• Anusuah. R
• Dr. G. Balasubramania Raja

Facebook usage has become one of the inevitable patterns of communication in everyday life. It provides a place for people to interact with others, friends, family or online friends. Researches revealed that excessive use of Facebook can harm relationships. Disclosure can bring intimacy among Facebook friends as it can also lead to emotional breakdowns between married couples. From the related literature it is hypothesized that prolonged use of Facebook, increased partner monitoring have a strong association with decreased trust and increased conflicts, loneliness among the partners. This research paper concentrates on the conflicts arise due to online disclosure among Facebook using married couples. The methodology adopted for this study is in-depth interview. The interview questions included basic patterns of Facebook usage, establishing trust among them, having a lot number of mutual friends, things they disclose among their mutual friends, other acquaintances and partner monitoring through Facebook profile, posts and other modes of disclosure. The questions also included the conflicts faced by the couples due to disclosure of intimate, personal information, pictures etc details in Facebook. The participants were also asked to do a self evaluation of their Facebook usage before and after marriage life. Convenience sampling is employed, involving 21 couples as participants of this study, these couples were from various demographic and socio-economic groups and majorly both were working. Each couple was interviewed individually using personal and non-personal interview method.

Self-Disclosure, Facebook, Online Friendship, Marriage, Trust

"Facebook use and conflicts among young married couples", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.154-160, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811A22.pdf

"Facebook use and conflicts among young married couples", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp154-160, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811A22.pdf