Social Networking/Media and Relationships in the REAL World

  Good evening! Well seeing as I have no real defined topic to talk about, I will talk about my day, which was spent mostly huddling in my puffy purple winter coat as the thickest wettest snow blew everywhere around me and turned my hair to a wet slop. Disgusting. Don't get me wrong I like snow... when it’s under my downhill skis but this type... no just no. The reason I was outside in such weather was because my High School is VERY into sports like x-country skiing and such, and since that day there was a huge ski race going on in town, school was mashed into a half day so that students and teachers could watch it. I just ended up hanging out with some of my public school friends I hadn't had a chance to talk to in a while, so it was fun catching up.

Not mine, a Tumbler find

This is how most of my day was spent and the other half spent trying to track down my partner. But on the topic of relationships (see what I did there?) What are your preferred qualities’s in a person? The reason for me bringing this up is that I just had a long, sad, but still purposeful conversation about my relationship with my Klaus. It made me feel horrid but it was worth it because we both got to work out how we feel. But the thing is we did it over the Internet, in our relationship it wouldn't alter much but I do feel it would have been better in real life or even over the phone. But it made me think; I know friends who have had their relationships ruined because of the Internet and social media sites, along with all the shizz we see about celebs relationships over the Internet. In my opinion if someone has a relationship that is solely biased on Internet interaction it is more than probably (I say probably because sometimes Internet relationships do work out, I have heard the odd story about it) not really worth it and is probably lacking real content.

 It’s the constant need for reassurance of emotion over the Internet and broadcasting the status of the relationship. That's what ruins things and who wants to see the 50 comment long fight and/or love-fest just because they liked the status? A lot of research papers are being done on the subject of what social networking is doing to our society as a whole. How addicted to Facebook or twitter or some other form of messaging service are you? Have you ever seen someone’s relationship or even your own turn to dust because of it? Or have you had yourself bad mouthed because of a stereotype or your opinions? Tell here! I would love to hear about your experiences and how you dealt with it! 

-Lady Danika