This document summarizes a study exploring the relationship between long-distance relationships, social media usage, and relationship satisfaction. The study surveyed 199 college students and found that 30.7% were in long-distance relationships. It analyzed the connection between relationship distance, satisfaction, and social media use, finding no significant correlations. The study provides insight into how millennials use social media to maintain long-distance relationships and implications for the role of social media in relationships.

1. Facebook Romance:
Exploring the relationship between relationship
distance, social media and relationship satisfaction
Facebook
Kaki Pope
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3. Millennials make up 24%
of the U.S. population

4. Zandergen & Brown (2014)
Jealousy and Social Media Communication

5. Rappleyea et al. (2014)

6. Rappleyea et al. (2014)

7. 25% - 50% of college students
are in long distance relationships
Maguire & Kinney (2010)

8. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage

9. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage
List of Social Networking Sites“Would you consider your current
relationship to be long distance?”
Investment Model Scale
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Vine
Tumblr
Pinterest
Google+
MySpace
Friendster
LinkedIn
academia.edu

10. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage
R = .137
R2 = .019
p = .195

11. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage
R = .023
R2 = .001
p = .747
Cronbach’s alpha = .935

12. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage
R = .093
R2 = .009
p = .379
Cronbach’s alpha = .935

13. Relationship Distance
Relationship Satisfaction
Social Media Usage

14. Descriptive Statistics for Participants
Response Frequency (Valid) Percentage
Long Distance
Relationship
Yes 62 30.7
No 140 69.3
Age 18 - 30 178 89.4
Gender Male 23 11.6
Female 173 86.9
n = 199

15. The Good
The Bad
The Future

16. Questions?
Comments?