Within the past few years, social media use has grown to become such an indispensable facet in accessing desirable information that it has also crept into the most intimate aspects of our lives as well. In connection, the inexhaustible need for answers in modifying behavior to resolve dating difficulties has led to the practicality of people utilizing social media content to obtain intimate insights on dating trends/ideas. As a result, social media is having potentially profound negative effects on contemporary dating and its derivatives. One of these effects includes unhealthy behaviors, such as Facebook stalking, in persons using social media to seek desired information related to their dating needs. In doing this however, some people run
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In using social media as a reference point to seek and establish favorable characteristics that a potential partner ideally should comprise, people remove themselves further from the realities of what people are versus what they want people to be. With a lack of concrete traits, people fill in the missing holes with their own sought after traits instead as far as online communication goes and in some instances real life as well. Through social media depictions of real life relationships and romanticized elements of a relationship that snake through people’s mentalities, expectations can change accordingly to either one of those. In realizing this, some individuals can distort information about themselves or their partner to appeal to be more or less attractive than they actually are. For example, one study conducted by two researchers from the University of Massachusetts found that the proportion of lies told online regarding feelings, achievement, and facts were considerably greater than when told in person (Zimbler and Feldman). As a result of this study, it can be said that through social media, people are tampering with other people’s expectations and vice versa in regards to people’s personalities and traits. In the end however, these expectations will
In using social media as a reference point to seek and establish favorable characteristics that a potential partner ideally should comprise, people remove themselves further from the realities of what people are versus what they want people to be. With a lack of concrete traits, people fill in the missing holes with their own sought after traits instead as far as online communication goes and in some instances real life as well. Through social media depictions of real life relationships and romanticized elements of a relationship that snake through people’s mentalities, expectations can change accordingly to either one of those. In realizing this, some individuals can distort information about themselves or their partner to appeal to be more or less attractive than they actually are. For example, one study conducted by two researchers from the University of Massachusetts found that the proportion of lies told online regarding feelings, achievement, and facts were considerably greater than when told in person (Zimbler and Feldman). As a result of this study, it can be said that through social media, people are tampering with other people’s expectations and vice versa in regards to people’s personalities and traits. In the end however, these expectations will