There are those of us who have found our college “soulmate.” But for the rest of us, we get to scroll through our social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see happy couples living their fairy tale lives. But how much of this is real? Social media is creating an online diary for couples to show off their relationships, but unlike a real diary, you won’t see unhappy moments posted. This causes a lot of dictation in relationships from many social media websites.
Before social media, we didn’t have anything to compare our relationships to besides what we could see with our own eyes. Girls used to want a guy who would open the door for them and hold their shopping bags, but unfortunately, the simple things are not as important anymore to people. These posts of romantic gestures are allowing people to falsify the perfection in their relationships to look better to the world. For example, Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday created just for couples to outshine one another by posting what their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them on Facebook.
“I don’t need Facebook to validate any part of my life, especially not something that’s really only between me and one other person,” said junior Sam Hess. “I’m not against posting things online, but that shouldn’t be some sort of weird standard. Want to know something? Ask me.”
Since social media sites have come out, we have become more focused on capturing the moment than participating in it. Let’s not turn our relationships into Hallmark moments and take the relationship out of Facebook.
