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Erica Buddington's F-Boy Literature: The Evolution Of Social Media

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Social media has taken over every aspect of our lives. People cannot go seconds without wanting to check all of their social media platforms. It has evolved how people form and maintain relationships. Introverts have complex interpersonal skills that were altered with the evolution of social media. Mental health has been a hot topic when discussing social media and its effect on the youth. After analyzing Erica Buddington’s F-Boy Literature, it is evident that the evolution of technology and social media has affected people’s relationships, interpersonal skills of introverts, and mental health. Social media has the ability to make relationships easier because it helps to connect us over long distances, however, relationships have evolved into …show more content…

Social media has decreased faithfulness in relationships and made the term “f-boy” more common. It is defined as “someone who ain’t sh*t” (Buddington 85) in Urban Dictionary which can range from “physically cheating on someone to flirting with someone excessively over text” says Jenna Snyder in her article Effects of Social Media on Relationships. The worst part is that social media makes infidelity very easy which increases the temptation for the f-boys to act on it. Social media has also caused a lack of privacy in relationships. It is mainly at the fault of the people in the relationship for putting all of their business online. Complications arise from this because everyone would know about everything in a relationship which attracts pressure from outside …show more content…

Dr. Rachna Jain, a social marketer, says in her article, 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Your Relationships, “people can become so seduced by the ease of connecting with others online that we begin to think that these relationships are more intense, more committed, and more complete than they really are.” Misallocating the priority of real-life relationships on to online ones causes people to hinder their opportunities to make actual relationships of substance. Another effect of being too invested in social media is that we compare ourselves to others too much. With all of the different platforms available on social media, we are able to see very much into other people’s lives, or rather the part of their lives that they want to share which may or may not be doctored. These fake impressions of having perfect lives and always being happy cause people to compare the things that they don’t have to the things that others do and the things that they do have to the things that others have better versions of. Also, knowing that people are watching us all of the time, there is pressure to uphold a specific persona so that we can be the type of person who people

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