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Sakinasukinah Alammar

English composition II

Glena Madden

8/8/2021

My Research question is: How does social media affect relationship? Social media is the

way to interact between people who want to create or share information and ideas in the virtual

communities. Facebook, Instagram, and google plus are the most globally connections.

Nowadays, it is necessary to use one of the Social Media websites if not all of them. Social Media

can connect strangers all around the world and may makes them no longer strangers, they may

become friends and more. Many people have met through the social media and later end up

engaging into relationships that result in marriage.

Making relationships have changed through the years and the most factor is Social

Media. it is very significant change between past and now. In the past, we could make

relationships between the communities around us, or with the people we meet in schools. Most

of the friends in the past were relative or family’s friend. In the past, it was hard to find friends

with the same interest as you. Comparing with these days, making relationships become easier.

Social networks present great opportunities to make relationships and enhance personal

interactions. Social media sites offer a space where people can meet and share knowledge,

everyone can talk about his interest and passions. it is less hard to find your peers on social

media now. Some people could find their partner as well.

One of the most common reasons that people use social media is to stay connected with

their friends and family members (Pempek, Yermolayeva, & Calvert, 2009; Subrahmanyam,
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Reich, Waechter, & Espinoza, 2008; Wang, Tchernev, & Solloway, 2012). Social media

provides an easy way to keep in touch and maintaining relationships with people especially

friends and family. Many people have an online friend who never meet with.

Privacy is the most important factor and the right for everyone. Most people who use

social media complaining the lack of privacy. the research that done by Sherry Turkle (2010),

she makes the supposition that there is “no intimacy without privacy and as young adults share

more and more on social media” (Social Media, Relationships, and Young Adults). Many people

share personal information on Social Media and have other violate their privacy.

Social Media is a good way for people who shy and embarrassed to make relationships or

talk about their interest.as Shepherd and Edelmann said ‘’Those who are shyer find power in

using social media because the anonymity can let them be more open (Shepherd & Edelmann,

2005)’’. Most websites allow people to talk with no names required or even with a nickname.

Our relationships through the Social Media, online relationship, have become so

interconnected . Kerkhof, Finkenauer, and Muusses (2011) called this phenomenon a “syntopia.

Many people have more online friends who enjoy with more than the people they meet.

These days, social media is the largest and broadest way to make relationships of

different races and countries and also the biggest influence in our relationships as I will explain

in the rest of this research.

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