Post-It's 'Notes On A Marriage'
In the play “Post It’s (Notes on a Marriage)” the characters influence the other by the challenge of maintaining a long term relationship. Their entire relationship and way of communication with each other is by leaving post-it notes since they both have a busy life and barely spend time together, “I cant take this anymore! We barely communicate…there got to be more to this marriage than scribbled words on a small square of paper…” (Holzman and Dooley pg 1332). They both managed to find a convenient and effective way to say what they have to say to one another even when times get rough. This human connection they have created through scraps of paper create this dependence on a useless object to keep a hold on something that in my opinion
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Social media can lead you in connection with a past love or crush. Or simply getting home to your significant other and you literally have nothing to talk about because either you’ve talked about it all in social media or you’ve looked through each other’s feeds. Another major point is that social media will potentially subject to emotional contagion effect as John Cacioppo, a researcher at the University of Chicago, studies show that loneliness is transmitted via social networks. For example, if someone in your social network is angry, lonely or hostile and posts it to their feed, you’re more likely to “transmit” this mood to yourself. What this means is that even though you may have never met this person, or not even interacted with them, their bad behavior can still influence …show more content…
The restraints that stop most people from blurting out things in public we know we shouldn’t seem far weaker when our mode of communication is typing. As in “Post It’s (notes On Marriage)” it is humanity in its simplest form. The connection between people without reliance on the power of media and technology we have today. Their sole dependence is on each other and small squares of paper. Which I think describes the play perfectly, as the two characters are relying on such a petty useless object to keep hold of something priceless, their relationship. This puts the perfect example of where the post it notes show how if you were texting your significant other but never have time to see each other, which for me it is a pointless relationship. This is why long distance relationship has a lot of
Social media can lead you in connection with a past love or crush. Or simply getting home to your significant other and you literally have nothing to talk about because either you’ve talked about it all in social media or you’ve looked through each other’s feeds. Another major point is that social media will potentially subject to emotional contagion effect as John Cacioppo, a researcher at the University of Chicago, studies show that loneliness is transmitted via social networks. For example, if someone in your social network is angry, lonely or hostile and posts it to their feed, you’re more likely to “transmit” this mood to yourself. What this means is that even though you may have never met this person, or not even interacted with them, their bad behavior can still influence …show more content…
The restraints that stop most people from blurting out things in public we know we shouldn’t seem far weaker when our mode of communication is typing. As in “Post It’s (notes On Marriage)” it is humanity in its simplest form. The connection between people without reliance on the power of media and technology we have today. Their sole dependence is on each other and small squares of paper. Which I think describes the play perfectly, as the two characters are relying on such a petty useless object to keep hold of something priceless, their relationship. This puts the perfect example of where the post it notes show how if you were texting your significant other but never have time to see each other, which for me it is a pointless relationship. This is why long distance relationship has a lot of