Social media platforms are some of the most influential applications and sites currently circulating all around the world today. These platforms allow a voice to anyone and everyone who would want to, allowing for a level of interaction that has never been seen before their creation on this planet. Although this level of interaction can be positive in a variety of situations, there is also a prominent level of risk that it will instead become negative for both the individuals sharing their thoughts as well as the individuals consuming the information.

 

By allowing anyone to share anything they want and allowing easy access to those thoughts, it is likely that someone can easily find themselves interacting with hateful, inappropriate, or dangerous content. By viewing negative content, the individual engaging with it could become desensitised and think of it as normal. This is most common for the individual when they are of a young or impressionable age.

 

By allowing young impressionable individuals to engage with content created by absolutely anyone online, the likelihood that they will stumble upon something they should not, letting it change them as a person, is becoming more common as social media platforms rise in popularity. 

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For these reasons, it is incredibly important to spread the word of the current issue and help limit the possibility of this occurring.