Texting Hurts and Helps Relationships Depending on How it's Used

Research shows texting can be beneficial as well as harmful to relationships, the difference is in who is doing the texting, when, and in what situation the texting is occurring. These three photos are from articles on texting and relationships. Out of the three, the most explanatory is the data chart. The picture to the left is solely descriptive. It shows a man and woman at a dining table, looking at their phones, seemingly uninterested in each other. While it can be assumed they are a couple, there is no proof of that. We don't know what the situation is. It does however do a good job of communicating through their facial expressions. It is clear they are distracted and bored. The other photo is also descriptive in that it shows a man and woman laying close together holding their phones.
Again, it can be implied that they are a couple because of how close they are, but we do not know what is occurring. The man is looking at his phone and looks bored while the woman is looking away from her phone and looks happy. We do not know what is causing them to feel this way. The data chart however is explanatory because it is easy to read and figure out. It is clear that the independent variables are young adults researching perspective love interested on social networking sites to get more information about someone they were interested in dating, to ask someone out on a date, and to follow or friend someone because a friend suggested they might like to date them. We know the age group of those taking part in the data collection and we know the dependent variable is how many of them do those activities online. It doesn't show how this social network communication affects relationships, only that it does. This is not an extremely explanatory photo, but it is more explanatory than the others. It could be improved by further research about whether or not contacting a potential love interest via the internet worked out for them or not.