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 […]
Read more "The Impact of Social Media on Relationships"Social media is a platform that was not available a generation ago and it is fundamentally changing the way people meet and interact. According to Dr. Rachna Jain, a psychologist, there are two observations that are happening with social media. First, it is allowing people to meet more people than ever before. The types […]
Read more "Evolving Relationships"Social media has allowed people to gain popularity among peers, be it ones in their hometown or ones in another country. The things we do for hundreds of likes could be classified as “insane” or “attention-seeking”. We’ve seen celebrities turn to Twitter to feud with one another not because they are deeply passionate over an […]
Read more "Like my Photo or I Don’t Like You Anymore: Social Media and Modern-day Relationships"Some think social media are simply annoying posts on Facebook or Twitter, I think of it as a grander platform for connecting individuals and sharing experiences. Social media are able to provide an interconnected network similar to the one depicted in the book, Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman that I touched on here: Pretty amazing how our interconnectivity […]
Read more "How Does Music Fit into Social Media?"Modern Social media follows us wherever we go. It used to be you had to log-on to your desktop computer to check whose top eight Myspace friends you entered into, now you can get push notifications for anyone one of your numerous social platforms straight to your smartphone. In his book Rewire, Ethan Zuckerman outlines […]
Read more "Losing Spontaneity in the Digital Age"It is hard to imagine our day-to-day activities and shared interactions without social media. The world of modern social media has interrupted and completely restructured the way in which we interact with others. I rarely choose to pick up the phone to call my family in Italy, because I can easily send them a Facebook […]
Read more "Social Media Impact on Relationships"Aziz Ansar in his book Modern Romance focuses a lot on the effect that technology has had on modern day romantic relationships, and starts his 6th chapter with this statement “The advent of smartphones and the Internet means that our romantic lives now inhabit two worlds: the real world and our phone world.” http://book.azizansari.com. Though I agree […]
Read more "Modern Social media impact on relationships"Modern social media are impacting both my personal and professional relationships. To name a few, I frequently use Facebook, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Phhhoto and Instagram to interact with friends and family. These social media platforms most often strengthen my in real life (IRL) connections because I regularly share content with close friends and family. However, social media […]
Read more "How can social media strengthen your network?"The brilliance of social media is that it allows people to stay connected no matter where they are in the world. It used to be that unless one physically met up with a friend or had access to an international telephone, staying in touch was nearly impossible. In first grade, my best friend Morgan moved […]
Read more "Location, Location, Location (No Longer Matters?)"It feels weird to say this, but social media are a part of every relationship in my life. On Facebook, I keep tabs on faraway friends and family. On Instagram and Tumblr, I’m able to reinvigorate my creative side and find inspiration – I guess this would be my relationship with myself and the outside […]
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