Impact on Relationships

• Feld- social media

  People use social media to evaluate themselves and others and someone’s identity is determined by their network of friends that they maintain.

  Positive is that due to phones people can be contacted instantly and it’s an opportunity to meet people such as Snapchat you can find jobs on LinkedIn and connect with people with indeed, and you can overcome traditional barriers and free yourself

  Negative is that lack of privacy can cause conflicts such as screenshots, hard to switch off, so distracted stalking can occur and can’t affect off-line relationship
• Hinton & Hjorth


  positive as you can form connections from across the globe and keeping contact with with family and friends. social media impacts the way we think experience and practice it has become an integral part of everyday life and influences how you engage with others such as Internet made it easier to form relations due to social network, social media and global villages such as WhatsApp family group chats
• Clayton – Twitter effect

  Negative, because found 581 Twitter uses and saw the more a person was active on Twitter the more likely they were to report on Twitter related conflict with their partners and left the other feeling frustrated and the amount of time partner was online resulting in conflict, and this had negative effect on the relationship, such as infidelity, which is cheating and divorce

  People who post their lives on social media creates conflict because it increases cheating as more options
• Shaw & Grant- positive


  More people connect on the Internet and it has a positive effect on a user psychological health because it decreased feelings of depression, loneliness and stress

  Engaged in five sessions with anonymous people and ranked depression and loneliness, self-esteem and social support and found the user decreased all these feelings due to using the Internet

  Internet provides social support for mental health, such as Childline or MindsMatter
• Turkle – connected but alone


  Devices and online personas, redefining, human connection and communication because they change who we are and remove grief from funerals because people go on their phone

  People hide from each other, as I don’t want to interrupt, or be interrupted on the media. You get to define your identity and it sacrifices conversations in person.

  Tempted by machines that offer companionship, such as Siri, AI on Snapchat, or Google assistant
• Putnam- bowling alone and Marxist


  Social capital is declining due to developments in digital communication because they increases employment of married women, urban sprawl, and increasing commuting and increases importance of TV and other electronic communication

  Creates civic disengagement, which is range of formal and informal activities, such as voting of volunteering in community, but now people aren’t taking part due to technology and full-time work commitments
• Bauman- social networks, new, opium (drug) of people


  Sceptical of where people protest through social media, such as armchair, activism, and Internet dumbing us down with cheap entertainment. Social media networks have failed people to learn real social life skills.

  Identity change from born with a task to creating your own community and social networks or a substitute, because before you had somewhere you belong, but now your network is something that belongs to you that you’re in control of
• Bauman


  social media networks are a trap because they provide pleasure and you cut yourself a comfort zone where you only hear see whatever you want to