Social Media. Cell Phones. Tinder. Twitter. What do these few things have in common? They are the epitome of all relationship crushers. Leave it to these four bad-boys to doom the future of your love-life.

In an environment where likes and comments can lead to lying and cheating in a relationship, it is now harder than ever for a couple to thrive. The constant wall of technology between a girl and her boyfriend can drive a wedge between the two, when there is no true reason for a fight at all.

People nowadays find themselves instinctively double tapping selfies, checking statuses and sending Snapchats more than they find themselves picking up a phone to dial a friend, or writing a letter to show they care. While all these things show a progression in technology, they show regression in the way we communicate and interact with others. This is a real problem in our culture, and it is starting to look like “going steady", is steadily declining.

Children of this generation will someday sit anxiously waiting to hear the stories of how and when their parents met. After their parents look at each other and begin the tale of their love, the children's shoulders will sink and eyes will lose their twinkle just to find that their parents were just another story of a successful “slide” into Twitter DMs. What is this world coming to? Where did the days of holding doors, coming up to the door to pick up your date, buying flowers and talking on the phone for hours go? Maybe it is the sheer, nonchalant notion that love can really be found anywhere, or maybe it is just that humans are losing touch with themselves and the reality of what a relationship entails.

Our “human touch” is often only felt through the cold, sterile display on an iPhone. We send our love to our family and friends by “liking” a status instead of sending a handwritten card. We display our celebration of a "Happy Birthday" by adding the confetti effect to our messages. As opposed to meeting for breakfast, we set up a 15 minute time block to FaceTime. This is not the way our feelings should be shown, and while these may be advancements in technology, they are only setbacks in our growth as a human race.

One day, kids may never know the heart-racing feeling of peeling open a letter from their sweetheart, or holding the hand of someone they love in a time of stress. The feelings of butterflies in their stomach after being kissed at the front door after the picture-perfect date. All of the things that make us inherently human... will soon be gone.

Next time you think about foregoing that date night in the city, stop and realize that the things that make up a true “love" are not found in the 4 walls of an iPhone. We only have to look so far to see that love is right in front of us, if we could only lift our noses from our smartphones.