relationships in the modern day

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How Social Networking has changed the daIng game. By Kathryn McKay

Social Networking has redefined the inherent meaning and nature of relaIonships.

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Altering how relaIonships are formed,

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Experienced,

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And lost.


There is no longer a romanIcized, unknowing quality of daIng

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But rather, this new form of daIng is situated upon “Facebook stalking”

-‐ Allison McCann, How Facebook Ruined Da8ng (and Breaking Up to)


With the aim to “reduce some of the uncertainty in relaIonships”

-‐ Allison McCann, How Facebook Ruined Da8ng (and Breaking Up to)

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New, media constructed, relaIonship milestones “represent a new Ier in the relaIonship nupIals”.

-‐ quote from Jesse Fox, republished by Tom Jacobs in “I Now Pronounce You FBO: Facebook Official

Where the noIon of

going steady is now

represented through a

technological mode


“For some couples Facebook acts as a tool for relaIonship

maintenance” -‐ quote from Jesse Fox, republished by

Tom Jacobs in “I Now Pronounce You FBO: Facebook Official

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photostream/

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By forcing couples to have honest,

candid conversaIons about what

their relaIonship

is

Social Networking

has however resulted in one being unable to truly

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Where “remaining Facebook friends with an ex delayed emoIonal recovery and led to greater distress over the breakup, negaIve feelings, sexual desire and longing for the ex-‐partner.” -‐ Allison McCann, “How Facebook Ruined Da8ng (and

Breaking up to)

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RelaIonships are no longer innately personal between two partners

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But rather “shaped by its actual and perceived

audience.” -‐ quote from Jesse Fox, republished by Tom Jacobs in “I Now Pronounce

You FBO: Facebook Official

The persona created on Social Networking sites has real, inherent implicaIons on ones actual life.

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Where “the informaIon we disclose online mirrors who we are offline”

-‐ From bullying to rela8onships: Mapping our online communica8ons


and “disclosing more about ourselves online actually lessons inImacy and saIsfacIon among romanIc couples”

-‐ From bullying to rela8onships: Mapping our online communica8ons


This new technological mode of social interacIons,

has, intrinsically changed the nature of

relaIonships.


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