The Effects Of Social Media And WhatsApp On Modern Relationships.

After enjoying all those gulps of wine and having somebody taking care of all your house and food bills, following a little message you just sent to your lover via Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp, you might have just posted a lovely picture of you on Instagram, it caught his eye and he’s forced to spend half of his salary on you… The Power of Social Media!

Social media has gotten many relationships over the shoulder, it has covered a couple of moments that friends would have never learned about. Just yesterday was the MTN Kampala Marathon, couples carrying themselves on their back and running together, the smiles that had sweat falling off with love from the couples’ cheeks, we couldn’t help but smell happiness in these partners’ love life. We met these moments on WhatsApp statuses.

Social media has made ordinary relationships extraordinary, yet dragged many more relationships to the finish line.

A thousand relationships, you will agree, have been built on social media. It’s one cold night, this handsome man slides into your dm and this emergency of coldness gets you replying to all his texts. One thing after the other, you can’t spend a night without texting.

The emotions are building, sensitivity fills, discussions are centered on when you should meet, pictures are shared, and you start to miss each other. Ideally, you start to feel things you never felt before, and each time a picture of the update on what both of you are doing is shared, the relationship is being strengthened. In exactly a few months, this man or lady becomes your life jacket.

The cyberspace has given many people a chance to keep up with their relationships but too much cyber expression has also exposed enough relationships to the possibility of breaking.

Everything wrong you don’t know about your partner is quickly reported to you via social media by jealous friends, directly and indirectly. centered on WhatsApp. Your girlfriend posts a picture of them with another man, and this inherently causes a fat disorder in the relationship. Then the girl has to go about the entire place explaining and proving that the man on her status is her cousin, uncle or grandfather.

Social media has shaped our perception of how modern relationships are supposed to be. It will bother your partner if they do not receive a message from you in a day. Failure to check on your partner may lead to a good breakup. There is rather too much expectation raised in all modern relationships. Sending a message or making a WhatsApp call to one’s partner each night for a specific number of hours becomes a unique value on which their relationship is built. Once you lack bundles or the network has hitches and you are not able to send a message to your lover, your relationship risks wreckage.

The arrival of social media has been very true to brutally teaching us that long distance in a relationship is not an issue. The question of long distance has been well answered by social media; Communication can still flow strong regardless of how many yards away the couple is from each other. The daily task of texting and sending pictures is a deep fair technique that is practised by many people in long distance relationships. It has made us understand that you cannot be around your partner everywhere all the time.

Social media has failed to regulate how much time we are around our phones. It is incumbent upon couples to look for spaces where they can interact more personally instead of holding phones in the living room and even in bed. The digital materials have held many people caged, we just can’t pay attention to our partners because we are too busy being functional, trying to keep up a social media presence.

More social media aggression is employing itself within relationships, all the resources of love are flowing right through social media and memories are expiring in each snap of a twig, as digitization is making its way more and more into the valve of love in many homes. Social media is proudly sponsoring breakups and building a few. You choose to thrive!