Popular social media icons. Photo/socialbuzz.comSocial media has made people extremely 'accessible' to each other. People are able to keep up with each other's lives. One can tell when and why an individual was at a certain location.
This kind of openness among social media users has bred predators of different sorts. Sexual predators are on the prowl. They study their targets through their pictures, videos and posts and are able to know how best to seduce them. Private information is easily passed around irreversibly. In cases like sex tapes, nude pictures or shameful information, one can suffer a great deal of embarrassment. Anyone meaning to cause you harm could easily get sensitive information to damage your reputation. Fake news about people and situations are sometimes created to cause panic or just as a dark sense of humour. The culture in society has become way more 'artificial' than one could've predicted. It's important for social media users to keep up appearances. This leads to creating manufactured lives on social media. People tend to exaggerate their situations. It's a pretentious habit to appear richer, more attractive and better than one actually is.