Why Instagram is Bad for Relationships
Instagram feeds us all our insecurities about our capabilities and manipulates what we believe is possible and what is reality; when people post content and other images on social media, they are only shown snapshots of the best part of their lives.
Life is complicated, and people and relationships, whether romantic or platonic friendships, are complex.
However, social media presents a dynamic of perfection that doesn’t exist in reality.
Even the best relationships in the world require commitment, mutual communication, and willingness to understand your partner.
Instagram is deadly and destructive for relationships because it presents the illusion of perfection, whether physical attraction or a prosperous lifestyle.
Men see thousands of images of women on Instagram and other social media platforms or desensitise the man to a natural woman’s beauty.
Women have scars, stretch marks and many other floors that are not just physical.
These unauthentic beauty standards manipulated with plastic surgery, Botox and fillers damage relationships because they make people increasingly selfish and view Romans and their relationships through a purely image-orientated viewpoint.
It doesn’t consider kindness, femininity, the ability to communicate with your partner, or the ability to go through the highs and lows of human life, which causes people to retreat from reality.
Instagram ultimately makes relationships into a product, and life becomes commercialised as to whether or not a man or a woman will look good on social media feeds.
We don’t look for the man or woman who makes us happy; we choose someone who’ll impress our friends and look good on social media.
Connection and building a relationship are built through mutual communication; building mutual understanding creates intimacy. Intimacy is not created through a camera image but through being with someone, being there for them, and finally knowing someone.
That is the considerable risk to building a relationship; it cannot be through text or images; it requires both parties to be willing to take significant risks and vulnerability, which creates the possibility of being hurt emotionally or even physically by another human being, which is truly scary.
Instagram and social media provide a stopgap and create space that doesn’t protect people but makes them even more lonely than they already are.
