IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN LIFE AFAIRS

he question is, how does Social Media cause a divorce?

Social media has been the trendy technology used by approximately 2.88 billion users in the world. Most people can’t do without social media. Verily, it is more like their lives are attached to these applications. If you are wondering how social media can cause a divorce in a marriage, then here is how;

A spouse who spends time Facebooking can make the other feel irrelevant

As a spouse who loves social media connections, you might be thinking that always staying online may not make your fellow partner feel bad, but that is not true. Even if your spouse fails to express the way he or she feels towards your addiction, definitely they will be harboring the feelings with hopes that you will change.

You might be on the internet catching fun while using different social networks, but you may not realize that the time you spend on these applications should have been used to interact with your partner and get along with him or her better. A wife once made a statement during an interview that her husband spends more time on Facebook than he does on her and hence giving her the mindset that her husband loves Facebook more than he loves her.

What does some Research say about the negative Impact of Social Media Addiction on Marriages?

It Causes jealousy, snooping around and suspicious behaviors

Some studies have made it clear that social applications like Instagram, Snapchat, and most of all Facebook provides easy access for envious, and distrustful spouses to get information about their fellow spouse and this is true because if your spouse has some doubts about you then he or she will resort to your social media page for clarifications.

For example, a doubtful wife would want to know if her husband is cheating on her as she sees him always laughing and chatting on Facebook messenger, she will look for a way to access her husband’s Facebook password to check his messages.

Spending Too Much Time On Social Networks can cause conflicts in a relationship

The other study had indicated the couples who spend more than an hour on Facebook are more likely to have a dispute with their spouse or romantic partner. It further deduced that most of these disputes often result in breakups and divorce.

As already explained earlier, spouses who spend most of their time on social networks tend to make their fellow partners feel as though they are irrelevant or have some doubts about them.  Below are some of the statistics that show how social media negatively influenced relationships today;

·         A group of researchers confirmed that about 15% of married couples believed social media to be the problem in their relationship.

·         Another research had shown that about 16% of married couples admitted their use of Facebook as a significant cause of jealousy in their marriage.