Does Social Media enhance or ruin Romantic Relationships?
Uploaded by CaseyP on Nov 14, 2016
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Does Social Media enhance or ruin Romantic Relationships?
The relationship between social media on romantic relationships is perhaps one of the sensitive topics in the society. The typical, outstanding question what the impact of social media on romantic relationships is. In are flection of the topic, three sub-questions that beg for answers come into my mind. First is whether social media enhance or destroy romantic relationships. Second is which way can social media support or ruin romantic relationships. Last is what the antecedents of the positive or negative impact of social media on the romantic relationships are.
I know that the emergence of social media is one of the most celebrated developments in the current technological era. Indeed, social media has created the allowance for people across the world to interact seamlessly more than ever. However, its growing popularity has elicited questions on just what its consequences on the society might be. Varied debates on how the social media affects the societyexist and these have avowed the impact could be either negative or positive. Indeed, I have observed various benefits and side effects of social media. For instance, social media is playing a crucial role in supporting communication across the globe, and it is even serving as a medium for businesses to engage the consumers. However, it is also socially harmful because it can be addictive and can be a channel of bullying. Therefore, what I do not know is how it affects romantic relationships.
The main aim for writing this paper is to find out the role that social media plays in romantic relationships to help resolve the longstanding debate and kill the curiosity that I have. I am motivated to write this project amidst the rampant, distressing breakups.
Research Process
To find answers to the mentioned questions, I opted to conduct a brief I-search. The first step of the research process was developing the search strategy, which was defined by the keywords ‘impact/effect/consequences/, social media, romantic relationships’. The keywords were entered into Google Engine, which I chose because it is not only popular but also has the tendency of being inclusive to a broad array of information published from diverse backgrounds. I expected that the search would give different forms on information, some of which might not be relevant or valid. To assure validity and relevance, I would only include peer-reviewed information, especially the journals. I also decided to include...