Literature Review The focus of this study is to analyze the abnormal use of social media. The generation we are now in is consumed with the presence of social media and the relevance it lends to any and everyone; anyone can be made to feel important online. This study analyzes how a marital relationship can be negatively affected by perpetual social media usage.
RQ1: Why do married parties feel the need to engage in heavy social media usage?
H1: Heavy social media use within marriages causes conflict.
Social Media, Pseudo Friendships & Privacy Over the course of just about a decade, social media has drastically changed how we as humans communicate via the Internet. From the early days of MySpace to recent times with Twitter and Facebook, social media has been an ever-changing platform for people to interact with the absence of time and space. As of 2011, Facebook had 800 million active users, more than 50% of whom, logged onto the site on any given day (McAndrew & Jeong, 2012). This number only continues to increase due to children under the age of twelve obtaining cellphones way before their predecessors. Narcissism may be the one personality trait that identifies those who may be inclined to use Facebook for
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Heavy Internet users are defined as those spending 20 hours or more per week on the web (Henry, 2005, pg.96). With proper math the conclusion is made that anyone that spends, on average, three hours online a day is a heavy Internet user. If you were to walk outside at the very moment, every other person you see is on his or her phone or some other technologically advanced device that allows them to get their own personal “fix”. If we place this in the context of an intimate relationship and each party’s Internet consumption, a heavy social media has the potential to be destructive to a relationship that is all about communication between two mature