Fb Maintenance Hypothesis

As technology continues to advance, romantic relationships are continuously challenged to evolve and adapt with media. Many issues arise with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. These sites may generate jealousy, uncertainty and questioning of satisfaction within a relationship. The authors’ purpose was to research the relationship between FB relationship maintenance behavior and satisfaction, uncertainty, and jealousy in relationships. The authors’ first hypothesis is that prosocial FB maintenance is related positively to relationship satisfaction. They formed this hypothesis by looking at previous studies conducted by Canary & Stafford, 1992; Dainton, 2003; and Stafford & Canary, 1991. In both Stafford & Canary’s and Dainton’s experiments, which were …show more content…
They used previous studies to find that many participants used FB monitoring as a maintenance strategy for their relationship. Dainton and Gross found that online surveillance is a negative maintenance behavior. It was found that it is more acceptable to monitor someone online, which leads to the action being more frequent. Hypothesis three states that relationship uncertainty is associated negatively with the use of prosocial FB maintenance behaviors. Online behavior is easily misinterpreted, and can lead to misunderstanding, jealousy, and uncertainty. If one partner is in a picture or post with another person, and the other partner finds it, jealousy and miscommunication could happen. Online communication channels provide an outlet for public display of the relationship, which would decrease uncertainty of relationship. The fourth hypothesis states relationship uncertainty is associated positively with the use of online FB monitoring. Surveillance can be conducted to reduce uncertainty by finding and posting things that strengthen and reaffirm the