All I simply had to type into Google was "social networking" and two articles just posted today popped up linking Facebook and relationships. One of the articles was a story of personal experience of how a relationship found its ending when the boyfriend started a Facebook page. He connected with old friends (and girlfriends), created a Farmville and became consumed with chatting, updating, and feeding his new obsession. The relationship began to plummet because most of his free time was spent on social networks, but the relationship ultimately ended when he connected with an ex-girlfriend and decided to visit her one night when she "supposedly" kissed him first. He claimed he didn't cheat because he didn't initiate the kiss but he knew she still liked him and still decided to go. Obviously there are other ways that Facebook or other social networking sites can cause turmoil in relationships. Status updates that claim a significant other is doing something other than what they said they would, "incriminating" pictures, and simply messaging or chatting with others we know we shouldn't can get us all in trouble.
"Facebook to blame of 1 in 5 divorces in US"
"Blame Networking Sites For Your Breakup"
Wow! I can understand facebook being a part of a middle school, or high school break up, but divorces?! That is crazy. I had never even thought about facebook causing marriages to fall apart. Granted there are probably may more issues in the relationship, if facebook is what breaks the camels back. This is a very good post, I would have never thought facebook could cause that much drama.
ReplyDeleteI have found your post very interesting. I did not know that Facebook could cause so many divorces. But I would admit that I can totally understand why. Everybody can upload pictures and tag us. That could be misinterpreted by our partner, because pictures are like words, if you put them without the context that could mean/show something completely different. Besides, I also know that Facebook account can be easily hacked. That means somebody finds your password, gets on your account and changes its settings. Actually, it happened last month to one of my friends and things went wrong, the person posted bad statuses and information on his Facebook wall. He got in trouble with some of his friends because they thought he insulted them but he did not. So we should be aware of all of those things and be careful of our posts and keep a complex password that we often change.
ReplyDeleteYour post is very interesting, especially the statistics. But this is similar to the topic we blogged about a couple of weeks ago about cleaning up your social media site while on the job hunt. You should not write anything on any website that may end up jeopardizing your future in anyway. The user is in control and the site itself can not be to blame for the ending of a relationship, it is the person that is using the site that led to the end.
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