Social Media Obsession
One issue that can be encountered with social media are users who become too obsessed with likes and comments and caring way too much what people think about their posts and comparing themselves to other people. This can be damaging to ones self confidence and mentality especially to the younger generation who are easily influenced by things they see online.
Privacy Issues
Another issue with social media is that some sites have been known to sell its users data: https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/technology/facebook-huawei-china-data-sharing/index.html. This is a major concern for users and a breach of privacy which causes users to not trust these sites or be more vary of the history of these sites. It has caused users to rethink their use of social media platforms and the personal information they choose to share on these sites as well.
Cyberbullying
Lastly a third issue associated with social media tools and applications is the issue of cyber bullies. Cyberbullying is a form of bullying and harassment online. The worrying thing about cyberbullying is bullies can be anonymous and it would be very hard to find out who is behind a fake page used to bully someone. Cyberbullies use fake pages to bully people and spread false rumours about their victims which can be hard to remove once posted online. This particuarly happens a lot with school aged children and teenagers. Another example of cyberbullying are people who use fake pages to troll and bully famous people online.
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