How has social media effected us as a society? Is this positive or negative?

I believe that social media has brought us closer together as a world. We are able to connect with so many people we wouldn’t have been able to if not for social media. I agree with Tommy Landry when he states, “Social media is also very helpful for expanding our sources of content as a whole. With so much being blogged and written, then curated and shared proactively, the volume of content has grown exponentially” we are able to access information from all over in an instant because of social medium platforms like twitter because of its global reach and instant posting accessibility. Although there is good, there are also negative aspects to social media. I feel as if it allows people to distort the truth about themselves and others and allows them to live false lives on the Internet because of the mediums we use to access the sites. There is no finger print scanner to make sure you are who you say you are so people make fake pages impersonating others which has birthed the television show Catfish which shows the negative aspects of socially media when in the wrong hands. “In its infancy, the web was primarily an anonymous space where anyone could adopt any identity without others connecting them to their offline selves. “ I do not agree with this statement by Ben Grosser because I still feel like regardless of the Internets advancement it is still a place when anyone can adopt an identity that is not their own which the show catfish personifies.