Phone Addicts

Technology has brought people closer together through social media. People today are able to make new friends online from anywhere around the world. This also means that people can meet anyone from anywhere to form an intimate relationship with. Technology has created a vast new world for us, but sometimes we don't know when to stop. While it's been successful in creating new interactions, people often forget about the ones right in front you. There is nothing more frustrating than spending time with a loved one, and they are paying more attention to their phone rather than you. It seems as though some people can't even go a half an hour without being on their phone. People become so engrossed with their devices that they need to learn to remember to give their significant other the respect and attention they deserve. 

Technology and Intimate relationships

My boyfriend and I have this agreement that whenever we are together, we put our phones aside and spend quality time together. I like to think this works because we have been together for five years now. Whether it is a date to our favorite restaurant, or just watching tv on the couch, we make it a point to silence our phones and just enjoy each others company. However, this does not mean technology still has not effected our relationship. I would say 95% of the fights my boyfriend and I get into are about social media. I will get upset if I see he followed a girl that I think is prettier than me, and he will get upset if he sees me snapchatting a guy friend of mine. The funny thing is, these fights last for five minutes and then we step back and question why we just wasted energy fighting about that. We end up laughing it off and moving on, but some couples do not work it out as easy as we do. Going back to spending time together, it hurts me to see a couple out to dinner and both of them are on their phones or one of them is completely immersed in something on their device while the other just stares and waits for the food to come so their date could be over. I do not think there is anything that upsets me more than that.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rediscovering-love/201103/can-love-survive-in-the-age-technology

That article talks about the future of relationships and how technology can tear people apart. I found it sad but also extremely interesting.

Impact of technology on intimate relationships

Social media is an excellent way to stay connected with friends and family. The ability to be truly connected with other human beings is becoming more difficult with the power of security that technology grants us. Most people want to find the ultimate form of human connection, the kind that lasts a lifetime, and most people want to love someone and they want to be loved in return. With the amount of time spent staring at screens throughout the day, it is likely to meet a potential mate online. Finding someone to love through technological means is understandable since people love technology. An estimated one third of all marriages today begin online. Studies show that in less than a decade or two more than half of romantic relationships will start on the internet. There is no disputing that happy marriages that lead to new families can be found online. For adults out of college and moved away from the place they called home, it's sometimes a struggle to meet new people so they resort to using what is at their fingertips in order to interact and connect with others. The act of meeting someone has never been more easier yet challenging all at once.

Dating a robot

The picture was edited to make it SFW.

The terms and condition of a "dating website"

FOR AMUSEMENT PURPOSES ONLY

1. THIS SITE UTILIZES FANTASY PROFILES IDENTIFIED AS FANTASY CUTIES. You comprehend, acknowledge, and accept that some of the profiles listed on the Site may be operated by our Site or third party contractors and are fictitious. These profiles and interactions generated from them are clearly labelled with the Fantasy Cuties logo:
   Fantasy Cuties functionality is offered to help the Service 1) enforce Service rules and policies, 2) monitor use of Site, 3) illustrate to users the features and communication tools of the Site, 4) enhance your online communication, companionship and entertainment experience, 5) and to promote increased use of the Site such posting of profile information and/or additional content to users' profile pages.

This "dating website" uses a large amount of computer generated profiles which will be denoted to the viewer with a gold star with FC written inside the star.  This can be viewed in the picture above of a 'Fantasy Cuties' profile from the site.  

Whether the account is managed by a person who is in charge of other accounts or a computer generated response program the user of the site would be able to have sexually explicit conversations with the account leading to a fake formation of intimacy with a person which would lead to problems in future legitimate relationships.

How is Technology Shaping Romance: Catfish TV Show

 Catfish TV Show Trailer

The dating world has changed drastically- It's no longer waiting for a call from that guy or girl you saw on your first date, taking 3 buses to get to the city for a date, or ringing the doorbell and walking your date to the car. Being together and being connected has become much easier with the progression of technology...  so easy that it might be the reason people get in and out of relationships so readily nowadays. There are now hundreds of free and accessible online dating sites making the dating process much more simplified and convenient. However, people are taking advantage of these sites and many relationships formed through the virtual screen may be based on lies and false information. As the anthropologist Helen Fisher argues, "There's not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person," In other words, meeting face to face is the most essential component when meeting someone new. I believe that the process of online dating creates a wall between two people, where there can never be full trust, instead of bringing them close.   

Catfish: The TV Show is an American reality-based documentary television series airing on MTV about the truths and lies of online dating.

Double Burdens

The Industrial Revolution was not a time and place for women and children to be a part of. Although the Industrial Revolution did provide an independent wage, mobility, a better standard of living for some, many others had to face a life of hardship. Many of the working conditions women and children had to work in were usually unsanitary and rather dangerous. Many diseases were spread, which often lead to many deaths during the revolution.

Women were faced with double burdens. Women needed to find waged work outside of their home and were still expected to continue with their domestic chores and child care. Women had many burdens upon their shoulders, doing twice the amount of work as men, but were still were receiving less wages. But the need for wages kept increasing, therefore children and women needed to continue working. Because children had to work, they were deprived of an education.

Women and children were treated unfairly during this drastic time in the United States. Women needed to work twice as hard and children were forced to grow up quickly. Living conditions may have slightly improved, but the hardships and struggles throughout the work day was overbearing and exhausting.

The industrial revolution and the impact on women

Video

During the industrial revolution every person in the working class was subjected to dangerous working conditions not only women and children.  The difference between women and men working during the industrial revolution was that when women were done working in the factory they were also in charge of taking care of the kids in the family.

Women during the industrial revolution would not only be exposed to dangerous working conditions at factories they would also be subjected to sexual harassment by supervisors because more often then not the person was a male worker.

As the video had stated women who would be working in factories would often be single mothers taking care of children at home. The video had stated at the end " Women experienced a better standard of living" which as the viewer I had interpreted that as women without the factory job and no other person to support them would have had to turn to a much less favorable way of making a living.

In the end however it is certain that women were the group of people that suffered most from the industrial revolution.