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Social Media Dangers

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Social media has the potential to be very destructive to society. Although it’s use can be for beneficial reason, the visual strongly suggests socials media’s influence can become dangerous; using font that makes an urgent message, faded grey background and colors, and social media logos that are placed inside of bombs that fill the entire screen; which emphasize on the dangers of that influence. The font on the image quotes “Weapons of Mass Distraction.” This saying is like the saying “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The font resembles wording used in war posters in the early 1900s. It is demonstrating that social media is dangerous. Social media in the twenty-first century has become one of the main reasons for many of societies issues today. Dangers can vary from accidents, identity theft and many more. Some of accidents including car accidents which are trying to be prevented today by state laws in the United States. Today in America one out of every four car accidents are due to people not paying attention and being on their cell phones. Early in 2017, a girl in California was driving and recording a live stream on Facebook. While she was on her phone, and recording while she was in control of the vehicle got into a car accident which killed her 14-year-old sister. When most people think about dangers of social media they think about car accidents, and how many people die every year due to electronic caused deaths. There are more dangers that lie in the shadows. The

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