The Impact of Social Media on Relationships

Posted on by Bari Bressman

Modern social media has very powerful impacts on relationships. It allows you to connect better and more frequently with those you love, long distance friends, and even your closest, most intimate friends. It allows you to monitor their actions to get a better understanding for their likes and interests. It allows you to feel linked with others even in your loneliest, darkest times. Social media makes it easier to stay in touch with those you care about and share things to them to let them know what you are up to and how you are doing, and vice versa. It provides an instant, gratifying and convenient way to directly contact an individual or a group of people all at once. No more hoping they got your message or waiting for a call back, social media provides assurance that your message got across to someone. However, it takes away face-to-face interactions and instead poses an online network connection, which can be harmful. It cannot take the place of a real, intimate, emotional closeness in the ways that human contact does. It is not a substitute for real-life interactions with others but an opportunity to rekindle lost connections, keep in touch with people from your past, and stay updated on your friends and family’s lives.

To learn more about how psychologists view social media’s impact on relationships, click here.

 

 

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