SOCIOL 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Monogamy, Revenge Porn, Sexting

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2QQ3
• Professor: Professor Collavechia

Document Summary

Social media can harm relationships by providing way more opportunities for people to find new partners and be unfaithful. The website ashley madison that got leaked. People are using it to hide or uncover infidelity. People see online affairs just as problematic and shitty as regular affairs (equally damaging: social media is used to find partners, identify one"s relationship status to the world, and highlight changes in relationship status. Everyone puts their whole relationship on social media. It can be used to find an old partner after a breakup: sexting by adolescents raises concerns around laws related to child abuse and child pornography. Sexting is so much more popular nowadays and young people see it as a flirtatious thing to do and they are not as mature to see the implications and harm of it. Child exploitation and child pornography is a big issue because of this lack of education and knowledge.