Relationships and the mass media

Nowadays, we can’t really deny that fact that media whichever forms it takes have a great influence in reshaping the structure of our behaviors, attitudes and norms therefore affecting the way we precise the different kinds of relations that we go through in our life.

When we look at media be it T.V shows, video clips, films and others and compare how relationship used to be perceived in the past 20 years till the present day, we can notice a correlation between both. Every movie that we watched on T.V whether it was scary or funny contains a love story between a guy and a girl. Every T.V show is based on a relationship between husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend and even guys and girls together.

As for the mass media audience, rarely you can find someone who didn’t get exposed to a relation whether it was a fling or a long-lasting relation. For me, I totally agree with the fact that everyone should go through the phase of having a relationship with someone else. But what is really happening is that every one following his/her role model and instead of having an honest relationship, we tend to follow what is fashion and trendy. For example, in T.V shows such as 8 simple rules or the war at home, there are certain criteria that “popular teenage girl” has to follow in order to date someone: he have to be the most handsome guy in the school, he have to be a senior or even older and finally the relation shouldn’t last for a long time.

What I am trying to say is that the mass media nowadays portrays relations in a ways that it is based on the fling or sexual appeal as apposed the true meaning of love and because of the many situations that media exposes us to; we started accepting these facts and made part of the reality. For it seems to me, relations are now based on a friendship that might lead to sexual relation same as what is happening in the T.V show “friends” which become the most popular show over the decade.

In terms of relations in our society, the mass media had a great effect on the way we perceive the meaning of relation. I have to agree that at certain point, the media helped us open our mind to experience relations that are not only based on marriage and I think that it is powerful point which clarified the massive impact of media on people’s behavior or traditional regardless of their culture or even religious.

I don’t agree with the fact that it is hard for us as friends to consult each about our own relations, it might be embarrassing but it shouldn’t be an excuse for us to crawl to the T.V as solution.

Having a relation with someone is a great phase that we go through and it helps us determine the path of our life and in which directions we tend to follow. But any relation shouldn’t be determined by what see on T.V as it can change our perceptions and therefore make us live in a world of fantasies that doesn’t exist and numb towards reality.