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One focus that I know i will certainly include in my research paper is, the idea of how relationships are affected my texting and speaking to someone face to face. A strain is put on relationships when you lose that personal connection to someone.

R Have any of your personal relationships been affected  by a particular text?
N yes, um this one time my boyfriend and i were talking about the holidays and his family, i had said we should spand xmas just him and i becuase you know we have some issues with is family, i am not welcomed in his home, so i had said lets just do you and me, and his reply thru text was its xmas and its my family so if you love me youll come
i was so upset and hurt because he the history with his family i got so upset i said you know i hate you and your family , whole big argument and spent the holiday apart and it sucked it really hurt

R do you feel texting verses face to face conversation would have changed this situation?

N def if we would have just talked , it would have been different, we could have seen each others hurt and body language, tone in his voice and the way he was saying things.

This chunk of conversation will play a large part of my research information, it shows the affects that texting has on people in relationships, and how the outcome of an argument or disagreement can be altered due to not having  face to face connect with the other person. The loss of face to face connection to see the emotion and hear the other persons tone is what can play the negative side of texting.