Sunday, April 14, 2013

Social media interactions could hurt marriage - London Free Press

Oh, sure, you think it's cute now to tweet each other or post on one another's Facebook walls, but too much Internet intercourse could hurt a marriage in the long run.

The theory of "media multiplexity" says there is a link between the number of media channels we use to communicate, how often we use them and the strength of our relationships ? and that was developed when all we had was e-mail, instant message and telephone.

Researchers at the Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, in England, conducted a new study involving 24,000 married people and 10 media channels, and found that some of the couples reported decreased satisfaction with their relationship.

The findings, they said, suggest there may be a cut-off point where relationships start to weaken because of the difficulty maintaining the many communication threads in use today.

The study was presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society.

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Source: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/04/12/couples-social-media-interactions-could-hurt-marriage-study

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