From sites such as Wikipedia and Twitter to personal blog
sites, social media has opened a door in which everyday citizens can relay
information as often as desired. A well-known negative characteristic of social
media is the fact that not everything you read is true. Anybody in the world
has the ability to post information and/ or news, whether it is fact or
fiction. The other difficult aspect of this is that it is sometimes hard to
determine the real facts from the fake ones.
National news programs, as well as government from all over
the world, use social media. This allows these higher powers to relay their
messages fast, seeing as news can become viral in a matter of seconds. The
positives to this fact is that important information can be delivered to a
larger quantity of people as opposed to the previously popular method of
television. However, This also makes it harder for mistakes to be covered up
and/ or fixed. If news were strictly relayed over television, the same viewers
would most likely watch the program again later to hear further development and
changes. Now that news becomes viral on the web, it is more difficult to take
back what one has already stated.
Thus, like most other events in our current era, the negatives
overshadow the positives of sharing news via social media. Without the
spreading of false information, social media would be the perfect way to relay
messages fast. However, information is too heavily exaggerated and falsified
for societies’ own good.
