Social Media Is Taking over

Over one billion people around the world use social media. It has become so big and out of control that it has taken over the early 20th century and will continue to negatively impact the communication of generations to come. Social media is ruining the way society defines friendship. A friendship is a relationship with a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. But Bradley Shear defines a "Facebook Friend" as someone with whom you may or may not have ever met or interacted with other than requesting that he or she be added to your network or that you confirmed that he or she be added to your network. Facebook recently reported that most users who have hundreds of friends in reality only really interact with between five to ten percent of their Facebook buddies. Social Media also continues to dismantle our ability to have relationships with one another by simply giving us the satisfaction of being “connected”. Social media has become so overwhelmingly big that it has put our safety at risk, it continues to distract us from important every day tasks and causes huge issues with our social skills not only on a personal level but also in society as a whole.
One of the main issues of social media is the lack of privacy. Less than one percent of the population actually reads the privacy policy and twenty-five percent of users don't bother with any kind of privacy control. But even the seventy-five percent of users that do everything they can to protect themselves don’t realize just how easy it is to get ahold of their information. All in all, what you share with your “friends” is accessible by anyone who has access to the Internet. Like Diane O’Meara said in her response to the Manti Teo scandal, “But as it turned out, that wasn’t good enough. Even with restrictive settings, my wide circle of “friends” still had access to many pictures of me, and I had no control over what they did with those pictures.” On average 600,000 Facebook accounts are hacked