advice. Friends tell one another just about everything that is going on in each other's lives... Friends literally reason together in order to organise experience and to define themselves as persons.
Our lives have changed in opposite ways of each other. I still communicate with my friend Celsanaid, but I rarely see her anymore. Due to proximity and our goals we are two very different people now. She make decisions that she thinks are beneficial to her in order to get where she needs to be in life. But, in contrast I do not agree with her decisions that she makes and that causes us to have two different perceptions on life which honestly causes me to stay away from her more. My friend Kilee used to bring my companionship, but once she moved to Arizona, she started making some really poor decisions, to where I decided to cut all ties with her. My relationship with my boyfriend Blake formed to due attractiveness of one another, proximity, our human needs, companionship and we have the same life goals. We went to highschool together all four years, live only 10 minutes apart, both work and support ourselves, and want to have a happy, healthy life together. There are many other aspects as to why our relationship has lasted this long, but these are the main