This article first appeared in The Atlantic on October 2, 2018
This article provides some interesting perspectives with regard to technology, privacy, social media usage vs access and the implications all these tools have within the context of today’s environment and raises more questions with regard to what tomorrow might bring. It matters not what social or economic sector one identify with, nor what professional position one holds, the ability to find information, spread information and cause harm with information is increasing at exponential speeds. These capabilities are blind to color, race, gender, or socioeconomic identification. Moreover, social media currently remains a double sided blade that can wound both the target and the user, as described throughout The Atlantic’s article. Lessons on how and where to wield such technologies seem almost valueless if the boundaries and possibilities of social media application are truly as far reaching as they appear. What say you?
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