Social Media, Doing More Harm Than Good?

While social media does provide people a safe space in which they can find communities of people that they feel like they fit into, it is a very slippery slope. People get sucked into these groups within the internet which builds a sense of community but it also warps your sense of normality. This is how we end up with more extremist groups now, is because you have a group that is public to the world and it will have for example 50 members. You think "Wow so many people share the same beliefs as me." And it changes what you think is normal which in reality it is only 50 people out of 8 billion. Now sometimes this can be good to help boost peoples confidence but it can also lead teens into dark places and make them do things that are not good for them or others.

I think one of the most important things that we have to do as a society is to teach social media literacy and have protection in place in order to help protect the vulnerable people from the harms of social media.