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DOES THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TEND TO HARM OR IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS? 7

Does the Use of Social Media Tend to Harm or Improve Relationships?

Tanya Ruiz

PHI103 Informal Logic

Ashford University

Social media has without a doubt exploded the universe of the start, keeping up, and cutting off relationships. Examination shows that most of the adults own a cell phone. Because of the pervasiveness of social media in our lives, the people of the world are more connected than at some other time ever. Along these lines, there could be a discernment that people are more joyful because they associate with more people. Be that as it may, social collaboration in the virtual world recounts to an alternate story, particularly when those online associations sway our offline interpersonal relationships. With time, social media use has developed exponentially and has changed the ways that we communicate with one another. This has a high potential for affecting the feelings and relationships of people who use it. In this paper, I will be addressing how social media improves and harms relationships.

Article on how social media improves relationships

Thrive Global Organization points out the impacts of the use of Social Media on relationships on their website. To begin with, are the positives.

We as a whole realize social media has numerous advantages and the majority of us utilize some type of social systems administration day by day! In any case, on the off chance that you should be helped to remember all the positives, here are probably the most ideal ways social media can profit your own life and your business:

Premise 1: Social media helps to reduce the physical distances between the parties in a relationship.

Premise 2: Social media helps in a better understanding of one another’s personality in terms of likes, dislikes, opinions, views, and habits.

Premise 3: Social media helps parties in a relationship to stay in touch.

Premise 4: Social helps individuals relive memories.

Premise 5: Social media helps in bonding between individuals.

Premise 6: Social media helps single parents families relieve the craving for the presence of both parents in their lives.

Conclusion: Social media has helped many relationships. It has had a positive impact on them.

Evaluation of the quality of the Argument on how social media improves relationships

The conclusion above appears to be strongly supported by the arguments given. The premises above point out how social media is positively significant to both parties in a relationship. We can see how social media can greatly help in closeness and understanding of parties in any relationship.

From the first premise, the facts confirm that significant distance relationships are rarely simple. In any case, couples or families who need to invest energy separated for extensive stretches can even now feel near one another. They can convey and connect through social media. Regardless of whether they're isolated by a huge number of miles. The premise supports the conclusion. However, the organization’s website does not provide citations or references to this assertion.

The second premise asserts that social media profiles regularly go about as a depiction of an individual's character. They show an individual's preferences, disdains, social circle, assessments, perspectives, and propensities. This can be helpful. It can enable new companions to choose if they might want to go into a relationship with the other individual. It causes you to evaluate on the off chance that you are perfect with the other individual. This aids in a better understanding of one another. However, the website does not also provide references and citations for this, the premise supports the conclusion. The case also applies to the remaining assertions.

Article on how social media harms relationships

An organization known as psychology today has an article on Social Media and Relationships. On the website, the article points out how social media can harm relationships. The website shows that a certain survey of social media users demonstrated that a higher level of usage was associated with negative relationship outcomes (Clayton et al., 2013). The harms of social media in a relationship include:

Premise 1: Social media use leads to increased feelings of jealousy(Muise et al., 2009), cheating, break up, and divorce (Clayton, Nagurney, & Smith, 2013).

Premise 2: Exposure to social media profiles of an ex-friend may hinder the process of healing and move on (Marshall, 2012). Checking up on an ex-friend’s social media profile leads to more distress after the breakup.

Premise 3: Social media relationships experience social media-related conflicts.

Conclusion: Social media harms relationships.

Evaluation of the quality of the Argument on how social media improves relationships

Given the arguments presented, strong reasons are attempting to explain the harms of social media on relationships. The studies cited in the article shows clearly how social media harms relationships. For instance an article on how social media brings about cheating, breakup, and divorce (Clayton, Nagurney, & Smith, 2013).

Conclusively, we can understand the argument as it is the statements provided. Social media can be harmful when used in the wrong way. "Past examination has indicated that the more an individual in a romantic relationship utilizes Facebook, the almost certain they are to screen their accomplice's Facebook movement all the more severely, which can prompt sentiments of desire," Clayton said. "Facebook-actuated envy may prompt contentions about past relationships. Additionally, our examination found that extreme Facebook clients are bound to interface or reconnect with other Facebook clients, including past accomplices, which may prompt enthusiastic and physical cheating."

The article gives some citations to support the premises. The citations give elaborate explanations on the premises. When you view the citations on google scholar, there is enough information on why social media is considered a harm.

In general, the contentions on this page seem, by all accounts, to be very solid by and large on the side of the conclusion, as long as that end is comprehended in the constrained sense showed previously.

References

1. Clayton, R. B., Nagurney, A., & Smith, J. R. (2013). Cheating, breakup, and divorce: Is Facebook use to blame?. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16(10), 717-720.

2. Houghton, D., Joinson, A. N., Caldwell, N., & Marder, B. (2013). Tagger's Delight? Disclosure and liking behaviour in Facebook: the effects of sharing photographs amongst multiple known social circles (No. 2013-03). Birmingham Business School Discussion Paper Series.

3. Tromholt, M., Lundby, M., Andsbjerg, K., & Wiking, M. (2015). The Facebook experiment: does social media affect the quality of our lives. The Happiness Institute (http://www. happinessresearchinsti tute. com/publications/4579836749).