Summary And Evaluation Of An Article: Social Media And Social Relationships

Summary and evaluation of an article
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The “Social Media and Social Relationships’ chapter discusses the role social media plays in the lives of individuals in China. The section primarily focuses on the impact that social media has on personal relationships treasured by people in this country, made through schooling together, regional affiliation, being relatives and with strangers. The Chinese society has skillfully adopted different aspects of social media from WeChat to QQ informed by the scrutiny of 105 QQ immigrant profiles carried out in 2014 (Wang, 2016, pp. 97).
First, the hot and noisy principle applied to promote that social life has changed. Previously, individuals would attend concerts where they would enjoy music together with other people. However, social media only necessitates people to visit each other’s QQ profiles, leave comments or engage in online games together. Relationships among couples and families have been improved by social media ensuring wives and husbands distant away from each other communicate regularly through QQ videos, messages, share family photos and track children’s school performance (Wang, 2016, pp. 103-104). Moreover, WeChat groups have connected nuclear families by putting them on a similar platform where they can catch up, share jokes and make plans on when to meet.
Romantic relationships benefit from its use lovers gaining confidence to share romantic messages and display their love freely without judgment commonly present offline. Additionally, making friendships online has become the primary use of social media, by allowing people to meet supportive individuals and those with common interests despite being strangers and di...