Regardless of whether you’re a Facebook addict, tweeting fanatic or Instagram celebrity, almost everyone in today’s society partakes in social media. We constantly check our phones hoping for another like on that over-edited selfie we just posted, or yet another damned Twitter follower we don’t even know. Every detail of our pathetic lives must be documented in some way, whether it is through pictures, status updates, or location check-ins. Basically if it’s not online, it never happened. We constantly feel the need to be connected in some way to others- and with the extent of the social media and messaging networks nowadays, it’s not a difficult feat to accomplish.
However, despite the fact that we are constantly connected to those whom we wish to be connected to (or, more accurately, because of it), social media has ultimately ruined the meaning of establishing and being in a relationship. Everything in an internet-based relationship is published electronically, and each and every one of your 800 closest “friends” has total and complete access to it. It’s the 21st century equivalent to your mother bugging you about your love life, except in this case it’s the entire World Wide Web, and they’ve already seen all the details of your latest scandalous romantic escapades on your unprotected Facebook profile.
Not only does social media make the entire breakdown of your relationship public, but it can, and almost certain will, affect said relationship itself. Granted, the internet is a great place to meet people. Maybe even exchange phone numbers and find a place to meet up for a cup of coffee. But social media is not, I repeat NOT for online dating. Don't get me wrong, I can understand why some people prefer spending hours on end messaging a new love interest they met online a week ago. It's exciting, new, mysterious, blah blah blah. But the little fact that many people conveniently forget is that people lie. Frequently.
Every person in the world is a big fucking liar. That "hot single Californian surfer frat boy" is more likely to be a potbellied high school drop out with bacne and a nonexistent social life (to his credit, the California part could be real, but that’s the only thing really going for him).The point is, you really don't know who you're getting involved with. And it's so easy to get carried away and pretend you really have a connection with someone when you've never actually met them in person. That's not a REALationship, its a relationSHIT.
Every person in the world is a big fucking liar. That "hot single Californian surfer frat boy" is more likely to be a potbellied high school drop out with bacne and a nonexistent social life (to his credit, the California part could be real, but that’s the only thing really going for him).The point is, you really don't know who you're getting involved with. And it's so easy to get carried away and pretend you really have a connection with someone when you've never actually met them in person. That's not a REALationship, its a relationSHIT.
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