Since my last post was about relationships and social media in general, I thought that this time I would be more specific and talk about relationships via Facebook because it's not really a relationship until it's "Facebook official."
In an article I read, called "Is Facebook a homewrecker?"by Katherine Bindley, it said that many of us use Facebook as a way to connect with people we don't talk to everyday and people we don't know as well. For example, "your college friend got engaged, yay! A girl you met once at a party who's baring her midriff in her profile picture wrote on your fiancee's wall - hold up where'd she come from?" Facebook tells a lot about a person whether it's relationship statuses or their age and I think that's what makes/brakes a relationship. Katherine Bindley went to Colombia University and she is a reporter at The Huffington Post as well as The Wall Street Journal and TheNew York Times. A 2009 study suggested that Facebook makes "unique contributions to the experience of jealousy in romantic relationships." There's even a Facebook page called "I wonder how many relationships Facebook ruins every year" and it has over 100,000 "likes". To me, I think this is just because of how many friends one partner has compared to the other or who interacts with who on Facebook that makes the other person jealous. So in relationships, Facebook has become the new key to information. Bindley, Katherine. "Facebook Relationship Problems: How Social Networking And Jealousy Affect Your Love Life." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.
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