Aziz Anzari’s book Modern
Romance, chapter six, “Old Issues, New Forms: Sexting, Cheating, Snooping,
and Breaking Up” discusses how technology makes it easy to keep up long
distance relationships, which is a concept that has stayed with me since I read
chapter six, three days ago. In the past, when the only means of communication was
by phone call, it was sort of an “out of sight, out of mind” phenomena,
because, in the past, couples didn’t constantly have their phones on them, so
they had to rely on a set time and date to contact their significant others.
Sometimes people would forget to call their significant other, or maybe they
would just be busy, but in the end they would miss whatever call time they had set
up.
In current times, we have our cellphones on us 24/7. We have the option to immediately contact our significant other and get a response back almost as fast as we sent a text or message. Even though we can now make long distance relationships work better than ever, are we limiting our contact with others who could be our potential partners? I’ve met some people who love their long distance relationships because, whenever their significant other is right next to them, they are always fighting, yet when all they have to communicate is a screen in front of them, they are the picture perfect couple. Does this mean Turkle is right when she says we are limiting the scope of face-to-face interaction, just to make a relationship work?
If a relationship does not work in any way, shape, or form, then I would personally just call it off. Even if you and your significant other are the perfect couple when you're far away from each other, if you can't stand them when you are around them it will never work.
ReplyDeleteTechnology has made dating a whole new world. If you're fighting over texts, nothing will particularly get accomplished. If you don't want to talk about the problem, you don't even really have to reply. It's all kind of odd to me, since I prefer to talk out issues in person, but many people in our generation have relationships completely dependent on technology. Especially those that are long distance.
ReplyDeleteI think that technology has helped create connections with another but the quality of those connections has decreased. Like Casey said, when a couple fights over text they can just ignore or not reply instead of working past the problem. I believe that technology makes it difficult to fully solve relationship issues, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible. Being able to think out what you say before you say it can also help relationships as well.
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