Literature review

Literature review

I wanted to address how the social network, Facebook, affects interpersonal relationships. In my research I found many articles regarding this dilemma. Facebook affects the two major types if relationships being the romantic and business ones. It also distorts the meaning of friendship in that many of the friends that people have on Facebook are sometimes people that they don’t even know or haven’t met in person. The role that gender plays with regards to Face booking is very essential to see how people of both sexes are influenced by cyber bullying and domestic abuse. With the ability of people to put all the personal information on their profile they are unaware that this can be very detrimental to their safety and can lead to threats or abuse.

Another article that I used was the idea of how when a relationship was made FBO (Facebook official) it is a public statement and it is what everyone on Facebook seems to focus on and once that relationship ends it’s as big of a dilemma as it was when the relationship started. It can lead to Facebook or cyber abuse by one or both parties that were involved. Another thing that this source shows is that the hardest way to break up with someone is face to face so many turn to the social network or texting to make it easier and no one wants to find out that there relationship is over via public social network such as Facebook. We can tell how much of an impact Facebook has on the public because being Facebook official is such a huge deal. Facebook relationships according to this source is that the relationship statuses are getting more and more complex because you have so many choices some of which include engage , single, in a relationship, its complicated and many others. We see more and more that some of the relationships that we see are fake relationships because most people don’t want be that sad single person so they create a fake relationship to make themselves look better to their peers. The older generations see to have legit relationship statuses. Also this article points out the idea that some people just friend people to see if they are taken or not. The Facebook relationship status is so important to the Facebook users and many don’t believe that it is legit unless they see it publicized on Facebook.

In another source they talk about the idea of being “Facebook friends” and they say that the friend list is a combination of casual friends, acquaintances, romantic partners and outsiders. Facebook truly does distort the meaning of friendship because many of the friends that Facebook users have on their friends list are not legit friends. According to this article many users admitted that most of their friends are not close or casual friends. Another idea here is that many of the users have involuntary friends such as their relatives. This source also talks about online relationships and that many people who have online relationships are unable to communicate face to face so they use the internet as a way to have a relationship. Also the online relationships create minimum security risk as opposed to meeting face to face. More Facebook users tend to form online relationships more so. According to this article the people that have online relationships score higher on the shyness scale because they are not comfortable talking behind the shield of the internet. This article also concluded that the more time that users spent on Facebook the more that they were likely to form online relationships.