Societal Issues Raised by Social Media

With the increase in popularity of social media, issues have arose and become more popular because of this. Here are some of the issues raised by social media.

Online Harassment

Online Harassment is the most common issue with social media, because people can be anonymous online they can send threats, bully people and stalk people. This can be a difficult subject to handle and there isn’t many ways of stopping it apart from setting you profile to private and blocking people.

Intellectual Property theft

This is a major issue online and happens more than people may think. A lot of people use the internet as a way of posting their art, videos and video games but in doing this it leaves them open to people copying their work and passing it off as their own. For example someone could download a video on youtube and upload it as their own and then file a copyright strike against the original owner and have their video removed from youtube and that person can then reap the benefits.

Impersonation

Online anyone can be anyone and this is used to exploit people and steal their information. For example if you are subscribed to something and someone acquires your email they will email you requesting more of your information using a similar email address as the group/company that are in charge of whatever it is you are subscribed to. With this information they could sell it and gain a profit which would result in more of your information being stolen.

Kevin Crawford