Social Media Ruining The Integrity Of Our Relationships

Constant exposure of social media to other peoples’ is ruining the integrity of our relationships. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., effects other peoples live in some drastic ways. They have the possibilities of making the lives of others better, they can also hurt peoples’ lives as well. When social media was created, it was made as a way for people to get connected. The effects of the media has had a mass effect that has hurt everyone in various ways. Sites like Facebook and Instagram have lead people into a depression due to people showing off their lives, thus making your life feel even worse. The social media has its ways of preventing people from feeling bad and being hurt by what they see. People have the ability to just hide the

Slim says "You know how the hands are, they just come in and get their bunk and work a month, then they quit and go out alone.”(Steinback 39) This give the inference that friendship isn’t the most common thing. People are always on the move, never having much time for friendship. This is considered a truly rare concept in the story due to everyone going hungry and barely making it buy. The boss of the ranch says to the two friends "Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is?” (Steinback 22). This really gives off the sense in the story that the bonds that are truly made between friends stays together no matter how bad the world is. This gives the true concept of how friendship would be. If Steinback brought social media into the world “Of Mice and Men”, George and Lennie most likely wouldn’t use the social media. This is due to the idea that they are always on the move and they don’t have a need to use it. The two men are happy and they have no need for anyone else. Since they are always getting in trouble (mainly Lennie), they would avoid using social media so they wouldn’t get caught. On the contrary to that thought, Lennie might use social media if he was around people like Candy. The two both have a high likeness for animals, this could cause them to use social medias like Instagram to post pictures of their animals and say “My dog is so adorable” or “Best dog in the world”. This would be especially likely with Lennie because even if he doesn’t have a dog, he wants to eventually have a rabbit. With him having a rabbit, he could post videos and pictures of his rabbit doing tricks. "The rabbits we're gonna get, and I get to tend 'em, cut grass an' give 'em water, an' like that.” (Steinback 69) George may not agree to the use of technology Lennie is having, in any case,