The abuse in the use of social networks and family relationships

Student

Ingrid Tatiana Aguilar Moreno

Tutor

Ana Victoria Vargas Pimiento

Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo UDI

English

Level 7

July 2020
 Introduction

The basis of all good communication always develops around respect, nobody is the owner of

reason, because we can easily learn from the smallest members of the family. Respecting and

caring for the ideas of others will strengthen family trust and bond.
 The abuse in the use of social networks and family relationships

Currently we live in a society where the use of social networks takes more strength and becomes

essential both for work and educational purposes and to entertain ourselves.

This fact, although it has advantages such as the optimization of time if we talk about work and

education or eliminating distances between friends who are far away for entertainment purposes,

although the social networks are really fantastic also has some disadvantages, because obviously,

although it brings close those who are far away, it also distances those who are close, for

example, the families; and that is why communication problems appear, in recent times we’ve

seen families broken by this

In homes with young parents the situation is a pretty complex, because they are working all day

and at night when they get home all they want is to spend time on Facebbok, Instagram or any

social networks and hope they can do it quietly; and they put this before spending quality time

with their children. Meanwhile in homes with parents who are not familiar with new technologies

the situation is a bit different because those who don’t want to share family time are the children,

fortunately I remember that in my home my childhood and that of my brothers was absolutely

wonderful because we were always playing happily with our parents.

That is why it is important to know the disadvantages of abuse in the use of social networks and

the lack of communication between the family, here we’ll mention some:

 Absence of family dialogue: A clear example of this point is that each family member is

so focused on their social networks that even at mealtime they go to the table with their

cell phones, the children no longer tell their parents how they did in the school and some
 parents don't care to know what their children did, they wait patiently for the time at the

table to end to immerse themselves in their virtual reality.

 Difficulty establishing interpersonal relationships: Both parents and children may have

problems establishing relationships with people who are in their real environment, as they

don't develop communication skills and due to this the relationships at work or school

may not be the best; when this happens automatically we are doomed to haven’t lasting

relationships in any field.

 Break of relationships: In this point we refer to the relationship between husband and

wife, this may be the worst of the consequences of communication problems as it involves

the breakdown of the entire family, and is that social media posts can be unpleasant for

any of the members of the couple. Suppose a husband comes every night to check his

Facebook and doesn’t pay attention to his wife, the next day the wife finds out that her

husband put "like" inappropriate photos of other women, there will probably be a big

problem.

 Loss of psychomotor ability: When people spend all their time sitting either on their

computer or their cell phone they lose certain capacities of the motor system and that is

why today it is rare to see children or young people interested in playing sports, but

instead if it is very likely to find young people who, for example, don’t know how to

dance or who do it really badly. This is why the stimulation of the development of group

activities that include different games should be implemented in family, so that everyone

participates actively.
  Cyberbullying risk: In children and young people the risk is extremely high because

they are incredibly influenceable and this, added to poor communication with parents, can

expose them to cyber crimes such as people trafficking or child pornography.

We can name a number of disadvantages that brings with it the abuse in the use of social

networks and poor communication in the family, therefore, the best we could do is regulate the

use of these, and in this way at least the impact on family life won’t be so serious.

It is worth noting that the basis of all good communication always develops around respect,

nobody is the owner of reason, because we can easily learn from the smallest members of the

family. Respecting and caring for the ideas of others will strengthen family trust and bond.
This article was made by Ingrid Tatiana Aguilar Moreno.

I was born and raised in Bucaramanga, I have lived here all my life. At the age of 19 I started

working as a dental assistant, , then at 24 I started studying business administration.

I can be very kind but also competitive, I like to share time with my coworkers and do my job

well. Rigth now I’m working for a company called SURA EPS, it is a great company, it always

takes care of its employees.

I like to read, write and spend time with my family.

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