How Social Media Shapes Our Relationships

How Social Media Shapes Our Relationships

• Connecting Across Distance: Explore how social media helps people maintain friendships, family connections, and relationships across different countries and cultures.
• From Real Life to Online Life: Discuss how social media has changed the way people meet, communicate, and maintain relationships.
• The Positive Side: Explore how social media can strengthen relationships through instant communication, shared experiences, and emotional support.
• When Connection Becomes Pressure: Examine how expectations around likes, replies, messages, and online availability can create stress in relationships.
• Trust and Jealousy: Discuss how posts, comments, followers, and online interactions can influence trust between friends and romantic partners.
• The Comparison Trap: Explore how seeing other people's “perfect” relationships online can affect our expectations and satisfaction with our own relationships.
• Online vs Real-Life Communication: Compare texting, commenting, video calls, and face-to-face conversations. Which creates stronger connections?
• Social Media and Cultural Differences: Compare how people in different countries, such as Sri Lanka and Japan, use social media to communicate and maintain relationships.
• When Social Media Creates Distance: Discuss how excessive screen time, constant scrolling, or being distracted by phones can affect face-to-face relationships.
• Boundaries in the Digital World: Explore questions such as privacy, sharing relationship details online, replying to messages, and respecting personal space.
• The Future of Relationships: Discuss how AI, virtual communication, and emerging social media platforms may change human relationships in the future.
• Discussion & Challenge: Is social media bringing people closer together or pushing them further apart? Share your opinion and an example.
• Event conducted fully in English.

When: September 26 (Saturday) 14:00-16:00 (JST)

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