Boundaries online (DW#359)
In the age of digital technology, giving in to temptation is only a click away.
On social media, for example, it is easy to track down old friendships that may have meant something in the past. Or you may encounter someone who appears to have the same interests as yourself, who likes the same things, responds to your actions on social media. You find yourself looking for them and their interactions when you are online. Their engagement and reactions to your postings begin to mean something to you.
Even if you realize that you are in close call territory at this point, the nature of social media interaction is such that you find yourself unable to stop. You are faced with the choice of stopping it or hiding it. In such situations, hiding it usually wins. You convince yourself that you are not doing anything wrong. That no one is being harmed.
At times like this we need to remind ourselves that the above thought process itself is a sign that we are on the threshold of an online affair: a relationship that is important to us and one that we are hiding from our spouse.
Setting social media boundaries means that we are transparent about our online activities and share our engagement on social media with our spouses. We do not have secret social media or email accounts and allow full access to our online activity to our spouses.
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