Relationship

= **Relationship** = //created by Bo and Steve//

**Personal Experiences**

 * Bo: ** During the Chinese New Year, my family usually gathered together to celebrate the Chinese New Year. I turned on my Skype and did online chatting with my parents since we were thousands miles away. It makes me feel very real and brings us closer even though there's a screen in front of us.

**Steve**: I was walking in the rain, and found a saturated leather purse. I concluded that this purse belonged to a woman at one time. Without looking inside, I put the purse into the bag I was carrying. I brought it home. Once in a comfortable environment, I cracked the purse open and looked inside. There was a lot of money, a lot of plastic, and a lot of information. I then decided to find this woman on the internet. I googled her name, and found her LinkedIn.com profile, along with her facebook.com profile. I sent her a wonderful message saying that I would like to return her purse. She said I can meet with her daughter at a starbucks, and I did. Through the digitization of personal information, I was able to be a good citizen, and find a contact.

**Questions:**
1. Do media isolate people from each other? 2. There is a giant database of pornography on the internet. What is the chance that our future spouse has not be exploited on the internet? 3. Does the sense of anonymity on the internet increase or decrease to the stimulation of intimacy of online relationships?

**Articles:**
1) Schachman, K. (2010). Online fathering. //Nursing Research//, //59//(1), Retrieved from http://libproxy.temple.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=47761741&site=ehost-live&scope=site//

//Lots of military men have been sent away to somewhere when their children were born. Some online tools like Facebook or chatting rooms are the only things they can use to talk to their family.//

//2) Ybarra, N. (2009). Associations between blocking, monitoring, and filtering software on the home computer and youth-reported unwanted exposure to sexual material online.// Child Abuse and Neglect//,// 33//(12), Retrieved from http://libproxy.temple.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=45544913&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Children are searching the internet at a younger age. Their creativity and curiosity can lead them to search for things that may be too inappropriate for television, or radio by the standards commissioned by the FCC. Therefore, software programs can be written by engineers who understand simple script in purpose to deny the children access to these sites. These sites may fulfill a curiosity that pertains to the normalcy of relationships.

3) Wang, C. (2010). Ciber Relationship Motives: Scale Development and Validation. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 38(3) 289-300

A study was conducted to examine cyber-relationships. The empirical study was based on nine different aspects, one of which was the feeling of anonymity while connecting with other over the internet. adventure, escape to a virtual world, and romance were finally chosen to further sort the results. **Survey** :

Our team will develop a questionnaire that will be filled out by pencil. We will take our questionnaire to middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools to find out how the teenagers experiment with relationships in correlation to digital tools. Our survey will be:

1) How long do you spend watching TV with your family?

2) Do you chat with your classmates even though you may see them every school day?

3) Do you like chatting with your boyfriend/girlfriend online more than hanging out with them?

4) How many text messages do you send and receive each day during school?

5) What kind of internet sites do your parents tell you you cannot visit?

**Keywords:**

 * *family relationship*education*school*friends*cell phone*technology*online games*chatting*text msg*sexting*texting **