Topic > Effects of Social Media and Technology - 1543

Technology has started this chain reaction of influencing social media to affect people in a negative way. In today's world, others don't care how people are affected by their actions. Fake relationships resulting from the inability to tell who the person really is because these people have not met in person. People often imagine the people they met on social networks to be different than they are in real life. Another negative effect is that people cannot distinguish emotional responses, which in a healthy relationship is often crucial. Many of these problems have commonly altered the world in ways that do not support healthy living. For example, statistics also show that “people who met their spouse online tend to get divorced or have other problems in life.” ("Social