Social media can sometimes have a negative effect on relationships, trust, and emotional connections. Here are some ways it can affect...
Spending way too much time on social media reduces special face-to-face interactions with your partner, leading to neglect.
Social media is full of ultra-sugary declarations of love and rosy-rosy portrayals of relationships. It's easy to pick up the habit of comparing your significant other or relationship to others on social media, which can bring on feelings of dissatisfaction, inadequacy and misunderstanding.
Social media, as you see in movies, makes it easy to connect with old flames or meet exciting strangers, that might take you down the road to to emotional or physical infidelity, which can ruin trust and hurt a relationship.
Sharing personal details about your SO or relationship on social media, without mutual consent, can ruin your privacy and create misunderstandings.
When you communicate with each other via messages on social media, they may lack emotion, tone and context, increasing chances of misunderstandings and cause issues to crop up in the relationship.