Facebooks Relationship With Facebook - 2114 Words

Facebook knows a lot of things about its users’ romantic lives. It knows when they’re falling in love and when they are falling out of love. I met my boyfriend in 2010, through mutual friends on Facebook. It gave us an opportunity to learn a lot about each other before we actually met. At first we spend hours messaging back and forth with each other, we also then started texting each other and eventually met offline. In the beginning of our relationship we were both involved with each other on Facebook, it started with just a little flirting and liking each others posts and pictures, then commenting on each other pictures and also liking pictures. When we were dating, pictures were shared in our sites, where we both were tagged in the†¦show more content†¦We had several arguments about this, to the point where we unfriended each other. I asked him why that was and he said that all the on and off in our relationship made things unsteady and unclear sometimes and he felt like not everyone on his Facebook needed to know what our relationship was going through. I tried to understand where he was coming from, but I just couldn’t and in order for me not to think and nag him about it I came to the conclusion and I deleted my Facebook. I think seeing other couples on Facebook share their relationship openly with their â€Å"Facebook friends† had sort of given me the notion that maybe I wasn’t in a happy relationship, because my boyfriend and I weren’t sharing those details. I saw other couples on my timeline share their moments and show each other love on Facebook, and it would make me angry that my boyfriend wouldn’t do that, He says that those people are just doing it for attention and to him it wasn’t genuine. He has a different point of view than I do. To him the more those couples shared, the more he thought that their relationship lost meaning, that no moment was just theirs or cherished, because th ey always had to post about it in the meantime or ruin the moment to snap a picture to upload it on their Facebook. My main purpose in to address how those in committed relationships experience relationship satisfaction through social media. Being raised online, my generation has an entirely different world to contend