Social Media is More Than Likes and Retweets
Social media is constantly transforming. What once was a way to simply connect with friends has become a path for major change. As social media has grown more popular, it has become a way in which people have begun to spread not only their own personal personas, but ideas, news, and awareness about events and social issues. Social media gives its users the power to become whoever they want to be and control their own image. This makes social media intrusive only to a certain extent. People using social media do have control over the type of content that they post, where it is seen, and even have the power to take advantage of privacy settings controlling who sees it. It is possible to view social media as being intrusive because of the rapid spread of news stories or rumors that allow the public to scrutinize, comment, and speculate about the nature of other user’s posts. However, this mass form of fast communication is something that makes social media what it is. ...