Gabriella_1_DQ3

I personally believe that doing a research based on college students opinions about romantic relationships maybe be risky with regard to reliability and prejudice. Most college students are between the ages of 18 and 25, this means that they have not lived enough to voice a wise and reliable opinion due to the fact that they have not enough experience. This does not mean that college students are not mature because some of them are. However, the vast majority is still deciding what they are going to do with their lives, and they feel like they have the world in their hands.  They feel the need to do the most bizarre things they could think of because ‘‘you only live once…’’ So how can someone expect that college students are going to be able to provide a reliable guide on how romantic relationships should work? It is understandable that researchers would want to use college students for a research since they are spontaneous and self-disclosed to the point where they would not mind talking about their personal lives and relationships. For instance, there are many students who post their whole romantic drama on Twitter and Facebook. This fact reveals that if they are revealing their lives to the general public, they do not have the enough maturity to keep their relationship problems for themselves and solve them as grown up people. I believe that it would be more convenient to practice a romantic relationship research on married couples asking them about how they met, how they overcome their problems while they were just a couple, and what is their insight or perspective about romance now that they are adults. I bet these answers would be rich in wisdom.