Like everything there is a positive and a negative side. Social Media is a fast growing platform that is accessible, dangerous, and open. Social media allows the expansion of relationships and boundless communication. This platform has created a window for anonymous 24/7 activity that has no geographic limitations. Although this is beneficial in many ways, it is manipulated by people who turn it into a dangerous place, also known as the dark web. Due to anonymity, people can do and say whatever they want without consequence and with influential young users it can be detrimental. People can put out false information and create a frenzy upon people. Majority of internet users are youth and they extremely influential, making them prone to believing most of the things they hear. And because they are addicted to social media, that is their only source of information. False information can spread like wildfire on the internet and it does not allow for real information to be presented often.
Rita Abdel-Malek Professor Andrews PSC 2410 29 November 2019 Research Paper Introduction The definition of nationalism and patriotism have been misused for the wrong purposes. Specifically in the 21st century the implications of each concept has been twisted and utilized solely to categorize and polarize people; radical nationalists and people who celebrate national holidays like ; Veterans Day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, etc. This research project was conducted to see how people viewed certain instances as either nationalistic or patriotic. In the modern century of Obama and Trump presidencies these concepts have been confused and majority people view on or the other as the same. This research is intended to delve into the psyche of everyday people, politically active or not. People have the innate need and want to feel like they belong and are mentally and physically safe. To achieve this, my group and I conducted a survey to analyze how people v...
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