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A question has risen from the research conducted on today’s social media questioning some of the effects of social media on society? Are these effects positive or negative? According to New York Times, “How Facebook is Changing the way its Users Consume Journalism” by Ravi Somaiya. Social media has become societies number one way of receiving daily updates on present events. For instants, Facebook has a fifth of the world; about 1.3 billion people logging on at least monthly. With each individual’s news feed designed to produce and generate stories that are most appealing to them and of their interest. It makes the use of social media more desirable because now you’re viewing videos and stories that intrigues them. A topic that tends to flood my fees would be would be the #Blacklivesmatter movement. Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube has made it easier for people to socialize within groups directly as well as through the sharing of knowledge which is mostly done on YouTube. People are now able to organize rallies protest and spark controversy by the click or sending of a status. Social media has become the key to all social interactions whether they are online or off-line. In saying this I mean most conversations held offline stems from online controversies steaming up debates on situations online and issues online is taking into the off-line world to be discussed and deliberate on the whether beginning conversation of whether one believes the issue to be morally right, morally wrong or worthy of recognition. However social media has its positive effects as well as its negative, on social media you are able to find a massive population of preadolescence and adolescence, who are now vulnerable and exposed to sexual predators. These preadolescence adolescence viewers and users are usually subjective to a lot of different ideas created by via websites and/ or by a person online. With the new phenomenon of online, sexting, texting, and sharing of semi-nudes and nudes they are now subjects of child pornography, which can later hinder them from future endeavors. Cyber bullying is also a huge issue amongst the pre adolescence and adolescence social media users, when a child of such a young age experiences this kind of humiliation embarrassment from via social media. They can experience issues with isolation in Zaidi depression and even sometimes lead to tragic suicides.