6 Ways By Which Social Media Affects Relationships Negatively
Did you know that social media has contributed to more than 60% of all relationship problems people have been battling with in recent times?
Inasmuch as the use of social media has come to make our lives better, it has also posed a lot of danger to the progress of relationships.
This is why we are going to learn how social media has been hampering our relationships negatively and how we can avoid the troubles of this new technology. I will urge you to read this article till the end, as I've saved the most interesting point at the last part.
What is Social Media?
Social Media is a digital platform where people can meet and interact as if they were in any physical connection with each other. It gained prominence in recent years, dating back to less than 30 years ago.
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It has had very positive impacts on our lives. Same way it has also gotten a lot of negatives. Some of the most popular social media platforms include Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, Whatsapp, Imo, and many other less popular ones.
Ways By Which Social Media Affects Relationships Negatively
Having looked at what social media is, let us now go straight to the ways by which this new invention that is meant to help humans, now pose the biggest threat to relationships.
Jealousy Arising From Comparison
Social media breeds jealousy in relationships due to constant comparison with people who have presented a somewhat perfect relationship on their social media handles.
As the platform is meant to connect people, you are exposed to a good number of individuals. Some of these individuals make sure they present every single thing that is happening in their relationship to the platform.
When you constantly look at how some people live life, you may be forced into making unnecessary comparison, which leads to jealousy and stress.
You may put so much pressure on your partner to keep up with the social media definition of a perfect relationship. When he or she fails to succumb, that will be the time that problems will begin to arise in the family.
Pressure to be Perfect
Another big problem that social media pose to relationships is the pressure to be perfect. Like stated earlier, social media is a virtual platform, and you don't really see what goes on behind the scenes.
Seeing people flaunt their "perfect lives" on the platform everyday can trigger you to also want to live like them. Meanwhile, it could all be fake.
People over-edit their photos, adding so many filters and layers to them before posting them on the media platforms. If you are not careful, you might think that you are doing very bad as compared to your colleagues.
Until you meet one of them in real life, you will never believe that they are not doing better than you. The couples you look up to on social media are doing less than you but you won't know because they choose to deceive people on social media.
Privacy Invasion
Social media also aids the invasion of people's privacy. Being on any social media platform without censoring what you post there can lead you into posting photos and videos that expose your privacy.
One interesting fact about relationships that are doing well is the ability of the couples to keep secrets and protect their privacy from the outside world.
But social media gives people unrestricted access to people's privacy, especially those who have chosen to share every little detail about their relationship online just to impress strangers who don't care about them, anyway.
Remember to keep your privacy far away from social media. Share just those ones that you will be comfortable to see in the public domain.
Lost of Real Time Connection
The advent of social media has also affected how couples have time for each other in real life. Real time connection with your spouse is lost to social media.
Trust me, social media can be highly addictive and those who fall victims hardly stay away from social media, thereby reducing the amount of time they spend with people around them.
You can just be with your spouse in the house whiles your mind and everything about you is in the outside world. You spend a large amount of your time with strangers on social media to the neglect of the people that matter to you in real life.
Hardly will a day pass without people going online to check what is happening. It's the first thing that comes to mind in the morning and last thing before they sleep.
Infidelity
Social Media is also an enabler of promiscuity. With the free access to different people from different backgrounds, the likelihood that one will cheat on his partner becomes very high.
You will always meet better people on social media, and this will affect your relationship. You may be tempted to ditch your man or woman and go for an extramarital affair with another.
You can arrange all this on social media without your partner knowing. Many of those who have issues regarding infidelity in their relationships have social media to blame.
Before social media, cheating was so minimal, and there are statistics and data to support this claim.
Breakup
When you continue to pressure your partner to live like that stranger you met online, when you continue to cheat on your partner with those strangers you meet online, the final outcome will be a breakup.
Social media has been accused for the collapse of many relationships, and rightly so. You need to understand that there is no perfect relationship our there. It is only this way that you can avoid these troubles in your relationship.
Conclusion
Social media can be a good tool for progress and development in every facet of our lives, but can be really bad when not managed well.
It has been accused of being one of the leading causes of most problems that relationships are going through. It makes couples see their relationships as inferior to those they see online.
To save yourself from the stress, you need to understand that there is a life outside social media. Remember that, people only post success stories on social media, the problems and failures are kept behind the camera lenses.
Do not pressure yourself because of a lifestyle that people you don't know outside social media supposedly live.
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