How do new technologies influence social and personal relationships? Good use of them makes them improve. But do we know how to set a limit? Do we know how the same applications are used?
Today we woke up with this news and what a coincidence that it refers to what we already told you on February 6 from ClÃnica Garoz with our article on WhatsApp.
We once again emphasize how new technologies influence social and personal relationships. Good use of them makes them improve, that is, we can tell our stories in real time, share information, photos or videos, communicate with people who live far from us, etc. But do we know how to set a limit? Do we know how the same applications use our personal information?
We are encountering many patients who They feel invaded or that they invade through WhatsApp Messages are sent indiscriminately and an immediate response is required.
The power of double checking
The fact of seeing that the double check next to the message and there is no response is interpreted as intentionally ignoring you. Just like if we see them starting to write and suddenly they go online. What do they have to hide from me? Have they regretted telling me something?
In couple therapy We have had to go so far as to place the patients’ cell phones on the table and send a WhatsApp at that moment and see how it said read when not even the other person had opened the message. Many times the lack of time or being in a certain situation (meeting, traffic light, etc.) causes us to look at the most urgent ones and postpone the rest until when we are calmer.
This produces a high level of anxiety when thinking that the other person is online and does not “want” to answer us. Some of the consequences of this misuse are, on the one hand, the invasion that is made in separated couples where “harmlessly” information is continually being requested from the children. Are we aware “or not” that we are interfering?
On the other hand, do we know where the photos and videos that are sent through WhatsApp end up? This data can be taken out of context, published on other social networks and/or used or transformed to harm another person.
He morphing It is a montage that is made of a photograph, transforming it into a pornographic one. Can you imagine the damage this can do to a person if it is published, for example, on Facebook? Where people from your work, friends, acquaintances, family, etc. can see it.
This makes us think: What is true and what is a lie about what we see? Could we be able to discern in a photo the real intention or the context in which it was taken? Do we realize how much dependence we have on new technologies and how they influence us?
Are you one of those who sleep with your cell phone on the bedside because of the alarm or in case they text or call you? Do you do sports with your cell phone for music or do you run while answering a WhatsApp?
We leave you to reflect that in the end our actions are a reflection of how we are as people.
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PsychologyFor. (2024). Morphing: WhatsApp Breaks 28 Million Couples. PsychologyFor. https://psychologyfor.com/morphing-whatsapp-breaks-28-million-couples/