E-DATING AND MARITAL LIFE IN NIGERIA: THE NEXUS

Agunbiade, Musa Bolaji and Ajobiewe, Jamiu Olatunji

Department of General studies,

Ogun state Institute of Technology, Igbesa

E-mail: ayobolaji2013@yahoo.co.uk, tunjiajobiewe@yahoo.com

Abstract

The use of social networking and on-line dating are new methods of meeting future partners. It is now a loud song that the internet, cell phones, and social media have become key actors in the life of many couples, the influences of the western life’s and its technological developmental dependency has affected our most home especially in Nigeria. Thus, the values attached to marriage and family life are now in decline which always led to separation or divorce as well as reducing the family bond. The study empirically  examine the threat of the new technology system of entering into relationship and its effect on the family institution and its increasing social vices and  marital breakdown coupled with well-being  of married couples in the society.

Keywords: E-dating, Technology, Marital Violence, Internet, Network