Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age
This is a project website about the significance and impact of the Internet on the romantic relationships. The project is conducted by Oxford Internet Institute between 2008 and 2010, and funded by eHarmony. The content of the project is mainly based on the survey data from UK and Australia couples. The website contains publications, videos and news about the project. We think that this a very useful resource about our term paper.
One sample video from the website about online dating is:
The role of social network sites in romantic relationships: Effects on jealousy
This paper by Utz, S. and Beukeboom focuses on the positive and negative effects of social media. While the study consludes that social media users are likely to be happy about the publicly displayed affection of their partner, “the amount of information, the socially accepted way of monitoring the partner, and the public display of potentially jealousy-inducing events can lead to negative experiences”.
Cheating, Breakup, and Divorce: Is Facebook Use to Blame?
In this article, researhers study the impact of Facebook usage on romantic relationships. They surveyed 205 Facebook users aged between 18 and 82. Among surveyed people, 79 percent reported being in a romantic relationship.
Social Networking: 6 Ways to Protect Your Marriage
In this article, Dr. Karen Gail Lewis talks about the proper way of using social media during married. She gives real-life example in which the useage of social media results in divorce. Then she proceeds to give the following advice on how to use social media properly and still have a healthy marriage.
Social Media is Destroying Your Marriage
In this podcast, a married couple, Caleb & Verlynda Simonyi-Gindele, discusses the negative effects of social media on the marriages. They evaluate the results of several studies done on this subject including the one by Pew Research Center that we mentioned in two previous posts [1] [2].
Social Media: Signs of Negative Impact on Marriage
This writing answers the question how I can understand whether the social media has negative impact on my marriage or not.
The answer can be summarized as follows:
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Your marriage needs to be your most important relationship. If you sense that this is not the case, then you need to stop and evaluate your situation.
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You need to look at whether you spend more time on social media than interacting with your spouse.
Internet addiction harming marriage
This article by Elizabeth Stuart explains the harmful effects of the Internet addiction on marriages. She first gives a real-life example of a couple whose marriage failed because of the husband’s addiction to the Internet and computer games. Then she gives the thoughts of some researchers from relevant fields about the effects of extreme usage of Internet on people’s both mental and physical healths. She also supports her writing with statistical data.
The full article can be accessed from here.
Marriage and Social Media: Risks, Benefits and Best Practices
This article is from “Focus on the Family” website that aims to helping familes thrive. By mentioning the increasing effect of the social media on families, this article first gives some advices to the married couples and then explains some possible prons and cons of the social media on the family relationships.
Some of the advices given in the article:
- Sharing passwords: Spouses should share passwords of their social media accounts with each other.
- Wise use of access features: Married couples should think carefully about the information they reveal on the social media.
- Establishing boundaries: Spouses should discuss how they will use the social media or how much time they will spend on it.
- Post with discernment: Spouses should be careful about what they post on social media.
Digital Divorce
This article which is written by a family law attorney Mindy Stannard discusses the affect of social media useage on divorce cases.
The author argues that our use of social media and online/digital communications has forever altered the way people meet, fall in love, and divorce. According to the author social media use also contributes to jealousy, trouble or uneasiness in marital relationships and one in three divorces can now be attributed to online affairs.
Time to Face It! Facebook Intrusion and the Implications for Romantic Jealousy and Relationship Satisfaction
In this paper authors study the impact of social media networks on relationships. They explore the extent to which an individual’s involvement with Facebook impacts their relationship satisfaction, via the experience and expression of romantic jealousy.
To measure Facebook intrusion, authors developed a questionnaire and a sample of undergraduates currently in a romantic relationship.
Online Dating & Relationships
This report is the first of the two reports on social media and relationships published by Pew Research Center in 2013. We briefly evaluated the second report “Couples, the Internet, and Social Media” in a previous post.
The report tries to show the general attitude of American people on use of dating sites and apps by presenting statistical values. It also analyzes the change on this attitute by comparing the results with a 2005 survey done on the same topic.
Couples, the Internet, and Social Media
This report examines how the Internet and cell phone usage affect the marriages and relationships of couples in USA based on a survey. This survey is conducted from April 17 to May 19, 2013, among a sample of 2252 adults, age 18 and older, with telephone interviews. The report gives lots of statistical data and represents it with charts and tables. This is rather an objective report on the subject. This report can be a good source to represent statistical information in our term report.
Social network sites, marriage well-being and divorce: Survey and state-level evidence from the United States
Highlights taken directly from paper website:
- We analyze the link between SNS use, marriage well-being and divorce in the U.S.
- At the state-level, Facebook penetration is associated with increasing divorce rates.
- At the individual-level, SNS use is negatively correlated with marriage quality.
- Our results can be explained from either a causal or a self-selection perspective.
The impact of Internet diffusion on marriage rates evidence from the broadband market
This article by Andriana Bellou discusses the effect of the Internet on marriage. Throught the article the author does an emprical analysis on the effect of Internet on marriage rates in the USA in last 20 years. She concludes that there is an increase in marriage rates, specially in younger people, due to services the Internet provides.