Societal Issues Raised By Social Media by Melissa
Social media and it's users are a rapidly growing community and it continues to grow everyday. Currently 2.46 billion people use social media and as of April 2018 Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. Social media has many benefits like keeping in contact with people from around the world or keeping up to date with everything that's going on with the world. In the years that all social media platforms have began to rise up in popularity there is also a rise in online crimes. From stolen identities to fake accounts, social media has helped crime as you can never really tell who it is behind the screen. I t is very easy to be anonymous online, you can use different names and pictures, often people will feel that they can't be touched as they are invincible online. As most of society has Facebook or Twitter it is not uncommon to see videos or pictures of a violent nature, at one point in time it was a trend for a group of people to violently be