Thanks to the advantages provided by social media and the internet, we have been in constant contact with our friends, acquaintances and business environment for the last 10-15 years. Contrary to the tiring and time-consuming responsibilities of city life, the ease of reaching the environment and people we want and making new friends from the comfort of our couch is undoubtedly very attractive to everyone. Especially for individuals who are not comfortable in social relationships, the virtual environment provides a significant advantage in terms of establishing new friendships and providing interpersonal interaction. For all individuals, making themselves and their existence known to more people, being liked by them, being valued and feeling special is proof of their 'new digital self'. The freedom of being invisible manifests itself in various ways in the virtual environment. For many people, superficial relationships established in a virtual environment feel safer. Virtual relationships, which are one-sided and devoid of emotion, and which, in addition to satisfying the need to comment, like, be disliked, and be approved, can be ended or deleted at any time with a click - as quickly as they were established - lead people to behave more comfortably.
Moreover, people on social media. They can create a new virtual identity by assuming different identities, distorting their own truths, or exaggerating the facts. The individual, positioned within social networks with this constructed identity, hides, covers, changes his/her physical and psychological dissatisfaction, and polishes his/her own story and presents it to others. In this process, social media environments function to 'perfect' individuals.
However, modern people cannot even come close to the degree of sociability and relationships in the virtual world in daily life. The capacity to establish a real relationship, which is experienced during the day by talking to each other with the help of five senses - eye contact, facial expressions, tasting, sound, touch and smell - is decreasing day by day. The inability of the younger generation to develop the ability to establish face-to-face relationships is an important problem. Children and young people are growing up who speak without making eye contact and cannot correctly perceive the other person's facial expressions. In such artificial environments, where the common area is used but not rooted, individuality increases and social isolation emerges spontaneously.&nb sp;
Recent studies indicate that social media usage among young people aged 14-24 globally is at least 90 minutes a day. New mental disorders that require psychiatric treatment, especially social media and internet addiction, are increasing worldwide.
When it comes to bilateral relations, we see more negative effects of social media and websites. In recent years, the biggest complaint of spouses is that they are constantly busy watching other people's lives on social media instead of spending quality time with each other. Since the most important thing to maintain a relationship is communication, it is very likely that some problems will arise in such relationships where communication decreases. Here, new friendships established on social media - for entertainment purposes - to get away from the problems between the spouses or the responsibilities of life, can be idealized over time, leading to the disruption of the harmony of the spouses in the marriage, the damage to the trust in each other, and further to infidelity.
For a better life, it seems more valuable to establish healthy relationships in our real world, starting with the people close to us, and thus strive to improve the quality of your life...:
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