5 Ways Facebook Can Ruin Your Relationship
A social networking site like Facebook has certainly made sure that distance is not a barrier when you want to keep in touch with your friends and family. The virtual world has been brought closer, sharing stories, pictures and living a parallel experience through the web medium. Here are 5 ways in which Facebook can ruin your relationship.
1. Relationship status
Facebook profile gives you the option of declaring your relationship status- be it complicated, single, married or engaged. If you’re in a relationship with a reserved person who is perhaps not comfortable with a public display of status messages about your relationship, comments and having uploaded all your private memories for online spectators, it can become a cause of rift and arguments between the two of you.
2. The merger feature
Facebook has launched a new merger feature which matches profiles, conversations, pictures and stories of couples whose status shows married, engaged or in a relationship. This automatic merger can pose a problem if your relationship is on the brink, you’re going through a troubled time or if you have changed your partner and not updated your status. Your relationship history can cast a dark shadow on your personal relationship. After all what happens between the couple in reality is not visible to the virtual eyes.
3. The other couple
Are you a secretive couple who wants to take things slow and see how it goes? If you feel a tad bit jealous looking at how other couples are uploading pictures of themselves cooing, cuddling and kissing or exchanging mushy status updates and celebrating their love online, it could affect one of you. Instead of focusing on your relationship, your perpetual presence on the social site can hamper your relationship with your partner. You attempt to ape other couples when your relationship differs from the rest.
