The growing use of Telegram messenger has affected the traditional relationships of couples in Iran. Due to the lack of filtering, easy access and specific technological attraction, Telegram has turned into the destination of virtual wave of immigration for Iranian social networks users. In this research we have studied the impact of Telegram on traditional relationships of Iranian couples by doing a survey on 150 married users in Tehran including 73 men and 77 women between 25 to 40 years old beside a control group of 101 married men and women who didn’t join to Telegram. According to this research, we found the relevance between using Telegram and outbreak of tension in couples interactions (p<.05). The rate of reliability of our questionnaire was α=0.83.

Eventually, our descriptive findings indicated that from our respondents 67 percent believed that they had a more satisfaction from their marital relationship before joining to Telegram while 24 percent disagree with our hypothesis and 9 percent chose indifference option in the questionnaire. Moreover, with the analysis of other questions we found how absence of verbal interaction, competition for gaining virtual capital to have more influence on family members and others in Telegram and frequent reconstruction of virtual identities for different situations in groups besides the differences of real world and the fantasy of virtual world in Iran, addiction to permanent presence in network and finally changing the construction of power through reduction of real situations in family’s structure into avatars lead to tension in couple relationships.

The research stems against the background of accelerating pace of life. As response people are forced to use several time – related strategies. Many of these strategies are facilitated by ICT and mobile technologies in particular. Working parents in particular are prone to time-related problems, because of many schedules tied together and many activities taking place. This study analyzes the way ICTs are used in daily life of employed families. The main research questions of our study are: what kind of time-related problems families’ experience, and how families’ use technology to organize time and daily activities?

Time related problems concern different dimensions of time, thus solutions to these vary. Based on earlier research on daily life and time, we know that time-related problems relate to, for example, (a) the total number of activities; (b) having too many time consuming activities; (c) fragmentation of time; (d) lack of control of time; and (e) having too many (or lack of) time institutions. There are differences on the way to solve or govern these daily puzzles on time. The study analyses an interview data of 21 employed men and women collected in Finland in 2015. The analysis relies on thematic content analysis.

The study finds that ICT tackles various dimensions of time. ICTs can be used to save or storing time, but also family time is actively protected to avoid ‘time contamination’ caused by ICT. Importantly ICT is used to coordinate and manage family routines, with various activities that are tied together.