It is true that online communication facilitates how people get to know and link with more new friends. It becomes very convenient to establish relationship with a new client from the existing friends on social network like LinkedIn. Massive online network users also lead to a great number of online business opportunities. Lot of big brands such as Facebook and Tweeter are popular social medias. However, there are some unfavourable features that are hard to avoid. First of all, anonymity or fake identity give people freedom to say and share whatever they want, but at the same time, lots of people are taking the advantage of this feature and begin to bully others.

After reading “Brands must do more to recognize the pitfalls of anti-social media“, i was shocked after reading a news that a 16 years old girl committed suicide because she was bullied on a social network, Ask. fm. that people asked her to kill herself. Unfortunately, this is not the first time happening and there is an increasing number of bulling and trolling online that has resulted in lots of tragedies. These violence aroused people’s attention and make people begin to wonder how social network can protect all the online users. Some solutions that are implemented by Facebook include reporting the comment to the system and deleting other’s comment on people’s own wall.

In addition, i believe privacy protection is the most important problem in social media. I also heard that when you give social network permission to use your album or locate your position, it can access to all your future pictures, locations and information. There are many news reported that many criminals exploit this feature to commit a crime. In conclusion, all of these social network should beware of these drawbacks and try to protect their users.

Resources:

http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/1174917/Brands-recognise-pitfalls-anti-social-media/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH