Here we go again..

I realize i just posted, and this seems a bit repetitive, but as i am trying to be a better student here, i looked over my blog requirement to make sure i was at least on the right track with what i am doing to see one of the required blog topics is "Research topic blog", which probably should have been done already, seeing as how the rough draft was due last week and the final draft needs to be in by Thursday, so obviously i am doing fantastically at this whole 'no more late work' goal. Sorry Sister Steadman.

My research topic is the effects of New Media on Marriages and Family Relationships, and how it is related to the growth or drop in divorce rates. This topic is extremely interesting to me. Not because it has any personal relation to my life, because it doesn't. No one in my family has had any dramatic Facebook related divorces lately or anything like that, but i know that things like that happen all over, all the time. The night before we were told to start brainstorming a topic, i was talking to a friend of mine who told me a horrific story about a two marriages and two families being torn apart due to infidelity that had been going on for years. It was terrifying! And it is truly amazing how often such stories actually take place in society today. This had me thinking, "how in the world can something like that just slip by a spouse? How could there not have been signs, or proof that something was going on? How could they have kept it a secret that long?"

This is when i started realizing just how much social networking sites have changed in the way we communicate today. It's not like it used to be where everything you said to anyone needed to be said aloud, in person or over the phone. Now there are multiple ways to communicate effectively in secret, such as email, texts, Facebook messages, all of which can be read and deleted, so no one knows that they even existed in the first place outside of the two people conversing. This seemed like a great subject to do a little research on. The more i brainstormed the more i realized that social networking sites are not the only type of new media that has had a recent effect on marriages. (recent, meaning over the last decade or so) Video games, and pornography are two other very prominent forms of new media that have become very common in our daily lives and have proved to be destructive in the home. The more research i conducted the more interesting the topic became to me. I think it is very important when writing to choose something you are truly interested in, and i think for this assignment i definitely have.

loveisourweapon