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Internet threatens lying spouses' false integrity
By Caitlin Waters
On March 14, 2013
The Internet has proven to have various effects on relationships.
Through my own experiences and observations of other people's experiences, it has
proven to be mostly negative effects.
Most spouses are naturally jealous of their significant other's personal activity if it
doesn't involve them.
For example, almost everything you do on Facebook is open to your friend base,
which includes your significant other. And if you're hiding stuff from them, then
there is probably a reason.
No matter how secure you think you are in your relationship, if you see your
spouse "like" a picture of someone of the opposite sex, there will be curiosity - bad
curiosity. People can go crazy with jealousy over things like that, even if the action
was, in your eyes, harmless.
Social networking sites can also be a gateway to what people these days call
"creeping." You can creep to the point of finding someone in the background of
someone's picture that you don't even know.
You can see what your spouse did last Friday night, or where they were two
Saturdays ago when they said they were elsewhere. Lying can be caught very easily
with tools like these. Relationships can be destroyed this way. Either someone was
lying and you caught him or her, or they weren't lying but you confronted them
anyway and now they know you don't trust them. When relationships are supposed
to be built on trust, events like these can be very damaging.
Another comical example is with the popular phone app, Instagram. Having
someone request to follow you inspires the thought, "Do they just want to creep or
are they looking for more?" If someone likes your picture it makes you think like
"oh, so what does that mean?" You have to think that, if some guy is "liking" the
picture of you in your bikini from the waist down with the caption "chilling at the
beach," they do not like it for the scenic beach view. But if they like your picture of
where you're sitting at a Sabres game, they really could just be a fan of the Sabres
and are jealous that you're in attendance. The activities involved with the Internet
really do twist and turn your mind into thinking crazy thoughts.
When people's lives these days revolve around the Internet, it's bound to have an
effect on the personal lives of young adults.
"Johnny was with Jane when Melissa thought he was at home, and now Melissa is
mad when she shouldn't be, because she was actually with Rob when she said she
was with her mom."
It's disgusting and the World Wide Web just adds to it. Social networking sites
spawn many spousal disagreements.
It doesn't only effect romantic relationships, either. If your best friend tells you she
isn't going to be friends with Jenny on Facebook because her ex-boyfriend is now
dating Jenny, you better not accept that friend request either. If you do accept that
friend request, watch out it's about to be catastrophic.
The Internet doesn't only destroy relationships, it adds to the juvenile behavior that
already is so prevalent in our society. What happened to the days when people used
the Internet to share photos of their family vacation or to aid in writing that ten-
page research paper they put off until the last minute? Now it's all "Did you see what
Becky posted on Facebook last night?"
A once innovative tool created to aid in simplifying the exploratory portions of our
lives has been tainted into a mockery of natural human relationships.
Caitlin Waters can be reached by email at waters1.record@live.com.
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