Social media’s detrimental outcomes on personal relationships

Abstract

Social media is a platform to connect with people around the globe in just one click. It helps one share ideas and knowledge discuss, and socialize online with loved ones. Access to the virtual world is at the fingertips of websites, gadgets, and mobile phones. Social media transforms people and their behavior with their families, friends, and peers. Like every coin has two sides, social media has some positive features, such as networking, building public relations, and staying connected worldwide. On the negative side, social media is also laden with some major destructive components, and one of them is how it affects personal human relationships. Social media has reduced various social skills among people. What a paradox! Isn’t it? It is very well stated how trust and companionship go hand in hand; there are various reasons for a broken relationship or where it fails even after its rock-solid span. Media comes in many forms, but we discuss social media and the major chaos that has ruined many lives. In this digital era where everything is so shallow and everyone is so materialistic, social networking is enormously important in aggravating it or adding more salt to the burns. This paper is written after a brief online questionnaire survey conducted in two different age groups: 18 to 30 and 35 to 52. The results very well matched our hypothesis and gave outstanding results. This research discusses the correlation between web dependency, expectations in relationships and the impact of screens in today’s life and how it is majorly creating a plethora of doubts and expectations from each other in relationships.